Abstract—The increasing need for continuously available software systems has raised two key-issues: self-adaptation and design evolution. The former one requires software systems...
Brice Morin, Thomas Ledoux, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, F...
As agile software development principles and methods are being adopted by large software product organizations it is important to understand the role of software entropy. That is,...
P2P Networks are highly dynamic structures since their nodes – peer users keep joining and leaving continuously. In the paper, we study the effects of network change rates on qu...
Many critical IT infrastructures require non-disruptive operations. However, the operating systems thereon are far from perfect that patches and upgrades are frequently applied, i...
Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Fengzhe Zhang, Binyu Zang, ...
High-performance computing clusters running longlived tasks currently cannot have kernel software updates applied to them without causing system downtime. These clusters miss oppo...