TY  - CHAP
TI  - Collective adaptation in process-based systems
AV  - none
KW  - Collective adaptive systems; composition; dynamic adaptation; process; self-adaptation

Y1  - 2014/09//
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7001011&isnumber=7000942
A1  - Bucchiarone, Antonio
A1  - Mezzina, Claudio Antares
A1  - Pistore, Marco
A1  - Raik, Heorhi
A1  - Valetto, Giuseppe
SN  - 978-1-4799-5367-7
PB  - IEEE
N2  - 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.
SP  - 151
N1  - SASO 2014 - Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, held in London (UK), 8-12 September 2014
ID  - eprints2498
T2  - Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO)
EP  - 156
ER  -