Title
Opportunistic software composition: Benefits and requirements
Abstract
Traditional software development relies on building and assembling pieces of software in order to satisfy explicit requirements. Component-based software engineering simplifies composition and reuse, but software adaptation to the environment remains a challenge. Opportunistic composition is a new approach for building and re-building software in open and dynamic contexts. It is based on the ability to compose software components in a bottom-up manner, merely because they are available at a point and not because the construction of a specific software has been demanded. In this way, software emerges from the environment. This paper analyzes the advantages of such an approach in terms of flexibility and reuse, along with the requirements that an infrastructure supporting opportunistic composition should satisfy: it should be decentralized, autonomic, and dynamically adaptive. The state of the art of automatic software composition shows that few solutions are actually bottom-up, and that none of them fully satisfies the requirements of opportunistic composition.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
2015 10th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT)
Opportunism,Software Component,Automatic Bottom-up Composition,Ambient Systems
Field
DocType
Volume
Systems engineering,Software engineering,Package development process,Computer science,Real-time computing,Component-based software engineering,Software requirements specification,Software construction,Software development,Software sizing,Social software engineering,Software requirements
Conference
1
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-8531-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Charles Triboulot100.34
Sylvie Trouilhet244.53
Jean-Paul Arcangeli3448.43
Fabrice Robert420.71