Middleware consists of a layer of services added between those of a regular network OS and the actual applications. These services facilitate the implementation of distributed applications and attempt to hide the heterogeneity of the underlying system architectures (both hardware and software). Middleware is usually based on a particular paradigm, or model, for describing distribution and commu...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can be used to significantly improve the efficiency of business processes by providing the capability of automatic identification and data capture. RFID system must implement functions to posses the enormous event data generated quickly by RFID readers. The proliferation of RFID tags and readers will require dedicated middleware solutions that ma...

Middleware is a growing, multidisciplinary area that merges knowledge from diverse areas such as distributed systems, networks and, more recently, embedded systems. This paper presents the results of an extensive review of middleware related literature, and presents an overview of critical features that must be considered during middleware development. These features include: network independen...

Sharing spatial data derived from remote sensing is a very significant thing. Grid computing and Web Service technology provides fundamental support for it. In this paper we mainly discuss architecture and middleware of sharing spatial data derived from remote sensing and processing. Because middleware of automatically transferring and task execution on grid is the key of the architecture, we s...

Standardized middleware for autonomous robot control has proven itself to enable faster deployment of robots, to make robot control code more interchangeable, and experiments easier to replicate. Unfortunately, the support provided by current middleware is in most cases limited to what current robots do: navigation. However, as we tackle more ambitious service robot applications, more comprehen...

Our goal is to construct secure distributed collaboration systems by coupling their high-level specifications with a policy-driven middleware. This paper addresses three problems related to decentralized management of collaboration systems by a middleware. To correctly enforce security and coordination policies, the middleware determines which nodes can be trusted for enforcing policies related...

Adaptive middleware and wireless networks are hot topics in many discussions today. Literature describes a lot of approaches which are based upon existing middleware technologies by adding functionalities for adaptive behavior. Disadvantage of this proceeding is the resulting dependence upon the interface provided by the underlying middleware. This paper will describe a whole new approach for a...