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The major goal of self-adaptive software is to provide a mechanism that allows a software system to dynamically change its architectural configuration during run-time to cope with requirement changes and unexpected conditions. Software which needs to handle dynamically changing internal and external environment is one of the areas in which self-adaptive software may do an important role in improving the reliability and performance of software systems. There are three main capabilities that are necessary to support self-adaptive software: the ability to monitor and recognize internal/external situations that affect behavior of the software system; the ability to determine when and what to reconfigure in the software system to handle the situations; and the ability to dynamically change the software architecture during run-time to make the reconfiguration effective. In this paper, we describe a software framework to support such capabilities to realize self-adaptive software and its experiment results.
This research was performed for the Intelligent Robotics Development Program, one of the 21st Century Frontier R&D Programs funded by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy of Korea.
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Kim, D., Park, S. (2005). AlchemistJ: A Framework for Self-adaptive Software. In: Yang, L.T., Amamiya, M., Liu, Z., Guo, M., Rammig, F.J. (eds) Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing – EUC 2005. EUC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3824. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11596356_13
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