Research Challenges for State Transfer in Adaptive Systems

Abstract

Dynamic adaptation is critical feature to enable the modern systems. Such systems is able to change their behavior or architecture at runtime with an adaptation process without stopping the system. Ensuring system consistency during adaptation process is a key requirement of the adaptive systems. One of main aspects of consistency is state transfer issue. The state transfer in unhomogeneous, distributed or cyber-physical systems still remains a challenge. In this paper, we try to identify research challenges for state transfer in such adaptive systems and provide a general view about state transfer.