Title
Lifelong Dynamic Optimization for Self-Adaptive Systems: Fact or Fiction?
Abstract
When faced with changing environment, highly-configurable software systems need to dynamically search for promising adaptation plan that keeps the best possible performance, e.g., higher throughput or smaller latency — a typical planning problem for self-adaptive systems (SASs). However, given the rugged and complex search landscape with multiple local optima, such a SAS planning is challenging especially in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose LiDOS, a lifelong dynamic optimization framework for SAS planning. What makes LiDOS unique is that to handle the “dynamic”, we formulate the SAS planning as a multi-modal optimization problem, aiming to preserve the useful information for better dealing with the local optima issue under dynamic environment changes. This differs from existing planners in that the “dynamic” is not explicitly handled during the search process in planning. As such, the search and planning in LiDOS run continuously over the lifetime of SAS, terminating only when it is taken offline or the search space has been covered under an environment. Experimental results on three real-world SASs show that the concept of explicitly handling dynamic as part of the search in the SAS planning is effective, as LiDOS outperforms its stationary counterpart overall with up to 10× improvement. It also achieves better results in general over state-of-the-art planners and with 1.4× to 10× speedup on generating promising adaptation plans.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00022
2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Self-adaptive systems,search-based software engineering,multi-objectivization,configuration tuning
Conference
1534-5351
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-3787-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
35
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tao Chen159929.93