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Towards decentralized self-adaptive component-based systems

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Luciano Baresi,

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SEAMS '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Software engineering for adaptive and self-managing systems

Pages 57 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370018.1370029

Published: 12 May 2008 Publication History

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Modern software systems are challenging challenge software engineers since they must adapt effectively and efficiently with respect to the environment in which they are deployed. To this end, the paper outlines an architecture, supported by special-purpose languages and aspect oriented techniques, for the design of component-based of distributed self-adaptive systems. Software artifacts are dynamically grouped, and constantly supervised by a network of ad-hoc components. The supervision mechanism exploits special-purpose languages that define data collection, correlation, aggregation, and analysis, to reason on properties defined at different levels of pervasiveness (from component-wide to system-wide). Its goal is to identify situations that trigger adaptations. Our approach is characterized by a decentralized architecture in which there is no single point of failure or bottleneck, and a clear separation of concerns between business logic and adaptation mechanisms. These concepts are demonstrated by a fantasy example that offers a general abstraction for distributed load balancing problems.

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Towards decentralized self-adaptive component-based systems
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. System management
        Centralization / decentralization
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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SEAMS '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Software engineering for adaptive and self-managing systems

May 2008

144 pages

ISBN:9781605580371

DOI:10.1145/1370018

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Betty Cheng
Michigan State University, USA
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University of Kent, UK
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David Garlan
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Holger Giese
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
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Marin Litoiu
IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
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Jeff Magee
Imperial College, UK
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Hausi Müller
University of Victoria, Canada
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Richard Taylor
University of California, Irvine, USA

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