Well adapted to the loosely coupled nature of distributed interaction in large-scale
applications, the publish/subscribe communication paradigm has recently received …

This paper surveys the message brokers that are in vogue today for distributed
communication. Their primary goal is to facilitate the construction of decentralized topologies …

This paper presents Fractal, a hierarchical and reflective component model with sharing.
Components in this model can be endowed with arbitrary reflective capabilities, from plain …

In today's world, services and data are integrated in ever new constellations, requiring the
easy, flexible and scalable integration of autonomous, heterogeneous components into …

As software systems continue to be distributed deployments over ever-increasing scales,
transcending geographical, organizational, and traditional commercial boundaries, the …

The internet of things (IoT) will enable a range of applications providing enhanced
awareness and control of the physical environment. Current systems typically sense and …

With the widespread deployment and use of wireless data communications in the mobile
computing domain the need for middleware that interconnects the components that …

Since software systems are becoming increasingly more concurrent and distributed,
modeling and analysis of interactions among their components is a crucial problem. In …

Large-scale distributed systems require new middleware paradigms that do not suffer from
the limitations of traditional request/reply middleware. These limitations include tight …

Existing digital identity management systems fail to deliver the desirable properties of control
by the users of their own identity data, credibility of disclosed identity data, and network-level …