Generation of self-optimizing wireless network applications

Motivations. As the computing and communication infrastructure continues to expand and diversify, managing the software developed for such heterogeneous environments is becoming more and more complex; therefore, the need for autonomic computing [1] is increasing. As one example, the advent of the “Mobile Internet ” has produced a variety of handheld and wearable computing devices, whose software must adapt to multiple, potentially conflicting concerns, such as quality-of-service, security, and energy consumption. Unfortunately, many applications being ported to mobile computing environments were not designed to be adaptable to the corresponding concerns. We say that a program is adaptable if it contains facilities for selecting and incorporating new behaviors at run time. Adaptable applications are difficult to develop and maintai