Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems

Much of a software architect's life is spent designing software systems to meet a set of quality requirements. General software quality attributes include scalability, security, performance or reliability. Quality attribute requirements are part of an application's non-functional requirements, which capture the many facets of how the functional - quirements of an application are achieved. Understanding, modeling and continually evaluating quality attributes throughout a project lifecycle are all complex engineering tasks whichcontinuetochallengethe softwareengineeringscienti ccommunity. While we search for improved approaches, methods, formalisms and tools that are usable in practice and can scale to large systems, the complexity of the applications that the so- ware industry is challenged to build is ever increasing. Thus, as a research community, there is little opportunity for us to rest on our laurels, as our innovations that address new aspects of system complexity must be deployed and validated. To this end the 5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Archit- tures (QoSA) 2009 focused on architectures for adaptive software systems. Modern software systems must often recon guretheir structure and behavior to respond to c- tinuous changes in requirements and in their execution environment. In these settings, quality models are helpful at an architectural level to guide systematic model-driven software development strategies by evaluating the impact of competing architectural choices.

Autorentext
Ian Gorton is a member of the Empirical Software Engineering group at National ICT Australia (NICTA), based in Sydney, Australia. NICTA is Australia's centre of excellence for Information and Communications Technology. He was previously the Chief Architect in Information Sciences and Engineering at PNNL in USA, and has also worked for IBM Transarc, Microsoft Australia and CSIRO. "I'm basically a software (architect, researcher, engineer). I work on a whole range of projects, including new middleware technology, designing architectures for enterprise applications, and carrying out software architecture research. I guess I must enjoy the variety!"

Klappentext

Much of a software architect s life is spent designing software systems to meet a set of quality requirements. General software quality attributes include scalability, security, performance or reliability. Quality attribute requirements are part of an application s non-functional requirements, which capture the many facets of how the functional - quirements of an application are achieved. Understanding, modeling and continually evaluating quality attributes throughout a project lifecycle are all complex engineering tasks whichcontinuetochallengethe softwareengineeringscienti ccommunity. While we search for improved approaches, methods, formalisms and tools that are usable in practice and can scale to large systems, the complexity of the applications that the so- ware industry is challenged to build is ever increasing. Thus, as a research community, there is little opportunity for us to rest on our laurels, as our innovations that address new aspects of system complexity must be deployed and validated. To this end the 5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Archit- tures (QoSA) 2009 focused on architectures for adaptive software systems. Modern software systems must often recon guretheir structure and behavior to respond to c- tinuous changes in requirements and in their execution environment. In these settings, quality models are helpful at an architectural level to guide systematic model-driven software development strategies by evaluating the impact of competing architectural choices.

Inhalt
Model-Driven Quality Analysis.- A Model-Based Framework to Design and Debug Safe Component-Based Autonomic Systems.- Applying Model Transformations to Optimizing Real-Time QoS Configurations in DRE Systems.- Automated Architecture Consistency Checking for Model Driven Software Development.- Architectural Performance Prediction.- Improved Feedback for Architectural Performance Prediction Using Software Cartography Visualizations.- Predicting Performance Properties for Open Systems with KAMI.- Compositional Prediction of Timed Behaviour for Process Control Architecture.- Timed Simulation of Extended AADL-Based Architecture Specifications with Timed Abstract State Machines.- Architectural Knowledge.- Achieving Agility through Architecture Visibility.- Successful Architectural Knowledge Sharing: Beware of Emotions.- Toward a Catalogue of Architectural Bad Smells.- Case Studies and Experience Reports.- On the Consolidation of Data-Centers with Performance Constraints.- Evolving Industrial Software Architectures into a Software Product Line: A Case Study.- Adaptive Application Composition in Quantum Chemistry.