Adaptive Object-Models: a Research Roadmap

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Hugo Sereno Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Filipe Figueiredo Correia (Author) FEUP; Ademar Aguiar (Author) FEUP; João Pascoal Faria (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: International Journal on Advances in Software

Vol. 3 No. 1-2

Pages: 70-89

ISSN: 1942-2628

Publisher: International Academy, Research and Industry Association

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Abstract (EN): The Adaptive Object-Model (AOM) is a metaarchitectural pattern of systems that expose an high-degree of runtime adaptability of their domain. Despite there being a class of software projects that would directly benefit by being built as AOMs, their usage is still very scarce. To address this topic, a wide scope of concepts surrounding to Adaptive Object-Models need to be understood, such as the role of incompleteness in software, and its effects on system variability and adaptability, as well as existing metamodeling and metaprogramming techniques and how do they relate to software construction. The inherent complexity, reduced literature and case-studies, lack of reusable framework components, and fundamental issues as those regarding evolution, frequently drive developers (and researchers) away from this topic. In this work, we provide an extensive review of the state-of-the-art in AOM, as well as a roadmap for empirical validation of research in this area, which underlying principles have the potential to alter the way software systems are perceived and designed.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific