MORPH: A Reference Architecture for Configuration and Behaviour Self-Adaptation
This addresses the challenge of improving adaptability in self-adaptive systems for software engineering and AI applications, but it appears incremental as it builds on prior work in architectural adaptation.
The paper tackles the problem of self-adaptive systems by proposing a reference architecture that enables coordinated, transparent, and independent adaptation of system configuration and behavior, aiming to enhance adaptability beyond existing approaches.
An architectural approach to self-adaptive systems involves runtime change of system configuration (i.e., the system's components, their bindings and operational parameters) and behaviour update (i.e., component orchestration). Thus, dynamic reconfiguration and discrete event control theory are at the heart of architectural adaptation. Although controlling configuration and behaviour at runtime has been discussed and applied to architectural adaptation, architectures for self-adaptive systems often compound these two aspects reducing the potential for adaptability. In this paper we propose a reference architecture that allows for coordinated yet transparent and independent adaptation of system configuration and behaviour.