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Towards requirements-driven autonomic systems design

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Alexei Lapouchnian,

Sotirios Liaskos,

John Mylopoulos,

Yijun YuAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 30, Issue 4

Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083075

Published: 21 May 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Autonomic computing systems reduce software maintenance costs and management complexity by taking on the responsibility for their configuration, optimization, healing, and protection. These tasks are accomplished by switching at runtime to a different system behaviour - the one that is more efficient, more secure, more stable, etc. - while still fulfilling the main purpose of the system. Thus, identifying and analyzing alternative ways of how the main objectives of the system can be achieved and designing a system that supports all of these alternative behaviours is a promising way to develop autonomic systems. This paper proposes the use of requirements goal models as a foundation for such software development process and sketches a possible architecture for autonomic systems that can be built using the this approach.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4

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ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1082983

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