Towards Policy-Supported Adaptable Service Systems

This paper presents a policy-supported architecture for adaptable service systems based on the combination of Reasoning Machines and Extended Finite State Machines. Policies are introduced to obtain flexibility with respect to specification and execution of adaptation mechanisms. The presented archi-tecture covers two aspects: service system framework and adaptation mecha-nisms. The service system framework is a general framework for capability management. Adaptation mechanisms are needed for autonomous adaptation. The adaptation mechanisms can be based on static or dynamic policy systems. Capability management for of a simple music video-on demand service system with runtime simulation results based on the proposed architecture is presented.