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Flexible Self-Management Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern
May/June 2008 (vol. 25 no. 3)
pp. 84-90
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Edward Curry, Paul Grace, "Flexible Self-Management Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 84-90, May/June, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2008.60,
author = {Edward Curry and Paul Grace},
title = {Flexible Self-Management Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {25},
number = {3},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2008},
pages = {84-90},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2008.60},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Edward Curry, National University of Ireland, Galway
Paul Grace, Lancaster University
Future self-management software systems will need to operate in diverse environments with changing requirements. This necessitates flexible system implementations, easily customizable to target domains and associated requirements. An important part of a self-management infrastructure is the self-representation, which models system functionality concerns, allowing their inspection and adaptation. As the range of self-management capabilities expands, the task of creating appropriate self-representations becomes ever more complex. Future self-representations will need to track greater amounts of system information than ever before, and in a way that's flexible, customizable, and portable between system implementations. Meeting these requirements will require a maturing in the design and construction practices for self-representations. The Model-View-Controller design pattern can improve concern separation in a self-representation. This pattern helps encapsulate state, analysis, and realization operations, improving a self-representation's flexibility, customization, and portability.

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Index Terms:
self-management system, Model-View-Controller, software engineering, design concepts, software architectures, data abstraction, design pattern
Citation:
Edward Curry, Paul Grace, "Flexible Self-Management Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 84-90, May-June 2008, doi:10.1109/MS.2008.60
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