FEMOSAA: Feature guided and knEe driven Multi-Objective optimization for Self-Adaptive softwAre

Chen, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5025-5472, Li, K, Bahsoon, R and Yao, X, 2018. FEMOSAA: Feature guided and knEe driven Multi-Objective optimization for Self-Adaptive softwAre. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 27 (2): 5. ISSN 1049-331X

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Abstract

Self-Adaptive Software (SAS) can reconfigure itself to adapt to the changing environment at runtime, aiming to continually optimize conflicted nonfunctional objectives (e.g., response time, energy consumption, throughput, cost, etc.). In this article, we present Feature-guided and knEe-driven Multi-Objective optimization for Self-Adaptive softwAre (FEMOSAA), a novel framework that automatically synergizes the feature model and Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) to optimize SAS at runtime. FEMOSAA operates in two phases: at design time, FEMOSAA automatically transposes the engineers’ design of SAS, expressed as a feature model, to fit the MOEA, creating new chromosome representation and reproduction operators. At runtime, FEMOSAA utilizes the feature model as domain knowledge to guide the search and further extend the MOEA, providing a larger chance for finding better solutions. In addition, we have designed a new method to search for the knee solutions, which can achieve a balanced tradeoff. We comprehensively evaluated FEMOSAA on two running SAS: One is a highly complex SAS with various adaptable real-world software under the realistic workload trace; another is a service-oriented SAS that can be dynamically composed from services. In particular, we compared the effectiveness and overhead of FEMOSAA against four of its variants and three other search-based frameworks for SAS under various scenarios, including three commonly applied MOEAs, two workload patterns, and diverse conflicting quality objectives. The results reveal the effectiveness of FEMOSAA and its superiority over the others with high statistical significance and nontrivial effect sizes.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Creators:	Chen, T., Li, K., Bahsoon, R. and Yao, X.
Publisher:	Association for Computing Machinery
Date:	July 2018
Volume:	27
Number:	2
ISSN:	1049-331X
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1145/3204459 DOI
Rights:	© 2018 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	24 Apr 2018 15:38
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2018 13:24
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33318

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