Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in modern distributed
systems largely because it offers a high-level, platform-independent programming model …

It is now well established that middleware platforms must accommodate an increasingly
diverse range of requirements arising from the needs of both applications and underlying …

Enabling the ambient intelligence vision means that consumers will be provided with
universal and immediate access to available content and services, together with ways of …

Modern software systems are often required to adapt their behavior at runtime in order to
maintain or enhance their utility in dynamic environments. Models at runtime research aims …

Classification is not new in this middleware area. Many authors have suggests classifying by
various communication techniques, protocols (session versus sessionless), the …

Decimal multiplication is important in many commercial applications including financial
analysis, banking, tax calculation, currency conversion, insurance, and accounting. This …

Functional testing of HDL specifications is one of the most promising approaches for the
verification of the functionalities of a design before synthesis. The contribution of this work is …

Software integration has been a solution to the problem of connecting dissimilar systems for
many years. Integration is still a challenging issue. EAI is defined as the process of …

Recent research has recognised the potential of coupling ADLs with underlying runtime
environments to support systematic and integrated" specification-todeployment" …

Architecture-based development environments are becoming an effective solution towards
the construction of robust distributed systems. Through the abstract description of complex …