A language for self-adaptive system requirements

Jon Whittle; Peter Sawyer; Nelly Bencomo; Betty Cheng

doi:10.1109/SOCCER.2008.1

A language for self-adaptive system requirements

Jon Whittle, Peter Sawyer, Nelly Bencomo, Betty Cheng

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Self-adaptive systems have the capability to autonomously modify their behaviour at run-time in response to changes in their environment. Such systems are now commonly built in domains as diverse as enterprise computing, automotive control systems, and environmental monitoring systems. To date, however, there has been limited attention paid to how to engineer requirements for such systems. As a result, selfadaptivity is often constructed in an ad-hoc manner. In this paper, we argue that a more rigorous treatment of requirements relating to self-adaptivity is needed and that, in particular, requirements languages for self-adaptive systems should include explicit constructs for specifying and dealing with the uncertainty inherent in self-adaptive systems. We present some initial thoughts on a new requirements language for selfadaptive systems and illustrate it using examples from the services domain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements, 2008. SOCCER '08
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	24-29
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-7695-3631-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-4082-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCER.2008.1
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2008
Event	International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements, 2008. SOCCER '08 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 8 Sept 2008 → …

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Conference	International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements, 2008. SOCCER '08
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	8/09/08 → …

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Whittle, J, Sawyer, P, Bencomo, N & Cheng, B 2008, A language for self-adaptive system requirements. in International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements, 2008. SOCCER '08. IEEE, pp. 24-29, International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements, 2008. SOCCER '08, Barcelona, Spain, 8/09/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCCER.2008.1

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