An extensible framework for improving a distributed software system's deployment architecture

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-100

  Malek, Sam ^a   Medvidović, Nenad ^b   Mikic Rakic, Marija ^c  

^a Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

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

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

quality of service; self adaptive software; Software architecture; software deployment

Indexed keywords

DEPLOYMENT ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK; FORMAL MODELING; QOS PROPERTIES; RUNTIMES; SELF-ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84856556651     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.3     Document Type: Article

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