Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures

Contributions Include:
· Norha M. Villegas (Universidad Icesi, Colombia) discusses architecting software systems for runtime self-adaptation: concepts, models, instrumentation and challenges
· Mohamed Almorsy Abdelrazek (Deakin University, Australia) explores adaptive security for software systems
· Sam Malek (University of California, Irvine, USA) delves into automated inference techniques to assist with construction of adaptable software architectures
· Javier Camara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) evaluates trade-offs of human involvement in self-adaptive systems
· Maria Salama (University of Birmingham, UK) presents a systematic mapping study on managing trade-offs in self-adaptive architectures
· Amel Bennaceur (The Open University, UK) examines the many facets of mediation: a requirements-driven approach for trading-off mediation solutions
· Claudia Raibulet (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) proposes an overview of quality evaluation mechanisms for self-adaptive systems

Plus Forewords from:

· David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
· Nenad Medvidovic (University of Southern California, USA) on the Golden Age of software architecture, that continues on in finding solutions to the problem of how quality trade-offs are managed in adaptable software architectures.
· Paris Avgeriou (University of Groningen, Netherlands) on the current problems and potential solutions in managing tradeoffs of quality attributes in self-adaptive architectures
· Rogerio De Lemos (University of Kent, UK)

And much more...