AnAmeter: The First Steps to Evaluating Adaptation

TL;DR

AnAmeter is an online framework that quantifies system adaptations by evaluating global, semi-global, and local adaptation degrees, aiding in assessing adaptation quality.

Contribution

It introduces the first online tool for characterizing and quantifying system adaptations, providing a standardized evaluation approach.

Findings

AnAmeter successfully evaluated various well-known systems.

The framework offers a quantitative measure of adaptation levels.

It covers a broad range of adaptation types.

Abstract

This paper presents the online AnAmeter framework that helps characterize the different types of adaptations a system features by helping the evaluator fill in a simple form. The provided information is then processed to obtain a quantitative evaluation of three parameters called global, semi-global and local adaptation degrees. By characterizing and quantifying adaptation, AnAmeter provides the first steps towards the evaluation of the quality of a system's adaptation. AnAmeter is an open tool available as freeware on the web and has been applied to a selection of well known systems. To build this evaluation grid we also collected a number of systems that cover the full range of adaptation types.