Abstract—A collective adaptive system is composed of large numbers of autonomous and self-adaptive entities which are able to provide benefits for other participants and have to cooperate with each other to accomplish their individual goals. When entities adapt their own behavior due to unexpected situations, this may result in breaking the overall collaboration if these are not executed simultaneously and do not respect some collective constraints. The objective of this paper is to present a goal model that allows to express requirements for collective adaptability. It includes (i) how to specify the behavior of the entities that encodes cooperation with other entities, (ii) how to link collaborative goals and individual goals, and (iii) how to specify constraints that are imposed on different entities to preserve some form of collective consistency while they are adapted.
A Goal Model for Collective Adaptive Systems / Bucchiarone, A.; Mezzina, C.; Raik, H.. - (2014), pp. 20-25. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops tenutosi a Imperial College, London nel Settembre 2014) [10.1109/SASOW.2014.11].
A Goal Model for Collective Adaptive Systems
Bucchiarone A.;Raik H.
2014-01-01
Abstract
Abstract—A collective adaptive system is composed of large numbers of autonomous and self-adaptive entities which are able to provide benefits for other participants and have to cooperate with each other to accomplish their individual goals. When entities adapt their own behavior due to unexpected situations, this may result in breaking the overall collaboration if these are not executed simultaneously and do not respect some collective constraints. The objective of this paper is to present a goal model that allows to express requirements for collective adaptability. It includes (i) how to specify the behavior of the entities that encodes cooperation with other entities, (ii) how to link collaborative goals and individual goals, and (iii) how to specify constraints that are imposed on different entities to preserve some form of collective consistency while they are adapted.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
