Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to disintegrat...
Currently, the interest in Ambient Intelligence (or AmI) has increased exponentially due to the widespread use of portable devices. Users demand more and more functionality from t...
The main intent of this paper is to address the issue of middleware in network centric operations. To this end, we characterize a set of Information Technology capabilities that s...
Ali Benssam, Jean Berger, Abdeslem Boukhtouta, Mou...
This paper aims at demonstrating the benefits and importance of the service concept in the model-driven design of distributed applications. A service defines the observable behavi...
Many aspect-oriented middleware platforms support run-time aspect weaving, but do not support coordinating distributed changes to a set of aspects at run-time. A distributed chang...
Eddy Truyen, Nico Janssens, Frans Sanen, Wouter Jo...