%0 Book Section
%A Bruni, Roberto
%A Corradini, Andrea
%A Gadducci, Fabio
%A Lluch Lafuente, Alberto
%A Vandin, Andrea
%B Software, Services, and Systems. Essays Dedicated to Martin Wirsing on the Occasion of His Retirement from the Chair of Programming and Software Engineering
%D 2015
%F eprints:3062
%I Springer
%K Adaptation; Autonomic Computing; Programming Languages; Software Architectures; Computational Models; Computational Reflection
%N 8950
%P 552-581
%S Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%T A White Box Perspective on Behavioural Adaptation
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3062/
%X We present a white-box conceptual framework for adaptation developed in the context of the EU Project ASCENS coordinated by Martin Wirsing. We called it CoDa, for Control Data Adaptation, since it is based on the notion of control data. CoDa promotes a neat separation between application and adaptation logic through a clear identification of the set of data that is relevant for the latter. The framework provides an original perspective from which we survey a representative set of approaches to adaptation, ranging from programming languages and paradigms to computational models and architectural solutions.