Dr J. Loyall
Dr. Joe Loyall is a Division Scientist at BBN Technologies and head of the Distributed Systems Technology group. He has been working for some time on Quality Objects (QuO), adaptive distributed object middleware that is available open-source. Dr. Loyall is one of the principal developers of QuO's Quality Description Languages, a set of aspect-oriented languages for specifying QoS measurement, control, and adaptation in distributed object applications. Recently, Dr. Loyall has been working on applying adaptive distributed object middleware to the specific problems of embedded systems.
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