Safety as a Service

Application adaptations can involve changing the stucture or the behavior of applications. When performed at runtime, such adaptations may lead application execution to unsafe states. It arises in component and service-oriented platforms as well as aspectoriented frameworks that support run-time adaptation. However such platforms hardly manage adaptation-related errors. In this paper we propose a generic safety service that can be used with different platforms as the need to determine safety of run-time adaptation is independent of the underlying technology.