Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures

✍ Scribed by Ivan Mistrik, Nour Ali, Rick Kazman, John Grundy, Bradley Schmerl

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including trade-offs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the lifetime of the system.

This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to manage trade-offs and architect adaptive systems in different business contexts. It presents state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices, and guidelines for developing adaptive systems, and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice.

Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, how to architect a system for adaptability, software architecture for self-adaptive systems, understanding and balancing the trade-offs involved, architectural patterns for self-adaptive systems, how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system, how to connect the quality of a software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations, and more.

• Explains software architectural processes and metrics supporting highly adaptive and complex engineering
• Covers validation, verification, security, and quality assurance in system design
• Discusses domain-specific software engineering issues for cloud-based, mobile, context-sensitive, cyber-physical, ultra-large-scale/internet-scale systems, mash-up, and autonomic systems
• Includes practical case studies of complex, adaptive, and context-critical systems

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Copyright,Contributors,About the Editors,Foreword by David Garlan,Foreword by Nenad Medvidovic Behold the Golden Age of Software Architecture,Foreword by Paris Avgeriou,Foreword by Rogério de Lemos,PrefaceEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures, Pages 1-13, B. Schmerl, R. Kazman, N. Ali, J. Grundy, I. Mistrik
Chapter 2 - Architecting Software Systems for Runtime Self-Adaptation: Concepts, Models, and Challenges, Pages 17-43, N.M. Villegas, G. Tamura, H.A. Müller
Chapter 3 - A Classification Framework of Uncertainty in Architecture-Based Self-Adaptive Systems With Multiple Quality Requirements, Pages 45-77, S. Mahdavi-Hezavehi, P. Avgeriou, D. Weyns
Chapter 4 - An Architecture Viewpoint for Modeling Dynamically Configurable Software Systems, Pages 79-97, B. Tekinerdogan, H. Sozer
Chapter 5 - Adaptive Security for Software Systems, Pages 99-127, M. Abdelrazek, J. Grundy, A. Ibrahim
Chapter 6 - Automated Inference Techniques to Assist With the Construction of Self-Adaptive Software, Pages 131-154, S. Malek, K. Canavera, N. Esfahani
Chapter 7 - Evaluating Trade-Offs of Human Involvement in Self-Adaptive Systems, Pages 155-180, J. Cámara, D. Garlan, G.A. Moreno, B. Schmerl
Chapter 8 - Principled Eliciting and Evaluation of Trade-Offs When Designing Self-Adaptive Systems Architectures, Pages 181-202, S. Andrade, R. Macêdo
Chapter 9 - Analyzing the Architectures of Software-Intensive Ecosystems, Pages 203-222, P. Boxer, R. Kazman
Chapter 10 - Architectural Perspective for Design and Analysis of Scalable Software as a Service Architectures, Pages 223-245, B. Tekinerdogan, O. Ozcan
Chapter 11 - Managing Trade-offs in Self-Adaptive Software Architectures: A Systematic Mapping Study, Pages 249-297, M. Salama, R. Bahsoon, N. Bencomo
Chapter 12 - The Many Facets of Mediation: A Requirements-Driven Approach for Trading Off Mediation Solutions, Pages 299-322, A. Bennaceur, B. Nuseibeh
Chapter 13 - An Overview on Quality Evaluation of Self-Adaptive Systems, Pages 325-352, C. Raibulet, F. Arcelli Fontana, R. Capilla, C. Carrillo
Chapter 14 - Identifying and Handling Uncertainties in the Feedback Control Loop, Pages 353-367, R. de Lemos, P. Potena
Glossary, Pages 369-371
Author Index, Pages 373-384
Subject Index, Pages 385-394

✦ Subjects

Software architecture;COMPUTERS;Systems Architecture;General