Towards Dynamic Process with Variable Structure by Reflection

  • Authors:
  • Shaohua Liu;Jun Wei;Wei Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • COMPSAC '03 Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Computer Software and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Advancing information technologies are increasing theevolution and variation of software resources. Applicationsthat cannot adapt to dynamic environments willdecrease their usefulness, particularly to business processsystems that face requirements changed frequently. Aftersurveying related work, we propose a new formalism formodeling Dynamic Process in which the state space andtransition function are enriched so that one model cantransit to another model at runtime by the computationalreflection that aims to represent and modify its own design.Such goal necessitates an appropriate runtime environment.We introduce the Service Cooperation Middleware(SCM) because it is service-oriented, into which thereflection mechanism is easily attached to support structuraland behavioural changes on processes at runtime.