Software systems dealing with distributed applications in changing environments normally
require human supervision to continue operation in all conditions. These (re-) configuring …

Managing large systems in order to guarantee certain behavior is a difficult problem due to
their dynamic behavior and complex interactions. Policies have been shown to provide a …

Application of Agent technology to software evolution is considered to be a possible
approach to make software be adaptable to environment change. The dynamic …

Control engineering approaches have been identified as a promising design tool to
integrate selfadaptive capabilities into software systems. Introduction of the feedback loop …

In many competitive business domains, software systems have become vital to achieve the
business objectives efficiently. In such software systems, maintaining performance …

Self-adaptive software systems are increasingly in demand. The driving forces are changes
in the software “self” and “context”, particularly in distributed and pervasive applications …

As Agent-based software development methods get more and more attention and Agent-
based software system has been used in a variety of occasions, the features and …

Large-scale clusters are growing at a rapid pace, and the resulting amount of monitoring
data produced in these systems is also increasing. The goal of this research is to investigate …

Because of the complexity, the dynamic and uncertainty of the distributed applications
environment, the data-collaboration crisis caused by isolated information island is serious …

QoS assurance in increasingly complex service based computer systems. A number of
control loop schemes have been proposed for computer systems each with advantages and …