A 10-year perspective on software engineering self-adaptive systems (keynote)

In 2002 I helped organize the 1st ACM Workshop on Self-healing Systems (WOSS), a workshop that eventually morphed into this SEAMS Conference. As with SEAMS today, the goal then was to bring researchers together to gain a better understanding of the software engineering challenges and approaches for this emerging area. Now, just over 10 years later, it seems a fitting time to reflect back on the progress of the field during this formative period and to consider some of the broader implications for the software engineering agenda. In particular, in this talk I will try to tease out some common themes and research challenges that have emerged as the core concerns for this subfield. I will also do a bit of soul-searching to reflect on my own research agenda in architecture-based self-adaptation as exemplified by the Rainbow System — considering both the decisions that we made that were good, and the ones that I think need to be revisited.