The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
EarlGray is a component-based Java virtual machine (JVM) that can be configured to satisfy various kinds of requirements for building future information appliances and embedded s...
The concept of responsibility aims at making a computing system trustworthy for its users despite the fact that failures of IT systems cannot be completely excluded. The presented ...
Abstract. Current peer-to-peer architectures are hardly resistant against unanticipated exceptions such as the failure of single peers. This can be justified by the absence of soph...
Abstract. Long running applications often need to adapt due to changing requirements or changing environment. Typically, such adaptation is performed by dynamically adding or remov...