A Modular Approach Dedicated to Self-Adaptive System

Abstract—Self-adaptation is an important and desirable property for many systems, particularly for those that are deployed in dynamically changing environments. The purpose is to let the systems react and adapt autonomously to changing executing conditions without human intervention. The current lack of reusable adaptation expertise, it becomes increasingly difficult to build a system that satisfies all the requirements and constraints that might arise during its lifetime. In this paper, we propose an approach for developing policies for self-adaptive systems at multiple levels of abstraction. This approach is modular, based on the modeling of design patterns. It shows how the feedback loops and their structuring are explicitly modeled in modular way. We show the feasibility of the proposed approach with a use case based on a smart home scenario.

Index Terms—Self-adaptive systems, design patterns, modularity, reusability.

Mohamed Lamine Berkane and Mahmoud Boufaida are with Computer Science Department, University Constantine 2, Algeria (e-mail: ml.berkane@umc.edu.dz, mboufaida@umc.edu.dz).
Lionel Seinturier is with Inria/Lille 1 Spirals research team, University Lille 1, France (e-mail: Lionel.Seinturier@inria.fr).

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Cite: Mohamed Lamine Berkane, Mahmoud Boufaida, and Lionel Seinturier, "A Modular Approach Dedicated to Self-Adaptive System," Lecture Notes on Software Engineering vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 183-188, 2015.