Design for change is a well-known adagium in software engineering. We separate concerns, employ well-designed interfaces, and the like to ease evolution of the systems we build. W...
Self-adaptation is emerging as an increasingly important capability for many applications, particularly those deployed in dynamically changing environments, such as ecosystem moni...
Heather Goldsby, Peter Sawyer, Nelly Bencomo, Bett...
Grid Computing, initially intended to provide access to computational resources for high-performance computing applications, broadened its focus by addressing computational needs o...
The past two years have been a turbulent time for the New Economy generally – and for the digital content industry in particular. In the wake of the dot.com and telecoms crashes...
Kornelia van der Beek, Paula M. C. Swatman, Cornel...
We consider cluster systems with multiple nodes where each server is prone to run tasks at a degraded level of service due to some software or hardware fault. The cluster serves t...