Reliability-driven dynamic binding via feedback control
Author
Editor
- Hausi Müller
- Luciano Baresi
Summary, in English
We are concerned with software that can self-adapt to satisfy certain reliability requirements, in spite of adverse changes affecting the environment in which it is embedded. Self-adapting software architectures are heavily based on dynamic binding. The bindings among components are dynamically set as the conditions that require a self-adaptation are discovered during the system's lifetime. By adopting a suitable modeling approach, the dynamic binding problem can be formulated as a discrete-time feedback control problem, and solved with very simple techniques based on linear blocks. Doing so, reliability objectives are in turn formulated as set point tracking ones in the presence of disturbances, and attained without the need for optimization. At design time, the proposed formulation has the advantage of naturally providing system sizing clues, while at operation time, the inherent computational simplicity of the obtained controllers results in a low overhead. Finally, the formulation allows for a rigorous assessment of the achieved results in both nominal and off-design conditions for any desired operation point.
Department/s
Publishing year
2012
Language
English
Pages
43-52
Publication/Series
2012 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS)
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Topic
- Control Engineering
Keywords
- dynamic binding
- discrete-time feedback control
- reliability requirements
- self-adaptive software
Conference name
2012 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS)
Conference date
2012-06-04 - 2012-06-05
Conference place
Zürich, Switzerland
Status
Published
Research group
- LCCC
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-1-4673-1788-7