Tranquility: A low disruptive alternative to quiescence for ensuring safe dynamic updates

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 856-868

  Vandewoude, Yves ^a   Ebraert, Peter ^b   Berbers, Yolande ^a   D'Hondt, Theo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Application aware adaptation; Components; Componentware; Containers; Distributed objects; Middleware

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; MIDDLEWARE; SECURITY OF DATA;

MIDDLEWARE PLATFORM; RUNTIME CHANGES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 36348941041     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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