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Goal-based Evaluation of Contextual Situations for Self-adaptive Software  

Kim Jae-Sun (서강대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Park Soo-Yong (서강대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.33, no.3, 2006 , pp. 316-334 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the traditional computing paradigm, developers design software to run in a fixed and well-defined environment. The real environment, however, is too complicated to analyze all situations perfectly. Consequently, traditional software, which is implemented only for what is wanted as input, often fails badly in real environment. As a new approach, self-adaptive software can avoid runtime failures adapting to unpredictable situations. Self-adaptive software must firstly evaluate the contextual situation to determine the need for adaptation. Existing researches do not support the abstraction mechanism for identifying contextual problem. Consequently, they can have troubles with identifying the contextual problem as the execution environment is getting complex. In addition, they cannot support the expandability for contextual problems, which software can evaluate. This paper suggests the goal-based evaluation method of contextual situation for coping with the limitations of existing researches.
Keywords
self-adaptive software; contextual situation; contextual problem evaluation; goal; software architecture; monitoring;
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