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COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Ontological Foundations for UML Conceptual Models
Abstract. UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. We use the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level o...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Heinrich Herre, Gerd Wagner
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Human Based Perception Model for Cooperative Intelligent Virtual Agents
Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experimental learning and entertainment. Nowadays, virtual environments often incorporate human-like embodied virtual agent...
Pilar Herrero, Angélica de Antonio
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Design and Performance of Asynchronous Method Handling for CORBA
This paper describes the design and performance of a new asynchronous method handling (AMH) mechanism that allows CORBA servers to process client requests asynchronously. AMH deco...
Mayur Deshpande, Douglas C. Schmidt, Carlos O'Ryan...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Infrastructure for Adaptable Middleware
Abstract. Today’s software systems have to deal with an increasing diversity and complexity of execution environments. Next generation applications will have to deal with the unk...
Pierre-Charles David, Thomas Ledoux
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Design and Performance of the jRate Real-Time Java Implementation
Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for realtime and embedded applications. Since the behavior of these applications is often constrained by the physical world, it...
Angelo Corsaro, Douglas C. Schmidt
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Evolvable Framework for Perceptual Collaborative Applications
The Neem Platform is a research test bed for Project Neem, concerned with the development of socially and culturally aware collaborative systems in a wide range of domains, through...
Paulo Barthelmess, Clarence A. Ellis, The Neem Pla...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Object Security Attributes: Enabling Application-Specific Access Control in Middleware
This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...
Konstantin Beznosov
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Adaptive Scheduling Service for Real-Time CORBA
CORBA is an important standard middleware used in the development of distributed applications. It has also been used with distributed real-time applications, through its extension ...
Alexandre Cervieri, Rômulo Silva de Oliveira...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On Real-Time Top k Querying for Mobile Services
Mobile services offering multi-feature query capabilities must meet tough response time requirements to gain customer acceptance. The top-k query model is a popular candidate to im...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Werner Kie&s...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Querying XML Sources Using an Ontology-Based Mediator
In this paper we propose a mediator architecture for the querying and integration of Web-accessible XML data sources. Our contributions are (i) the definition of a simple but expr...
Bernd Amann, Catriel Beeri, Irini Fundulaki, Miche...