The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
Nowadays, the development of flexible and interoperable software platforms for industry is an important issue. The CCM model captures two paramount features of such platforms, as it combines component-based middleware (easy composition of new applications and maintainability) and the openness of the CORBA standard. Though there exist an implementation of CCM devoted to real-time systems (CIAO platform),...
This paper proposes a middleware architecture that serves as a framework for the management of industrial processes in an industrial grid environment. The proposed system is based on agents making possible the effective distribution of intelligence, thus fortifying the survivability of the industrial network, while a central point of monitoring and control allows agent monitoring. By the term `agent'...
In-vehicle embedded systems typically consist of a set of nodes exchanging applicative data ("signals") through a stack of communication protocols that includes a middleware layer. On each node, tasks, both applicative and middleware level, are subject to deadline constraints. Furthermore, signals must be produced sufficiently recently for being safely consumed on the receiver end (so-called...
The embedded real-time development community is investigating different approaches in order to provide modularity and reuse features for system design in this area, as well as a more appropriate mapping technique between requirements and implementation. The Java technology is very promising for this community, mainly after the research efforts on its real-time extension RTSJ-real-time specification...
The integration of small mobile systems and devices into existing computing infrastructures requires efforts on the programming and on the networking layer. Both layers are often addressed by middleware that offers simple abstractions at the programming layer while implementing them on the networking layer. This paper focuses on JavaSpaces and Jini, a middleware provided by Sun. JavaSpaces implement...
"Integration", in particular vertical integration, has become one of the dominating buzzwords in the automation business. While marketing campaigns mostly in the context of industrial Ethernet and modular manufacturing execution systems evoke the impression that integration in automation is a new and revolutionary concept, the opposite is true: integration has always been the ultimate goal...
This paper describes an approach on the way towards dynamically configuring an application by discovering and using smart devices in a sensor/actuator network. The key to this are self-describing smart devices. Self description means that all information necessary to use the respective device are stored within the device itself. As an appropriate description language XML has emerged during the last...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.