Software-intensive systems often exhibit dimensions in size and complexity that exceed the
scope of comprehension of system designers and analysts. With this complexity comes the …

Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in supporting distributed
applications. With the expanding role of middleware, however, a number of problems are …

Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the
demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such …

To support multimedia applications in mobile environments, it is necessary for applications
to be aware of the underlying environmental conditions, and also to be able to adapt their …

This paper presents an architectural framework for customizing Object Request Broker
(ORB) implementations to application-specific preferences for various non-functional …

Middleware technologies such as CORBA and DCOM have been developed as a means of
tackling heterogeneity and complexity problems inherent in distributed systems. However …

In this paper, we present a novel QoS-aware middleware framework, that seamlessly
enables ubiquitous delivery of QoS-aware multimedia applications. The QoS management …

Enterprise applications can be structured as domains, where each domain contains objects
that are replicated for fault tolerance, with the replication being managed by a fault tolerance …

Over the last few years, there has been considerable research in the area of Software
Architecture. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the specification of real-time …

The rapid expansion of computer network systems such as the Internet has led to problems
of heterogeneity and complexity. To tackle these problems middleware technologies such as …