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Technical framework for Internetware: An architecture centric approach

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Being a new software paradigm evolved by the Internet, Internetware brings many challenges to the traditional software methods and techniques. Sponsored by the national basic research program (973), researchers in China have developed an architecture centric technical framework for the definition, incarnation and engineering of Internetware. First of all, a software model for Internetware is defined for what to be, including that Internetware entities should be packaged as components, behaving as agents, interoperating as services, collaborating in a structured and on demand manner, etc. Secondly, a middleware for Internetware is designed and implemented for how to be, including that Internetware entities are incarnated by runtime containers, structured collaborations are enabled by runtime software architecture, Internetware can be managed in a reflective and autonomic manner, etc. Thirdly, an engineering methodology for Internetware is proposed for how to do, including the way to develop Internetware entities and their collaborations by transforming and refining a set of software architectures which cover all the phases of software lifecycle, the way to identify and organize the disordered software assets by domain modeling, etc.

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  1. Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100871, China

    FuQing Yang & Hong Mei

  2. School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    FuQing Yang & Hong Mei

  3. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Jian Lü

  4. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Jian Lü

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Supported by the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China (973) (Grant No. 2002CB312000)

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Yang, F., Lü, J. & Mei, H. Technical framework for Internetware: An architecture centric approach. Sci. China Ser. F-Inf. Sci. 51, 610–622 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-008-0051-z

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