We propose a software framework that augments context data with a range of assorted confidence/reputation metadata for dimensions such as security, privacy, safety, reliability, or...
Applications built in a strongly decoupled, eventbased interaction style have many commendable characteristics, including ease of dynamic configuration, accommodation of platform ...
Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric M. Dashofy, Richard N. ...
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
Distributed applications must often consider and select the appropriate trade-offs among three important aspects ? fault-tolerance, performance and resources. We introduce a novel ...
Abstract. Component architectures provide a useful framework for developing an extensible and maintainable code base upon which largescale software projects can be built. Component...
Brian Barrett, Jeffrey M. Squyres, Andrew Lumsdain...