Architecting Dependable Systems VI

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lemos, Rogério de (Editor), Fabre, Jean-Charles (Editor), Gacek, Cristina (Editor), Gadducci, Fabio (Editor), Beek, Maurice ter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5835
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Special purpose computers.; Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Operating systems (Computers).; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Operating Systems.

As software systems become increasingly ubiquitous, issues of dependability become ever more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability and security are addressed at the architectural level. This...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Dependable Service-Oriented Architectures
• A System of Architectural Patterns for Scalable, Consistent and Highly Available Multi-Tier Service-Oriented Infrastructures
• Towards Self-adaptation for Dependable Service-Oriented Systems
• Architecting Dependable Access Control Systems for Multi-domain Computing Environments
• Soft Constraints for Dependable Service Oriented Architectures
• Robustness Validation in Service-Oriented Architectures
• 2. Fault Tolerance and System Evaluation
• A Self-repair Architecture for Cluster Systems
• Handling Software Faults with Redundancy
• A Uniform Approach to Security and Fault-Tolerance Specification and Analysis
• A Comprehensive Exploration of Challenges in Architecture-Based Reliability Estimation
• 3. Architecting Security
• Weak Behavioral Equivalences for Verifying Secure and Performance-Aware Component-Based Systems
• Architecting Security with Paradigm
• Trust-Based and Context-Aware Authentication in a Software Architecture for Context and Proximity-Aware Services
• Compositional Verification of Architectural Refactorings.