The maintenance of organisation is a prerequisite for all viable systems in dynamic environments. In many living systems this organisation is, in part, achieved through coordinati...
The use of user specific virtual machines (VMs) in Grid and Cloud computing reduces the administration overhead associated with manually installing required software for every user...
Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallen...
Reflective middleware provides an effective way to support adaptation in distributed systems. However, as distributed systems become increasingly complex, certain drawbacks of the...
Bholanathsingh Surajbali, Geoff Coulson, Phil Gree...
We describe an approach based upon software process technology to on-the-fly monitoring, redeployment, reconfiguration, and in general dynamic adaptation of distributed software ap...
Abstract. A component-based system consists of components linked by connectors. Data can reside in components and/or in external data stores. Operations on data, such as access, up...