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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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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White Papers
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
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
A Survey on Service Composition Middleware in Pervasive Environments
Oct 2009
The development of pervasive computing has put the light on a challenging problem: how to dynamically compose services in heterogeneous and highly changing environments? The authors propose a...
Provided by Universite de Lyon
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White Papers
Enhanced Access Control With Semantic Context Hierarchy Tree for Ubiquitous Computing
Oct 2008
In most ubiquitous applications involving ubiquitous hospital, security mechanisms supporting the context of users and systems has becoming a key issue. Access control systems have to make...
Provided by Sungkyunkwan University
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Case Studies
Corporate Payments Banking Scenario
Sep 2009
JKHL Bank is a fictitious Tier 2 bank that over the last several years acquired five smaller regional banks to create a broader geographic presence. JKHL Bank's Chief Operating Officer, who is...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Emotions in Pervasive Computing Environments
Nov 2009
The ability of an intelligent environment to connect and adapt to real internal sates, needs and behaviors' meaning of humans can be made possible by considering users' emotional states as...
Provided by University of Mauritius
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White Papers
Pseudo Random Numbers Generators Available as Web Services
Jun 2010
Series of Pseudo Random Numbers are often used as simulation input, and they strongly influence the results. Thus, their usage and the usage of their generator need to be taken care of very well....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Design and Implementation of Safe & Intelligent Bridges System Based on ALE-Compliant RFID Middleware in USN
Jun 2009
For accident surveillance and traffic flow conditions, CCTV cameras are installed on bridges. However, their effectiveness is diminished remarkably in a thick fog. Despite heavy fog, the proposed...
Provided by Hallym University
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White Papers
On Power Control for Wireless Sensor Networks: System Model, Middleware Component and Experimental Evaluation
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors investigate strategies for radio power control for wireless sensor networks that guarantee a desired packet error probability. Efficient power control algorithms are of...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Haptic Rendering in Interactive Applications Developed With Commodity Physics Engine
Apr 2011
Availability of commodity physics engines such as PhysX's nVidia has significantly reduced the effort required for developing interactive applications concerning the simulation of the physical...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Enabling Accessible Interfaces to Digital Library Content
Feb 2010
Most of the web interfaces are primarily designed for people with sight, with visually rich features that makes effective use of the tools to enhance visual usability but in process making it...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Top 7 Reporting Essentials for ISV's: See why IBM, EMC, & HP are all customers
Jun 2011
Did you know giants like IBM, EMC, and HP all rely on JReport to provide reporting and visualization in their products? Independent Software Vendors face a unique set of challenges when evaluating...
Provided by Jinfonet Software
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White Papers
Exploring Programming Model-Driven QoS Support for NoC-Based Platforms
Oct 2010
Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) are being increasingly considered as a central enabling technology to communication-centric designs as more and more IP blocks are integrated on the same SoC. Embedded...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
SEMM: Scalable and Efficient Multi-Resource Management in Grids
May 2008
Grids connect resources to enable the worldwide collaboration. Conventional centralized or hierarchical approaches to grid resource management are inefficient in large-scale grids. Distributed...
Provided by University of Arkansas
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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
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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
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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Web Service Access Management for Integration With Agent Systems
Mar 2008
The agent paradigm includes the notion that agents interact with services. This paper identifies the need for controlled access to such services, from the perspective of agent systems (And not as...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Security Middleware Virtualization
Sep 2008
The concept of virtualization is not new in the field of computer science. It dated back to the onset of the compilers of programming languages. The compiler programs intake high-level (English...
Provided by CESNET
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White Papers
An Architecture for Multiagent Systems: An Approach Based on Commitments
Aug 2009
Existing architectures for multiagent systems emphasize low-level messaging-related considerations. As a result, the programming abstractions they provide are also low level. In recent years,...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Methodology for Engineering Affective Social Applications
Sep 2009
Affective applications are becoming increasingly mainstream in entertainment and education. Yet, current techniques for building such applications are limited, and the maintenance and use of...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
An Energy Efficient Middleware Architecture for Processing Spatial Alarms on Mobile Clients
Jan 2010
Time based alarms are used by many on a daily basis. Spatial alarms extend the very same idea to location based triggers, which are fired whenever a mobile user enters the spatial region of the...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Resource-Adaptive Real-Time New Event Detection
Jun 2007
In a document streaming environment, online detection of the first documents that mention previously unseen events is an open challenge. For this Online New Event Detection (ONED) task, existing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Scalable Distributed Process Group Control and Inspection via the File System
Dec 2008
The size of distributed systems is rapidly expanding to meet the computational demands of the world. The largest current distributed systems for corporate intranets, High-Performance Computing...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
Integration Framework for Interoperability of Distributed and Heterogeneous Robot Middlewares
Aug 2008
This paper describes the ongoing development of a software framework for supporting interoperability and integration among heterogeneous network-based robotic development frameworks. The authors...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Look Who's Talking: Discovering Dependencies Between Virtual Machines Using CPU Utilization
May 2010
A common problem experienced in datacenters and utility clouds is the lack of knowledge about the mappings of the services being offered to or run by external users to the sets of Virtual Machines...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Empower Your Middleware Team With Self-Service Administration of WebSphere MQ
Oct 2010
IT and middleware managers, administrators, and application developers need an easy-to-use and secure tool to perform common tasks in WebSphere MQ environments. How do the WebSphere MQ...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Regain Middleware Control to Find and Fix Application Problems Fast
Nov 2010
Is any one getting tired of getting calls from the office on the days off? Spending so much time putting out middleware fires not only limits the time one get to spend on high priority projects -...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
A Middleware Solution to Monitoring Composite Web Services-Based Processes
Oct 2008
Web services can be composed to create complex business processes that span multiple organizations. Quality of Service (QoS) of such a process is guaranteed by a set of Service Level Agreements...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Current Trends in Middleware Benchmarking
Jan 2010
The paper provides a brief overview of the state of the art in middleware benchmarking. The overview is used to highlight some of the outstanding issues in the area, specifically the issues...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
A Survey on Service Composition Middleware in Pervasive Environments
Oct 2009
The development of pervasive computing has put the light on a challenging problem: how to dynamically compose services in heterogeneous and highly changing environments? The authors propose a...
Provided by Universite de Lyon
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White Papers
Enhanced Access Control With Semantic Context Hierarchy Tree for Ubiquitous Computing
Oct 2008
In most ubiquitous applications involving ubiquitous hospital, security mechanisms supporting the context of users and systems has becoming a key issue. Access control systems have to make...
Provided by Sungkyunkwan University
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Case Studies
Corporate Payments Banking Scenario
Sep 2009
JKHL Bank is a fictitious Tier 2 bank that over the last several years acquired five smaller regional banks to create a broader geographic presence. JKHL Bank's Chief Operating Officer, who is...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Emotions in Pervasive Computing Environments
Nov 2009
The ability of an intelligent environment to connect and adapt to real internal sates, needs and behaviors' meaning of humans can be made possible by considering users' emotional states as...
Provided by University of Mauritius
-
White Papers
Pseudo Random Numbers Generators Available as Web Services
Jun 2010
Series of Pseudo Random Numbers are often used as simulation input, and they strongly influence the results. Thus, their usage and the usage of their generator need to be taken care of very well....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Design and Implementation of Safe & Intelligent Bridges System Based on ALE-Compliant RFID Middleware in USN
Jun 2009
For accident surveillance and traffic flow conditions, CCTV cameras are installed on bridges. However, their effectiveness is diminished remarkably in a thick fog. Despite heavy fog, the proposed...
Provided by Hallym University
-
White Papers
On Power Control for Wireless Sensor Networks: System Model, Middleware Component and Experimental Evaluation
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors investigate strategies for radio power control for wireless sensor networks that guarantee a desired packet error probability. Efficient power control algorithms are of...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Haptic Rendering in Interactive Applications Developed With Commodity Physics Engine
Apr 2011
Availability of commodity physics engines such as PhysX's nVidia has significantly reduced the effort required for developing interactive applications concerning the simulation of the physical...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Enabling Accessible Interfaces to Digital Library Content
Feb 2010
Most of the web interfaces are primarily designed for people with sight, with visually rich features that makes effective use of the tools to enhance visual usability but in process making it...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Top 7 Reporting Essentials for ISV's: See why IBM, EMC, & HP are all customers
Jun 2011
Did you know giants like IBM, EMC, and HP all rely on JReport to provide reporting and visualization in their products? Independent Software Vendors face a unique set of challenges when evaluating...
Provided by Jinfonet Software
-
White Papers
Exploring Programming Model-Driven QoS Support for NoC-Based Platforms
Oct 2010
Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) are being increasingly considered as a central enabling technology to communication-centric designs as more and more IP blocks are integrated on the same SoC. Embedded...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
SEMM: Scalable and Efficient Multi-Resource Management in Grids
May 2008
Grids connect resources to enable the worldwide collaboration. Conventional centralized or hierarchical approaches to grid resource management are inefficient in large-scale grids. Distributed...
Provided by University of Arkansas
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Case Studies
IBM Accelerates the SOA Adoption Process With Hands-On Trials, Available Online and Free of Charge
Aug 2009
IBM invents, develops and manufactures IT products, including computer systems and software, system networks, storage hardware and microelectronic products. It also offers a comprehensive range of...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Helping Growing Companies Use IT Solutions to Work Smarter
Jun 2011
Read this IBM-sponsored white paper from SMB Group, Inc. to learn how by using the Solutions for Smart Business platform, IBM packaged selected applications into streamlined offerings that give...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
GeoCast: An Efficient Overlay System for Multicast Applications
Oct 2009
In this paper, the authors have presented GeoCast, a middleware architecture for supporting multicast group communication applications in a geographical overlay network. The approach has two...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Middleware-Based Distributed Systems Software Process
Dec 2009
Middleware facilitates the development of distributed systems by accommodating heterogeneity, hiding distribution details and providing a set of common and domain specific services. It plays a...
Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Whitepapers - Video
What's smart about Storage? IBM Clients talk about their success
Jul 2011
Information is growing by 15 petabytes a day. But more information doesn't make your organization smarter. It takes systems that are instrumented, interconnected and intelligent to deliver...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
IBM Rapid Deployment Services - Ahead Of The Pack
Jul 2011
Today's complex middleware solutions require faster speed to value and higher levels of quality. This brief video explains the role IBM Rapid Deployment Services (RDS) can play in helping today's...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
IBM Rapid Deployment Services - RDS
Jul 2011
Deploying middleware in a timely manner without errors can be a frustrating, labor intensive process. With IBM Rapid Deployment Services (RDS), you can distribute automatic, pre-tested, fully...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Survival of the Fittest: An Evolutionary Approach to Deploying Adaptive Functionality in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Dec 2008
The heterogeneous, large-scale and decentralised nature of peer-to-peer systems creates significant issues when deploying new functionality and adapting peer behaviour. The ability to autonomously...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Engineering Complex Adaptations in Highly Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Sep 2008
Distributed systems now encounter extreme heterogeneity in the form of diverse devices, network types etc., and also need to dynamically adapt to changing environmental conditions. Self-adaptive...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Juno: Reconfigurable Middleware for Heterogeneous Content Networking
Jul 2008
Multimedia content distribution is playing an increasingly prominent role in the internet today, with a proliferation of diverse services and delivery mechanisms. Due to this increasing...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
A Semantic Composition Model to Preserve (Re) Configuration Consistency in Aspect Oriented Middleware
Aug 2009
Aspect-oriented programming enables the isolation and modularisation of crosscutting concerns that are typically implemented in a tangled fashion within the base system. However, the composition...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
A Reflective Middleware to Support Peer-to-Peer Overlay Adaptation
Mar 2009
As peer-to-peer systems are evolving from simplistic application specific overlays to middleware platforms hosting a range of potential applications it has become evident that increasingly...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
Middleware Support for Dynamic Reconfiguration in Sensor Networks
Apr 2009
The operational environments of sensor networks will alter over time, often due to hazardous conditions or fluctuating resource availability; however this important characteristic of sensor...
Provided by Lancaster University
