PERSONA middleware

Furfari F.

Context Aware Middleware  Ambiente Intelligence  Distributed Applications and DiscoveryAAL Framework 

It is the runtime software used by all the components of the PERSONA platform and developed by the EU FP6 IP PERSONA. It consists of a middleware solution for open distributed systems dealing with seamless connectivity and adequate support for interoper- ability that makes use of ontological technologies and denes appropriate protocols along with an upper ontology for sharing context. The middleware discovery protocol used in PERSONA is based on UPNP protocol stack. The CNR developed in particular the Abstract Communication Layer, the UPnP connectors and the Middleware core.