Abstract
Self-adaptation and self-organisation (SASO) are increasingly used in information and communication technology to master complexity and keep the administrative effort at an acceptable level. However, using SASO mechanisms is not an end in itself – the primary goal is typically to allow for a higher autonomy of systems in order to react appropriately to disturbances and dynamics in the environmental conditions. We refer to this goal as achieving “robustness”. During design-time, engineers have different possibilities to develop SASO mechanisms for an underlying control problem. When deciding which path to follow, an analysis of the inherent robustness of possible solutions is necessary. In this article, we present a novel quantification method for robustness that provides the basis to compare different control strategies in similar conditions.
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An attack is a certain instance of the broader class of disturbances. In the remainder of this article, we will use the term “attack” but the discussion is valid in general for all kinds of disturbances.
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Tomforde, S., Kantert, J., Müller-Schloer, C., Bödelt, S., Sick, B. (2018). Comparing the Effects of Disturbances in Self-adaptive Systems - A Generalised Approach for the Quantification of Robustness. In: Nguyen, N., Kowalczyk, R., van den Herik, J., Rocha, A., Filipe, J. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXVIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10780. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78301-7_9
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