Self-Adaptive Software
Subtitle: First International Workshop, IWSAS 2000 Oxford, UK, April 17-19, 2000 Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Paul Robertson (Editor); Howie Shrobe (Editor); Robert Laddaga (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9783540416555
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computer Software Packages; Software Engineering; Congresses; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books And Software; Self-adaptive software; Networking - General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers / Programming / Software Development; Programming - Software Development
First sentence: The chief problems that software engineering will face over at least the next two decades are increasing application complexity, and the need for autonomy and serious application robustness.
Description: Self-adaptive software evaluates its own behavior and changes its behavior when the evaluation indicates that the software does not accomplish what it is intended to do or when better functionality or better performance is possible. The self-adaptive approach in software engineering builds on well-known features like the use of errors and the handling of exceptions in languages like Lisp or Java and aims at improving the robustness of software systems by gradually adding new features of self-adaption and autonomity. This book originates from the First International Workshop on Self-Adaptive Software, IWSAS 2000, held in Oxford, UK in April 2000. The revised full papers presented in the volume together with an introductory survey by the volume editors assess the state of the art in this emerging new field and set the scene for future research and development work.