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Blair, Gordon [University of Lancaster, UK] Bromberg, Yérom-David [University of Rennes 1 - IRISA, France] Coulson, Geoff [University of Lancaster, UK] Elkhatib, Yehia [University of Lancaster, UK] Réveillère, Laurent [University of Bordeaux, France] Riviere, Etienne [UCL] Taïani, François [University of Rennes 1 - IRISA, France]

The world's computing infrastructure is increasingly differentiating into self-contained distributed systems with various purposes and capabilities (e.g. IoT installations, clouds, VANETs, WSNs, CDNs, . . .). Furthermore, such systems are increasingly being composed to generate systems of systems that offer value-added functionality. Today, however, system of systems composition is typically ad-hoc and fragile. It requires developers to possess an intimate knowledge of system internals and low-level interactions between their components. In this paper, we outline a vision and set up a research agenda towards the generalised programmatic construction of distributed systems as compositions of other distributed systems. Our vision, in which we refer uniformly to systems and to compositions of systems as holons, employs code generation techniques and uses common abstractions, operations and mechanisms at all system levels to support uniform system of systems composition. We believe our holon approach could facilitate a step change in the convenience and correctness with which systems of systems can be built, and open unprecedented opportunities for the emergence of new and previously-unenvisaged distributed system deployments, analogous perhaps to the impact the mashup culture has had on the way we now build web applications.

Document type Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Présentation orale avec comité de sélection
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2015
Language Anglais
Conference "the 14th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware", Vancouver, BC, Canada (du 7/12/2015 au 11/12/2015)
Peer reviewed yes
Host document "Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware - ARM 2015" (ISBN : 9781450337335)
Publisher ACM Press
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ICTM/INGI - Pôle en ingénierie informatique
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Bibliographic reference Blair, Gordon ; Bromberg, Yérom-David ; Coulson, Geoff ; Elkhatib, Yehia ; Réveillère, Laurent ; et. al. Holons : towards a systematic approach to composing systems of systems.the 14th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (Vancouver, BC, Canada, du 7/12/2015 au 11/12/2015). In: Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware - ARM 2015, ACM Press2015
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/213817