DEECO: an ensemble-based component system

  • Authors:
  • Tomas Bures;Ilias Gerostathopoulos;Petr Hnetynka;Jaroslav Keznikl;Michal Kit;Frantisek Plasil

  • Affiliations:
  • Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics & Institute of Computer Science, Prague, Czech Rep;Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Rep;Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Rep;Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics & Institute of Computer Science, Prague, Czech Rep;Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Rep;Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Rep

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th International ACM Sigsoft symposium on Component-based software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The recent increase in the ubiquity and connectivity of computing devices allows forming large-scale distributed systems that respond to and influence activities in their environment. Engineering of such systems is very complex because of their inherent dynamicity, open-endedness, and autonomicity. In this paper we propose a new class of component systems (Ensemble-Based Component Systems - EBCS) which bind autonomic components with cyclic execution via dynamic component ensembles controlling data exchange. EBCS combine the key ideas of agents, ensemble-oriented systems, and control systems into software engineering concepts based on autonomic components. In particular, we present an instantiation of EBCS - the DEECo component model. In addition to DEECo main concepts, we also describe its computation model and mapping to Java. Lastly, we outline the basic principles of the EBCS/DEECo development process.