JCP
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
— Currently, context awareness is one of the main trends in distributed mobile computing environments. Against this background, the demand for more complex – and additionally l...
HPN
1997
14 years 23 days ago
1997
Next generation wireless communications system will be required to support the seamless delivery of voice, video and data with high quality. Delivering hard Quality of Service (QO...
MIDDLEWARE
2000
Springer
2000
Springer
The Role of Software Architecture in Constraining Adaptation in Component-Based Middleware Platforms
14 years 3 months ago
Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such platforms wil...
AOSD
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2007
ACM
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
REFLECTION
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2001
Springer
, are to address what we perceive as the most pressing shortcomings of current reflective middleware platforms. First, performance: in the worst case, this needs to be on a par wit...
MIDDLEWARE
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2001
Springer
Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in modern distributed systems. Most recently, industry has witnessed the emergence of component-based middleware pla...
WORDS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
The security features of current middleware platforms, like Enterprise Java Beans and CORBA, are either simple and limited or complex and difficult to use. In both cases are the ...
EDOC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper aims at demonstrating the benefits and importance of the service concept in the model-driven design of distributed applications. A service defines the observable behavi...
MIDDLEWARE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Currently, the interest in Ambient Intelligence (or AmI) has increased exponentially due to the widespread use of portable devices. Users demand more and more functionality from t...
WOWMOM
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper describes a biologically-inspired architecture, called SymbioticSphere, which allows large-scale server farms to autonomously adapt to dynamic environmental changes and...