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An Educational Course on Self-Adaptive Systems using IBM Technologies

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Ladan Tahvildari,

Mark StoodleyAuthors Info & Claims

CASCON'23: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering

Pages 143 - 148

Published: 11 September 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Distributed software systems and microservices with complex ar-chitectures running on cloud have significantly changed the way applications are developed and managed throughout the software development life-cycle. However, the increased robustness and dynamic nature of these systems have also led to additional op-erational complexities. Some of these complexities are partially resolved by auto-scaling and recovery services provided by plat-forms and services in the cloud. Nonetheless, a large portion of the challenges remain dependent on operational expertise. In response to this issue, self-adaptive mechanisms have proven to be one of the most promising approaches in achieving system versatility, flex-ibility, and dependability. But despite this, industry adoption of self-adaptive systems remains limited in both usage and functional-ity. In this paper, we discuss our to-be-offered educational course on self-adaptive system and how it can help graduate students gain exposure to this software engineering domain by leveraging open-source technologies managed by IBM.

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CASCON '23: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering

September 2023

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Conference Chair:
Iosif-Viorel (Vio) Onut
IBM Canada Ltd.
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Editors:
Paria Shirani
University of Ottawa
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Iosif-Viorel (Vio) Onut
IBM Canada Ltd.
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Program Co-chairs:
Iosif-Viorel (Vio) Onut
IBM Canada Ltd
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Paula Branco
University of Ottawa

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Published: 11 September 2023

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