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Specification-Carrying Code for Self-Managed Systems

Overview This paper proposes the notion of Specification-Carrying Code as an interaction mechanism for self-assembly of autonomous decentralised software components. Each autonomous software entity incorporates more information than its operational behaviour, and publishes more data than its signature. The idea is to provide separately, for each entity, a functional part implementing its behaviour - the traditional program code; and an abstract description of the entity's functional behaviour and necessary parameters - a semantic behavioural description under the form of a formal specification. This paper presents the principles of the Specification-Carrying Code paradigm, the associated Service-Oriented Architecture, and it explains how self-managed systems can benefit from this paradigm.

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Publisher	University of Geneva	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Programming Languages, Service-Oriented Architecture

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