Architecting Self-Aware Software Systems

Funmilade Faniyi, Peter R. Lewis, Rami Bahsoon, Xin Yao
2014 2014 IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture  
Contemporary software systems are becoming increasingly large, heterogeneous, and decentralised. They operate in dynamic environments and their architectures exhibit complex trade-offs across dimensions of goals, time, and interaction, which emerges internally from the systems and externally from their environment. This gives rise to the vision of self-aware architecture, where design decisions and execution strategies for these concerns are dynamically analysed and seamlessly managed at
more » ... e. Drawing on the concept of self-awareness from psychology, this paper extends the foundation of software architecture styles for self-adaptive systems to arrive at a new principled approach for architecting self-aware systems. We demonstrate the added value and applicability of the approach in the context of service provisioning to cloud-reliant service-based applications.
doi:10.1109/wicsa.2014.18 dblp:conf/wicsa/FaniyiLBY14 fatcat:w2jtuuncc5hl5pn5f7qqnb746a