A framework for programming robust context-aware applications

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-197

  Kulkarni, Devdatta ^a   Tripathi, Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context aware applications; Design methodology; Exception handling; Fault tolerance; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENT; CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT-AWARE; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EXCEPTION HANDLING; FAILURE CONDITIONS; HIGH-LEVEL PROGRAMMING; RECOVERY ACTIONS; RECOVERY MODEL; SERVICE BINDING; SERVICE DISCOVERY;

FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77950626631     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.11     Document Type: Article

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