BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-61

  Mitchinson, Ben ^a   Chan, Tak Shing ^a   Chambers, Jon ^a   Pearson, Martin ^b   Humphries, Mark ^a   Fox, Charles ^a   Gurney, Kevin ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; BIO-MIMETIC CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL MODELS; COARSE-GRAINED; COMPUTATIONAL PROCESS; DATA LOGGING; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GENERAL PURPOSE; IN-BUILDINGS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE INTEGRATION; PARALLELISATION; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT; SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTIONS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; SOURCE CODES;

BIOMIMETICS; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MIDDLEWARE; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; ROBOTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 72149132028     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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