Proteus: Language and Runtime Support for Self-Adaptive Software Development

Saeid Barati, Ferenc A. Bartha, Swarnendu Biswas, Robert Cartwright, Adam Duracz, Donald S. Fussell, Henry Hoffmann, Connor Imes, Jason E. Miller, Nikita Mishra, Arvind, Dung Nguyen, Krishna V. Palem, Yan Pei, Keshav Pingali, Ryuichi Sai, Andrew Wright, Yao-Hsiang Yang, Sizhuo Zhang

Abstract: Our software framework, Proteus, treats adaptation as a first-class object, enabling rapid development of robust, adaptive applications. Proteus developers specify their programs' intent and adaptable components (or knobs). A control-theoretic runtime continually monitors the running application, adjusting knobs so that the specified intent is met.