In this work we revise the layered software architecture for the Knowledge Grid by explicitly introducing the concept of Resourceome, i.e. an “alive” ontology of resources. This approach is necessary to tackle the challenges posed by the “ome” status, reached by the world of bioinformatics resources. The resulting software architecture, a Resourceomic Grid, integrates components to support issu...

We propose a layered architecture for choreographies and orchestrations of web services. The proposed architecture uses the concept of process views. The distributed nature of the model and the concept of views improve the privacy of business partners but do not limit their interaction capabilities, an essential feature in B2B and interorganizational applications. Our approach enables descripti...

We discuss how telephony software requirements should be structured to reduce maintenance costs. “Feature interaction” problems have become a serious obstacle to add more features to telephone switches. We show why existing public switched telephone networks are hard to modify. We then argue that a more modular, layered requirements architecture can help. Finally we survey approaches for such a...

Many complex, high-tech products and services can be usefully viewed as a series of “layers.” Like an onion, all the layers work together to produce the end result, each layer in physical or logical contact with its two neighbors. Engineers have proposed layered models for the architecture of telecommunications networks, the Internet, and computer systems. Recently, policy analysts and legal sc...

In this work we present a BDI agent architecture to provide mobile soccer robots a high level reasoning mechanism. This architecture is build on top of layered system, where each layer is associated with a different level of abstraction in terms of robotic specification. The proposed approach allows the declarative specification of goal driven robot behavior. However in order to cope with the d...

An architecture for a distributed and adaptive multi-sensor fusion engine is described. The engine is developed to improve the protection of European armed forces against the threats troops are facing in urban environments. In particular, the engine needs to be scalable, flexible to quickly adjust to different missions and mission goals, easily extendable and suited for distributed implementati...

The channel capacity of the Bell Labs layered space-time (BLAST) communication architecture is substantially larger than that of traditional systems in certain applications. However, the correlation between individual channels may severely degrade the BLAST performance. An investigation is presented into the BLAST architecture and a simple formula derived for its channel capacity as a function ...

We propose a layered architecture for choreographies and orchestrations of web services. The proposed architecture uses the concept of process views. The distributed nature of the model and the concept of views improve the privacy of business partners but do not limit their interaction capabilities, an essential feature in B2B and interorganizational applications. Our approach enables descripti...

Linguistic utterances are full of errors and novel expressions, yet linguistic communication is remarkably robust. This paper presents a double-layered architecture for open-ended language processing, in which ‘diagnostics’ and ‘repairs’ operate on a meta-level for detecting and solving problems that may occur during habitual processing on a routine layer. Through concrete operational examples,...

Service architectures are an increasingly adopted architectural approach for solving the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) problem originated by business process automation requirements. In previous work, we developed a methodological framework for the designing of service architectures for EAI. The framework is structured in a layered architecture called LABAS, and is distinguished by u...