Autonomic Computing is a concept that brings together many fields of computing with the
purpose of creating computing systems that self-manage. In its early days it was criticised as …

Safety-critical computers increasingly affect nearly every aspect of our lives. Computers
control the planes we fly on, monitor our health in hospitals and do our work in hazardous …

Formal methods for the specification and verification of hardware and software systems are
becoming more and more important as systems increase in size and complexity. The aim of …

A model for dynamic change management which separates structural concerns from
component application concerns is presented. This separation of concerns permits the …

There is a real need for clear and sound design specifications of distributed systems at the
architectural level. This is the level of the design which deals with the high-level organisation …

Much of the recent work on Architecture Description Languages (ADL) has concentrated on
specifying organisations of components and connectors which are static. When the ADL …

Architectures for software use rich abstractions and idioms to describe system components,
the nature of interactions among the components, and the patterns that guide the …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

Many important applications must run continuously and without interruption, yet must be
changed to fix bugs or upgrade functionality. No prior general-purpose methodology for …

Many important applications must run continuously and without interruption, and yet also
must be changed to fix bugs or upgrade functionality. No prior general-purpose …