Resource-aware life cycle models for service-oriented applications managed by a component framework

In this report we present a series of formal models that describe dynamically reconfigurable applications at various stages of their life cycle. It is our intention that these models capture the essential concepts of such applications and the platforms on which they are deployed, and that they indicate the essential activities required to accomplish an application’s transition from one stage of its life cycle to the next. These models aim to support a life cycle in which applications are designed as a combination of services and realized by predefined components that are deployed in a framework specially tailored to the resource management needs of these applications