MetaSelf - An architecture and a development method for dependable self-* systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 457-461

  Di Marzo Serugendo, Giovanna ^a   Fitzgerald, John ^b   Romanovsky, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

control loop; design time and run time adaptation; metadata; policies; self adaptation; self organisation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LOOP DESIGN; DEVELOPMENT METHOD; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL ASSEMBLIES; RUNTIME ADAPTATION; SELF ADAPTATION; SELF-ADAPTIVE; SELF-ORGANISATION; SELF-ORGANISING; WEB SERVICE SYSTEMS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REMOTE CONTROL; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; WEB SERVICES;

METADATA;

EID: 77954695950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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