Internetware: A New Software Paradigm for Internet Computing

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Internetware, covering aspects ranging from the fundamental principles and engineering methodologies to operational platforms, quality measurements and assurance and future directions. It also includes guidelines and numerous representative real-world case studies that serve as an invaluable reference resource for software engineers involved in the development of Internetware applications. Providing a detailed analysis of current trends in modern software engineering in the Internet, it offers an essential blueprint and an important contribution to the research on software engineering and systems for future Internet computing.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Internetware: A Shift of Software Paradigm
Chapter 2 Technical Framework for Internetware: An Architecture Centric Approach
Chapter 3 On Environment-Driven Software Model for Internetware
Chapter 4 On Self-adaptation Model for Internetware
Chapter 5 On Requirements Model Driven Adaption and Evolution of Internetware
Chapter 6 Runtime Recovery and Manipulation of Software Architecture of Component-Based Systems
Chapter 7 Supporting Runtime Software Architecture: A Bidirectional-Transformation-Based Approach
Chapter 8 Low-Disruptive Dynamic Updating of Internetware Applications
Chapter 9 Specification and Monitoring of Data-Centric Temporal Properties for Service-Based Internetware Systems
Chapter 10 Runtime Detection of the Concurrency Property in Asynchronous Pervasive Computing Environments
Chapter 11 A Software Architecture Centric Engineering Approach for Internetware
Chapter 12 Toward Capability Specification of Internetware Entity Based on Environment Ontology
Chapter 13 Feature-Driven Requirement Dependency Analysis and High-Level Software Design
Chapter 14 rCOS: A Refinement Calculus of Internetware Systems
Chapter 15 Refactoring Android Java Code for On-Demand Computation Offloading
Chapter 16 Towards Architecture-Based Management of Platforms in Cloud
Chapter 17 Golden Age: On Multi-source Software Update Propagation in Pervasive Networking Environments
Chapter 18 GreenDroid: Automated Diagnosis of Energy Inefficiency for Smartphone Applications
Chapter 19 Conclusion and Future Outlook