A model-based multi-level architectural reconfiguration applied to adaptability management in context-aware cooperative communication support systems

Handling context-aware dynamically adaptable architectures contributes to the design of self-configuring software systems. Dealing with such a problem for communicating systems is even more challenging since adaptation should address simultaneously the different communication levels. In this paper, we address this problem by providing a model-based, rule-oriented approach that supports the adaptation process based on a run-time transformation of the system architecture. Such an architecture may represent the different possible service compositions and the associated architectural configurations. Adaptation policies are defined by means of SWRL rules. Such rules allow associating the suitable adaptation transformations to the context change.