Connectors are used to realize component interactions in component systems. Apart from their primary function, which is mediating the communication, their implementation can also s...
Various forms of agreements naturally arise in the service provider model as well as in multi-party computing models such as business-to-business, utility and grid computing. The r...
Most online evolution of application depends on its runtime environment. This paper addresses how to support online evolution by application server, which is considered as third k...
In software with emergent properties, despite the best efforts to remove faults before execution, there is a high likelihood that faults will occur during runtime. These faults c...
Advances in FPGA-based reconfigurable computers have made them a viable computing platform for a vast variety of computation demanding areas such as bioinformatics, speech recogni...