More than a decade ago, the research topic models@ run. time was coined. Since then, the
research area has received increasing attention. Given the prolific results during these …

In the last decade, many approaches to automated service composition have been
proposed. However, most of them do not fully exploit the opportunities offered by the Internet …

In the past decades, serious natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and
storms have occurred frequently worldwide with catastrophic consequences. They also …

A key challenge posed by the Internet of Services is that applications need to cope with a
continuously changing environment, both in terms of the context in which they operate and …

Several exceptional situations may arise in the complex, heterogeneous, and changing
contexts where Web service operations run. For instance, a Web service operation may …

A key challenge posed by the Next Generation Internet landscape is that modern service-
based applications need to cope with open and continuously evolving environments and to …

Context aware software systems and adaptive software systems sense changes in their
environments, and respond by changing their behaviour and/or structure appropriately. The …

Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPLs) offer a strategy to deal with software changes that
need to be handled at run-time. In response to context changes, a DSPL capitalize on …

Context-awareness and adaptability are highly desirable features for services that are
operating in dynamic environments. Recently, a number of approaches have been …

A key feature of service-based applications (SBAs) is the capacity to dynamically define the
composition of services independently available, which is required to achieve user goals …