This paper describes an environment (API and runtime) for fast remote executions in the context of NOWs using high performance networks and low cost multiprocessors. This environment has two aims: 1) to simplify the accesses to shared remote resources for the users and 2) to insert a resources management mechanism between the users and the shared resources. This environment is based on the usua...

Cross platform APIs for cloud computing are emerging due to the need of the application developer to combine the features exposed by different cloud providers and to port the codes from one provider environment to another. Such APIs are allowing nowadays the federation of clouds to an infrastructure level, requiring a certain knowledge of programming the infrastructure. We describe a new approa...

The digital television development is one of the most important events in the history of television broadcasting. This paper highlights the user interface issue in digital television environment. We will not discuss the usability of user interface design, but rather the implementation of user interface for interactive television services. The background of Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) and App...

Various security APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are being used in a variety of application areas requiring the information security function. However, these standards are not compatible, and the developer must use those APIs selectively depending on the application environment or the programming language. To resolve this problem, we propose the standard draft of the information secur...

This paper describes a set of graphical object services which provide a cohesive, consistent application development environment for implementing graphical user interfaces in intelligent workstation applications. These objects are implemented as a set of controls using the Presentation ManagerTM windowing system. A control in the Presentation Manager environment is a user interface element with...

The paper presents a visual programming interface for an image processing environment improving traditional interfaces by combining the user-friedliness of the menu & dialogue approach with programming capabilities. The interface gives a layman the opportunity to develop powerful image processing applications in a two-dimensional, data flow metaphor. This metaphor provides a better insight into...

In this paper we describe our experience applying the concepts of reeection to a legacy transaction processing (TP) monitor in order to support the implementation of extended transaction models. In the past ten years, numerous extended transaction models have been proposed to address the challenges posed by new advanced applications. Few practical implementations of these extended transaction m...

In this paper we describe our experience applying the concepts of re ection to a legacy transaction processing (TP) monitor in order to support the implementation of extended transaction models. In the past ten years, numerous extended transaction models have been proposed to address challenges posed by new advanced applications. Few practical implementations of these extended transaction model...