Autonomous deployment and reconfiguration of component-based applications in open distributed environments

Abstract

In open distributed environments (ODEs), such as grid and ubiquitous computing, deployment domains can not be statically identified as they dynamically evolve. Thus, ADLs are unadapted to describe explicitly and exhaustively applications deployed and executed on ODEs. We argue that concepts for managing evolution autonomously should allow architects to describe how their component-based applications must evolve when the deployment domain evolves too. The contribution of this paper is DACAR, a rule-based framework to address autonomous evolution of software architectures in open distributed environments. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.