This paper is concerned with the design and implementation of thin coordination veneers for use in the development of applications over ad hoc wireless networks. A coordination veneer is defined as an adaptation layer that customizes a general-purpose coordination middleware to a particular application domain with minimal development effort. This technique allows developers to build highly-tail...

A smart home provides automated services based on the context of the home environment and user activity. Context acquiring, processing, reasoning, and disseminating to the services are complex tasks for a context-aware system. An appropriate middleware architecture could handle such complexity. In this paper, we proposed a middleware architecture for a context-aware system in smart home environ...

The Many-to-Many-Invocation (M2MI) Service Discovery Middleware Framework provides an API for publishing, providing, and using services in a serverless ad hoc network of devices implementing the M2MI architecture. It is built on top of the M2MI layer, as a middleware to interact with user applications and facilitate the deployment, use, and providing of services. The middleware uses the M2MI ar...

The development of process automation systems has been evolving to raise productivity and enhance plant operation. Their fundamental architecture has advanced from large centralized systems to highly distributed systems; but suffering from three major disadvantages. First is the requirement of extensive premature capital investments for sustaining the systems life cycle. Secondly are the inhere...

This paper addresses the design and implementation of thin coordination veneers for use in the development of applications over ad hoc wireless networks. A coordination veneer is defined as an adaptation layer that customizes a general-purpose coordination middleware to a particular domain with minimal development effort. This technique allows developers to build highly-tailored coordination mo...

One of the main features of pervasive computing systems is their need to be dynamically reconfigured in order to properly adapt to the continuous changes in their environment conditions (context). An appropriate solution to provide reconfigurability is Aspect-Oriented Software Development, which allows that optional functionalities can be enabled/disabled and services can be replaced with light...

Grid computing is commonly used for large scale application requiring huge computation capabilities. In such distributed architectures, the data storage on the distributed storage resources must be handled by a dedicated storage system to ensure the required quality of service. In order to simplify the data placement on nodes and to increase the performance of applications, a storage virtualiza...

− Software development for wireless sensor networks requires novel programming paradigms and technologies. This article describes the concept of a new service oriented software architecture for mobile sensor networks. With this architecture, a flexible, scalable programming of applications based on an adaptive middleware is possible. The middleware supports mechanisms for cooperative data minin...

A growing number of applications require continuous processing of high-throughput data streams, e.g., financial analysis, network traffic monitoring, or Big Data analytics for smart cities. Stream processing applications typically require specific quality-of-service levels to achieve their goals; yet, due to the high time-variability of stream characteristics, it is often inefficient to statica...

This paper describes a simple scheduling procedure for use in multicast data distribution within a logistical networking infrastructure. The goal of our scheduler is to generate a distribution schedule that will exploit the best network paths by using historic network performance information. A ”spanning tree” is constructed between available logistical depots to help reduce the overall time of...