Self-Adaptive Software: Cybernetic Perspective and an Application Server Supported Framework

  • Authors:
  • Junrong Shen;Qianxiang Wang;Hong Mei

  • Affiliations:
  • Peking University;Peking University;Peking University

  • Venue:
  • COMPSAC '04 Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Workshops and Fast Abstracts - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

With emerging areas such as web services, pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks and so on, self-adaptive software is becoming more and more important and topical. As a new emerging discipline, self-adaptive software has strong background in control theory. This paper analyses the similarity between software self-adaptation technologies and control theory, and shows that self-adaptive software could be studied from software cybernetic perspective. Based on this standpoint, we also present three software adaptive models derived from open-loop control, feedback control and adaptive control. The application server based implementations of these three models are introduced.