Companies today are attempting to lower costs and increase their staffing flexibility by taking some [or even all] of their development activities overseas. Simultaneously, many o...
Online update is a technique that reduces the disruption caused by a software update. It does so by applying a patch to a running process as opposed to shutting down the process a...
Distributed software environments are increasingly complex and difficult to manage, as they integrate various legacy software with specific management interfaces. Moreover, the ...
Mohammed Toure, Girma Berhe, Patricia Stolf, Laure...
The diffusion of service oriented architectures is slowed down by the lack of enough services available for satisfying service integrator needs. Nevertheless, many features desire...
Concettina Del Grosso, Massimiliano Di Penta, Igna...
Embedded software requires concurrency formalisms other than threads and mutexes used in traditional programming languages like C. Actor-oriented design presents a high level abstr...