Software Adaptation in an Open Environment : A Software Architecture Perspective

In modern society, the world's high reliance on software requires the system's robustness, i.e., continual availability and satisfactory service quality. This requirement gives rise to the popularity of the research on the self-adaptive software in open environment. Software adaptation in an Open Environment: A Software Architecture Perspective provides a comprehensive discussion of current adaptation frameworks in the light of software architecture. This includes service discovery and interaction adaptation, adaptive component migration, context, and ontological models. Written for practitioners and researchers, it conveys the foundations of software adaptation. It describes verification techniques and frameworks and as such provides an excellent reference to this domain of dynamic software system evolution. Key Features: One of the first monographs to addresses software adaptation in an open environment from a software architecture perspective, Focuses on the challenges raised by the open environment, The technical part of the book is rigidly evaluated, while the theoretical part is sound and proved, Presents an overview of architecture based self-adaptation techniques, followed by discussion of specific issues of adaptive application migration and service interaction and issues of formal modeling and analysis aspects of self-adaptation process Book jacket.