Software aging is a phenomenon plaguing many long-running complex software systems,
which exhibit performance degradation or an increasing failure rate. Several strategies …

Considerable attention has been devoted to the analysis of software aging based on
measurements from real systems. This approach aims to infer the presence of aging trends …

Abstract The OSGi TM Service Platform is becoming the de facto standard for modularized
Java applications. The market of OSGi based COTS components is continuously growing …

It is widely recognized that applications need to be administered remotely. In general,
application management and monitoring is supported by textual management consoles …

In the past, modular structures for software systems have rested upon several assumptions
that may no longer characterize the changing world of dynamic computing. Important among …

Les architectures orientées services constituent l'un des principaux modèles architecturaux
couramment utilisés aujourd'hui. La propriété essentielle de ces architectures est le faible …

Dynamic platforms where components can be loaded at runtime can introduce risks to
applications stability if components are not previously known before deployment. It may be …

Java class loaders are commonly used in application servers to load, unload and update a
set of classes as a unit. However, unloading or updating a class loader can introduce stale …

Our homes become smart thanks to devices providing services (security, energy
efficiency,…). Untrusted service providers want to take advantage of the smart home by …

The service oriented approach is a paradigm allowing the introduction of dynamicity in
developments. If there are many advantages with this approach, there are also some new …