Systems are increasingly expected to adapt themselves to changing requirements and environmental situations with minimum user interactions. A challenge for self-adaptation is the i...
—Grid system software is inherently complex, hard to build and maintain. In this paper, we propose a selfmanaging building block: Grid Unit, which facilitates constructing Grid s...
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Ming Zou, Hui Wang, Shuan...
Cluster-based multi-tier systems provide a means for building scalable Internet services. Building adaptive Internet services that are able to apply appropriate system sizing and ...
In this paper we present an empirical study of the InterBook system to demonstrate the benefits of the layered evaluation framework, where the success of adaptation is addressed at...
A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...