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Intelligent surveillance aims at providing artificial systems in order to monitor and improve the security of public and private spaces. Since these environments are complex and the information is distributed through them, agent-based solutions represent a good approach when monitoring moving objects. This paper describes how an existing agent platform has been adopted and used to carry out intelligent...
Most image processing techniques are based on the idea that the information is processed in end nodes. Our proposal is based on a slightly different idea called Process-in-Network (PIN) defined as the possibility that the network processes information as it is being transmitted, seeking to take advantage of waiting times, idle processing capacity, and the information itself. In this article, the possible...
In this paper a distributed object-oriented framework (DOBS, Distributed Object Based Services) for home service design is presented. This framework eases the development of advanced services able to run in a variety of devices ranging from tiny wireless sensors to powerful multimedia servers. Special emphasis will be made on DOBS main features, its core components, the offered common services and...
Systems for Ambient Intelligence environments demand at some stage a service composition task, as a mean of adaptability to the context changes. However, in contrast to what ubiquitous and pervasive computing propose, users generally find themselves involved in the service composition task, by selecting or deciding what to compose and how. This paper proposes the use of Intelligent Agents for the...
This paper introduces a novel approach to transport messages between a backbone network and a device network (SAN) in a seamless way, even when these networks use incompatible protocols or technologies. The paper shows how to leverage a general purpose distributed object oriented middleware to encapsulate and send messages as object invocations. Devices and routers are modeled as standard distributed...
For decades, software middlewares have tackled with the heterogeneity and interconnectivity problems in computer networks with success. These problems are recurrent in the design of complex systems-on chip with a large number of components of different nature (including SW and HW modules). In this paper we present an object- oriented communication engine (OOCE) based on the architectural concepts...
In this paper we propose a contribution to reduce the complexity of management of dynamic reconfiguration. The model for dynamic reconfiguration presented here is based on the object-oriented paradigm and a clear separation between the functionality inside the reconfigured cores and the communication infrastructure. This infrastructure will be the responsible not only for managing data transferences...
Heterogeneous system architectures are currently the main platform on which an ever increasing number of innovative applications (i.e. smart home or ambient intelligence applications) rely. When designing these complex systems, one of the most time-consuming tasks is the definition of the communication interfaces between the different components through a number of scattered heterogeneous processing...
System-on-chip (SoC) architectures are called to be the platform for an ever increasing number of interactive applications. One of the most time- consuming tasks is to define communication interfaces between the different components through a number of scattered heterogeneous processing nodes. That is not only a complex task, but also very specific to a certain implementation, which may limit the...
HW-SW interoperability by means of standard distributed object middlewares has been proved to be useful in the design of new and challenging applications for ubiquitous computing, and ambient intelligence environments. Wireless sensor networks are considered to be essential for the proper deployment of these applications, but they impose new constraints in the design of the corresponding communication...
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