Handbook of Software Aging and Rejuvenation

The Handbook of Software Aging and Rejuvenation provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, making it indispensable to graduate students as well as professionals in the field. It begins by introducing fundamental concepts, definitions, and the history of software aging and rejuvenation research, followed by methods, tools, and strategies that can be used to detect, analyze, and overcome software aging.Contents: Fundamentals:Software Aging and Rejuvenation: A Genesis (Alberto Avritzer, Domenico Cotroneo, Yennun Huang and Kishor Trivedi)Fundamentals of Software Aging (Domenico Cotroneo, Rivalino Matias Jr. and Roberto Natella)Software Rejuvenation: Key Concepts and Granularity (Vasilis P Koutras and Agapios N Platis)Data-driven Approach:Measurements for Software Aging (Roberto Pietrantuono, Javier Alonso and Kalyan Vaidyanathan)Model-driven Approach:Markov Chains and Petri Nets (Fumio Machida and Paulo R M Maciel)Analysis of Queueing Models for Rejuvenation (Hiroyuki Okamura and Tadashi Dohi)Black-Box Models for Restart, Reboot and Rejuvenation (Katinka Wolter, Tommi Pesu, Aad van Moorsel and William J Knottenbelt)Applications:Using Software Aging Monitoring and Rejuvenation for the Assessment of High-Availability Systems (Alberto Avritzer, Michael Grottke and Daniel Sadoc Menasché)Application to Operating Systems (Kenji Kono, Kenichi Kourai and Hiroshi Yamada)Aging in Virtualized Environments (Roberto Pietrantuono, Domenico Cotroneo and Stefano Russo)Experimental Tools for Software Aging Analysis (Roberto Natella and Artur Andrzejak)Implementation of Micro-rejuvenation with Cooperative Stack Leasing (Sandip HomChaudhuri)Future Directions and Appendix:Future Directions for Software Aging and Rejuvenation Research (Alberto Avritzer, Roberto Pietrantuono and Kishor Trivedi)Appendix: Stochastic Modeling Techniques in Software Aging and Rejuvenation Phenomena (Andrea Bobbio, Antonio Puliafito, Marco Scarpa and Miklós Telek)
Readership: This book will be useful for engineers, teachers, and researchers that are working on new approaches to increase the dependability of their mission-critical systems.Software Aging;Software Rejuvenation;Software Dependability;Software Reliability0Key Features:This is the first comprehensive handbook on software aging and rejuvenation that covers basic concepts, data driven approaches, models and applicationsIt will be useful for engineers, teachers and researchers that are working on new approaches to increase the dependability of their mission-critical systems