Guidelines for Artifacts to Support Industry-Relevant Research on Self-Adaptation

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 47, pp. 18–24

Abstract

Artifacts support evaluating new research results and help comparing them with the state of the art in a field of interest. Over the past years, several artifacts have been introduced to support research in the field of self-adaptive systems. While these artifacts have shown their value, it is not clear to what extent these artifacts support research on problems in self-adaptation that are relevant to industry. This paper provides a set of guidelines for artifacts that aim at supporting industry-relevant research on selfadaptation. The guidelines that are grounded on data obtained from a survey with practitioners were derived during working sessions at the 17th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. Artifact providers can use the guidelines for aligning future artifacts with industry needs; they can also be used to evaluate the industrial relevance of existing artifacts. We also propose an artifact template.

Authors 19

1. Danny Weyns

   Linnaeus University · KU Leuven

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   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Linnaeus University

2. Ilias Gerostathopoulos

   Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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   Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

3. Barbora Bühnová

   Masaryk University

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   Masaryk University

4. Nicolás Cardozo

   Universidad de Los Andes

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   Universidad de los Andes

5. Emilia Cioroaica

   Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering

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   Fraunhofer IESE

6. Ivana Dusparić

   Trinity College Dublin

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   Trinity College Dublin

7. Lars Grunske

   Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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   Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

8. Pooyan Jamshidi

   University of South Carolina

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   University of South Carolina

9. Christine Julien

   The University of Texas at Austin

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   University of Texas Austin

10. Judith Michael Aachen

    RWTH Aachen University

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    RWTH Aachen University

11. Gabriel A. Moreno

    Carnegie Mellon University

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    Carnegie Mellon University

12. Shiva Nejati

    University of Ottawa

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    University of Ottawa

13. Patrizio Pelliccione

    Gran Sasso Science Institute

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    Gran Sasso Science Institute

14. Federico Quin

    KU Leuven

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    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

15. Genaína Nunes Rodrigues

    Universidade de Brasília

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    Universidade de Brasília

16. Bradley R. Schmerl

    Carnegie Mellon University

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    Carnegie Mellon University

17. Marco Paulo Amorim Vieira

    University of Coimbra

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    University of Coimbra

18. Thomas Vogel

    Paderborn University · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Paderborn University

19. Rebekka Wohlrab

    Carnegie Mellon University

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    Carnegie Mellon University