@unpublished{eprints1533, author = {Roberto Bruni and Flavio Corradini and Fabio Gadducci and Alberto Lluch-Lafuente and Andrea Vandin}, type = {Working Paper}, institution = {IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca}, title = {A Conceptual Framework for Adapation}, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1533/}, abstract = {This paper presents a white-box conceptual framework for adaptation that promotes a neat separation of the adaptation logic from the application logic through a clear identification of control data and their role in the adaptation logic. The framework provides an original perspective from which we survey archetypal approaches to (self-)adaptation ranging from programming languages and paradigms, to computational models, to engineering solutions.} }