Research Topics
Our research activities are concentrated on
distributed adaptive software.
These software, generally, composed of many distributed ineracting software entities, must undergo
various modifications (at both architectural and behavioral levels)
during their execution in order to respond to new user's requirements or to changes in their
execution context. These new requirements introduce a complexity resulting from an abundant
interaction between the distributed software entities and of the dynamics of their software
architecture. The strong presence of this software in several critical sectors, such as the
financial sector, the medical sector, and the public transport sector, requires their reliability.
Thus, our objectives are to provide environments that provide support and assistance for developing,
deploying and dynamic managing (at runtime) of the adaptive distributed software allowing to master
their complexity and to ensure their reliability. In order to achieve this, we are seeking to develop
models, methods, tools and mechanisms for designing, validating, deploying, and managing
adaptive distributed software. Application domains are cooperative activities, distributed algorithms,
and pervasive systems. The implementation of these applications considers various software technologies,
such as the object, the agent, the component, and Web services, and target various material platforms,
such that mobile terminals (PDA), wireless sensors, grid of computers, etc.
In our work, we adopted a model oriented approach for all provisioning phases of the adaptive
software (design and development, description and discovery, deployment and management). We proposed
methods, for describing and managing dynamic software architectures, based on formally provable visual models.
