Communication middleware simplifies the construction of component-based distributed applications [1] [2]. However, the lack of flexibility in the construction of the middleware itself imposes limitations and is a major concern [3-7]. While applications can detect changes in their execution environment, they cannot customize the underlying middleware to better accommodate these changes. To solve...

A novel Internet-based information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for an eco-accounting system was successfully developed to deliver “EcoCosts”, which are the values of environmental impact throughout product life cycle. The ICT manages its internal elements and interacts with operation modules in supply chain via Web-based service interfaces. consists upperware, middleware, reso...

In distributed environments, generic middleware services(e.g. caching, location management etc.) are widely used to satisfy application needs in a cost-effective manner. Such middleware services consume system resources such as storage, computation and communication and can be sources of significant power overheads when executed on low-power devices. We present a distributed middleware framewor...

Increased reliance of applications on the software infrastructure to support distributed operations is creating new intrusion threats. In particular, there is a growing but largely unnoticed intrusion threat due to the emerging middleware technologies such as CORBA, WAP, XML support, enterprise application integrators, and Internet telephony middleware. The situation is grave because the emergi...

Mobile computing is characterised by users carrying portable devices that allow communication between people and continuous access to networked services independent of their physical location. A mobile application must discover and interoperate with the required application services available to them in their present location. However, these services will be developed upon a range of middleware...

In high-performance parallel computing, most programming model middleware libraries and runtime systems use a communication subsystem to abstract the lower level network layer. The functionality required of a communication subsystem depends largely on the particular programming model implemented by the middleware. In order to maximize performance, middleware libraries and runtime systems typica...

Middleware platforms and related services form a vital cog in the construction of robust distributed systems. Middleware facilitates the development of large software systems by relieving the burden on the applications developer of writing a number of complex infrastructure services needed by the system; these services include persistence, distribution, transactions, load balancing, clustering,...

This paper addresses the problem of controlling a heterogeneous system composed multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Autonomous Underwater (AUVs) for formation containment maintenance. The proposed approach considers actuator time delay and, in addition to containment, obstacle avoidance, offers robust navigation algorithm uses reliable middleware data transmission exchange. methodology...

M iddleware refers to a broad class of software infrastructure technologies that use high-level abstractions to simplify construction of distributed systems. Over the past decade, the adoption of commercial off-the-shelf middleware products across the software industry has gathered significant momentum. COTS products make it possible to deploy application components in high-performance, scalabl...