We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
— According to the IETF definition, “presence conveys the ability and willingness of a user to communicate across a set of devices”. In this paper we use semantic techniques ...
An integrated solution to guarantee real-time requirements in embedded real-time monitor and control systems is presented in this paper. First l task model is abstracted from such ...
Embedded devices like smart cards can now run multiple interacting applications. A particular challenge in this domain is to dynamically integrate diverse security policies. In th...
The coordination-policy that components interactions satisfied often determines the properties of nowadays component-based information systems, e.g. Safety, Liveness and Fairness ...