Due to the growing complexity and dynamism of many embedded application domains (including consumer electronics, robotics, automotive and telecommunications), it is increasingly difficult to react to load variations and adapt the system's performance in ...

Future space missions such as the Mars Science Laboratory demand the engineering of some of the most complex man-rated autonomous software systems. According to some recent estimates, the certification cost for mission-critical software exceeds its ...

The idea of Organic Computing is a trend to counter the problems arising from the fact that computing systems are getting smaller and smaller, and we will soon be surrounded by large numbers of little computers which will be hard to configure, maintain, ...

Distributed systems now encounter extreme heterogeneity in the form of diverse devices, network types etc., and also need to dynamically adapt to changing environmental conditions. Self-adaptive middleware is ideally situated to address these ...

In a container transport system, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used for monitoring products while they are being transported. To be commercially interesting, these WSNs must be integrated with enterprise systems of various actors in the supply ...

ICT service providers face increasing demands on dynamic, flexible and scalable composition of their evolving software services. These demands complicate the validation and verification of such compositions as--a--whole. Within the European Credo ...

The combination of mobile and embedded computing devices holds potential for a novel landscape of application and services in the direct surrounding of the user. The realization of such a landscape requires solutions to cope with the volatile nature of ...

Autonomic Management capabilities become increasingly important for attaining functional and quality goals in software systems. Nonetheless, successful Autonomic Management solutions must feature complex, adaptive behaviors, which remain difficult to ...

We investigate a means for efficient deployment of distributed services comprising of software components. Our work can be viewed as an intersection between model-based service development and novel network management architectures. In a service ...

Document-Based Integrated Management (DBIM) is a novel way of consolidating enterprise network and system management. We present an approach to DBIM that utilizes the autonomic capabilities of a set of distributed Document Processing Units (DPU), which ...

Synchronized clocks are usually considered as a prerequisite for many distributed applications. Existing solutions mainly deal with this problem in static environments with well defined characteristics and limits. The needs of an emergent class of large-...