Adaptive Software - The Challenge of Change

Prof. Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London

Date: 22 September 2023 (Friday)
Time: 9:40-10:40am HKT
Venue: IAS4042 Seminar Room, Lo Ka Chung Building, HKUST
Title: Adaptive Software - The Challenge of Change
Speaker: Prof. Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London

Abstract

Change in complex systems is inevitable. Providing rigorous techniques and tools to support dynamic system adaptation so that it can be performed online, at runtime, is certainly challenging. However, the potential resilience rewards could be great. There is the need for a software architecture and runtime support for dynamic software configuration, plan execution and plan synthesis, domain environment modelling and monitoring, and ultimately even potentially performing some elements of requirements engineering at runtime! This talk will present our motivation and vision, describing our work to date and our hopes for the future.

Biography

Jeff Kramer is an Emeritus Professor of Distributed Computing at Imperial College London, where he has served as Senior Dean and Member of Council, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Head of the Department of Computing.

His research work is primarily concerned with software engineering, with particular emphasis on evolving software architectures, behaviour analysis and model checking, requirements engineering and adaptive software systems. An early research result was the DARWIN language for evolving distributed architectures, and more recently the Three Layer Model for self-adaptive systems. Current work also includes Digital Humanism: ensuring that technology respects human interests.

Jeff has been served in many major conference and journal committees, notably as a Program Chair and a General Chair of ICSE, and as Editor in Chief of IEEE TSE. His awards include an ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award and an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the ACM, and a Member of Academia Europaea. He has published books on Concurrency, and Distributed Systems and Computer Networks, and is the author of over 250 journal and conference publications. He is a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Tokyo and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.