Evaluating the impacts of dynamic reconfiguration on the QoS of running systems

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2123-2138

  Li, Wei ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic reconfiguration; QoS assurance; Quantitative analysis; Software evolution; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURATION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; RUNNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SYSTEM'S QUALITY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 80053571585     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.060     Document Type: Article

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