The next-generation ARC middleware

The next-generation ARC middleware

The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) is a light-weight, non-intrusive, simple yet powerful Grid middleware capable of connecting highly heterogeneous computing and storage resources. ARC aims at providing general purpose, flexible, collaborative computing environments suitable for a range of uses, both in science and business. The server side offers the fundamental job execution management, in...

Middleware: the key to next generation computing

Middleware for Next-Generation Urban Traffic Control

Next generation Urban Traffic Control (UTC) systems should be flexible in their ability to handle new and improved sensor information that is beginning to become available from cameras, GPS devices, and other sources. They should equally be open to supporting a variety of different traffic management policies, informed by this increasingly available sensor data, to optimise the flow of traffic ...

Next Generation Middleware: Requirements, Architecture, and Prototypes

Middleware technologies such as CORBA or Java RMI have proved their suitability for “standard” clientserver applications. However, challenges from existing and new types of applications, including support for multimedia, real-time requirements and mobility seems to indicate the need for defining a new architecture for open distributed systems. The new architecture should be designed from the be...

An Architecture for Next Generation Middleware

This paper proposes an approach to the design of configurable and open middleware platforms based on the concept of reflection. More specifically, the paper introduces a language-independent reflective architecture featuring a perobject meta-space, the use of meta-models to structure meta-space, and a consistent use of object graphs for composite components. This is complemented by a component ...