Coordination and Adaptation Techniques

RSTI - L'Objet - Volume 12 N° 1/2006

Carlos Canal, Juan Manuel Murillo, Pascal Poizat - Collection RSTI - L'Objet

152 pages, parution le 15/02/2006

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Résumé

The increasing complexity of software systems, the broad domain they are covering, the requirements of distribution and inter-system interaction, and the hard market rules demanding more flexible, faster and cheaper solutions are some of the features present in the software engineering development scene. In these new settings, a software system is conceived as a set of distributed pieces of software collaborating in an open environment.

However, a serious limitation of available component-oriented platforms supporting that kind of systems is that while they provide convenient ways to describe the typed signatures of software entities via interface description languages (IDLs), they offer a quite limited and low-level support for describing many other significant issues such as components' assumptions and requirements on behaviour, semantics, or quality of services. As a consequence, when a component is going to be integrated in a system, one can only be sure that it provides the required syntactic interface, but nothing else can be inferred about its real chances of collaborating successfully with its environment.

Such limitations and the need for convenient ways to correct mismatch between components have led to the definition of a new discipline, Software Adaptation, which promotes the use of adaptors -specific computational entities whose goal is to guarantee that software components are able to interact in the right way not only at the signature level, but also at the behavioural, semantic, and service levels. In this issue the new discipline of Software Adaptation is characterized and related with other disciplines such as Coordination. The use of Aspect Oriented techniques and Formal Methods to manage adaptation, and the impact of adaptation in Quality of Service are also some of the topics discussed.

Sommaire

Software Adaptation
A Behavioral Model for Composition of Software Components
SYNTHESIS, a Tool for Synthesizing Correct and Protocol-Enhanced Adaptors
The Impact of Software Component Adaptation on Quality of Service Properties
Coordination in Architectural Connection. Reflective and Aspectual Introduction

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Hermès - Lavoisier
Auteur(s)	Carlos Canal, Juan Manuel Murillo, Pascal Poizat
Collection	RSTI - L'Objet
Parution	15/02/2006
Nb. de pages	152
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	296g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9782746214262