CONNECT
Emergent Connectors for Eternal Software Intensive networked Systems
Contacts
Abstract
The CONNECT Integrated Project (2009-2012) aims at enabling continuous composition
of networked systems to respond to the evolution of functionalities
provided to and required from the networked environment. At present the
efficacy of integrating and composing networked systems depends on the
level of interoperability of the systems’ underlying technologies.
However, interoperable middleware cannot cover the ever growing
heterogeneity dimensions of the networked environment. CONNECT aims at
dropping the interoperability barrier by adopting a revolutionary
approach to the seamless networking of digital systems, that is,
synthesizing on the fly the connectors via which networked systems
communicate. The resulting emergent connectors are effectively
synthesized according to the behavioral semantics of application- down
to middleware-layer protocols run by the interacting parties. The
synthesis process is based on a formal foundation for connectors, which
allows learning, reasoning about and adapting the interaction behavior
of networked systems at run-time.Synthesized connectors are concrete
emergent system entities that are dependable, unobtrusive, and
evolvable, while not compromising the quality of software
applications.To reach these objectives the CONNECT PROJECT undertakes
interdisciplinary research in the areas of behavior learning, formal
methods, semantic services, software engineering, dependability, and
middleware.
Duration
46 Months
Financial Institution
Unione Europea