An integration experience of a software architecture and a monitoring infrastructure to deploy applications with non-functional requirements in computing grids

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-127

  Sztajnberg, Alexandre ^a   Granja, Rodrigo Souza ^b   Cesário, Jeane ^a   Monteiro, André Felipe Almeida ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

computing grid; contracts; dynamic configuration; middleware; non functional requirements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING GRID; DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION; DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURATION; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; INTEGRATION ISSUES; MONITORING SERVICES; NON-FUNCTIONAL; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RUNNING-IN; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS;

DYNAMIC MODELS; MIDDLEWARE;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78650787968     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.1007     Document Type: Article

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