Improving Impact of Self-Adaptation and Self-Management Research Through Evaluation Methodology

Today, self-adaptation and self-management approaches to software engineering are viewed as specialized techniques and reach a somewhat limited community. In this paper, the author overview the current state and expectation of self-adaptation and self-management impact in industry and in premier publication venues and identify what the authors, as a community, may do to improve such impact. In particular, the authors find that common evaluation methodologies make it relatively simple for self-adaptation and self-management research to be compared to other such research, but not to more-traditional software engineering research.