Scalable Evolution of Highly Available Systems

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2154-2164

  Hallstrom, Jason O ^a   Leal, William M ^a   Arora, Anish ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assurance systems; Dynamic reconfiguration; Highly available systems; Interception; Interceptor; Mediation; Online maintenance; Runtime evolution; Wrapper

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ONLINE MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0242578663     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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