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Using Architecture Models to Support the Generation and Operation of Component-Based Adaptive Systems

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Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 5525))

Abstract

Modelling architectural information is particularly important because of the acknowledged crucial role of software architecture in raising the level of abstraction during development. In the MDE area, the level of abstraction of models has frequently been related to low-level design concepts. However, model-driven techniques can be further exploited to model software artefacts that take into account the architecture of the system and its changes according to variations of the environment. In this paper, we propose model-driven techniques and dynamic variability as concepts useful for modelling the dynamic fluctuation of the environment and its impact on the architecture. Using the mappings from the models to implementation, generative techniques allow the (semi) automatic generation of artefacts making the process more efficient and promoting software reuse. The automatic generation of configurations and reconfigurations from models provides the basis for safer execution. The architectural perspective offered by the models shift focus away from implementation details to the whole view of the system and its runtime change promoting high-level analysis.

This work was partially funded by the Divergent Grid project, an ESPRC funded project and the DiVA project (EU FP7 STREP).

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    Nelly Bencomo & Gordon Blair

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 3115 Engineering Building, MI 48824-1226, East Lansing, USA

    Betty H. C. Cheng

  2. Computing Laboratory, Canterbury, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Kent, UK

    Rogério de Lemos

  3. Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering Prof.-Dr., Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Holger Giese

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università dell’Aquila, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Paola Inverardi

  5. Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen’s Gate, SW7 2BZ, London, UK

    Jeff Magee

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Bencomo, N., Blair, G. (2009). Using Architecture Models to Support the Generation and Operation of Component-Based Adaptive Systems. In: Cheng, B.H.C., de Lemos, R., Giese, H., Inverardi, P., Magee, J. (eds) Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02161-9_10

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