An architecture-driven software mobility framework

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 972-989

  Malek, Sam ^a   Edwards, George ^b   Brun, Yuriy ^c   Tajalli, Hossein ^b   Garcia, Joshua ^b   Krka, Ivo ^b   Medvidovic, Nenad ^b   Mikic Rakic, Marija ^d   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^b  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobility; Quality of service analysis; Robotics; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MOBILITY; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE ANALYSIS; RUNTIME ADAPTATION; RUNTIMES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM'S QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77953132951     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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