… knowing what they have to adapt to. In this paper we present a novel approach, called Dependable
QoS adaptation, which can only … Dependable QoS adaptation is based on the Timely …

… timeliness requirements. We introduce the coverage stability property and show that adaptive
applications can use the TCB to dependably adapt … the interface of a QoS coverage service …

… In this paper we introduce a framework that is based on the use of probabilistic methods for
… cerned with timeliness issues and with securing or improving the dependability of adaptive …

… In this paper, we propose a mobile QoS management framework that uses a hierarchical …
the inference of rules and invocation of appropriate services in a timely and flexible manner. …

… , a complete framework for dependable QoS adaptation. We … In fact, we are fundamentally
concerned with timeliness … , is making the applications use adaptive time-related bounds for …

… In addition to provide a set of protocols with different QoS, those protocols can be built
using a component-based approach, by selecting the needed components. Some preliminary …

… We will use ‘delivery of m’ to refer to the event of a reliable broadcast service process supplying
a received m to the application. • Termination: if a correct process broadcasts a message …

… On one hand, our applications must achieve timeliness goals dictated both by QoS … We
follow our demo disabling again the use of QoS adaptation services and stopping all the …

… We call this component the Timely Computing Base and it can … We also show how to use it
to build dependable and timely … a metric that relates the QoS adaptation to the dependability …

… dynamic QoS management with arbitrary policies and with timeliness … Finally, dependable
operation in the two cases requires … the use and interest of such runtime QoS adaptation. …