Recent years have seen a growing interest in autonomic computing, an approach to providing systems with self managing properties [1]. Autonomic computing aims to address the incre...
Noel De Palma, Konstantin Popov, Nikos Parlavantza...
This paper addresses the unavoidable problem of dynamic reconfiguration in component-based system with a hierarchical component model. The presented solution is based on (1) allowi...
Annotations are often mentioned as a potential alternative to tackle the fragile nature of AspectJ pointcuts. However, annotations themselves can be considered crosscutting elemen...
Leonardo Silva, Samuel Domingues, Marco Tulio de O...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Data aggregation is a fundamental building block of modern distributed systems. Averaging based approaches, commonly designated gossip-based, are an important class of aggregation ...