SEAMS 2023
Mon 15 - Tue 16 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
co-located with ICSE 2023

Engineering long-running computing systems that achieve their goals under ever-changing conditions pose significant challenges. Self-adaptation has shown to be a viable approach to dealing with changing conditions. Yet, the capabilities of a self-adaptive system are constrained by its operational design domain (ODD), i.e., the conditions for which the system was built (requirements, constraints, and context). Changes, such as adding new goals or dealing with new contexts, require system evolution. While the system evolution process has been automated substantially, it remains human-driven. Given the growing complexity of computing systems, human-driven evolution will eventually become unmanageable. In this paper, we provide a definition for ODD and apply it to a self-adaptive system. Next, we explain why conditions not covered by the ODD require system evolution. Then, we outline a new approach for self-evolution that leverages the concept of ODD, enabling a system to evolve autonomously to deal with conditions not anticipated by its initial ODD. We conclude with open challenges to realise self-evolution

Tue 16 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

09:00 - 10:30
Keynote 2 & Session 4: Self-optimization and self-evolutionResearch Track / Artifact Track at Meeting Room 105
Chair(s): Radu Calinescu University of York, UK, Myra Cohen Iowa State University, Pooyan Jamshidi University of South Carolina
09:00
60m
Keynote
SE4LESAS: Software Engineering for Learning-Enabled Self-Adaptive Systems
Research Track
Betty H.C. Cheng Michigan State University
10:00
15m
Short-paper
From Self-Adaptation to Self-Evolution
Research Track
Danny Weyns KU Leuven, Jesper Andersson Linnaeus University
Pre-print
10:15
15m
Short-paper
Self-Optimizing Agents Using Mixed Initiative Behavior Trees
Research Track
Mohamed Behery RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Minh Trinh , Christian Brecher , Gerhard Lakemeyer