: A crucial prerequisite to externalized adaptation is an understanding of how components are interconnected, or more particularly how and why they depend on one another. Such depe...
N. Badr, A. Taleb-Bendiab, Martin Randles, D. Reil...
The use of handheld networked devices to access information systems by people moving around is spreading rapidly. Systems being used in this way typically face dynamic variation in...
Svein O. Hallsteinsen, Jacqueline Floch, Erlend St...
Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Roman...
Middleware is often built using a layered architectural style. Layered design provides good separation of the different concerns of middleware, such as communication, marshaling, ...
Avionics data at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) consists of distributed, unmanaged, and heterogeneous information tha...