Abstract The field of Ambient Assisted living (AAL) is evolving rapidly. Standardization,
uniformities and facilitation in the system design, have become an urge to satisfy the …

Currently, software systems have become increasingly large and complex, often resulted by
the integration of several operationally independent systems, resulting in a new class of …

Reference architectures have emerged as a special type of software architecture that
achieves well-recognized understanding of specific domains, promoting reuse of design …

Containers have gained immense popularity as a portable and lightweight virtualization
solution. They facilitate application development, deployment and distribution across …

Reference architectures are generalized models of several end systems that share one or
more common domains. They facilitate the design of high-quality concrete architectures and …

Abstract [Context] Complex and heterogeneous software systems need to be monitored as
their full behavior often only emerges at runtime, eg, when interacting with other systems or …

Background In the coming years, the increase of automation in electricity distribution grids,
controlled by ICT, will bring major consequences to the cyber security posture of the grids …

Due to the increasing size and complexity of many current software systems, the
architectural design of these systems has become a considerately complicated task. In this …

Motivated by the aging trend, much effort is being invested into implementing ICT
(Information and Communications Technology)-enabled systems to provide a better quality …

With progressing digitalization and the trend towards autonomous computing, systems tend
to form digital ecosystems, where each autonomous system aims at achieving its own goals …