On the Feasibility of Integrating Data Mining Algorithms into Self Adaptive Systems for Context Awareness and Requirements Evolution
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2014-08-20
Authors
Rook, Angela
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Context is important to today's mobile and ubiquitous systems as operational requirements are only valid under certain context conditions. Detecting context and adapting automatically to that context is a key feature of many of these systems. However, when the operational context associated with a particular requirement changes drastically in a way that designers could not have anticipated, many systems are unable to effectively adapt their operating parameters to continue meeting user needs. Automatically detecting and implementing this system context evolution is highly desirable because it allows for increased uncertainty to be built into the system at design time in order to efficiently and effectively cope with these kinds of drastic changes. This thesis is an empirical investigation and discussion towards integrating data mining algorithms into self-adaptive systems to analyze and de fine new context relevant to specific system requirements when current system context parameters are no longer sufficient.
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context evolution, requirements engineering, contextual requirements, concept drift, self adaptive systems, data mining