Software Adaptation in an Open Environment A Software Architecture Perspective

Cover — Half Title — Title Page — Copyright Page — Contents — Foreword — Preface — Authors — List of Figures — List of Tables — SECTION I: BASICS AND FRAMEWORK — 1 Introduction — 1.1 Novel Computing Paradigms and Methodologies — 1.2 What is Self-Adaptation? — 1.3 What is Context? — 1.4 Challenges of Adaptation in an Open Environment — 1.4.1 Characteristics of the open environment — 1.4.2 Adaptation requirements — 1.5 Structure of the Book — 2 Adaptation Framework — 2.1 Introduction and Background — 2.1.1 Architecture description languages — 2.1.2 Software architectural views — 2.1.3 Software architecture dynamics — 2.1.4 Discussions — 2.2 Conceptual Adaptation Framework — 2.2.1 Architectural perspective — 2.2.2 Framework overview — 2.3 Runtime Software Architecture — 2.3.1 Software architecture class model — 2.3.2 Reflective interaction — 2.3.3 Discussions — 2.4 Related Techniques for Self-Adaptation — 2.5 Summary — 3 Context Modeling — 3.1 Overview of Context Modeling — 3.2 Representative Ontology Models — 3.3 Ontology-Based Context Modeling — 3.4 Ontology Models for Architecture Domain — 3.4.1 Architecture description ontology — 3.4.2 Architecture manipulation ontology — 3.4.3 Architecture control ontology — 3.4.4 Discussion — 3.5 Summary — 4 Implementation and Case Study — 4.1 Structural Overview — 4.1.1 Adaptation support — 4.1.2 Component framework — 4.1.3 Context knowledge management — 4.2 MAC-ng Implementation — 4.3 Performance Analysis — 4.3.1 Experimental setup — 4.3.2 Performance evaluation — 4.4 Case Study — 4.4.1 Scenario statement — 4.4.2 Adaptation requirements — 4.4.3 Solutions based on MAC-ng — 4.5 Summary — SECTION II: ADAPTIVE MIGRATION, SERVICE DISCOVERY, AND INTERACTION — 5 Adaptive Component Migration — 5.1 Background — 5.2 Architectural Requirements