Self-adaptation is emerging as an increasingly important capability for many applications,
particularly those deployed in dynamically changing environments, such as ecosystem …

In this paper we present GREEN a highly configurable and re-configurable publish-
subscribe middleware to support pervasive computing applications. Such applications must …

In this paper, we survey three generation of reflective middleware research carried out at
Lancaster University, present experiences gained from this research, and highlight a …

Over the last few years, several nations around the world have set up Grids to share
resources such as computers, data, and instruments to enable collaborative science …

OpenCOM v2 is our experimental language-independent component-based systems-
building technology. OpenCOM offers more than merely a component-based programming …

Abstract We recently introduced Service Clouds, a distributed infrastructure designed to
facilitate rapid prototy** and deployment of autonomic communication services. In this …

In order to provide an increasing number of functionalities and benefit from sophisticated
and application-tailored services from the network, distributed applications are led to …

Visualizers, like logicians, have long been concerned with meaning. Generalizing from
MacEachren's overview of cartography, visualizers have to think about how people extract …

Recently, there have been increasing demands for the postponement of decisions on
software adaptations and product variations to provide the flexibility required by dynamic …

Elastic optical network (EON) architectures are considered as a very promising approach for
future optical transport networks, since they efficiently use the spectrum resources and …