概要

Today's Internet is becoming an open, global, ubiquitous and smart computer for synergizing our society and planet with information technology. Such Internet Computer needs new software paradigms for explaining or showing how software systems running on it can be produced. Internetware is proposed as such a software paradigm for Internet as a computer. In this talk, we review what software paradigm is and the history of paradigm shift at first. Based on the observation and vision of modern software systems running on Internet, we identify some key characteristics, including collaborative, automous, evolvable, situational, emergent and trusted, which distinguish software of Internet Computer with traditional software. Taking these new or enhanced characteristics as technical requirements, we analyze the challenges to today's software paradigms and related technologies, recognize fundamentals of Internetware, design and prototype an architecture-centric solution for Internetware, including autonomous component, adaptive middleware and architecture-driven engineering methodology and supporting tools. The research on Internetware is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973).

略歴

Hong MEI is "Chang Jiang Scholars” professor at Peking University (PKU). He received a Bachelor degree and a Master degree in Computer Science from Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and a Doctorate degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1992. He is the dean of School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, director of Institute of Software, director of Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies of Ministry of Education (MOE). He is a member of the Expert Committee for Information Technology of State 863 High-Tech Program, a chief scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973), the director of Special Interest Group of Software Engineering of China Computer Federation, a member of the Editorial Board of Sciences in China (Series F), Journal of Computer Science and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, International Journal of Web Services Research, etc. He also served at various Program Committees of international conferences. His current research interests include: Software Engineering and Software Engineering Environment, Software Reuse and Software Component Technology, Distributed Object Technology, and Programming Language.