Keywords:
Self-Adaptive Systems, Port-Based Agents

Abstract:
This is a practice presentation of our paper, "Port-Based Adaptable Agent Architecture", for the International Workshop on Self-adaptive Software.

To facilitate the design of large-scale, self-adaptive systems, we have developed the Port-Based Adaptable Agent Architecture. This distributed, multi-agent architecture allows systems to be created with the flexibility and modularity required for the rapid construction of software systems that analyze and dynamically modify themselves to improve performance. This architecture provides user-level access to the three forms of software adaptability: parametric fine tuning, algorithmic change, and code mobility.

This talk will discuss our motivations for developing an adaptive software architecture, present the three forms of software adaptation, describe the basics of the architecture, showcase sample applications and talk about our current and future work.