A medical system is complicated because it has many sub-modules and is connected with many kinds of other systems. Because software faults tend to occur in interoperation among modules, a safety-critical medical system should be tested strictly in terms of integration. At integration testing phase, there are too many execution path of software to test, that makes testing difficult. To deal with...

The construction of enterprise-scale systems can be expensive and time-consuming. Progress in infrastructure systems promises increased levels of automation in development, deployment and maintenance. Various vendors offer workflow and document management, collaboration tools, application server middleware and commercial off the shelf software (COTS) based rapid application development (RAD) te...

The increasing popularity of XML Web services motivates us to examine if it is feasible to substitute one vendor service for another when using a Web-based application, assuming that these services are “derived from” a common base. If such substitution were possible, end users could use the same application with a variety of back-end vendor services, and the vendors themselves could compete on ...

This paper focuses on the cooperative navigation of heterogeneous air-ground vehicle formations in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) challenged environment and proposes method based motion estimation regionally optimal path planning strategy. In formations, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are equipped with low-precision inertial measurement units wireless range sensors, which interact...

This Smart environments, starting from smart home to more complex one like smart city, demand efficient interoperation mechanism among different heterogeneous sensors including the discovery and the management of these devices. The diverse domains of applications also require interoperation among themselves. The middleware plays a key role to achieve this interoperation. The middleware is also ...

The ultimate vision of the Semantic Web (SW) is to provide users with the capability of delegating complex tasks to intelligent agents. The latter, acting in an interoperable and information-rich Web environment, will efficiently satisfy their users’ requests in a variety of real-life applications. Much work has been done on SW information agents for Web-based query answering; a variety of mult...

XING, JIE. Commitment-Based Interoperation for E-Commerce. (Under the direction of Dr. Munindar P. Singh.) Successful e-commerce presupposes techniques by which autonomous trading entities can interoperate. Although much progress has been made on data exchange and payment protocols, interoperation in the face of autonomy is still inadequately understood. Current techniques, designed for closed ...

Modern parallel codes are often written as a collection of several diverse modules. Different programming languages might be the best or natural fit for each of these modules or for different libraries that are used together in an application. For such applications, the restriction of implementing the entire application in a single parallel language may impact the application’s performance and ...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Interoperation among pre-existing, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases has been an important research topic in the last few years. Recently, the trend in database interoperability research is moving towards architectures for interoperation of databases on a scale that goes beyond the context of a single organisation, exploiting the communication facilities offered ...