The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
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Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
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Supporting Heterogeneous Architecture Descriptions in an Extensible Toolset
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Tranquility: A Low Disruptive Alternative to Quiescence for Ensuring Safe Dynamic Updates
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Version-consistent dynamic reconfiguration of component-based distributed systems
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
A Classification Framework for Software Component Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Safe Stopping of Running Component-Based Distributed Systems: Challenges and Research Gaps
WETICE '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 21st International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Dynamic evolution and reconfiguration of software architectures through aspects
Dynamic evolution and reconfiguration of software architectures through aspects
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One of the key issues that should be considered when addressing reliable evolution is to place a software system in a consistent status before and after change. This issue becomes more critical at runtime because it may lead to the failure on running mission-critical systems. In order to place the affected elements in a safe state before dynamic changes take place, the notion of tranquility has been proposed to make quiescence criterion less disruptive and easier to obtain. However, it only ensures consistency in applications with restrictive black-box design. In this paper, an architecture-based approach is proposed to preserve global consistency during runtime reconfiguration of component-based systems in distributed contexts. An initial evaluation through a prototypical implementation shows that this approach not only enables tranquility to be applicable for distributed transactions, but also significantly reduces required time to achieve a safe state and increases system availability during runtime evolution.