EMWF for flexible automation and assistive devices

Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, RTAS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 243-252

  Chou, T S ^a   Wang, Y C ^a   Liu, J W S ^a   Chang, S Y ^b   Lu, Y F ^b   Ouyang, M K ^b   Kuo, T W ^b   Shih, C S ^b   Hu, J S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automation and assistive devices; Component based design; Embedded middleware; workflow architecture

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; COMPONENT-BASED DESIGN; EMBEDDED MIDDLEWARE WORKFLOW ARCHITECTURE; FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION; HOME AUTOMATION; MEMORY FOOTPRINT; PERFORMANCE DATA; PROCESS DEFINITION; ROBOT BEHAVIOR; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; SOCIAL ROBOTS; WINDOWS CE; WORKFLOW ENGINES; XML PROCESS DEFINITION LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MIDDLEWARE;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 67650217968     PISSN: 15453421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTAS.2009.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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