Conclusion

Besides dynamic adaptation as defined in section , static adaptation and continuous adaptation can be found in literature. Both forms have different objectives than dynamic adaptation. The main reasons that methodologies for static adaptation can not be used for dynamic adaptation are:

• the time of adaptation, which is at compilation
• the missing concept for the environment detection

Though continuous adaptation is providing a functionality for inspecting the environment the methodologies are not suitable as a whole because of

• application specific sensors
• modification of parameters instead of code

The consequence of this considerations is the necessity to develop an own methodology integrating the exchange of code during runtime and the detection of the environment flexible for all kinds of properties concerning the hard- and software configuration of a host.