The emergence of computational and data grids has led to resources within a single organisation being exposed to other users within a ‘virtual organisation’ (VO) that encompasses a dynamic distributed infrastructure. Due to this dynamic nature of VOs, there is a need for an infrastructure to facilitate the management of the constituent users and resources. We have been developing an easy to use...

This paper discusses the design and implementation of networked predictive control systems. A networked predictive control algorithm is proposed to compensate the network delay and achieve desired control performance of networked control systems. Two schemes of networked control systems are presented: one is the off-line simulation scheme and the other is a real-time application. Based on a net...

Parallel computing is a topic of interest for a broad scientific community since it facilitates many time-consuming algorithms in different application domains.In this paper, we introduce a novel platform for parallel computing by using MPI and OpenMP programming languages based on set of networked PCs. UMZHPC is a free Linux-based parallel computing infrastructure that has been developed to cr...

In this position paper, we are concerned with formal methods for developing agent-based, situation-aware, secure, survivable architectures for on-demand discovery and composition of web services. In particular, we describe the development of an adaptable, situation-aware, secure architecture that provides for proofs that guarantee the consistency of service level agreements between service prov...

Context, particularly location, is an important source of information for human-computer interaction. In our project, we examine hardware, networking, and systems issues for a location sensing infrastructure. We present a thorough empirical analysis of the TinyOS RF motes. This analysis is leveraged to build a model of the RF signal strength. We have built a prototype system that employs a Kalm...

The maturity of technical foundations for multi-agent systems and the support by development tools, infrastructure services, and a number of development methodologies leads to an increasing number of existing multi-agent systems. A more and more networked environment drives the demand for coupling these heterogeneous systems to large multi-multi-agent systems. Unfortunately, the design and impl...

Since a growing number of different mobile computing devices are used in pervasive and ubiquitous environments, the need to adopt new approaches for designing and implementing pervasive interactive software with minor effort is emerging. In this paper we present a process that facilitates the design of next-generation interactive software for pervasive environments. We created a distributed run...

Current and emerging manufacturing and logistics systems are posing new challenges and opportunities for the automation and control community. This milestone report describes the main problems, such as management of complexity, scalability, increasing costs, coordination, market-based resource allocation, and more. Recent accomplishments and trends are discussed: Control and automation techniqu...

In order to reduce costs and make it easier to integrate disparate systems, networked and virtual organizations (NVOs) should adopt open technology standards throughout the entire organization—standard computing architectures, standard networks, and standard application interfaces. The Internet protocol (IP) technology has been foreseen as a basic networking infrastructure that supports communi...