Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures

Preface

J. Grundy; I. Mistrik; B. Schmerl; R. Kazman; N. Ali

Introduction

Self-adaptive systems are those that, unlike traditional software systems, are engineered to be adaptable at runtime and, in fact, adapt themselves in various ways to their changing environment, users, user requirements, and related systems. Adaptation can take many forms: adaption to new data sources and remote services; adaption to changing network, hardware or related software systems; adaption in the presence of uncertainty and/or unreliability of other systems; adaption to new users and user needs; adaption of security, privacy, and trust models and implementations; adaption to improve one or more quality of service attributes; and adaption to handle catastrophic ...