An Architecture-Based Approach to Self-Adaptive Software
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
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Reconciling System Requirements and Runtime Behavior
IWSSD '98 Proceedings of the 9th international workshop on Software specification and design
Feedback Control of Computing Systems
Feedback Control of Computing Systems
Goal-oriented specification of adaptation requirements engineering in adaptive systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Self-adaptation and self-managing systems
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FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
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FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Towards goal-oriented development of self-adaptive systems
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Software engineering for adaptive and self-managing systems
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RE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
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Modeling Dimensions of Self-Adaptive Software Systems
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SEAMS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
RELAX: Incorporating Uncertainty into the Specification of Self-Adaptive Systems
RE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE
Fuzzy Goals for Requirements-Driven Adaptation
RE '10 Proceedings of the 2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
Awareness requirements for adaptive systems
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
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ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Engineering adaptive privacy: on the role of privacy awareness requirements
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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Complexity is now one of the major challenges for the IT industry. Systems might become too complex to be managed by humans and, thus, will have to be self-managed: Self-configure themselves for operation, self-protect from attacks, self-heal from errors and self-tune for optimal performance. (Self-)Adaptive systems evaluate their own behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that it is not accomplishing the software's purpose or when better functionality and performance are possible. To that end, we need to monitor the behavior of the running system and compare it to an explicit formulation of requirements and domain assumptions. Feedback loops (e.g., the MAPE loop) constitute an architectural solution for this and, as proposed by past research, should be a first class citizen in the design of such systems. We advocate that adaptive systems should be designed this way from as early as Requirements Engineering and that reasoning over requirements is fundamental for run-time adaptation. We therefore propose an approach for the design of adaptive systems based on requirements and inspired in control theory. Our proposal is goal-oriented and targets software-intensive socio-technical systems, in an attempt to integrate control-loop approaches with decentralized agents inspired approaches. Our final objective is a set of extensions to state-of-the-art goal-oriented modeling languages that allow practitioners to clearly specify the requirements of adaptive systems and a run-time framework that helps developers implement such requirements.