Ubiquitous context-aware computing systems present several challenges in their construction. Principal among them is the tradeoff between easily providing new contextaware service...
William G. Griswold, Robert T. Boyer, Steven W. Br...
The software underpinning today’s IT systems needs to adapt dynamically and predictably to rapid changes in system workload, environment and objectives. We describe a software f...
Several architectures have been recently proposed that store relational data in encrypted form on untrusted relational databases. Such architectures permit the creation of novel I...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
Recently, growing attention is focused on run-time management of Quality of Service (QoS) of complex software systems. In this context, self-adaptation of applications, based on r...
Mauro Caporuscio, Antinisca Di Marco, Paola Invera...