Towards automated deployment of distributed adaptation systems

Abstract

The development of a single software product is inefficient when groups of product are related since the development cost could be high. In addition, some products need to be self-adaptive in order to take into account the execution context changes. In this case, the implementation and management of the adaptation mechanisms variability is challenging especially for distributed systems due to the distribution issues. We address in this paper such issues by proposing a method for the software engineering of distributed adaptation systems. We propose an architectural model for distributed management of dynamic adaptation. We define also a graph grammar based approach to automate the tasks needed to construct and configure the adaptation system. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.