Autonomic Computing
Self-adaptive software: Landscape and research challenges
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
When users become collaborators: towards continuous and context-aware user input
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
A goal-based framework for contextual requirements modeling and analysis
Requirements Engineering
The 4th international workshop on social software engineering (SSE'11)
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Reasoning with contextual requirements: Detecting inconsistency and conflicts
Information and Software Technology
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Adaptation requires a system to monitor its operational context to ensure that when changes occur, a suitable adaptation action is planned and taken at runtime. The ultimate goal of adaptation is that users get their dynamic requirements met efficiently and correctly. Context changes and users' judgment of the role of the system in meeting their requirements are drivers for adaptation. In many cases, these drivers are hard to identify by designers at design time and hard to monitor by the use of exclusively technological means by the system at runtime. In this paper, we propose Social Sensing as the activity performed by users who act as monitors and provide information needed for adaptation at runtime. Such information helps the system cope with technology limitations and designers' uncertainty. We discuss the motivation and foundations of Social Sensing and outline a set of research challenges to address in future work.