For several different reasons, such as changes in the business or technological environment, the configuration of a system may need to evolve during execution. Support for such ev...
Reconfigurable hardware devices are envisioned as the proper platform to implement multimedia applications, providing both real time performance and dynamic adaptability for the a...
Self-adapting software adapts its behavior in an autonomic way, by dynamically adding, suppressing and recomposing components, and by the use of computational reflection. One way t...
The fault tolerance provided by FT-CORBA is basically static, that is, once the fault tolerance properties of a group of replicated processes defined, they cannot be modified in r...
The stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) is a new transport protocol, which provides multi-streaming and multi-homing features. Especially, recent SCTP extensions with dynam...