Traditionally, adaptability in communication frameworks has been restricted to predefined choices without taking into consideration tradeoffs between them and the application req...
Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco, Nalini Venkatasubrama...
The terms pervasive and ubiquitous computing are used to describe a smart space populated by hundreds of intelligent devices that are embedded in their surroundings. Characteristi...
In this paper, we survey three generation of reflective middleware research carried out at Lancaster University, present experiences gained from this research, and highlight a num...
Publish/Subscribe systems have become a prevalent model for delivering data from producers (publishers) to consumers (subscribers) distributed across wide-area networks while decou...
Abhishek Gupta, Ozgur D. Sahin, Divyakant Agrawal,...
Reuse is an important topic in software engineering as it promises advantages like faster time-to-market and cost reduction. Reuse s on an abstract level is more beneficial than o...
Andreas Billig, Susanne Busse, Andreas Leicher, J&...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Middleware helps to manage the complexity and heterogeneity inherent in distributed systems. Traditional middleware has a monolithic architecture, which makes it difficult to adap...
Grid computing is a new paradigm that enables the distributed coordination of resources and services which are geographically dispersed, span multiple trust domains and are hetero...
Sergio Andreozzi, Augusto Ciuffoletti, Antonia Ghi...
This work presents a detailed analysis of the security requirements for Service Oriented Architecture in mobile computing, still missing in the current literature. The purpose of ...
The very nature of implementing and evaluating fully distributed algorithms or protocols in application-layer overlay networks involves certain programming tasks that are at best m...