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Revision with unchanged content. Distributed computing infrastructures are designed to be highly flexible and feature-rich to support a wide range of applications and product lines in multiple domains. Applications with stringent quality of service demands, however, find this feature richness and flexibility to be a source of excessive memory footprint overhead and a lost opportunity to optimize for significant performance gains. To alleviate this tension, a key objective is to specialize the middleware, which comprises removing the sources of excessive generality while simultaneously optimizing the required features of middleware functionality in an automated fashion. This book illustrates the modeling language approach to configure, compose middleware, and automate its specialization by integrating the model-based tool and aspect oriented software development techniques. This book is targeted for the people who want to make decisions about how the infrastructure should be provisioned to host complex applications.

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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineeringin the Department of Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience at Vanderbilt University, USA. He earned his BE(Comp Engineering) from University of Pune, India; MS(Computer Science) from Arizona State University, USA;and PhD (Computer Science) from Washington Universityin St. Louis, USA.

an IT professional at Metavante Corp, US.After completing BE from Pune Univ India, she worked inthe Industry for about 5 yrs before completing Master inComputer Science from Vanderbilt University, US. AtVanderbilt, she was working as Research Assistantand spend most of her time researching differentsoftware specializing techniques.

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