%0 Book Section %9 Working Paper %A Bruni, Roberto %A Corradini, Andrea %A Gadducci, Fabio %A Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto %A Vandin, Andrea %B Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering %D 2012 %F eprints:1581 %I Springer %K Adaptivity, autonomic systems, control data, MAPE-K control loop %N 7212 %P 240-254 %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %T A Conceptual Framework for Adaptation %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1581/ %X In this position paper we present a conceptual vision of adaptation, a key feature of autonomic systems. We put some stress on the role of control data and argue how some of the programming paradigms and models used for adaptive systems match with our conceptual framework. %Z 15th International Conference, FASE 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, March 24 - April 1, 2012. Proceedings