Managing large systems in order to guarantee certain behavior is a difficult problem due to
their dynamic behavior and complex interactions. Policies have been shown to provide a …

Modern enterprises face an unprecedented regulatory regime. Traditional compliance
practices in enterprises rely heavily on domain experts whose judgement determines what …

One of the challenges in self-adaptive systems concerns how to make adaptation to
themselves at runtime in response to possible and even unexpected changes from the …

Most software engineering techniques that deal with software products customization are
based on anticipation: The software designer has to foresee, somehow, the future needs for …

Many software-intensive systems are expected to run continuously while their environments
change and their requirements evolve, so their implementation must be updated …

Smart environments represent a relatively uncharted ICT territory where plenty of sensor and
actuator devices can be enrolled on-demand in order to realize high value-added services …

Security issues are delaying fast adoption of cloud computing and security mechanisms to
ensure its secure adoption has become a crucial immediate need. On the other hand, cloud …

Modern large-scale computing deployments consist of complex applications running over
machine clusters. An important issue in these is the offering of elasticity, ie, the dynamic …

Autonomic Computing lays out a vision of information technology in which systems manage
themselves based on policies. As a result, policies are the new currency of interaction …

When clients interact with a cloud-based service, they expect certain levels of quality of
service guarantees. These are expressed as security and privacy policies, interaction …