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A Software Architecture for Intelligent Synthesis EnvironmentsThe NASA's Intelligent Synthesis Environment (ISE) program is a grand attempt to develop a system to transform the way complex artifacts are engineered. This paper discusses a "middleware" architecture for enabling the development of ISE. Desirable elements of such an Intelligent Synthesis Architecture (ISA) include remote invocation; plug-and-play applications; scripting of applications; management of design artifacts, tools, and artifact and tool attributes; common system services; system management; and systematic enforcement of policies. This paper argues that the ISA extend conventional distributed object technology (DOT) such as CORBA and Product Data Managers with flexible repositories of product and tool annotations and "plug-and-play" mechanisms for inserting "ility" or orthogonal concerns into the system. I describe the Object Infrastructure Framework, an Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) environment for developing distributed systems that provides utility insertion and enables consistent annotation maintenance. This technology can be used to enforce policies such as maintaining the annotations of artifacts, particularly the provenance and access control rules of artifacts-, performing automatic datatype transformations between representations; supplying alternative servers of the same service; reporting on the status of jobs and the system; conveying privileges throughout an application; supporting long-lived transactions; maintaining version consistency; and providing software redundancy and mobility.
Document ID
20010073356
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Filman, Robert E.
(Research Inst. for Advanced Computer Science Moffett Field, CA United States)
Norvig, Peter
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 31, 2001
Publication Information
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISBN: 0-7803-6599-2
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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