Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the para... more Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. These two worlds, however, can no longer be separated islands. As a matter of fact, pervasive and grid computing communities can both benefit from joining the two paradigms. This conjunction is already taking place. This paper presents a middleware for pervasive grid applications. It consists of a set of basic services that aim to enhance classic grid environments with mechanisms for: i) integrating mobile devices in a pervasive way; ii) providing context-awareness; and, iii) handling mobile users’ sessions. Such services are OGSA compliant and have been deployed as grid services in order to be easily integrated in classic grid environments.
Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the para... more Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. These two worlds, however, can no longer be separated islands. As a matter of fact, pervasive and grid computing communities can both benefit from joining the two paradigms. This conjunction is already taking place. This paper presents a middleware for pervasive grid applications. It consists of a set of basic services that aim to enhance classic grid environments with mechanisms for: i) integrating mobile devices in a pervasive way; ii) providing context-awareness; and, iii) handling mobile users’ sessions. Such services are OGSA compliant and have been deployed as grid services in order to be easily integrated in classic grid environments.
Smart and intelligent environments can proficiently benefit from a new generation of multimodal d... more Smart and intelligent environments can proficiently benefit from a new generation of multimodal dialog systems, which enable users to interact in natural ways like voice, gesture, facial motions, and so on. However, in order to make this possible, it is necessary to integrate such systems and services, possibly in a transparent way. In the present paper, we propose (i) an architectural model for multimodal smart environments; (ii) an agent-based middleware infrastructure that provides basic components for the integration of multimodal interaction systems; and, (iii) a tool for rapid-prototyping, which automatically customizes some middleware components to implement multimodal interaction mechanisms for the environment's application services.
Grid computing environments have recently been extended with Pervasive computing characteristics ... more Grid computing environments have recently been extended with Pervasive computing characteristics leading to a new paradigm, namely the Pervasive Grid Computing. In particular, QoS of existing Grid services is being augmented by means of location-awareness. This paper presents a location service that locates active mobile objects, such as Wi-Fi enabled devices and RFID tagged entities, in a real Pervasive Grid. The key feature of the service is the use of ontologies and rules to define a uniform, unambiguous and well-defined model for the location information, independently from the particular positioning system. Moreover, the location service performs logic and reasoning mechanisms both for providing physical and semantic locations of mobile objects and for inferring the finest granularity for location information in the case a mobile object is located by more than one positioning system. The service has been developed at the top of the standard OGSA architecture.
Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the para... more Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. These two worlds, however, can no longer be separated islands. As a matter of fact, pervasive and grid computing communities can both benefit from joining the two paradigms. This conjunction is already taking place. This paper presents a middleware for pervasive grid applications. It consists of a set of basic services that aim to enhance classic grid environments with mechanisms for: i) integrating mobile devices in a pervasive way; ii) providing context-awareness; and, iii) handling mobile users’ sessions. Such services are OGSA compliant and have been deployed as grid services in order to be easily integrated in classic grid environments.
Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the para... more Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. These two worlds, however, can no longer be separated islands. As a matter of fact, pervasive and grid computing communities can both benefit from joining the two paradigms. This conjunction is already taking place. This paper presents a middleware for pervasive grid applications. It consists of a set of basic services that aim to enhance classic grid environments with mechanisms for: i) integrating mobile devices in a pervasive way; ii) providing context-awareness; and, iii) handling mobile users’ sessions. Such services are OGSA compliant and have been deployed as grid services in order to be easily integrated in classic grid environments.
Smart and intelligent environments can proficiently benefit from a new generation of multimodal d... more Smart and intelligent environments can proficiently benefit from a new generation of multimodal dialog systems, which enable users to interact in natural ways like voice, gesture, facial motions, and so on. However, in order to make this possible, it is necessary to integrate such systems and services, possibly in a transparent way. In the present paper, we propose (i) an architectural model for multimodal smart environments; (ii) an agent-based middleware infrastructure that provides basic components for the integration of multimodal interaction systems; and, (iii) a tool for rapid-prototyping, which automatically customizes some middleware components to implement multimodal interaction mechanisms for the environment's application services.
Grid computing environments have recently been extended with Pervasive computing characteristics ... more Grid computing environments have recently been extended with Pervasive computing characteristics leading to a new paradigm, namely the Pervasive Grid Computing. In particular, QoS of existing Grid services is being augmented by means of location-awareness. This paper presents a location service that locates active mobile objects, such as Wi-Fi enabled devices and RFID tagged entities, in a real Pervasive Grid. The key feature of the service is the use of ontologies and rules to define a uniform, unambiguous and well-defined model for the location information, independently from the particular positioning system. Moreover, the location service performs logic and reasoning mechanisms both for providing physical and semantic locations of mobile objects and for inferring the finest granularity for location information in the case a mobile object is located by more than one positioning system. The service has been developed at the top of the standard OGSA architecture.
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