In this paper, we propose a communication software architecture designed to support distributed multimedia applications. We show that this architecture is scalable, and can provide high availability of the communication services. 1. An earlier version of this work appeared in Proc. 1st BROADCAST Open Workshop, Newcastle upon Tyne, 13 14 October 1993. Partial support for this work was provided b...

This paper outlines the architecture of a system designed to demonstrate large scale web accessibility assessment developed in a European research project. The system consists of a set of integrated software components designed to automatically evaluate accessibility metrics for a large number of websites and present results in a common report. The system architecture is designed to be maintain...

The VST (VLT Survey Telescope) is a 2.6 m Alt-Az telescope to be installed at Mount Paranal in Chile, in the European Southern Observatory (ESO) site. The VST is a wide-field imaging facility planned to supply databases for the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) science and carry out stand-alone observations in the UV to I spectral range. This paper will focus mainly on control software aspects, de...

Cloud Computing has been a trending topic for years now and it seems it has finally become mature enough for widespread commercial application. In this paper, the authors describe their approach to establish a secure cloud architecture which conforms to the Measuring Instruments Directive of the European Union while keeping the flexibility and benefits that cloud computing promises for companie...

The healthcare domain is wide and characterized by system and data herogeneity. To achieve high quality and efficiency standards, interoperability between different information systems is strongly required. The aim of this paper is to propose an agent oriented architecture to address this kind of issues, which is compliant with the European Union (EU) guidelines and with requirements issued by ...

This paper describes an architecture model for multiagent systems that was developed in the European project LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform). Its main feature is a set of generic services that are implemented independently of the agents and can be installed into the agents by the application developer in a flexible way. Moreover, two applications using this architecture model are d...

This paper presents the design of the human-robot interaction (HRI) architecture developed in the context of the European project MOnarCH. In this project a team of robots operates in the pediatric ward of an oncological hospital. In this scenario the robots operate for long periods interacting with the different people they encounter: children, staff, etc. We present an HRI architecture that i...

Web-based Intelligent Design and Tutoring System (WINDS) is a European project with the objective to implement a learning environment integrating an intelligent tutoring system, a computer instruction management system and a set of cooperative tools. This environment will be used to build a large knowledge base supporting Architecture and Civil Engineering Design Courses and to experiment a com...

D11.1-Guidelines for open scaleable applications in telemedicine-2-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SAMTA (Open Scaleable Architecture for Multimedia Telemedicine Application) is an European Union funded research project focused on the medical field of cardiology in Central and Eastern European countries. However, the project results presented in this document in the form of guidelines and recommendations are...

Within the ESA Advanced Research Telecommunications program ARTES-5, the project GALEWAT (Galileo and EGNOS for Waterway Transport) aims at introducing EGNOS into River Information Services (RIS) through the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a link that is mandatory for seagoing vessels above 300 GT. The GALEWAT project comprises several phases: During the initial definition phase, the sys...