A Study of Flexibility Enhancement Based on a Self-adaptive Mechanism

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K00097
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Software
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Nakagawa Hiroyuki 大阪大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (40508834)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ソフトウェア進化 / 自己適応システム / 組み込みシステム / プログラミングフレームワーク / 要求工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to enhance the flexibility of software systems that generally hard to be changed, such as embedded systems and legacy systems. In order to realize this, we use the MAPE (Monitor-Analyze-Plan-Execute) loop mechanism, which is a mechanism for realizing self-adaptation. We developed the extension mechanism by deploying a programming framework for implementing new functions using the MAPE loop mechanism on Raspberry Pi. We conducted an experiment in which we added new functions to a cleaning robot and demonstrated that the mechanism can efficiently add new functions to software systems that are generally hard to be changed.

Free Research Field

ソフトウエア工学