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Fault Tolerance Middleware for Cloud Computing
Mar 2010
The Low Latency Fault Tolerance (LLFT) middleware provides fault tolerance for distributed applications deployed within a cloud computing or data center environment, using the leader/follower...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Electric Power Grid Monitoring and Control
Apr 2008
The stability of the electric power grid is crucial to every nation's security and well-being. As revealed by a number of large-scale blackout incidents in North America, the data communication...
Provided by Cleveland State University
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Tide: Achieving Self-Scaling in Virtualized Datacenter Management Middleware
Sep 2010
The increasing popularity of system virtualization in datacenters introduces the need for self-scaling of the management layer to cope with the increasing demands of the management workload. This...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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MiddleWhere: A Middleware for Location Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Applications
Jan 2011
Location awareness significantly enhances the functionality of ubiquitous computing services and applications, and enriches the way they interact with users and resources in the environment. Many...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Interoperability Among Parallel DEVS Simulators and Models Implemented in Multiple Programming Languages
Aug 2007
Flexible, yet efficient, execution of heterogeneous simulations benefits from concepts and methods that can support distributed simulation execution and independent model development. To enable...
Provided by Arizona State University
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A Utility-Aware Middleware Architecture for Decentralized Group Communication Applications
Jan 2011
The success of Internet telephony services like Skype illustrates the feasibility of utilizing unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as an economical platform for supporting group communication...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Remote Batch Invocation for Web Services: Document-Oriented Web Services With Object-Oriented Interfaces
Mar 2009
The Web Service Description Language defines a service as a procedure whose inputs and outputs are arbitrarily structured data values, sometimes called documents. This paper argues that...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
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Transparent Autonomization in CORBA
Dec 2008
Increasingly, software systems are constructed by integrating and composing multiple existing applications. The resulting complexity increases the need for self-management of the system. However,...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Research of Campus Heterogeneous Database Middleware Based on SOA
Aug 2010
Along with the rapid development of campus information technology, many universities precipitate a great deal of information resources, how well make use of existing resources to build a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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ONEChat: Enabling Group Chat and Messaging in Opportunistic Networks
Jan 2010
Opportunistic networks, which are wireless network "Islands" formed when transient and highly mobile nodes meet for a short period of time, are becoming commonplace as wireless devices become more...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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The Necessity of Semantic Technologies in Grid Discovery
Apr 2008
Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared resources. Most...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Integration Middleware for Mobile Supply Chain Management
Dec 2009
According to the mobile supply chain management features and considering the limitations and obstacles in the mobile environment. This paper proposes a multi-agent integration middleware for...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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OpenXL: An Adaptable Web-Service Middleware
Jan 2011
The inherent complexity of current software systems has reached a critical level. This affects the general deployment complexity in the form of a huge amount of varying Non-Functional Requirements...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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A Novel Design of Service Oriented and Message Driven Middleware for Ambient Aware Wireless Sensor Network
May 2009
Sensor networks have attracted various application domains for which the conventional networks are unsuitable in terms of viability and cost-effectiveness. The emerging field of networked sensors...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Intelligent Multi-Agent Middleware for Ubiquitous Home Networking Environments
Jun 2009
The next stage of the home networking environment is supposed to be ubiquitous, where each piece of material is equipped with an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tag. To fully support the...
Provided by Sejong University
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Interoperability in Component Based Software Development
Jun 2009
The ability of information systems to operate in conjunction with each other encompassing communication protocols, hardware, software, application and data compatibility layers. There has been...
Provided by BITS Pilani- Dubai
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White Papers
A Data Acquisition Middleware
Sep 2007
The authors propose a data acquisition middleware called DAQ-Middleware. The DAQ-Middleware will be able to make development of DAQ software easy which runs on many PCs. It consists of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dependability Considerations in Wireless Sensor Networks Applications
Apr 2010
Recently, the use of wireless sensor networks has spread to applications areas that are not viable or cost-efficient to be run on other types of networks. Due to some critical tasks done in these...
Provided by Iran University of Science and Technology
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A Middleware System Between WEB and Database Servers
Jun 2009
This paper aims at improving web server performance by establishing a middleware layer between web and database servers, which minimizes the overload on the database server. A middleware system...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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Introduction to the Proceedings of the EDOC 2008 Workshop Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2008
Aug 2008
Middleware is software that provides common functionality in a distributed computing system. Use of middleware significantly simplifies development of distributed applications, including those...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
May 2008
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have found more and more applications in a variety of pervasive computing environments. However, how to support the development, maintenance, deployment and...
Provided by University of Science and Technology of China
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White Papers
Finding Bugs in Exceptional Situations of JNI Programs
Nov 2009
Software flaws in native methods may defeat Java's guarantees of safety and security. One common kind of flaws in native methods results from the discrepancy on how exceptions are handled in Java...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Managing Oracle App Server with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Mar 2009
Organizations have to be agile to compete globally and adapt to changes in technology. Most organizations run middleware applications based on disparate systems and technologies. However, use of...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle Scorecard And Strategy Management
Feb 2011
More and more executives are realizing the effectiveness of key performance indicators when it comes to measuring and communicating organizational goals. This data sheet explains how the Oracle...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Adaptive Failover for Real-Time Middleware With Passive Replication
Feb 2009
Supporting uninterrupted services for distributed soft real-time applications is hard in resource-constrained and dynamic environments, where processor or process failures and system workload...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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Middleware for Resource-Aware Deployment and Configuration of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems
Jan 2010
Developing large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems is hard in part due to complex deployment and configuration issues involved in satisfying multiple Quality for Service (QoS)...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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Real-Time Performance and Middleware for Multiprocessor and Multicore Linux Platforms
Jun 2009
An increasing number of distributed real-time applications are running on multicore platforms. However, existing real-time middleware (e.g., Real-Time CORBA) lacks adequate support for ensuring...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Configurable Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems With Aperiodic and Periodic Tasks
Mar 2010
Different Distributed Real-time Systems (DRS) must handle aperiodic and periodic events under diverse sets of requirements. While existing middleware such as Real-Time CORBA has shown promise as a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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FCS/nORB: A Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling Service for Embedded ORB Middleware
May 2008
Object Request Broker (ORB) middleware has shown promise in meeting the functional and real-time performance requirements of Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. However, existing...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Webcasts
In today's uncertain economy, mid-sized organizations are pressured to do more with less—to cut costs and reduce risks, to increase revenues and productivity, and to get more value from information technology.
Mar 2011
With heterogeneous environments, rigid systems, proprietary applications or technology and siloed information across the enterprise, deployment of new applications and services can be time...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Evaluate: IBM WebSphere MQ
Mar 2011
IBM® WebSphere® MQ provides a universal mes¬saging backbone that enables virtually any commercial IT system to be con¬nected with a reliable, flexible transport. This free trial version of IBM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Towards a Formal Standard for Interoperability in M&S/System of Systems Integration
Jan 2011
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is finding increasing application in development and testing of command and control systems comprised of information-intensive component systems. In this paper, the...
Provided by Georgia State University
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White Papers
FCS/nORB: A Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling Service in Object Request Broker Middleware
Jan 2011
Object Request Broker (ORB) middleware has shown promise in meeting the functional and real-time performance requirements of Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. However, existing...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Improving User Satisfaction in a Ubiquitous Computing Application
Jun 2008
The Smart Party is a ubiquitous computing application based on the Panoply middleware. The Smart Party allows attendees at a party to transparently participate in the selection of music played at...
Provided by UCLA
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White Papers
Multi-Hop Multi-Path Cooperative Connectivity Guided by Mobility, Throughput, and Energy Awareness: A Middleware Approach
Sep 2009
The widespread diffusion of portable devices with multiple wireless interfaces, e.g., UMTS/GPRS, IEEE 802.11, and/or Bluetooth, is enabling multi-homing and multi-channel scenarios, possibly made...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Application Server Platforms
Mar 2010
The growth of e-business is driving the demand for middleware solutions that seamlessly integrate disparate systems into a unified value chain. A profusion of middleware categories complicates...
Provided by UO Continuing Education
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White Papers
Distributed Policy Resolution Through Negotiation in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Sep 2009
Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centralized cross-domain...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Implementation Technology of Building Middleware by Web Services
Jul 2010
The "Information island" formed in the process of the information development has become a constraint of the information sharing. This paper provides a distributed application platform combining...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
MobiSoC: A Middleware for Mobile Social Computing Applications
Oct 2008
Recently, the authors started to experience a shift from physical communities to virtual communities, which leads to missed social opportunities in the daily routine. For instance, they are not...
Provided by New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Which Middleware Platform Should You Choose for Your Next Remote Service?
Feb 2011
Due to the shift from Software-As-A-Product (SaaP) to Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), software components that were developed to run in a single address space must increasingly be accessed remotely...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin
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Supporting Large-scale Continuous Stream Datacenters via Pub/Sub Middleware and Adaptive Transport Protocols
May 2008
Large-scale datacenters that handle continuous data streams require scalable and flexible communication infrastructure. The scalability of publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware coupled with...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Using Machine Learning to Maintain Pub/Sub System QoS in Dynamic Environments
Aug 2009
Quality-of-Service (QoS)-enabled publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware provides powerful support for scalable data dissemination. It is hard, however, to maintain specified QoS properties (such...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Adapting and Evaluating Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems in Dynamic Environments
Apr 2010
QoS-enabled pub/sub middleware, such as the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) or the JAIN Service Logic Execution Environment (SLEE), is increasingly used in mission-critical Distributed...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Towards an Adaptive Deployment and Configuration Framework for Component-Based Distributed Systems
Aug 2010
Software frameworks that support the Deployment and Configuration (D&C) of large-scale component-based Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems must often adapt their behavior at runtime...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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A QoS Policy Configuration Modeling Language for Publish/Subscribe Middleware Platforms
Jun 2007
With increasing advantages of cost, performance, and scale over single computers, the proliferation of distributed systems in general and distributed event-based systems in particular have...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Physical Assembly Mapper: A Model-Driven Optimization Tool for QoS-Enabled Component Middleware
Jan 2008
This paper provides four contributions to the study of optimization techniques for component-based Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. First, the authors describe key challenges of...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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DQML: A Modeling Language for Configuring Distributed Publish/Subscribe Quality of Service Policies
Jun 2008
Many publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware platforms provide flexibility in configuring policies that affect end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS). While the functionality and tunability of pub/sub...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Maintaining QoS for Publish/Subscribe Middleware in Dynamic Environments
Jul 2009
The number and type of distributed systems that utilize publish/subscribe (pub/sub) technologies are growing due to the advantages of performance, cost, and scale compared with single computers....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Adapting Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Pub/Sub Middleware for Cloud Computing Environments
Aug 2010
Enterprise Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems manage resources and data that are vital to users. Cloud computing - where computing resources are...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Exploring Novel Parallelization Technologies for 3-D Imaging Applications
Jul 2007
Multi-dimensional imaging techniques involve the processing of high resolution images commonly used in medical, civil and remote-sensing applications. A barrier commonly encountered in this class...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Middleware for Pervasive Spaces: Balancing Privacy and Utility
Aug 2009
Middleware for pervasive spaces has to meet conflicting requirements. It has to both maximize the utility of the information exposed and ensure that this information does not violate users'...
Provided by UC Regents
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On the Role of Architectural Styles in Improving the Adaptation Support of Middleware Platforms
Jun 2010
Modern middleware platforms provide the applications deployed on top of them with facilities for their adaptation. However, the level of adaptation support provided by the state-of-the-art...
Provided by George Mason University
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The Importance, Design and Implementation of a Middleware for Networked Control Systems
Nov 2009
Due to the advancement of computing and communication technology, networked control systems may soon become prevalent in many control applications. While the capability of employing the...
Provided by University of Illinois
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A Programming Model for Self-Adaptive Open Enterprise Systems
Dec 2010
Open Web-based and social platforms dramatically influenced models for work. The emergence of service-oriented systems has paved the way for a new computing paradigm that not only applies to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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COPAL: An Adaptive Approach to Context Provisioning
Aug 2010
Context-aware services need to acquire context information from heterogeneous context sources. The diversity of service requirements posts challenges on context provisioning systems as well as...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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ESCAPE - An Adaptive Framework for Managing and Providing Context Information in Emergency Situations
Oct 2007
Supporting adaptive processes in tackling emergency situations, such as disasters, is a key issue for any emergency management system. In such situations, various teams are deployed in many sites,...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Designing Lightweight Software Architectures for Smart Environments
May 2010
Smart environment applications have gained a lot of attention and acceptance from the community. For this reason, many design and evaluation efforts target these applications. However, these...
Provided by Washington State University
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White Papers
An Improved Resource Discovery Approach Using P2P Model for Condor: A Grid Middleware
Jun 2009
Resource Discovery in Grids is critical for efficient resource allocation and management. Heterogeneous nature and dynamic availability of resources make resource discovery a challenging task. As...
Provided by Thapar Institute
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Whitepapers
Five IT Projects for Business Agility
May 2011
Here are five IT projects that directly help CEOs deal with accelerating business change using technologies ranging from business process management (BPM) to collaboration to service-oriented...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Trend Advisory: Converged Infrastructure
Dec 2010
While managing increasingly virtualized environments, IT managers have begun to see their projected efficiencies and utilization dwindle in the face of their overwhelmed storage and data assets,...
Provided by CDW
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A Low Cost and Resilient Message Queuing Middleware
Aug 2008
Message Queuing Middlewares (MQMs) are gaining more and more attention in large enterprises for building highly available asynchronous messaging systems and for integrating heterogeneous...
Provided by Saitama University
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White Papers
Real-Time Performance and Middleware on Multicore Linux Platforms
May 2008
An increasing number of distributed real-time applications are running on multicore platforms. However, existing real-time middleware (e.g., Real-Time CORBA) lacks support for scheduling soft...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Customizing Component Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems With Aperiodic and Periodic Tasks
Aug 2009
Many distributed real-time applications must handle mixed aperiodic and periodic tasks with diverse requirements. However, existing middleware lacks flexible configuration mechanisms needed to...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Configurable Component Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems With Aperiodic and Periodic Tasks
Aug 2009
Many distributed real-time applications must handle mixed periodic and aperiodic tasks with diverse requirements. However, existing middleware lacks flexible configuration mechanisms needed to...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
CiAN: A Language and Middleware for Collaboration in Ad Hoc Networks
Aug 2009
Designing software that supports collaboration among multiple users in mobile ad hoc networks is challenging due to the dynamic network topology and inherent unpredictability of the environment....
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Reusable Models for Timing and Liveness Analysis of Middleware for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Aug 2009
Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems have stringent constraints on timeliness and other properties whose assurance is crucial to correct system behavior. Formal tools and techniques...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
The Design and Implementation of MCFlow: A Real-Time Multi-Core Aware Middleware for Dependent Task Graphs
Oct 2010
Modern computer architectures have evolved from uniprocessor platforms to multi-processor and multi-core platforms, but traditional real-time distributed middleware such as RT-CORBA has not kept...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Enhanced Coordination in Sensor Networks Through Flexible Service Provisioning
Aug 2009
Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks represent a challenging programming environment. Servilla addresses this by offering a new middleware framework that provides service provisioning. Using...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Scaling and Continuous Availability in Database Server Clusters Through Multiversion Replication
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors study replication techniques for scaling and continuous operation for a dynamic content server. The focus is on supporting transparent and fast reconfiguration of its...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Application Sessions: Conversation Abstractions for Pervasive Computing
Mar 2010
Pervasive computing application development demands abstractions that reify the notion of a conversation among distributed entities in dynamic and unpredictable environments. The authors define...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
MaDMAN: A Middleware for Delay-Tolerant Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Feb 2010
As Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs), dynamic networks in which nodes are not always connected to one another, gain traction in both the research community and in real-world deployments, research...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Supporting Proactive Application Event Notification to Improve Sensor Network Performance
Sep 2010
As wireless sensor networks gain in popularity, many deployments are posing new challenges due to their diverse topologies and resource constraints. Previous work has shown the advantage of...
Provided by ICST
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White Papers
PAQ: Adapting Query Fidelity in Dynamic Networks
Jun 2009
Ubiquitous computing applications have been enabled by a tight embedding of computation to the environment, support for dynamic networks, and the physical distribution of application components....
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
CDTOM: A Context-Driven Task-Oriented Middleware for Pervasive Homecare Environment
Jan 2011
With the growing number of the elderly, the authors see a greater demand for home care, and the vision of pervasive computing is also floating into the domain of the household that aims to build a...
Provided by University of Sherbrooke
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White Papers
Opening Pervasive Computing to the Masses Using the SEAP Middleware
Oct 2008
The increasing availability of sensing devices has made the possibility of context-aware pervasive computing applications real. However, constructing this software requires extensive knowledge...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
An Analytic Framework for Protocol Analysis in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Nov 2007
One of the essential requirements to design adaptive middleware for mobile ad hoc networks is a model that estimates the performance of communication protocols in the network. This paper obtains...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
SASSI: The Sliverware Architecture for Sensor System Integration
Nov 2007
Recently, embedded sensor usage has increased thanks to the proliferation of hardware and software addressing resource constraints. While the increased usage is a good start, it is important to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Dynamic Virtual Clusters in a Grid Site Manager
Jan 2011
This paper presents new mechanisms for dynamic resource management in a cluster manager called Cluster-On-Demand (COD). COD allocates servers from a common pool to multiple virtual clusters...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
TEC-Seeing the Big Picture-A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
Apr 2011
Real-time visibility provides a means to verify and justify results, as well as full confidence that your company is leveraging the right information at the right time. With the right IT personnel...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Middleware-Based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice
Jun 2008
The need for high availability and performance in data management systems has been fueling a long running interest in database replication from both academia and industry. However, academic groups...
Provided by EPFL
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White Papers
Interoperability in Component Based Software Development
Jun 2009
The ability of information systems to operate in conjunction with each other encompassing communication protocols, hardware, software, application and data compatibility layers. There has been...
Provided by BITS Pilani- Dubai
-
White Papers
A Data Acquisition Middleware
Sep 2007
The authors propose a data acquisition middleware called DAQ-Middleware. The DAQ-Middleware will be able to make development of DAQ software easy which runs on many PCs. It consists of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dependability Considerations in Wireless Sensor Networks Applications
Apr 2010
Recently, the use of wireless sensor networks has spread to applications areas that are not viable or cost-efficient to be run on other types of networks. Due to some critical tasks done in these...
Provided by Iran University of Science and Technology
-
White Papers
A Middleware System Between WEB and Database Servers
Jun 2009
This paper aims at improving web server performance by establishing a middleware layer between web and database servers, which minimizes the overload on the database server. A middleware system...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Introduction to the Proceedings of the EDOC 2008 Workshop Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2008
Aug 2008
Middleware is software that provides common functionality in a distributed computing system. Use of middleware significantly simplifies development of distributed applications, including those...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
May 2008
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have found more and more applications in a variety of pervasive computing environments. However, how to support the development, maintenance, deployment and...
Provided by University of Science and Technology of China
-
White Papers
Finding Bugs in Exceptional Situations of JNI Programs
Nov 2009
Software flaws in native methods may defeat Java's guarantees of safety and security. One common kind of flaws in native methods results from the discrepancy on how exceptions are handled in Java...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Managing Oracle App Server with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Mar 2009
Organizations have to be agile to compete globally and adapt to changes in technology. Most organizations run middleware applications based on disparate systems and technologies. However, use of...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Oracle Scorecard And Strategy Management
Feb 2011
More and more executives are realizing the effectiveness of key performance indicators when it comes to measuring and communicating organizational goals. This data sheet explains how the Oracle...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Adaptive Failover for Real-Time Middleware With Passive Replication
Feb 2009
Supporting uninterrupted services for distributed soft real-time applications is hard in resource-constrained and dynamic environments, where processor or process failures and system workload...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
-
White Papers
Middleware for Resource-Aware Deployment and Configuration of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems
Jan 2010
Developing large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems is hard in part due to complex deployment and configuration issues involved in satisfying multiple Quality for Service (QoS)...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
-
White Papers
Real-Time Performance and Middleware for Multiprocessor and Multicore Linux Platforms
Jun 2009
An increasing number of distributed real-time applications are running on multicore platforms. However, existing real-time middleware (e.g., Real-Time CORBA) lacks adequate support for ensuring...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
-
White Papers
Configurable Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems With Aperiodic and Periodic Tasks
Mar 2010
Different Distributed Real-time Systems (DRS) must handle aperiodic and periodic events under diverse sets of requirements. While existing middleware such as Real-Time CORBA has shown promise as a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
FCS/nORB: A Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling Service for Embedded ORB Middleware
May 2008
Object Request Broker (ORB) middleware has shown promise in meeting the functional and real-time performance requirements of Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. However, existing...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
-
Webcasts
In today's uncertain economy, mid-sized organizations are pressured to do more with less—to cut costs and reduce risks, to increase revenues and productivity, and to get more value from information technology.
Mar 2011
With heterogeneous environments, rigid systems, proprietary applications or technology and siloed information across the enterprise, deployment of new applications and services can be time...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Evaluate: IBM WebSphere MQ
Mar 2011
IBM® WebSphere® MQ provides a universal mes¬saging backbone that enables virtually any commercial IT system to be con¬nected with a reliable, flexible transport. This free trial version of IBM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Towards a Formal Standard for Interoperability in M&S/System of Systems Integration
Jan 2011
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is finding increasing application in development and testing of command and control systems comprised of information-intensive component systems. In this paper, the...
Provided by Georgia State University
-
White Papers
FCS/nORB: A Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling Service in Object Request Broker Middleware
Jan 2011
Object Request Broker (ORB) middleware has shown promise in meeting the functional and real-time performance requirements of Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. However, existing...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
-
White Papers
Improving User Satisfaction in a Ubiquitous Computing Application
Jun 2008
The Smart Party is a ubiquitous computing application based on the Panoply middleware. The Smart Party allows attendees at a party to transparently participate in the selection of music played at...
Provided by UCLA
-
White Papers
Multi-Hop Multi-Path Cooperative Connectivity Guided by Mobility, Throughput, and Energy Awareness: A Middleware Approach
Sep 2009
The widespread diffusion of portable devices with multiple wireless interfaces, e.g., UMTS/GPRS, IEEE 802.11, and/or Bluetooth, is enabling multi-homing and multi-channel scenarios, possibly made...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Application Server Platforms
Mar 2010
The growth of e-business is driving the demand for middleware solutions that seamlessly integrate disparate systems into a unified value chain. A profusion of middleware categories complicates...
Provided by UO Continuing Education
-
White Papers
Distributed Policy Resolution Through Negotiation in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Sep 2009
Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centralized cross-domain...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Implementation Technology of Building Middleware by Web Services
Jul 2010
The "Information island" formed in the process of the information development has become a constraint of the information sharing. This paper provides a distributed application platform combining...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
MobiSoC: A Middleware for Mobile Social Computing Applications
Oct 2008
Recently, the authors started to experience a shift from physical communities to virtual communities, which leads to missed social opportunities in the daily routine. For instance, they are not...
Provided by New Jersey Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Which Middleware Platform Should You Choose for Your Next Remote Service?
Feb 2011
Due to the shift from Software-As-A-Product (SaaP) to Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), software components that were developed to run in a single address space must increasingly be accessed remotely...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin
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White Papers
Expressive and Extensible Parameter Passing for Distributed Object Systems
Apr 2010
In modern distributed object systems, reference parameters to a remote method are passed ac-cording to their runtime type. This design choice limits the expressiveness, readability, and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Efficient Automated Marshaling of C++ Data Structures for MPI Applications
Feb 2008
The authors present an automated approach for marshaling C++ data structures in High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. The approach utilizes a graphical editor through which the user can...
Provided by Virginia Tech
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White Papers
DeXteR - An Extensible Framework for Declarative Parameter Passing in Distributed Object Systems
Oct 2008
In modern distributed object systems, reference parameters are passed to a remote method based on their runtime type. The authors argue that such type-based parameter passing is limiting with...
Provided by Virginia Tech
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Whitepapers
IBM's Banking Data Warehouse and Basel II
Dec 2005
Financial institutions are facing a series of related risk and compliance challenges. These include Basel II and IFRS/IAS. The pace of change driven by the compliance challenges will be different...
Provided by IBM
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Research
Introducing Master Data Management
Nov 2006
Master data management (MDM) is a business capability enabled through the alignment of multiple information management technologies, business process improvements, and organizational commitments....
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
Principles of BPEL, Orchestration, and the ESB
Jan 2007
This white paper highlights a variety of shortcomings that are characteristic of many enterprise service bus (ESB) offerings, including: Lack of standards, hence lack of interoperability and...
Provided by Cape Clear Software
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White Papers
Enviro-Track: Towards an Environmental Computing Paradigm for Distributed Sensor Networks
Jan 2011
Distributed sensor networks are quickly gaining recognition as viable embedded computing platforms. Current techniques for programming sensor networks are cumbersome, inflexible, and low-level....
Provided by University of Virginia
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White Papers
Investigating the Use of Model-Driven Generative Techniques for Middleware Performance Analysis
Jan 2011
The increasing demand for faster availability of new, feature-rich and high performance network-centric services imposes the need for these services to be rapidly developed via composition,...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Automating Systems QoS Design Using Model Transformations
Nov 2007
Service Oriented Archictures (SOA) such as Web Services (WS) and Component middleware technologies such as Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and CORBA Component Model (CCM) have raised the level of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Evaluating Transport Protocols for Real-Time Event Stream Processing Middleware and Applications
Jun 2009
Real-Time Event Stream Processing (RT-ESP) applications must synchronize continuous data streams despite fluctuations in resource availability. Satisfying these needs of RT-ESP applications...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Evaluating the Correctness and Effectiveness of a Middleware QoS Configuration Process in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Feb 2008
Recent advances in software processes and artifacts for automating middleware configurations in Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems are starting to address the complexities faced by...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Automating Middleware Specializations for Fault Tolerance
Oct 2008
General-purpose middleware solutions, by definition, cannot readily support domain-specific semantics without significant manual efforts in specializing the middleware. This paper presents GRAFT...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
A Generative Middleware Specialization Process for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Jan 2011
General-purpose middleware must often be specialized for resource-constrained, real-time and embedded systems to improve their response-times, reliability, memory footprint, and even power...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Middleware Specialization for Product-Lines Using Feature-Oriented Reverse Engineering
Nov 2009
Supporting the varied software feature requirements of multiple variants of a software product-line while promoting reuse forces product line engineers to use general-purpose, feature-rich...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Self- Software Architectures and Component Middleware in Pervasive Environments
Sep 2007
Software systems that execute in embedded and pervasive environments are frequently required to be self-monitoring, self-adapting, and self-healing. However, supporting these self-capabilities in...
Provided by University of Southern California
