TY - CHAP ID - eprints322 KW - distributed software update KW - mobile agents KW - mobile code PB - ACM UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/508791.508800 EP - 36 T2 - Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (SAC '02) AV - none SP - 32 Y1 - 2002/// N2 - We describe a system that permits maintaining the software installed on several heterogeneous computers distributed over a network by taking advantage of the mobile agent paradigm. The applications are installed and updated only on the central server. When a new release of an application is installed on the server, agents are scattered along the network to update the application on the clients.To build a prototype system we use X-KLAIM, a programming language specifically designed to program distributed systems composed of several components interacting through multiple tuple spaces and mobile code. N1 - ACM ID: 508800 TI - Software update via mobile agent based programming A1 - Bettini, Lorenzo A1 - De Nicola, Rocco A1 - Loreti, Michele ER -