A survey of self-management in dynamic software architecture specifications

Bradbury, Jeremy S.; Cordy, James R.; Dingel, Juergen and Wermelinger, Michel (2004). A survey of self-management in dynamic software architecture specifications. In: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT Workshop on Self-managed Systems, 31 Oct - 1 Nov 2004.

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Abstract

As dynamic software architecture use becomes more widespread, a variety of formal specification languages have been developed to gain a better understanding of the foundations of this type of software evolutionary change. In this paper we survey 14 formal specification approaches based on graphs, process algebras, logic, and other formalisms. Our survey will evaluate the ability of each approach to specify self-managing systems as well as the ability to address issues regarding expressiveness and scalability. Based on the results of our survey we will provide recommendations on future directions for improving the specification of dynamic software architectures, specifically self-managed architectures.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright Holders:	2004 Association for Computing Machinery
Keywords:	architectural formalism; dynamic software architecture; dynamism; run-time evolution; self-management; specification
Academic Unit/Department:	Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
Item ID:	23229
Depositing User:	Michel Wermelinger
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2010 09:16
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2010 17:30
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/23229

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