When to Adapt? Identification of Problem Domains for Adaptive Systems

Dynamically adaptive systems (DASs) change behaviour at run-time to operate in volatile environments. As we learn how best to design and build systems with greater autonomy, we must also consider when to do so. Thus far, DASs have tended to showcase the benefits of adaptation infrastructures with little understanding of what characterizes the problem domains that require run-time adaptation. This position paper posits that context-dependent variation in the acceptable trade-offs between non-functional requirements is a key indicator of problems that require dynamically adaptive solutions.

[1]  S. Fickas.  Clinical requirements engineering , 2005, Proceedings. 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2005. ICSE 2005..

[2]  Thomas Ledoux,et al.  Towards a Framework for Self-adaptive Component-Based Applications , 2003, DAIS.

[3]  Pierre Verbaeten,et al.  Managing variability of self-customizable systems through composable components , 2005, Softw. Process. Improv. Pract..

[4]  Jeff Magee,et al.  Self-Managed Systems: an Architectural Challenge , 2007, Future of Software Engineering (FOSE '07).

[5]  Gordon S. Blair,et al.  GridStix: supporting flood prediction using embedded hardware and next generation grid middleware , 2006, 2006 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks(WoWMoM'06).

[6]  P. Sawyer,et al.  Visualizing the Analysis of Dynamically Adaptive Systems Using i* and DSLs , 2007, Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV 2007).

[7]  Keith Cheverst,et al.  An Architecture for the Effective Support of Adaptive Context-Aware Applications , 2001, Mobile Data Management.

[8]  Deborah Estrin,et al.  ASCENT: adaptive self-configuring sensor networks topologies , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

[9]  Ji Zhang,et al.  The Four Levels of Requirements Engineering for and in Dynamic Adaptive Systems , 2005 .

[10]  Robert Laddaga,et al.  Self-Adaptive Software , 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[11]  Gabor Karsai,et al.  An Approach to Self-adaptive Software Based on Supervisory Control , 2001, IWSAS.

[12]  Pankaj Jalote.  Future of Software Engineering , 2009, ICISTM.

[13]  Seyed Masoud Sadjadi,et al.  Composing adaptive software , 2004, Computer.

[14]  Eric S. K. Yu,et al.  Towards modelling and reasoning support for early-phase requirements engineering , 1997, Proceedings of ISRE '97: 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering.

[15]  Jeffrey O. Kephart,et al.  The Vision of Autonomic Computing , 2003, Computer.

[16]  Heather Goldsby,et al.  Goal-Oriented Modeling of Requirements Engineering for Dynamically Adaptive System , 2006, 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06).