Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
Software monocultures are usually considered dangerous because their size and uniformity represent the potential for costly and widespread damage. The emerging concept of collabor...
Michael E. Locasto, Stelios Sidiroglou, Angelos D....
Software modeling has received a lot a of attention in the last decade and now is an important support for the design process. Actually, the design process is very important to the...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Software development is typically cooperative endeavor where a group of engineers need to work together to achieve a common, coordinated result. As a cooperative effort, it is esp...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Paul D...