Holons: towards a systematic approach to composing systems of systems
Gordon Blair, Yérom-David Bromberg, Geoff Coulson, Yehia Elkhatib, Laurent Réveillère, Heverson Borba Ribeiro, Etienne Rivière & François Taïani
| Résumé |
The world’s computing infrastructure is increasingly differ-
entiating into self-contained distributed systems with vari- ous
purposes and capabilities (e.g. IoT installations, clouds, VANETs,
WSNs, CDNs, . . . ). Furthermore, such systems are increasingly
being composed to generate systems of sys- tems 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
deploy- ments, analogous perhaps to the impact the mashup culture
has had on the way we now build web applications. |
| Mots-clés |
System composition, Systems of systems, Distributed systems |
| Citation | G. Blair, et al., "Holons: towards a systematic approach to composing systems of systems," in ARM 2015: 14th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2015), Vancouver, Canada, 2015. |
| Type | Actes de congrès (Anglais) |
| Nom de la conférence | ARM 2015: 14th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 2015) (Vancouver, Canada) |
| Date de la conférence | 7-12-2015 |
| Editeur commercial | ACM |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2834965.2834970 |
| Liée au projet | DIONASYS: Declarative and Interoperable Overlay Networks,... |