%0 Book Section
%A Bucchiarone, Antonio
%A Mezzina, Claudio Antares
%A Pistore, Marco
%A Raik, Heorhi
%A Valetto, Giuseppe
%B Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO)
%D 2014
%F eprints:2498
%I IEEE
%K Collective adaptive systems; composition; dynamic adaptation; process; self-adaptation  
%P 151-156
%T Collective adaptation in process-based systems
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2498/
%X A collective adaptive system is composed of a set of heterogeneous, autonomous and self-adaptive entities that come into a collaboration with one another in order to improve the effectiveness with which they can accomplish their individual goals. In this paper, we offer a characterization of ensembles, as the main concept around which systems that exhibit collective adaptability can be built. Our conceptualization of ensembles enables to define a collective adaptive system as an emergent aggregation of autonomous and self-adaptive process-based elements. To elucidate our approach to ensembles and collective adaptation, we draw an example from a scenario in the urban mobility domain, we describe an architecture that enables that approach, and we show how our approach can address the problems posed by the motivating scenario.
%Z SASO 2014 - Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, held in London (UK), 8-12 September 2014