QoS assurance for dynamic reconfiguration of component-based software systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 658-676

  Li, Wei ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change management; componentware; dynamic reconfiguration; modeling the QoS assurance process; system evolution

Indexed keywords

CHANGE MANAGEMENT; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; COMPONENTWARE; DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURATION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RECONFIGURABLE COMPONENTS; SYSTEM EVOLUTION; TESTING RESULTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 84861894100     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.37     Document Type: Article

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