%0 Report %9 Working Paper %A Bruni, Roberto %A Corradini, Flavio %A Gadducci, Fabio %A Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto %A Vandin, Andrea %F eprints:1533 %I IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca %T A Conceptual Framework for Adapation %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1533/ %X 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.