Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
A major advantage of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the ability to enable rapid formation of large-scale distributed systems. A dominant factor for the success of service-...
Many real-time applications are designed to work in different operating modes each characterized by different functionality and resource demands. With each mode change, resource d...
Nikolay Stoimenov, Lothar Thiele, Luca Santinelli,...
Historically, software application systems have been produced either individually tailored for the specific customer, or they have been adapted from standardized packages. This pa...
Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing both have the goal of pushing the computer into the background, supporting all kinds of human activities. Application areas include areas such as...