Reflective middleware provides an effective way to support adaptation in distributed systems. However, as distributed systems become increasingly complex, certain drawbacks of the...
Bholanathsingh Surajbali, Geoff Coulson, Phil Gree...
— In autonomic provisioning, a resource manager allocates resources to an application, on-demand, e.g., during load spikes. Modelling-based approaches have proved very successful...
Automated software customization is drawing increasing attention as a means to help users deal with the scope, complexity, potential intrusiveness, and ever-changing nature of mod...
Managers of systems of shared resources typically have many separate goals. Examples are efficient utilization of the resources among its users and ensuring no user’s satisfacti...
We propose a new notion of cryptographic tamper evidence. A tamper-evident signature scheme provides an additional procedure Div which detects tampering: given two signatures, Div...