The objective of seams is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to investigate, discuss, examine and advance the fundamental principles, the. The paper is partitioned into four parts, one for each of the identified essential views of selfadaptation. Modeldriven engineering of selfadaptive software with eurema. Modeldriven engineering of self adaptive software with eurema. Software engineering processes for selfadaptive systems. Adaptation challenges include self configuration, self optimization, self healing and selfprotection. Comparison of approaches for developing selfadaptive systems. An organised tour and future challenges danny weyns abstract modern software systems are expected to operate under uncertain conditions, without interruption. Specifically, we intend to focus on development methods, techniques, and tools that we believe are required.
Software engineering for selfadaptive systems acm digital library. The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the stateoftheart and to identify critical challenges for the systematic software engineering of selfadaptive systems. The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the state oftheart and identify research challenges when developing, deploying and managing selfadaptive. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems ucl computer. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems the imdea. Software engineering of selfadaptive systems springerlink. Adaptive software development asd is a software development process that grew out of the work by jim highsmith and sam bayer on rapid application development rad. A exemplar can be quite generic such as an artifact or rather specific such as a model problem in selfadaptive systems.
Software engineering for selfadaptive systems by vahid. Although the self adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of future software systems that are able to self adapt to changes that may. In the last few years, model driven development mdd, componentbased software development cbsd, and contextoriented software have become interesting alternatives for the design and construction of selfadaptive software systems. During both phases, industrial validation is applied to. The paper is partitioned into four parts, one for each of the identified essential views of self adaptation.
This paper complements and extends a previous roadmap on software engineering for selfadaptive systems published in 2009 covering a different set of topics, and reflecting in part on the previous paper. Self adaptive software is currently employed in clouds, networks, iot, autonomous robots, etc. Although the selfadaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognised its key role in enabling the development of future software systems that are able to selfadapt to changes that may occur in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it is deployed. Addressing critical challenges of engineering selfadaptive and selfmanaging systems. Although the self adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of self adaptive systems that are able to adapt to internal faults, changing. An approach based on feature models and quality criteria for adapting componentbased systems. International workshop on software engineering for adaptive. Therefore, we study the development and usage of mde principles and techniques for developing, maintaining, executing, and dynamically adapting selfadaptive. Control strategies for selfadaptive software systems. Lncs 7475 software engineering for selfadaptive systems.
Her research and teaching interests include formal methods for software engineering, software development environments, objectoriented analysis and design, embedded systems development, assurance patterns, adaptive. The 15th edition of the international symposium on software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems will be colocated with icse 2020 and will be held in seoul, south korea on may 2526, 2020. Research in self adaptive systems have been conducted within the different areas of software engineering, including requirements engineering 2, software architecture 9, 10, 25, middleware 18, and componentbased development 23. Selfadaptive systems can be characterized by how they operate or how they. Welcome to the website on software engineering for selfadaptive systems. In this paper, we discuss how for self adaptive systems some activities that traditionally occur at development time are moved to runtime. The development of self adaptive software requires the engineering of an adaptation engine that controls the underlying adaptable software by feedback loops. Towards goaloriented development of selfadaptive systems. The goal is to provide a repository of examples, challenge problems, and solutions that the software engineering for selfadaptive systems community can use to motivate research, exhibit solutions and techniques, and compare results. The outcome of software engineering is an efficient and reliable software product. Engineering selfadaptive systems through feedback loops 51 feedback loops have been recognized as important factors in software process management and improvement or software evolution. In this paper, we discuss how for selfadaptive systems some activities that traditionally occur at development time are moved to runtime.
All software development methodologies discuss the eventuality of change and have some form of management process to deal with changes. Effective requirement engineering process model in software. May 04, 2015 the complexity of current software systems, evolution of their requirements and uncertainty in their environments has led the software engineering community to look for inspiration in diverse related fields e. Although the self adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of self adaptive systems that are able to adapt to internal faults, changing requirements, and evolving. The workshop on software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems seams is an academic conference for exchanging research results and experiences in the areas of autonomic computing, selfmanaging, selfhealing, selfoptimizing, selfconfiguring, and selfadaptive systems theory. These changes may stem from the software systems self internal causes, e.
The aim of requirement engineering is to analyse, investigate, document and check the services and also the constraints of the software system that is being developed. Highassurance systems modeldriven engineering autonomic self adaptive systems recently, also working in following areas. Software engineering and network systems sens lab digital evolution devolab beacon. It was established in 2006 at the international conference on software engineering icse. A exemplar can be quite generic such as an artifact or rather specific such as a model problem in self adaptive systems. Possible causes of uncertainties include changes in the operational environment, dynamics in the availability of. In general, the ultimate goal of these technologies is to be able to reduce development costs and effort, while improving the modularity, flexibility. In the illustrative case study there are no dependencies since there is a single goal. Responsibilities for these activities shift from software engineers to the system itself, causing the traditional boundary between development. Atrp software engineering for selfadaptive systems. The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the stateoftheart and identify research challenges when developing. Foundational concepts self properties understanding and taming uncertainty runtime models and variability consistent change of systems in. In this paper, we discuss how for selfadaptive systems some activities that traditionally occur at developmenttime are moved to runtime.
Rapid application development model rad rad model vs traditional sdlc. Software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging. Although the selfadaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of future software systems that are able to selfadapt to changes that may occur in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it is deployed. Cheng is a professor in the department of computer science and engineering at michigan state university. Dipartimento di elettronica e informazionepolitecnico di milano italy. Each dimension describes a particular aspect of the system that is relevant for selfadaptation. A major challenge for modern software systems is to become more costeffective, while being versatile, flexible, resilient, energy. Although the self adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of future software systems that are able to self adapt to changes that may occur in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it is deployed.
Software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems. Dec 04, 2018 from 1 january 2019, journal of software engineering research and development will be published by the brazilian computer society. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Thus, the investigation of systematic software engineering approaches is necessary, in order to develop self adaptive systems that may ideally be applied across multiple domains. Programs always include explicit and implicit assumptions about the real world domain. This site contains a set of exemplars for self adaptive systems. Software engineering processes for selfadaptive systems 1. Solutions to complement software systems with selfmanaging and selfadaptive capabilities have been proposed by researchers from different areas including software architecture, faulttolerant computing, programming languages, robotics, and run time program analysis and verification. Department of computer sciencelinnaeus university vaxjosweden. It embodies the principle that continuous adaptation of the process to the work at hand is the normal state of affairs. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems lecture notes. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems we investigate the role of modeldriven engineering mde in engineering selfadaptive software see also the research page of the project.
This cluster focuses on the engineering of software systems, which are large, constantly changing, adaptive, and as a consequence, systems of sociotechnical systems. Engineering selfadaptive systems through feedback loops. An increasingly important requirement for softwareintensive systems is the ability. International seminar, dagstuhl castle, germany, december 1519, 20, revised selected and invited papers. Self adaptive systems download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Capturing ambiguity in artifacts to support requirements.
Software engineering for selfadaptive systems ii request pdf. Software engineering is an engineering branch associated with development of software product using welldefined scientific principles, methods and procedures. Self adaptive systems artifacts and model problems. The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the stateoftheart and identify research challenges when developing, deploying and managing selfadaptive. Feature modeling has been widely used in domain engineering for the development and configuration of software product lines. Exemplars software engineering for selfadaptive systems. Rather than providing a set of distinct approaches for engineering self adaptive systems that have been developed over time, the waves put complementary aspects of engineering self adaptive systems in focus that synergistically have contributed to the current body of knowledge in the eld. Symposium on software engineering for adaptive and self managing systems seams 2012, pages 1298, 6 2012. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems lecture.
Modeldriven software engineering of self adaptive systems nth graduate school, 28. Traditional software engineering research primarily focuses on development. The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the stateoftheart and to identify critical challenges for the systematic software engineering of self adaptive systems. Selfadaptive software is a response to these demands. The goal is to provide a repository of examples, challenge problems, and solutions that the software. Selfadaptive system an overview sciencedirect topics. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems ss 2015. A selfadaptive system can handle many situations by modifying the system goals, architecture, and functionality in response to changing environments without any human intervention 1. The increasing demand for complex networked software, which makes computing resources available to anyone, anywhere and at any time, is drawing attention to the engineering of selfadaptive software. With the increasing size of software systems and the emergence of increasingly autonomous systems, future software engineering practices will exhibit the following characteristics.
The objective of seams is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas to investigate, discuss, and examine the fundamental principles, the state of the art, and critical challenges of engineering selfadaptive and selfmanaging systems. The engine often describes the adaptation by runtime models representing the adaptable software and by activities such as analysis and planning that use these models. Modeldriven engineering of selfadaptive software with. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems assurance developers need to provide evidence that the set of stated functional and nonfunctional properties are satisfied during systems operation betty h. Comparison of approaches for developing selfadaptive. The complexity of current software based systems has led the software engineering community to look for inspiration in diverse related fields e. A feature model represents the set of possible products or configurations to apply i. Responsibilities for these activities shift from software engineers to the system itself, causing the traditional boundary between development time and runtime to blur. Software engineering for selfadaptive systems pp 126 cite as. Nsf science and technology center evolution in action research and instruction areas. Research in selfadaptive systems have been conducted within the different areas of software engineering, including requirements engineering 2, software architecture 9, 10, 25, middleware 18, and componentbased development 23.
Assessing the benefits of searchbased approaches when. These changes may stem from the software system s self internal causes, e. The workshop on software engineering for adaptive and self managing systems seams is an academic conference for exchanging research results and experiences in the areas of autonomic computing, self managing, self healing, self optimizing, self configuring, and self adaptive systems theory. All software including safety critical software will be continuously deployed at least once per agile sprint in virtually all systems while maintaining important properties like safety. Modeldriven software engineering of self adaptive systems. The 15th edition of the international symposium on software engineering for adaptive and self managing systems will be colocated with icse 2020 and will be held in seoul, south korea on may 2526, 2020. The automated traffic routing problem was first discussed, and formally defined, in 3. Requirement engineering is regarded as one of the major stages in software development and management.
Capturing ambiguity in artifacts to support requirements engineering for selfadaptive systems juan c. A framework for evaluating modeldriven selfadaptive. Rather than providing a set of distinct approaches for engineering selfadaptive systems that have been developed over time, the waves put complementary. Symposium on software engineering for adaptive and selfmanaging systems seams 2012, pages 1298, 6 2012.
The complexity of current software systems, evolution of their requirements and uncertainty in their environments has led the software engineering community to look for inspiration in diverse related fields e. Jul 08, 2015 the complexity of current software systems, evolution of their requirements and uncertainty in their environments has led the software engineering community to look for inspiration in diverse related fields e. Modeldriven engineering of self adaptive software with eurema thomas vogel and holger giese, hasso plattner institute, university of potsdam the development of self adaptive software requires the engineering of an adaptation engine that controls the underlying adaptable software by feedback loops. This roadmap is one of the many results of the dagstuhl seminar 10431 on. A systematic survey on the design of selfadaptive software systems using control engineering approaches. Software project management has wider scope than software engineering process as it involves. Responsibilities for these activities shift from software engineers to the system itself, causing the traditional boundary between developmenttime and runtime to blur. International workshop on software engineering for adaptive and self managing systems seams. In fact, the idea is that the only constant will be that everything can change. Assuming any selfadaptive system is composed of a managed system which implements the system s functionality and a managing system the controller, which implements the selfadaptive functionality, such as fig. The evaluation approaches for selfadaptive systems proposed so far in the scientific literature may be analyzed from various points of view. The real world domain and the program and its explicit. The objectives of this cluster includes i architectural styles and patterns for self adaptive systems that employ automated experimentation to autonomously improve the performance of families of systems, and ii evidencebased engineering approaches that uniformly combine humandriven experimentation and automated experimentation.
Practical process model for objectoriented software engineering feature is a clientvalued function, can be implemented in. C modelbased development of dynamically adaptive software. Overview of software engineering and development processes. For example, the feedback loops at every stage in royces waterfall model 18 or the risk feedback loop in boehms spiral model 19 are well known.
Selfadaptive software aims at anticipating changes which occur in a complex environment and to automatically deal with them at runtime. The key features of multiagent systems in the engineering of selfadaptive systems are, specifically, loose coupling, context sensitivity, robustness in response to failure and unexpected events. Mdelab languages and tools for modeldriven engineering. Furthermore, the evaluation mechanisms of selfadaptive systems may rely on.
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