Abstract--If we are to deploy sensor applications in a realistic business context, we must provide innovative middleware services to control and enforce required system behavior; i...
In today’s world, stream processing systems have become important, as applications like media broadcasting, sensor network monitoring and on-line data analysis increasingly rely...
—The paper first discusses motivations why taking into account location information in authentication and access control is important. The paper then surveys current approaches t...
Many object-oriented information systems share an architectural style that emphasizes flexibility and dynamically configurable. Business rules are stored in a database instead of ...
Software has become strategic to developing effective distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Next-generation DRE systems, such as total ship computing environments, coo...