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A Framework for Policy Driven Auto-adaptive Systems Using Dynamic Framed Aspects

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Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II

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This paper describes and evaluates a framework that allows adaptive behaviour to be applied to systems by using a combination of dynamic Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), parameterisation and policies. Our approach allows the operator to create policies to define adaptive behaviour based on Event-Condition-Action rules. The combination of dynamic AOP with parameterisation aids reuse and allows aspects to be generated to suit the current system conditions; these aspects can then be woven at run time to adapt the application behaviour. This approach is evaluated in two ways; firstly performance measurements are presented to show that such behaviour does not add a substantial overhead to the target system. Secondly, Aspect-Oriented software metrics are applied to the adaptations applied to illustrate their reusability and flexibility.

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Greenwood, P., Blair, L. (2006). A Framework for Policy Driven Auto-adaptive Systems Using Dynamic Framed Aspects. In: Rashid, A., Aksit, M. (eds) Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11922827_2

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