Title :
Infrastructure for virtual enterprises in large-scale open systems
Author :
Fraga, Joni ; Rabelo, Ricardo J. ; Siqueira, Frank ; Montez, Carlos B. ; Oliveira, Rômulo S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. & Syst., Univ. Fed. de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Abstract :
This paper presents SALE, a middleware platform for mission-critical applications built upon the CORBA architecture and its extensions for real-time (RT-CORBA), fault tolerance (FT-CORBA) and security (CORBASec). The SALE platform provides different reliability, security and real-time properties, which are specified by applications as quality of service (QoS) requirements. Preliminary results obtained through the implementation of this platform allow us to use it as an infrastructure for business-to-business applications. This infrastructure provides a multi-agent system for production scheduling of virtual enterprises, in which timing requirements must be enforced in order to execute a manufacturing process cooperatively.
Keywords :
distributed object management; electronic commerce; formal specification; middleware; multi-agent systems; open systems; production control; quality of service; real-time systems; software fault tolerance; transaction processing; CORBA security; CORBASec; FT-CORBA; QoS requirement; RT-CORBA; SALE; business-to-business application; fault tolerant CORBA; large-scale open system; manufacturing process; middleware; mission-critical application; multiagent system; production scheduling; quality of service; real-time CORBA; reliability; virtual enterprise; Fault tolerance; Large-scale systems; Marketing and sales; Middleware; Mission critical systems; Multiagent systems; Open systems; Quality of service; Security; Virtual enterprises;
Conference_Titel :
Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, 2003. (WORDS 2003). Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1929-6
DOI :
10.1109/WORDS.2003.1218089
