Design and evolution of highly adaptive software systems: Context, control and run-time validation

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With the rapid growth of web services and socio-technical ecosystems, the complexity of these modern, decentralized, distributed computing systems presents significant challenges for businesses. The continuous evolution from goods-centric to service-centric businesses requires new and innovative approaches for building, running, managing, and evolving software systems. End-users increasingly demand that businesses provide smart software systems that are flexible, resilient, location-based, service-oriented, decentralized, energy-efficient, self-healing, and self-optimizing. A system with such highly adaptive properties must be capable of adjusting its behaviour at run-time in response to its perception of its environment and its own state in the form of fully or semi-automatic self-adaptation.