Abstract
Distributed pervasive systems have been employed in a wide spectrum of applications, from environmental monitoring to smart transportation, to emergency response. In all these applications high volumes of typically volatile software components need to coordinate and collaborate to achieve a common goal, given a defined set of constraints.
In our A-3 initiative we advocate that the coordination of high volumes of volatile components can be simplified using appropriate group abstractions. Instead of attempting to coordinate large amounts of components, the problem can be reduced to coordinating “groups” of components which have a less dynamic behavior. This abstraction effectively simplifies the design of self-adaptive behavior by making it easier to achieve component coordination. By design it also prevents the system from being flooded with coordination messages.
In this chapter we present an extension of our A-3 middleware called A3-TAG. It is a unified programming model that facilitates the system design. Moreover, the middleware internally adopts the same group abstractions to ensure that message exchanges, and in particular group broadcasts, are achieved efficiently and robustly. The chapter also presents an investigation of our approach in the context of a self-adaptive industrialized greenhouse.
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Baresi, L., Guinea, S., Saeedi, P. (2013). Achieving Self-adaptation through Dynamic Group Management. In: Cámara, J., de Lemos, R., Ghezzi, C., Lopes, A. (eds) Assurances for Self-Adaptive Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7740. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36249-1_8
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