Title :
A non-intrusive component-based approach for deploying unanticipated self-management behaviour
Author :
Andrade, Sandro Santos ; Macêdo, Raimundo José de Araújo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Bahia, Salvador
Abstract :
Supporting self-management behaviour by means of component-based architectural solutions has been the focus of many current research projects. In such a context, handling unanticipated changes with no impacts in application-specific software artefacts is a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a component-based solution for the specification and execution of self-management behaviour that decouples application-specific from autonomic-specific software artefacts (non-intrusive approach) and supports unanticipated changes in distributed heterogeneous environments. We describe the designed components for environment monitoring, adaptation policies specification, and changes redeployment and present a reference implementation built on top of CIAO middleware - a Lightweight CORBA Component Model implementation that supports dynamic reconfiguration of components and connectors. We also present two evaluation experiments, which provide self-optimization and self-healing behaviour in a distributed industrial supervision and control system.
Keywords :
middleware; object-oriented programming; software architecture; software fault tolerance; adaptation policies specification; autonomic-specific software artefacts; component-based architectural solutions; component-based solution; components dynamic reconfiguration; distributed heterogeneous environments; distributed industrial supervision; nonintrusive component-based architecture; software artefacts; unanticipated self-management behaviour; Application software; Computer science; Connectors; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Laboratories; Middleware; Monitoring; Runtime;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, 2009. SEAMS '09. ICSE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3724-5
DOI :
10.1109/SEAMS.2009.5069084