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Self-Managing Situated Computing

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Objective

SMScom will develop a consistent, integrated, and homogeneous set of methods and tools for the design, validation, and operation of dependable self-managing situational software, i.e., software that addresses a particular situation, problem, or challenge, and behaves according to the evolving situation in which it operates. Examples of situations are: the type of user (its preferences, its knowledge, ...), the physical environment (the current location of the executing environment), the time at which the application is executed, the device on which it runs, environmental conditions (like temperature, light, ...). We assume that situational changes are frequent, or even continuous, and require adaptation as the application is running and offering a service. This requires the software to be able to self-manage itself via a control loop that propagates the sensed information about situation to changes in the software structure. Several examples of situational applications already exist, and several research directions are already being explored. We argue, however, that at this stage most efforts are ad-hoc, and we miss a coherent global picture. We know how to deal with specific problems, but we lack general methods. SMScom is a holistic approach to self-managing situational computing. The term computing stresses the fact that our work will be rooted into an underlying theory of the field, upon which we wish to develop unified engineering methods and tools to develop dependable self-managing situational software applications. SMScom is a far-looking software engineering research project, which aims at providing a sound and systematic approach to developing practical and useful products. As any far-looking engineering research, it is expected to provide radical innovations. Radical innovations come in two flavors: by pushing some emerging requirements to their extreme and by revisiting through them in a radical manner the way we today develop and operate software.

Field of Science

software

Programme(s)

FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

ERC-AG-PE6 - ERC Advanced Grant - Computer science and informatics

Call for proposal

ERC-2008-AdG

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Funding Scheme

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

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Principal Investigator

Carlo Ghezzi (Prof.)

Host institution

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Address

Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32
20133 Milano

Italy

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU Contribution

€ 2 544 156

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Principal Investigator

Carlo Ghezzi (Prof.)

Administrative Contact

Fabio Conti (Mr.)

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EU Contribution

€ 2 544 156

Project information

SMSCOM

Grant agreement ID: 227977

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 December 2008
End date

30 November 2013

Funded under:

FP7-IDEAS-ERC

Overall budget:

€ 2 544 156
EU contribution

€ 2 544 156

Hosted by:

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Italy

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Computers to manage themselves more efficiently

New methodology to engineer self-adaptive software applications will ensure that computers always run at optimal level, enhancing not only operations but safety and security as well.

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Today's high-tech world depends on millions of computer software programmes to operate efficiently, from traffic control and communications to healthcare and business. If these software processes and functions don't operate correctly, this could have a calamitous effect on society. In this respect, it is crucial for the software to be able to adapt to or pre-empt changes in order to continue operating at an optimal level. This is important as there are always changes and fluctuations in software and hardware environments (for example, in cyber-physical systems that control the physical environment) as well as in interactive systems where user profiles constantly change. With this in mind, the EU-funded project SMSCOM (Self-managing situated computing) worked on developing software that can self-adapt and respond to changes to prevent possible failures. It outlined the tools and methods required for the design, validation and operation of dependable self-managing situational software. Such software would be able to adapt to factors such as changing location, time at which the application is executed, device on which it runs, and environmental conditions such as light or temperature. To achieve its aims, the project team designed software that can self-manage itself via a control loop that senses situational information and effects changes. Although examples of such software exist in different applications, the project team designed a comprehensive, holistic approach to self-managing situational computing. By the end of the project, SMSCOM had developed new methodology to engineer self-adaptive software applications based on automated tools and formal methods. It adopted an entire life-cycle approach to self-managing situated computing that stands to redefine the way that software is designed. The research represents a strong foundation to better, safer and more efficient software in the near future.

Keywords

Self-adaptive software, software applications, SMSCOM, self-managing, situated computing

Project information

SMSCOM

Grant agreement ID: 227977

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 December 2008
End date

30 November 2013

Funded under:

FP7-IDEAS-ERC

Overall budget:

€ 2 544 156
EU contribution

€ 2 544 156

Hosted by:

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

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Final Report Summary - SMSCOM (Self-Managing Situated Computing)

Modern society relies on software in all its critical sectors, processes and functions. If software fails to satisfy the requirements imposed on it, the consequences may be severe or even disastrous in the real world. This asks for high software dependability. At the same time, software lives in an increasingly dynamic context. Not only its requirements change continuously, but also the environment in which it is embedded changes dynamically, while the software is running and offers service. Change is indeed and endemic factor. Changes typically occur in cyber-physical systems, which interact with and control the physical environment. They also occurs in user-intensive interactive systems, where user profiles change continuously and often unpredictably. They occur in virtualized environments, where the computational context in which applications live is highly volatile and may fluctuate unexpectedly, offering changing quality of service. A very difficult challenge is to empower the software itself with the ability to self-adapt, to respond to those changes in an efficient yet dependable manner, preventing possible failures whose effect may have severe consequences in the external world.

SMScom developed a novel comprehensive methodology to engineer self-adaptive software applications, supported by automated tools and founded on formal methods that guarantee rigor and soundness, covering their entire lifetime, from development time to run time.

Project information

SMSCOM

Grant agreement ID: 227977

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 December 2008
End date

30 November 2013

Funded under:

FP7-IDEAS-ERC

Overall budget:

€ 2 544 156
EU contribution

€ 2 544 156

Hosted by:

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Project information

SMSCOM

Grant agreement ID: 227977

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 December 2008
End date

30 November 2013

Funded under:

FP7-IDEAS-ERC

Overall budget:

€ 2 544 156
EU contribution

€ 2 544 156

Hosted by:

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

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