Add to ORKGInternational audienceThe development of a single software product is ine cient when groups of product are related since the development cost could be high. In addition, some products need to be self-adaptive in order to take into account the execution context changes. In this case, the imple- mentation and management of the adaptation mechanisms variability is challenging especially for distributed systems due to the distribution is- sues. We address in this paper such issues by proposing a method for the software engineering of distributed adaptation systems. We propose an architectural model for distributed management of dynamic adaptation. We de ne also a graph grammar based approach to automate the tasks needed to construct and con gur...