modeling rates of change and aggregations in runtime goal models

  • Authors: Rebecca Morgan, Simon Pulawski, Matt Selway, Wolfgang Mayer, Georg Grossmann, Markus Stumptner, Aditya Ghose and Ross Kyprianou
  • First published: 10 October 2022
  • In: Ralyté, J., Chakravarthy, S., Mohania, M., Jeusfeld, M.A., Karlapalem, K. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13607. Springer, Cham.
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17995-2_28

abstract

Achieving real-time agility and adaptation with respect to changing requirements in existing IT infrastructure can pose a complex challenge. We explore a goal-oriented approach to managing this complexity. We argue that a goal-oriented perspective can form an effective basis for devising and deploying responses to changed requirements in real-time. We offer an extended vocabulary of goal types, specifically by presenting two novel conceptions: differential goals and integral goals, which we formalize in both linear-time and branching-time settings. We then illustrate the working of the approach by presenting a detailed scenario of adaptation in a Kubernetes setting, in the face of a DDoS attack.

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