Next generation system and software architectures: Challenges from future NASA exploration missions
✍ Scribed by Roy Sterritt; Christopher A. Rouff; Michael G. Hinchey; James L. Rash; Walt Truszkowski
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 617 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6423
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✦ Synopsis
The four key objective properties of a system that are required of it in order for it to qualify as "autonomic" are now wellaccepted-self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, and self-optimizing-together with the attribute properties-viz. selfaware, environment-aware, self-monitoring and self-adjusting. This paper describes the need for next generation system software architectures, where components are agents, rather than objects masquerading as agents, and where support is provided for self-* properties (both existing self-chop and emerging self-* properties). These are discussed as exhibited in NASA missions, and in particular with reference to a NASA concept mission, ANTS, which is illustrative of future NASA exploration missions based on the technology of intelligent swarms.