Monitoring, security, and dynamic configuration with the dynamicTAO reflective ORB
IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed systems platforms
The case for reflective middleware
Communications of the ACM - Adaptive middleware
Concurrent Programming in Java. Second Edition: Design Principles and Patterns
Concurrent Programming in Java. Second Edition: Design Principles and Patterns
An Artificial Intelligence Perspective on Autonomic Computing Policies
POLICY '04 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Designing adaptive middleware for reuse
ARM '04 Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Adaptive and reflective middleware
Supporting autonomic computing functionality via dynamic operating system kernel aspects
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Unity: Experiences with a Prototype Autonomic Computing System
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Enhancing the Management of a J2EE Application Server using a Component-Based Architecture
EUROMICRO '05 Proceedings of the 31st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Using Architecture Models for Runtime Adaptability
IEEE Software
Deep middleware for the divergent Grid
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2005 International Conference on Middleware
A middleware centric approach to building self-adapting systems
SEM'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software Engineering and Middleware
ECSA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
Leveraging on strategies to achieve adaptivity in a distributed architecture
Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Reflective and adaptive middleware
Formalizing Adaptation On-the-Fly
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Criteria for the evaluation of self-* systems
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
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Server applications augmented with behavioral adaptation logic can react to environmental changes, creating self-managing server applications with improved quality of service at runtime. However, developing adaptive server applications is challenging due to the complexity of the underlying server technologies and highly dynamic application environments. This paper presents an architecture framework, the Adaptive Server Framework (ASF), to facilitate the development of adaptive behavior for legacy server applications. ASF provides a clear separation between the implementation of adaptive behavior and the business logic of the server application. This means a server application can be extended with programmable adaptive features through the definition and implementation of control components defined in ASF. Furthermore, ASF is a lightweight architecture in that it incurs low CPU overhead and memory usage. We demonstrate the effectiveness of ASF through a case study, in which a server application dynamically determines the resolution and quality to scale an image based on the load of the server and network connection speed. The experimental evaluation demonstrates the performance gains possible by adaptive behavior and the low overhead introduced by ASF. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.