: Context-aware ubiquitous computing environments tend to be highly distributed and heterogeneous, while also featuring increased dynamism as elements, devices and middleware compo...
John Soldatos, Kostas Stamatis, Siamak Azodolmolky...
This paper provides three contributions to the study of functional integration of distributed enterprise systems. First, we describe the challenges associated with functionally in...
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, ...
—The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) model for Web services based monitoring of remote scientific instruments is being extended and enhanced to provide a capabil...
Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, Kenneth Chiu, Ric...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Supporting security in distributed systems is becoming more important with the ongoing work in grids, distributed middlewares and web services. Decentralised security architecture...