Application software

About: Application software is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12185 publications have been published within this topic receiving 219822 citations. The topic is also known as: software application & application software.

Context Integration for Smart Workflows

Abstract: The usage of workflow technology to model and execute business processes is widespread in many enterprises and within the software industry. With the growing maturity of sensors, wireless communication, and distributed computing environments, we can enhance this approach to enable smart workflows, which are business processes crossing the boundary to the physical world. Applications for such processes can be found in many application domains, like logistics or in smart factory environments. To realize smart workflows, workflow engines can be coupled with existing context provisioning systems. However, there is a gap between the rather low- level provisioning of context (e.g., sensor data and stock information) and the concepts needed in smart workflows (e.g., "is a spare tool available?"). The main contribution of this paper is to bridge this gap: we show how integration processes can be used to provide context information at different semantical levels for smart workflows.

High performance computing on a cluster of workstations

Abstract: The effective utilization of a cluster of workstations for the implementation of a scientific application requires a highly flexible software environment. The characteristics of such an environment are considered and two novel data distribution aspects of this environment are explored. The performance of a distributed memory multicomputer, such as a workstation cluster, is very sensitive to the strategy used to distribute data to the processors. A performance prediction scheme is presented which could be incorporated into a compiler to determine the best data distribution for a given program and system. For heterogeneous systems a data distribution strategy has been developed which takes into account the different capabilities of the processors. A number of experiments have been conducted on workstation clusters to demonstrate these software techniques. >

Implementing cellular automata in FPGA logic

Abstract: Summary form only given. We have searched for a performance platform to run billions of simulations in the cellular automata model for optimizing applications. The question was how much speed-up could be gained by using the FPGA technology compared to optimized software. We have implemented to cellular automata rules in software on a PC and in hardware. On our low end experimental platform we reached a speed-up of 3 for a medium complex rule and 22 for a complex rule. If we would use the latest high end FPGA technology, speed-ups up to many thousand are realistic. A cluster of thousands of workstations would be necessary to reach the same performance, which is much more costly than the FPGA solution.

Mobile radio terminal

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile radio terminal in which a required data file can be found out readily even when a large volume of various data files is stored. SOLUTION: A software storage area 140a stores a plurality of application software. A correspondence data format storing area 140b stores a correspondence table of identification information of such a data format as usable in each application software and identification information of the application software. A data file storage area 140c stores data files of various formats being used in the application software. A control section 200 detects a data format corresponding to an application software under execution with reference to the correspondence data format storing area 140b, detects a data file of that data format from the data file storage area 140c and displays the list of only the detected data file names. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

A Component-based Software Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing

Abstract: Multiplication of mobile devices and generalized use of wireless networks imply changes on the design and execution of distributed software applications targeting ubiquitous computing. Many strong requirements have to be addressed: heterogeneity and limited resources of wireless networks and mobile devices, networked communications between distributed applications, dynamic discovery and automatic deployment on mobile devices. In this paper, we present a component-based software infrastructure to design, discover, deploy, and execute ubiquitous contextual services, i.e. distributed applications providing services to mobile end-users but only available from a particular place. These ubiquitous contextual services are designed as assemblies of distributed software components. These assemblies are dynamically discovered according to end-users' physical location and device capabilities. Then, appropriate assemblies are automatically deployed on users' devices. We have implemented this approach (the software infrastructure and a ubiquitous application example) on top of the OMG CORBA Component Model and the OpenCCM open source platform