Towards Dynamic Evolution of Self-Adaptive Systems Based on Dynamic Updating of Control Loops

Abstract

Self-adaptive systems, which enable runtime adaptation, are promising ways of dealing with environmental changes, including system intrusions or faults. Such software systems must modify themselves to better fit their environment. One of the main approaches to constructing such systems is to introduce multiple control loops. Software evolution is an essential activity for expanding this adaptation capability, and dynamic evolution has been envisaged as a way of systems adapting themselves at runtime. In this paper, we establish a development process to deal with dynamic evolution. We devise a goal model compiler to generate models for designing dynamic evolutions and a programming framework that supports dynamic deployment of control loops. We experimentally applied our approach to a system and discuss how our compiler and framework support dynamic evolution of self-adaptive systems.