The SALADIN project: summary report

  • Authors:
  • Paola Inverardi

  • Affiliations:
  • Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

It is apparent that, in the near future, software production will be more and more involved with applications running on heterogeneous networks, often with mobile components. Witness the increasing availability of reliable broadband communication networks, which span local, metropolitan and worldwide areas, and the high popularity of newly conceived applications on Internet, such as the World Wide Web. The development of applications for heterogeneous distributed networks that support mobile components (in short, programming mobile agents) demands innovative design and programming techniques. In this report we summarize the activities and results achieved in the SALADIN project, an Italian National project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. We consider our experience interesting for the Software Engineering community because it has been a successful experiment in putting together teams whose expertise was sensibly different and complementary. This has allowed us to exploit the cooperation of different complementary competencies that are needed to reach significant results in an area where methods and tools, which are specific of several area of computing come naturally together.