Self-Adaptive Software

The 18 revised full papers presented in this book together with an introductory survey were carefully reviewed and constitute the documentation of the Second International Workshop on Self-adaptive Software, IWSAS 2001, held in Balatonfüred, Hungary in May 2001.

Self-adaptive software evaluates its own behavior and changes it when the evaluation indicates that the software does not accomplish what it is intended to do or when better functionality or better performance is possible. The self-adaptive approach in software engineering builds on well known dynamic features familiar to Lisp or Java programmes and aims at improving the robustness of software systems by gradually adding new features of self-adaption or autonomy.

Inhalt
to Self-adaptive Software: Applications.- Managing Online Self-adaptation in Real-Time Environments.- An Approach to Self-adaptive Software Based on Supervisory Control.- Constraint-Guided Self-adaptation.- Model-Based Adaptivity in Real-Time Scheduling.- Adaptive Agent Based System for State Estimation Using Dynamic Multidimensional Information Sources.- Confidence from Self-knowledge and Domain Knowledge.- Self-adaptive Protocols.- FDTs in Self-adaptive Protocol Specification.- Frame-Based Self-adaptive Test Case Selection.- Model-Based Diagnosis for Information Survivability.- Exercising Qualitative Control in Autonomous Adaptive Survivable Systems.- Dynamic Change in Workflow-Based Coordination of Distributed Services.- SSCS: A Smart Spell Checker System Implementation Using Adaptive Software Architecture.- Design Principles for Resource Management Systems for Intelligent Spaces.- Adaptivity in Agent-Based Systems via Interplay between Action Selection and Norm Selection.- Probabilistic Dispatch, Dynamic Domain Architecture, and Self-adaptive Software.- Self-modeling Systems.- From Wetware to Software: A Cybernetic Perspective of Self-adaptive Software.- Results of the Second International Workshop on Self-adaptive Software.