As computing infrastructure expands, resource management in a large, heterogeneous, and
distributed environment becomes a challenging task. In a cloud environment, with …

Modern cloud computing environments support a relatively high degree of automation in
service provisioning, which allows cloud service customers (CSCs) to dynamically acquire …

With the rise of cloud computing, a huge complexity growth of the structure that is the base of
the Cloud happens. Thus, to effectively manage applications and resources it is crucial the …

Cloud computing utilizes heterogeneous resources that are located in various datacenters to
provide an efficient performance on a pay‐per‐use basis. However, existing mechanisms …

The key property of models@ run. time systems is their use and provision of manageable
reflection, which is characterized to be tractable and predictable and by this overcomes the …

Complex networked applications are assembled by connecting software components
distributed across multiple machines. Building and deploying such systems is a challenging …

Abstract We present Aeolus Blender (Blender in the following), a software product for the
automatic deployment and configuration of complex service-based, distributed software …

Large distributed systems with an emphasis on adaptability are now considered a necessity
in many domains, yet reconfiguration of these systems is still largely carried out in an ad hoc …

Cloud applications involve a set of interconnected software components running on remote
virtual machines. The deployment and dynamic reconfiguration of cloud applications …

The computational requirements of the increasingly sophisticated algorithms used in today's
robotics software applications have outpaced the onboard processors of the average robot …