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On environment-driven software model for Internetware

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Internetware is envisioned as a general software paradigm for the application style of resources integration and sharing in the open, dynamic and uncertain platforms such as the Internet. Continuing the agent-based Internetware model presented in a previous paper, in this paper, after an analysis of the behavioral patterns and the technical challenges of environment-driven applications, a software-structuring model is proposed for environment-driven Internetware applications. A series of explorations on the enabling techniques for the model, especially the modeling, management and utilization of context information are presented. Several prototypical systems have also been built to prove the concepts and evaluate the techniques. These research efforts make a further step toward the Internetware paradigm by providing an initial framework for the construction of context-aware and self-adaptive software application systems in the open network environment.

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Supported by the National 973 Program (Grant No. 2002CB312002), the National 863 Program (Grant Nos. 2007AA01Z178, 2007AA01Z140 and 2006AA01Z159), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-07-0419), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60403014, 60721002 and 60736015) and the Jiangsu Nature Science Foundation (Grant No. BK2006712)

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Lü, J., Ma, X., Tao, X. et al. On environment-driven software model for Internetware. Sci. China Ser. F-Inf. Sci. 51, 683–721 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-008-0057-6

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