The Role of Agreement Technologies in the Definition of Adaptive Software Architectures

The growing complexity of software systems is causing a re-conception of their development and maintenance strategies. Humans should be relieved from an important part of these tasks, which should be performed by systems themselves, leading to consider self-adaptation as a basic architectural concer...

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Autores principales: Pérez Sotelo, J. Santiago, Cuesta, Carlos E., Ossowski, Sascha
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2011
Materias:
Ciencias Informáticas
Self-adaptivity
Adaptive Architecture
Multi-Agents Systems
Agreement Technologies
Dynamic Architectur
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/135281
https://publicaciones.sadio.org.ar/index.php/EJS/article/view/69
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Self-adaptivity
Adaptive Architecture
Multi-Agents Systems
Agreement Technologies
Dynamic Architectur
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Self-adaptivity
Adaptive Architecture
Multi-Agents Systems
Agreement Technologies
Dynamic Architectur
Pérez Sotelo, J. Santiago
Cuesta, Carlos E.
Ossowski, Sascha
The Role of Agreement Technologies in the Definition of Adaptive Software Architectures
topic_facet Ciencias Informáticas
Self-adaptivity
Adaptive Architecture
Multi-Agents Systems
Agreement Technologies
Dynamic Architectur
description The growing complexity of software systems is causing a re-conception of their development and maintenance strategies. Humans should be relieved from an important part of these tasks, which should be performed by systems themselves, leading to consider self-adaptation as a basic architectural concern. Simultaneously, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have been developed as a generic approach to solve complex problems. They describe self-aware structures,conceived to be flexible and to be able to adapt to different situations. Advances approaches use organizations to provide further structuring, taking the form of complex agent architectures. Among them, Agreement Technologies (AT) provides an explicit insight into those architectural abstractions. However, they still do not provide mechanisms to change their composition patterns and element types, which are necessary to achieve real self-adaptivity. In this article, we propose an architectural solution for this: the required dynamism will be supported by an emergent agreement - an evolving architectural structure, based on combining predefined controls and protocols. These are handled in the context of the service-oriented, agent-based and organization-centric framework defined in AT and provided by their implementation within the THOMAS platform. This work provides the first architectural abstractions to support this emergent structure. A real-world example showing the interest of this approach is also provided, and some conclusions about its applicability are finally outlined.
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author Pérez Sotelo, J. Santiago
Cuesta, Carlos E.
Ossowski, Sascha
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Cuesta, Carlos E.
Ossowski, Sascha
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title The Role of Agreement Technologies in the Definition of Adaptive Software Architectures
title_short The Role of Agreement Technologies in the Definition of Adaptive Software Architectures
title_full The Role of Agreement Technologies in the Definition of Adaptive Software Architectures
title_fullStr The Role of Agreement Technologies in the Definition of Adaptive Software Architectures
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Agreement Technologies in the Definition of Adaptive Software Architectures
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publishDate 2011
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/135281
https://publicaciones.sadio.org.ar/index.php/EJS/article/view/69
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