A key challenge posed by the Next Generation Internet landscape is that modern service-based applications need to cope with open and continuously evolving environments and to operate under dynamic circumstances (e.g., changes in the users requirements, changes in the availability of resources). Indeed, dynamically discover, select and compose the appropriate services in such environment is a challenging task. Self-adaptation approaches represent effective instruments to tackle this issue, because they allow applications to adapt their behaviours based on their execution environment. Unfortunately, although existing approaches support run-time adaptation, they tend to foresee the adaptation requirements and related solutions at design-time, while working under a "closed-world" assumption. In this article our objective is that of providing a new way of approaching the design, operation and run-time adaptation of service-based applications, by considering the adaptivity as an intrinsic characteristic of applications and from the earliest stages of their development. We propose a novel design for adaptation approach implementing a complete lifecycle for the continuous development and deployment of service-based applications, by facilitating (i) the continuous integration of new services that can easily join the application, and (ii) the operation of applications under dynamic circumstances, to face the openness and dynamicity of the environment. The proposed approach has been implemented and evaluated in a real-world case study in the mobility domain. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and its practical applicability.

Dynamic adaptation of service-based applications: a design for adaptation approach

De Sanctis, Martina
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2020-01-01

Abstract

A key challenge posed by the Next Generation Internet landscape is that modern service-based applications need to cope with open and continuously evolving environments and to operate under dynamic circumstances (e.g., changes in the users requirements, changes in the availability of resources). Indeed, dynamically discover, select and compose the appropriate services in such environment is a challenging task. Self-adaptation approaches represent effective instruments to tackle this issue, because they allow applications to adapt their behaviours based on their execution environment. Unfortunately, although existing approaches support run-time adaptation, they tend to foresee the adaptation requirements and related solutions at design-time, while working under a "closed-world" assumption. In this article our objective is that of providing a new way of approaching the design, operation and run-time adaptation of service-based applications, by considering the adaptivity as an intrinsic characteristic of applications and from the earliest stages of their development. We propose a novel design for adaptation approach implementing a complete lifecycle for the continuous development and deployment of service-based applications, by facilitating (i) the continuous integration of new services that can easily join the application, and (ii) the operation of applications under dynamic circumstances, to face the openness and dynamicity of the environment. The proposed approach has been implemented and evaluated in a real-world case study in the mobility domain. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and its practical applicability.
2020
Service-based adaptive applications, Next generation internet, Design for adaptation, Incremental service composition, Smart mobility
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