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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It is now well recognised that the next generation of middleware will need to be more
configurable and re-configurable in order to meet the demands of future applications (mobile …