An architectural framework and a middleware for cooperating smart components

2004 Computing Frontiers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 28-39

  Casimiro, António ^a   Kaiser, Jörg ^b   Veríssimo, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Component based systems; Event based communication; Middleware architectures; Sentient computing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; SENSORS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEMS; EVENT-BASED COMMUNICATION; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE; SENTIMENT COMPUTING; SMART ACTUATORS; SMART SENSORS;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 4143132280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/977091.977098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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