Title
Engineering Trustworthy Self-Adaptive Software with Dynamic Assurance Cases.
Abstract
Building on concepts drawn from control theory, self-adaptive software handles environmental and internal uncertainties by dynamically adjusting its architecture and parameters in response to events such as workload changes and component failures. Self-adaptive software is increasingly expected to meet strict functional and non-functional requirements in applications from areas as diverse as manufacturing, healthcare and finance. To address this need, we introduce a methodology for the systematic ENgineering of TRUstworthy Self-adaptive sofTware (ENTRUST). ENTRUST uses a combination of (1) design-time and runtime modelling and verification, and (2) industry-adopted assurance processes to develop trustworthy self-adaptive software and assurance cases arguing the suitability of the software for its intended application. To evaluate the effectiveness of our methodology, we present a tool-supported instance of ENTRUST and its use to develop proof-of-concept self-adaptive software for embedded and service-based systems from the oceanic monitoring and e-finance domains, respectively. The experimental results show that ENTRUST can be used to engineer self-adaptive software systems in different application domains and to generate dynamic assurance cases for these systems.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
abs/1703.06350
11
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Radu Calinescu190563.01
Simos Gerasimou211014.31
Ibrahim Habli328739.46
M. Usman Iftikhar422710.27
Tim P. Kelly524234.09
Danny Weyns62854163.81