Tele Assistance: A Self-Adaptive Service-Based System Exemplar

Research on adaptive and self-managing systems is hindered by a lack of prototypical applications that researchers could use to evaluate and compare new methods, techniques and tools. To address this limitation, we introduce a reference implementation of a Tele Assistance System (TAS) for research on self-adaptation in the domain of service-based systems. Our TAS exemplar of service-based systems comes with pre-defined scenarios for comparing the effectiveness of different self-adaptation solutions. Other researchers can easily exploit the underlying service platform, reusable components and development method we devised for TAS to speed up the engineering of additional research exemplars for service-based systems.