The complexity of information systems is increasing in recent years, leading to increased
effort for maintenance and configuration. Self-adaptive systems (SASs) address this issue …

As dynamic software architecture use becomes more widespread, a variety of formal
specification languages have been developed to gain a better understanding of the …

Initial deployment and subsequent dynamic reconfiguration of a software system is difficult
because of the interplay of many interdependent factors, including cost, time, application …

Society's increasing dependence on software-intensive systems is driving the need for
dependable, robust, continuously available systems. Runtime system reconfiguration is one …

Dynamic software architectures are those that describe how components and connectors
can be created, interconnected, and/or removed during system execution. Most existing …

DR-BIP is an extension of the BIP component framework intended for programming
reconfigurable systems encompassing various aspects of dynamism. It relies on …

Dynamic architectural change is defined as the addition and removal of components and
connectors. Dynamic software architectures are those architectures that modify their …

Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the
demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such …

Software that cannot evolve is condemned to atrophy: it cannot accommodate the constant
revision and re-negotiation of its business goals nor intercept the potential of new …

To improve the programmer's use of reconfiguration methods in distributed systems, we are
studying notations for expressing change in the form of reconfiguration plans. These plans …