The vision of Internet of Things (IOT) promises a prosperous future for grain storage quality control by integrating all sensors deployed in the individual grain bins into a global grain storage system. However, since the data format and the data semantic of the monitoring systems are not unified, heterogeneous systems equipped with sensor networks are pending integration and have difficulty in...

Middleware is a growing, multidisciplinary area that merges knowledge from diverse areas such as distributed systems, networks and, more recently, embedded systems. This paper presents the results of an extensive review of middleware related literature, and presents an overview of critical features that must be considered during middleware development. These features include: network independen...

By understanding the semantics of workflows and their data, grid middleware can provide data-centric services that are lacking in currently deployed process-centric grid middleware. We describe GridDB, a grid middleware system that provides data-centric services as well as one example service, computational steering.

Now that 3G technologies have reached their maturity, newly advanced services can be delivered to the mobile user. These include contextaware services, adaptable services and Virtual Home Environment (VHE)-like services. Important research issues relate, however, to managing such services through appropriate service architectures which permit effective adaptation mechanisms, allowing the user t...

This paper presents a communication framework developed for interconnecting multi-systems based on the Data Distribution Service (DDS). The new built framework, called ANIMO, facilitates the integration of DDS in an application and the interoperability between the different data types of the Cooperating Objects (COs) with the great feature of real-time. Furthermore, a powerful tool to generate ...

Due to recent advances in data science the importance of data is increasing also in the domain of business process management. To reflect the paradigm shift towards data-awareness in service compositions, in previous work, we introduced the notion of data-aware choreographies through cross-partner data objects and cross-partner data flows as means to increase run time flexibility while reducing...

GOAL -General brOkering Architecture Layeris a service architecture which allows the development and the management of highly flexible, scalable and self-configurable distributed and service-oriented applications over the Internet. GOAL centres on a design pattern which decouples the design of service functionalities from the distribution concerns. A service wrapper is specifically responsible ...

Sharing spatial data derived from remote sensing is a very significant thing. Grid computing and Web Service technology provides fundamental support for it. In this paper we mainly discuss architecture and middleware of sharing spatial data derived from remote sensing and processing. Because middleware of automatically transferring and task execution on grid is the key of the architecture, we s...

Developers of distributed multimedia applications face a diversity of multimedia formats, streaming platforms and streaming protocols; furthermore, support for end-to-end Quality-of-Service (QoS) is a crucial factor for the development of future distributed multimedia systems. Middleware is gaining wide acceptance as a generic software infrastructure for distributed applications, a growing numb...

The ability to store object states persistently in a convenient and flexible way is an important requirement for middleware environments. In this paper we propose a language independent framework for flexible and extensible persistent storage services for object-oriented middleware. The framework is specified by interface definitions and the rationale of their interplay. To support application-...