This note is a retrospective review of our 2006 paper [1] on the properties of protocols, especially interoperability. A bit of history is in order. By 2006, the importance of a social semantics for protocols was well-established in the multiagent systems community. Further, commitments had emerged as the preeminent abstraction for capturing the semantics. The big advantage was that specifying ...

The aim of home automation is to control home devices from a central control point. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a low cost but yet flexible and secure internet based home automation system. The communication between the devices is wireless. The protocol between the units in the design is enhanced to be suitable for most of the appliances. The system is designed to...

Event-driven programming has emerged as one of the mainstream paradigms for the engineering of distributed applications assembled out of loosely related software components. In this paper, we present our on-going research in the development of a flexible event-dissemination framework targeted at mobile and stationary computing environments. We discuss a solution based on virtual multicast event...

SonART is a flexible, multi-purpose multimedia environment that allows for networked collaborative interaction with applications for art, science and industry. In this paper we describe the integration of image and audio that SonART enables. An arbitrary number of layered canvases, each with independent control of opacity, RGB values, etc., can transmit or receive data using Open Sound Control....

The objective of this study is to investigate the combustion in a pilot-ignited supercharged dual-fuel engine, fueled with different types of gaseous fuels under various equivalence ratios. It is found that if certain operating conditions are maintained, conventional dual-fuel engine combustion mode can be transformed to the combustion mode with the two-stage heat release. This mode of combusti...

cooperative object manipulation control of rigid-flexible multi-body systems in space is studied in this paper. during such tasks, flexible members like solar panels may get vibrated that in turn may lead to some oscillatory disturbing forces on other subsystems, and consequently produces error in the motion of the end-effectors of the cooperative manipulating arms. therefore, to design and dev...

The Secure Internet Indirection Infrastructure (Secure-i) is a proposal for a flexible and secure overlay network that, if universally deployed, would effectively block a number of denial-of-service problems in the Internet. The Host Identity Protocol (HIP), on the other hand, is a proposal for deploying opportunistic, IPsec based end-to-end security, allowing any hosts to communicate in a secu...