TY - GEN
T1 - Software versioning and evolution in digital ecosystems
AU - Badr, Youakim
AU - Caplat, Guy
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - A digital ecosystem consists of distributed adaptive socio-technical systems. It mainly relies on software and exhibits properties of self-organization, scalability, flexibility and sustainability, inspired by natural ecosystems. Digital ecosystems are complex systems and continuously follow an incremental evolutionary process. In this paper, we study successive versions of digital ecosystems by examining evolutions and variations of software components with respect to different points of view, namely "Being," "Doing" and "Becoming." A new version helps to define a threshold which makes a transition from a current state to a new state. In order to reason on software versions, we distinguish between endogenous and exogenous evolutions and classify software into four categories: primitive, adaptive, evolutionary and self-aware. The digital ecosystem version results in diverse changes due to variations in software components.
AB - A digital ecosystem consists of distributed adaptive socio-technical systems. It mainly relies on software and exhibits properties of self-organization, scalability, flexibility and sustainability, inspired by natural ecosystems. Digital ecosystems are complex systems and continuously follow an incremental evolutionary process. In this paper, we study successive versions of digital ecosystems by examining evolutions and variations of software components with respect to different points of view, namely "Being," "Doing" and "Becoming." A new version helps to define a threshold which makes a transition from a current state to a new state. In order to reason on software versions, we distinguish between endogenous and exogenous evolutions and classify software into four categories: primitive, adaptive, evolutionary and self-aware. The digital ecosystem version results in diverse changes due to variations in software components.
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U2 - 10.1109/DEST.2010.5610616
DO - 10.1109/DEST.2010.5610616
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650300208
SN - 9781424455539
T3 - 4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies - Conference Proceedings of IEEE-DEST 2010, DEST 2010
SP - 381
EP - 386
BT - 4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies - Conference Proceedings of IEEE-DEST 2010, DEST 2010
PB - IEEE Computer Society
ER -