Research Subject:
Software Engineering, Internetware, Context-Awareness, Self-Adaptation, Trust
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Jian LV
lj@nju.edu.cn
Research Content & Progress:
The goal of this project is to develop a new software methodology featuring the new Internetware paradigm for open computing environments such as the Internet and Cyber-Physical Systems. We also investigate supporting techniques for the methodology and explore their application in industrial practices, with cooperation from HKUST, Datacent Corp., and Donntech. We have proposed an agent-based and environment-driven software model for the Internetware paradigm, and have made progresses in enabling techniques including self-adaption of software systems, context consistency management, service discovery and substitution, mobile agent-based runtime support for Internetware, and comprehensive trust assurance for software systems, etc. Based on these models and techniques, we have developed an integrated software platform for the development, deployment and adaptation of Internetware-oriented software systems. Case studies on the application of the above methodology, techniques and platform in practice have been carried out with collaborations of our industry partners. The results show that these research outcomes can help them in boosting technology innovations and achieving social and economic benefits.
