One of the most significant limitations of current middleware platforms, both commercial and research, is that they typically support only a small, pre-defined, set of fundamental...
Nikos Parlavantzas, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair
– An important problem in designing infrastructure to support business-to-business integration (B2Bi) is how to cancel a long-running interaction (either because the user has cha...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...
Large-scale information processing environments must rapidly search through massive streams of raw data to locate useful information. These data streams contain textual and numeri...
Ian Gorton, Justin Almquist, Nick Cramer, Jereme H...
The MOF Query, View and Transformation RFP, issued by OMG will result in a key enabling technology for modeldriven development of large distributed systems. We have designed a tra...
Keith Duddy, Anna Gerber, Michael Lawley, Kerry Ra...
The expression of contracts in computer readable form, and the development of automated tests for completeness and well-formedness of contracts, has opened the door to significant...
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...
The architectural design of distributed enterprise applications from the viewpoints of different stakeholders has been proposed for some time, for example, as part of RM-ODP and I...
Model-driven architectures (MDA) separate the business or application logic from the underlying platform technology and represent this logic with precise semantic models. These mo...
Jana Koehler, Rainer Hauser, Shubir Kapoor, Freder...
The Aspect Integrator Platform (AIP) from ABB was designed to build the next generation of industrial automation applications. This platform is part of a set of products that prov...
The research vision of the Unified Component Meta Model Framework (UniFrame) is to develop an infrastructure for components that enables a plug and play component environment wher...
Carol C. Burt, Barrett R. Bryant, Rajeev R. Raje, ...