Distributed software built from components has become a mainstay of service-oriented
applications, which frequently undergo reconfigurations to adapt to changes in their …

Workflow scheduling is one of the significant issues for scientific applications among virtual
machine migration, database management, security, performance, fault tolerance, server …

Microservices is an emerging paradigm for the development of distributed systems that,
originating from Service-Oriented Architecture, focuses on the small dimension, the loose …

In the field of edge-cloud computing environments, there is a continuous quest for new and
simplified methods to automate the deployment and runtime adaptation to application …

Various deployment technologies have been released to support automating the
deployment of distributed applications. Although many of these technologies provide …

Modern cloud applications consist of software components deployed on multiple virtual
machines. Deploying such applications is error prone and requires detailed system …

Abstract We present Aeolus Blender (Blender in the following), a software product for the
automatic deployment and configuration of complex service-based, distributed software …

Currently an increasing number of customers require cloud services with guaranteed
security levels. At this aim, the adoption of multi-cloud strategies is spreading in a large …

Large distributed systems with an emphasis on adaptability are now considered a necessity
in many domains, yet reconfiguration of these systems is still largely carried out in an ad hoc …

Following previous work on the automated deployment of component-based applications,
we present a formal model specifically tailored for reasoning on the deployment of …