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Volume 3 Supplement 1

Special Issue on the Future of Middleware (FOME'11)

Developing highly complex distributed systems: a software engineering perspective

Journal of Internet Services and Applications volume 3, pages 15–22 (2012)Cite this article

Abstract

What is a highly complex distributed system in the future era? What are the needs that may drive the development of such systems? And what is their life cycle? Is there any new challenge for Software Engineering (SE)? In this paper, we try to provide a partial answer to the above questions by characterizing few application domains that we consider of raising interest in the next years. Our thesis is that there is a need to rethink the whole software process for such systems. The traditional boundaries between static and dynamic activities disappear and development support mingles with run time support thus invading the middleware territory.

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    Marco Autili, Paola Inverardi, Patrizio Pelliccione & Massimo Tivoli

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Autili, M., Inverardi, P., Pelliccione, P. et al. Developing highly complex distributed systems: a software engineering perspective. J Internet Serv Appl 3, 15–22 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13174-011-0048-5

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Keywords

  • Future Internet
  • Service-oriented computing
  • Service-oriented middleware
  • Cloud computing
  • Middleware-based software process