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SASSY: A Framework for Self-Architecting Service-Oriented Systems
Nov.-Dec. 2011 (vol. 28 no. 6)
pp. 78-85
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Daniel Menascé, Hassan Gomaa, Sam Malek, João Sousa, "SASSY: A Framework for Self-Architecting Service-Oriented Systems," IEEE Software, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 78-85, Nov.-Dec., 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2011.22,
author = {Daniel Menascé and Hassan Gomaa and Sam Malek and João Sousa},
title = {SASSY: A Framework for Self-Architecting Service-Oriented Systems},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {28},
number = {6},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2011},
pages = {78-85},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2011.22},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Daniel Menascé, George Mason University
Hassan Gomaa, George Mason University
Sam Malek, George Mason University
João Sousa, George Mason University
Making architectural decisions manually in the presence of quality-of-service trade-offs can be complicated. The SASSY (Self-architecting Software Systems) framework automatically generates candidate software architectures and selects the one that best serves stakeholder-defined, scenario-based quality-of-service (QoS) goals. This lets domain experts concentrate on functional and QoS requirements. SASSY reduces the effort of composing service-oriented systems by automatically generating the QoS–optimized architecture and rapidly reconfiguring it at runtime. Self-architecting occurs during initial system deployment and at runtime, thus making systems self-adaptive, self-healing, self-managing, and self-optimizing.

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Index Terms:
software architectures, QoS, quality of service, service-oriented systems, software engineering
Citation:
Daniel Menascé, Hassan Gomaa, Sam Malek, João Sousa, "SASSY: A Framework for Self-Architecting Service-Oriented Systems," IEEE Software, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 78-85, Nov.-Dec. 2011, doi:10.1109/MS.2011.22
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