9/27/2016 Colin Robertson, CS @ ILLINOIS
Written by Colin Robertson, CS @ ILLINOIS
As part of the CS @ ILLINOIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Dr. David Garlan, an ACM and IEEE Fellow, will discuss recent advances in Self-Adaptive Systems, an emerging field within software engineering that promises to address challenges in dependability, security, and usefulness. The lecture will take place at 4 pm on October 3, in 2405 Siebel Center.
Self-Adaptive Systems
The increasing use of computing systems in every facet of our everyday lives raises a number of challenges for software engineering. In particular, one of the most important requirements for today’s systems is high availability – even in the presence of faults, changing environmental conditions, and attacks. To address these requirements we need to be able to build systems that take more control over their own dependability, security, and usefulness – automating many of the tasks that now lead to system failures and that require computing experts and administrators to manage. This has led to a new sub-field of software engineering and systems design, sometimes termed Autonomic Computing, Self-healing Systems, or Self-Adaptive Systems. In this talk I describe this emerging field and recent advances that allow us to address various engineering challenges, including (a) the ability to support self-healing through architectural models and automated repair, (b) new techniques for diagnosing faults at run-time with applications to manufacturing control systems, (c) the ability to support self-securing systems, and (d) the ability to reason about human-in-the loop systems.