Cloud software upgrades: Challenges and opportunities

2011 International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems, MESOCA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Neamtiu, Iulian ^a   Dumitraş, Tudor ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b SYMANTEC RESEARCH LABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING SOFTWARE; CRITICAL SERVICE; HIGH AVAILABILITY; RELEASE HISTORY; RESEARCH AGENDA; SERVICE AVAILABILITY; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SOFTWARE UPGRADES; UPGRADE MECHANISM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; MAINTAINABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80855164513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MESOCA.2011.6049037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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