A comprehensive solution for application-level adaptation

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 385-422

  Geihs, K ^a   Barone, P ^b   Eliassen, F ^c,g   Floch, J ^d   Fricke, R ^e   Gjorven, E ^c   Hallsteinsen, S ^d   Horn, G ^d   Khan, M U ^a   Mamelli, A ^b   Papadopoulos, G A ^f   Paspallis, N ^f   Reichle, R ^a   Stav, E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b HP Italy Innovation Center   (Italy)

^c SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^d SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^e Condat AG ^*  (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptive software; Component framework; Compositional adaptation; Context awareness; Modeldriven development; Utility function

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE; COMPONENT FRAMEWORK; COMPOSITIONAL ADAPTATION; CONTEXT AWARENESS; MODELDRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; UTILITY FUNCTION;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 65349163564     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.900     Document Type: Article

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