Leveraging design and runtime architecture models to support self-awareness

Abstract

Self-aware computing systems possess knowledge about themselves and their environment in order to trigger the internal and external actions. Such ability is particularly interesting in newdomains, such as IoT, where systems are often executed in fluctuating conditions and need frequent adaptations to meet their requirements. In this chapter, we show how such knowledge can be expressed as architectural models and how design and runtime architectures can be linked and remained synchronized. The approach is illustrated on a smart home health application called actimetrics, developed with Orange Labs.