A run-time configurable software architecture for self-managing systems

Anthony, Richard, Pelc, Mariusz, Ward, Paul, Hawthorne, James and Pulnah, Kaveesh (2008) A run-time configurable software architecture for self-managing systems. In: International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2008. ICAC 2008. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp. 207-208. ISBN 978-0-7695-3175-5

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Abstract

This paper describes a highly flexible component architecture, primarily designed for automotive control systems, that supports distributed dynamically- configurable context-aware behaviour. The architecture enforces a separation of design-time and run-time concerns, enabling almost all decisions concerning runtime composition and adaptation to be deferred beyond deployment. Dynamic context management contributes to flexibility. The architecture is extensible, and can embed potentially many different self-management decision technologies simultaneously. The mechanism that implements the run-time configuration has been designed to be very robust, automatically and silently handling problems arising from the evaluation of self- management logic and ensuring that in the worst case the dynamic aspects of the system collapse down to static behavior in totally predictable ways.

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