Project Details
SHADOWS - A Self-Healing Approach to Designing Complex Software Systems
Project Period: 1. 6. 2006 – 31. 7. 2009
Project Type: grant
The goal of SHADOWS is to increase the competitiveness of the European software
industry by improving the reliability of the increasingly complex software
systems, which have become critical to today's business environments.
The SHADOWS project targets the problem of growing software complexity and its
detrimental impact on software reliability by introducing a new model-based
paradigm for the development of self-healing software systems. This paradigm
improves the reliability of complex software systems by implementing an
innovative software solution for the automatic detection, localization, and
healing of faults.
The prime deliverables of the project will be a widely applicable methodology and
an integrated set of coherent tools that provide capabilities for the
self-healing of system failures during development time and production. Our
notion of system failure is broad and includes functional deviations,
performance bottlenecks, and concurrency problems. With these deliverables, we
aim to achieve quantified and significant improvements in system design
productivity, system robustness, maintainability and quality, and the ability to
provide reliable services.
The SHADOWS approach extends the state-of-the-art by:
- Developing techniques that enable self-healing of new and important problem
areas for which no other approach provides a solution.
- Targeting industrial applications, moving the self-healing paradigm from
academia into the realm of the practical.
- Integrating technologies that work at different abstraction levels and
address different classes of problems.
Dudka Vendula, Ing.
Kočí Radek, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Letko Zdeněk, Ing., Ph.D. (CM-SFE)
Smrčka Aleš, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Vojnar Tomáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Vyvial Pavel, Ing.
Zbořil František, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)