Towards a Continuous Assessment of Stability in (Self-)Adaptation Behaviour

Self-adaptation and self-organisation (SASO) have been introduced to technical systems as a response to the ever increasing complexity and interconnectedness of component systems. The basic idea is to react to environmental dynamics and disturbances by re-configuring the productive behaviour and/or the relations to other systems. In this paper, we assume that too frequent and too strong adaptation behaviour is not desirable - in turn, we have to determine a trade-off between stability and optimal utility. This is assumed to result in a kind of self-awareness for the overall SASO system. Therefore, we describe a first concept to measure stability and analyse the behaviour in two example scenarios.