SHADOWS - A Self-Healing Approach to Designing Complex Software Systems

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.