Self-healing software systems

Speaker: Matthias Rohr

Abstract

Self Healing is a concept to cope with the increasing complexity and dependability requirements of mission-critical component-based software systems. It is inspired by the autonomous healing mechanisms in biology. The goals of Self Healing and those of Fault Tolerance are similar, but differences can be found in the strategies. From the viewpoint of Software Engineering, we support this young research domain with missing definitions and a basic taxonomy to provide navigation points for further research. Our current research addresses the specification of Self Healing models based on architectural descriptions.