Component-based software structuring principles are now commonplace at the application
level; but componentization is far less established when it comes to building low-level …

A self-management infrastructure requires a self-representation to model system
functionality concerns. The model-view-controller design pattern can improve concern …

In this paper we present PROSE, a system that performs reversible and systematic changes
to running Java applications without requiring them to be shut down. PROSE is motivated by …

Abstract The Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ)[13] is becoming a popular choice in
the world of real-time and embedded programming. However, RTSJ introduces many non …

Current Web service platforms (WSPs) often perform all Web services-related processing,
including security-sensitive information handling, in the same protection domain …

Gossip protocols have been successfully applied in the last few years to address a wide
range of functionalities. So far, however, very few software frameworks have been proposed …

The Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) is becoming a popular choice in the world of
real-time programming. However, the complexities introduced by RTSJ bring the needs for …

This paper provides four contributions to the study of optimization techniques for component-
based distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. First, we describe key …

Résumé La reconfiguration dynamique est la capacité d'un systeme logiciela permettre sa
modification pendant son exécution et peut être utilisée pour mettre-a-jour une partie fautive …

Résumé Because of the increasing need of mobiles devices, most of software systems need
to take into account a highly dynamic environment including hardware and software …