The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...
A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
Self-adaptive component-based architectures facilitate the building of systems capable of dynamically adapting to varying execution context. Such a dynamic adaptation is particular...
Romain Rouvoy, Paolo Barone, Yun Ding, Frank Elias...
Dependable software systems are difficult to develop because developers must understand and address several interdependent and pervasive dependability concerns. Features that addr...
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...