Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems

Softwares ability to adapt at run-time to changing user needs, system intrusions or faults, changing operational environment, and resource variability has been proposed as a means to cope with the complexity of todays softwareintensive systems. Such self-adaptive systems can configure and reconfigure themselves, augment their functionality, continually optimise themselves, protect themselves, and recover themselves, while keeping most of their complexity hidden from the user and administrator. In this paper, we present research road map for software engineering of selfadaptive systems focusing on four views, which we identify as essential: design spaces, verification and validation, processes, and decentralisation.