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Architectural challenges of ultra large scale systems

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Mehdi Mirakhorli,

Amir Azim Sharifloo,

Fereidoon ShamsAuthors Info & Claims

ULSSIS '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Ultra-large-scale software-intensive systems

Pages 45 - 48

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370700.1370713

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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Sheer scale of ULS systems will change everything and make it impossible to rely on our current knowledge and techniques of software development. At first, we need to fully understand the nature and derived challenges from characteristics of these systems, then we should introduce new ideas for how to develop them. As architecture is the key artifact in development of ultra large scale systems, this topic is at the top of the agenda in this research area. In this position paper we try to investigate architectural issues unique to a ULS system, discuss and debat the architectural challenges posed by these systems.

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Architectural challenges of ultra large scale systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures

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ULSSIS '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Ultra-large-scale software-intensive systems

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ISBN:9781605580265

DOI:10.1145/1370700

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University of Virginia, USA
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