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Yang, B., Liu, J. (2006). Mobile Agents: The State of the Art. In: Kou, W., Yesha, Y. (eds) Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30637-5_8

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