Project Rainbow began in early 2001 as the joint effort of Professors David Garlan and Peter Steenkiste at Carnegie Mellon University to investigate architecture-based adaptation of complex systems under DARPA's DASADA Program. To date, the Rainbow Project continues to be an integral part of Professor Garlan's ABLE research group. I began doing research on Rainbow in autumn 2001, working closely with Dr. Bradley Schmerl. Over the past few years, in addition to building the software framework, I have been investigating the role of declarative language and utility theory to facilitate architecture-based adaptation of live software systems.

PhD Thesis, defended April 18, 2008. Original thesis proposal from June 2nd, 2004.

Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan and Bradley Schmerl. Architecture-based Self-adaptation in the Presence of Multiple Objectives. In ICSE 2006 Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Shanghai, China, 21-20 May 2006. Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan and Bradley Schmerl. Making Self-Adaptation an Engineering Reality. In Ozlap Babaoghu, Mark Jelasity, Alberto Montroser, Christof Fetzer, Stefano Leonardi and Aad Van Moorsel editors, Proceedings of the Conference on Self-Star Properties in Complex Information Systems, Vol. 3460 of LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 2005. David Garlan, Shang-Wen Cheng, An-Cheng Huang, Bradley Schmerl and Peter Steenkiste. Rainbow: Architecture-Based Self Adaptation with Reusable Infrastructure. In IEEE Computer, Vol. 37(10), October 2004. David Garlan, Shang-Wen Cheng and Bradley Schmerl. Increasing System Dependability through Architecture-based Self-repair. In Rogerio De Lemos, Cristina Gacek and Alexander Romanovsky editors, Architecting Dependable Systems, Springer-Verlag, 2003. More ABLE publications on Rainbow.

Instructions on how to install are here.

The implementation of the Rainbow software framework is essentially complete, with a binary "SDK" version available for research purposes, by request only Stitch language interpreter Rainbow infrastructure components Sample set of Operators and Effectors, Gauges and Probes Case studies to validate the Rainbow approach completed "Slashdot effect" Company infrastructure adaptation Thesis-writing PhD Thesis nearly complete Email: <sw.cheng AT SPAMFREE acm DOT org> CategoryHomepage