Using role-based coordination to achieve software adaptability

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-245

  Colman, Alan ^a   Han, Jun ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive software; Contracts; Roles; Software organisations

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CONTRACTS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ABSTRACT MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS; COORDINATION SYSTEMS; LOOSELY COUPLED SYSTEMS; SELF MANAGED COMPOSITES; SOFTWARE ADAPTABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33751248739     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Andrade L., Fiadeiro J.L., Gouveia J., and Koutsoukos G. Separating computation, coordination and configuration. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice 14 5 (2002) 353-369
2. Andrade L., Fiadeiro J.L., Gouveia J., Koutsoukos G., Lopes A., and Wermelinger M. Patterns for coordination. Coordination'00. LNCS vol. 1906 (2000)
3. Arbab F. What do you mean, coordination?. Bulletin of the Dutch Association for Theoretical Computer Science (NVTI) March (1998)
4. Ashby W.R. An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), Chapman & Hall, London
5. M. Baldoni, G. Boella, L. van der Torre, Bridging agent theory and object orientation: Importing social roles in object oriented languages, in: Proceedings of PROMAS Workshop at AAMAS'05, 2005
6. A. Barros, M. Dumas, A. ter Hofstede, Service interaction patterns: towards a reference framework for service-based business process interconnection, Technical Report FIT-TR-2005-02, Faculty of Information Technology, QUT, Australia, 2005
7. A. Bracciali, A. Brogi, C. Canal, Dynamically adapting the behaviour of software components, in: Proceedings 5th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, Coordination'02, in: LNCS, vol. 2315, York, UK, 2002, pp. 88-95
8. Bäumer D., Riehle D., Siberski W., and Wulf M. Pattern Languages of Program Design 4 (2000), Addison-Wesley pp. 15-32
9. P. Collet, R. Rousseau, T. Coupaye, N. Rivierre, A contracting system for hierarchical components, in: SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE'05, St-Louis, MO, USA, in: LNCS, vol. 3489, 2005, pp. 187-202
10. A. Colman, J. Han, Operational management contracts for adaptive software organisation, in: Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC 2005, Brisbane, Australia, 2005, pp. 170-179
11. A. Colman, J. Han, An organisational approach to building adaptive service-oriented systems, in: Proc. of 1st International Workshop on Engineering Service Compositions, WESC'05, IBM Research Report RC23821, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
12. A. Colman, J. Han, Organizational abstractions for adaptive systems, in: Proc. of the 38th Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences, Hawaii, USA, 2005
13. A. Colman, J. Han, Organizational roles and players, in: AAAI Fall Symposium, Roles, an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Arlington, VA, 2005, pp. 55-62
14. A. Colman, J. Han, Using associations aspects to implement organisational contracts, in: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Coordination and Organisation, CoOrg 2005, Namur, Belgium, 2005
15. Eclipse Foundation. AspectJ (2004). http://eclipse.org/aspectj/ (accessed 07.10.04)
16. Emmerich W. Engineering Distributed Objects (2000), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester
17. The Foundation for Physical Intelligent Agents. FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification (2002). http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00037/
18. Garlan D., Cheng S.-W., Huang A.-C., Schmerl B., and Steenkiste P. Rainbow: Architecture-based self-adaptation with reusable infrastructure. Computer 37 10 (2004) 46-54
19. J. Han, K.K. Ker, Ensuring compatible interactions within component-based software systems, in: 10th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2003, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2003, pp. 436-445
20. S. Herrmann, Object teams: Improving modularity for crosscutting collaborations, in: Net. Object Days 2002, Erfurt, Germany, 2002
21. E. Horvitz, Principles of mixed-initiative user interfaces, in: Proc. of ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 99, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1999
22. Juan T., Pearce A., and Sterling L. ROADMAP: Extending the Gaia methodology for complex open systems. Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2002), ACM, Bologna, Italy 3-10
23. Kendall E.A. Role model designs and implementations with aspect-oriented programming. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Systems, Languages, and Applications (1999), Denver, CO 353-369
24. G. Kiczales, J. Irwin, J. Lamping, J.-M. Loingtier, C.V. Lopes, C. Maeda, A. Mendhekar, Aspect-oriented programming, in: 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming: ECOOP'97, Jyväskylä, Finland, 9-13 June 1997
25. Kristensen B.B., and Osterbye K. Roles: Conceptual abstraction theory & practical language issues. Subjectivity in Object-Oriented Systems. Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS) (1996) (special issue)
26. Lee J.S., and Bae D.H. An enhanced role model for alleviating the role-binding anomaly. Software: Practice and Experience 32 (2002) 1317-1344
27. D.P. Linh, A. Colman, J. Han, The implementation of message synchronisation, queuing and allocation in the ROAD framework, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Technical Report SUT.CeCSES-TR009, 2005
28. Meyer B. Object-Oriented Software Construction (1988), Prentice-Hall, New York
29. J. Odell, M. Nodine, R. Levy, A Metamodel for agents, roles, and groups, in: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) V, 2005
30. Odell J., Parunak H.V.D., Brueckner S., and Sauter J. Changing roles: Dynamic role assignment. Journal of Object Technology, ETH Zurich 2 5 (2003) 77-86
31. Plasil F., and Visnovsky S. Behavior protocols for software components. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 28 11 (2002) 1056-1076
32. Riehle D. Bureaucracy. In: Martin R., et al. (Ed). Pattern Languages of Program Design 3 (1998), Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 163-186
33. K. Sakurai, H. Masuharat, N. Ubayashi, S. Matsuura, S. Komiya, Association aspects, in: Proc. of the AOSD'04, Lancaster, UK, 2004, pp. 16-25
34. K. Sullivan, L. Gu, Y. Cai, Non-modularity in aspect-oriented languages: Integration as a crosscutting concern for AspectJ, in: Proc. of the 1st International Conference on AOSD 02, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2002, pp. 19-26
35. W3C. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Primer, W3C Working Draft, 10 May 2005 (2005). http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-primer/
36. M. Wermelinger, J.L. Fiadeiro, L. Andrade, G. Koutsoukos, J. Gouveia, Separation of core concerns: Computation, coordination, and configuration, in: Proceedings of OOPSLA 2001 Workshop on Advanced Separation of Concerns in Object-Oriented Systems, Tampa Bay, FL, 2001
37. Yellin D.M., and Strom R.E. Protocol specifications and component adaptors. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 19 2 (1997) 292-333
38. F. Zambonelli, N.R. Jennings, M.J. Wooldridge, Organisational abstractions for the analysis and design of multi-agent systems, in: Workshop on Agent-oriented Software Engineering, ICSE 2000, 2000
39. Zambonelli F., Jennings N.R., and Wooldridge M. Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 12 3 (2003) 317-370