Emerging Self-Integration through Coordination of Autonomous Adaptive Systems
Veronika Lesch, Christian Krupitzer, Sven Tomforde · 2019
The self-improving system integration initiative emerged as response to the ever growing complexity in large-scale open constellations of systems. Especially in the context of a set of self-adaptive systems working together in an overall system-of-systems, integration is a very complex task due to the limited predictability of system behaviour. In this position paper, we argue that one approach to tackle the problem can be found in an adaptive coordination of autonomous adaptive systems. Therefore, we characterise existing coordination approaches and identify four research challenges that need to be addressed. We use the scenario of platooning of autonomous vehicles to demonstrate the resulting challenges.