Component Adaptation in Contemporary Execution Environments

Abstract

Abstract. Because they are required to support component deployment and composition, modern execution environments embody a number of common features such as dynamic linking and support for multiple component versions. These features help to overcome some classical maintenance problems focused largely on component evolution, where successive generations of collaborating components need to be kept collaborating. What has been less studied has been component adaptation, whereby a component developed in an environment consisting of one set of service components is required to operate in one or several other environments containing qualitatively different components. In this paper we examine the needs developers and deployers have arising out of component adaptation and explore the concept of Flexible Dynamic Linking as a means of satisfying them. We describe a suite of tools developed to demonstrate this approach to component adaptation support within the .NET Common Language Runtime.

Conceptual Game Expansion

“…Compositional adaptation arose as a CBR adaptation approach [7], [8], but has found significant applications in adaptive software [9], [10]. The intuition behind compositional adaptation is that individual component cases can be broken apart into pieces and reconnected based on their connections.…”

Creative Invention Benchmark

“…Compositional Adaption Compositional adaption arose as a CBR adaption approach (Holland 1989;Fox and Clarke 2009), but has found significant applications in adaptive software (McKinley et al 2004;Eisenbach, Sadler, and Wong 2007). The intuition behind compositional adaption is that individual concept components can be broken apart and recombined based on their connections.…”