More than a decade ago, the research topic models@ run. time was coined. Since then, the
research area has received increasing attention. Given the prolific results during these …

Modern software applications are subject to uncertain operating conditions, such as
dynamics in the availability of services and variations of system goals. Consequently …

A concise and practical introduction to the foundations and engineering principles of self-
adaptation Though it has recently gained significant momentum, the topic of self-adaptation …

Mission-critical Internet of Things (MC-IoT) systems involve heterogeneous things from both
the digital and physical worlds. They run applications whose failure might cause significant …

Autonomous robots combine a variety of skills to form increasingly complex behaviors called
missions. While the skills are often programmed at a relatively low level of abstraction, their …

Autonomous robots combine skills to form increasingly complex behaviors, called missions.
While skills are often programmed at a relatively low abstraction level, their coordination is …

For large, complex software systems, the design of the overall system structure (the software
architecture) is an essential challenge. The architecture of a software system defines that …

Providing assurances for self-adaptive systems is challenging. A primary underlying
problem is uncertainty that may stem from a variety of different sources, ranging from …

Since its infancy, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) research has primarily focused on
technical issues. Although it is becoming increasingly common for MDE research papers to …

Research in the area of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is hampered by the lack of available
project environments in which to explore open challenges and to propose and rigorously …