When a middleware layer is designed for providing semi-transparent distribution facilities to real-time applications, a trade-off must be made between the expressiveness and contro...
Abstract. With rapid advancements in wireless devices, ubiquitous computing seems becoming a reality everyday. Active pervasive network infrastructure has been introduced to offer...
Real-time update of access control policies, that is, updating policies while they are in effect and enforcing the changes immediately, is necessary for many security-critical appl...
Previous ultra-dependable real-time computing architectures have been specialised to meet the requirements of a particular application domain. Over the last two years, a consortiu...
Many real-time systems need to maintain fresh views which are derived from shared data that are distributed among multiple sites. When a base data item changes, all derived views ...