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Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap

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The goal of this roadmap paper is to summarize the state-of-the-art and to identify critical challenges for the systematic software engineering of self-adaptive systems. The paper is partitioned into four parts, one for each of the identified essential views of self-adaptation: modelling dimensions, requirements, engineering, and assurances. For each view, we present the state-of-the-art and the challenges that our community must address. This roadmap paper is a result of the Dagstuhl Seminar 08031 on “Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems,” which took place in January 2008.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 3115 Engineering Building, MI 48824-1226, East Lansing, USA

    Betty H. C. Cheng

  2. Computing Laboratory, Canterbury, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Kent, UK

    Rogério de Lemos

  3. Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering Prof.-Dr., Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

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Cheng, B.H.C. et al. (2009). Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap. In: Cheng, B.H.C., de Lemos, R., Giese, H., Inverardi, P., Magee, J. (eds) Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02161-9_1

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