This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a separable, reusable middleware solution that provides coordinated, end-to-end QoS management over any type of service component, and can use e...
Denise J. Ecklund, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, ...
Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...
Abstract. Conventional middleware architectures suffer from insufficient module-level reusability and the ability to adapt in face of functionality evolution and diversification....