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Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 9

Position Papers of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

Megamodel-based Management of Dynamic Tool Integration in Complex Software Systems

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2016F585

Citation: Position Papers of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 9, pages 211–218 ()

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Abstract. The development of complex software systems is more and more based on the composition and integration of autonomous component systems. This can be done either statically (proactive approach) at development-time or dynamically through a reactive approach in which a new composite system can possibly be created on-demand and/or at run-time from existing systems. With the aim of constructing and managing such complex and reactive software systems, we propose a megamodel-based environment supporting dynamic tool integration. Such an environment must therefore be consistent at any time (i.e. before, during and after an integration) and should also have to exhibit some self-* properties (such self management, self-healing and self-configuration). In order to meet these challenges we propose the use of Hoare's Axiomatic Semantics and some inference rules to maintain the integrity of the megamodel and its components. For that we have defined a formal-safe execution as well as an execution semantic for each operation likely to modify the megamodel contents.

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