Novel Component Middleware for Building Dependable Sentient Computing Applications
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M. Wu, A. Friday, G. Blair, T. Sivaharan, P. Okanda, H. Duran-Limon, C.-F. S?rensen, G. Biegel, and R. Meier, Novel Component Middleware for Building Dependable Sentient Computing Applications, ACM Workshop on Component-Oriented Approaches to Context-Aware Computing (ECOOP'04), Oslo, Norway, 2004Download Item:
Abstract:
With advances in sensor-based computing and mobile communication, people have
started to explore ubiquitous or pervasive computing systems that aim to have computing
devices literally available everywhere, making them disappear into the physical environ-
ment. Novel ubiquitous computing applications such as intelligent vehicles, smart buildings,
and traffic management have special properties that traditional computing applications do
not possess, such as context-awareness, massive decentralisation, autonomous behaviour,
adaptivity, proactivity, and innate collaboration. In this paper we argue that such appli-
cations require a new computational model and middleware that can reflect the autonomy
and spontaneity of cooperative entities. The EU funded CORTEX1 project proposes the
sentient object model to support the construction of such large-scale applications. We re-
port on a flexible, run-time reconfigurable component based middleware that we have used
to engineer the sentient object programming paradigm. We demonstrate the appropriate-
ness of the novel computational model and validity of the middleware by constructing a
proof of concept demonstrator based on the notion of autonomous cooperating vehicles.
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PRESENTEDOslo, Norway
Author: MEIER, RENE
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