— The need for self-healing software to respond with a reactive, proactive or preventative action as a result of changes in its environment has added the non-functional requireme...
On-demand routing protocols use route caches to make routing decisions. Due to frequent topology changes, cached routes easily become stale. To address the cache staleness issue i...
Adaptive query processing in large distributed systems has seen increasing importance due to the rising environmental fluctuations in a growing Internet. We describe Ginga, an ad...
The threat of abandoned or extensively overhauled IS is a major concern for both MIS specialists and businesses. This concern may stem from the mismatch between MIS specialist cha...
It is often assumed that developers’ view of their system and its environment is always consistent with everyone else’s; in practice, this assumption can be false, as the deve...