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The chief problems that software engineering will face over at least the next two decades are increasing application complexity, and the need for autonomy and serious application robustness. In other words, how do we actually get to declare success when trying to build applications one or two orders of magnitude more complex than today’s applications? And, having declared success when building, how do we keep them from absorbing all our productivity to keep them patched together and running with more than just a vague semblance of doing what we want?
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simple growth in problem size, as a result of success at previous problem sizes and increased hardware capacity;
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the fact that many applications are now more closely tethered to the real world, actively utilizing sensors and actuators, or being required to respond in real-time;
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the enmeshed nature of today’s applications - such as enterprise requirements to link all the elements of business process where it is useful to do so.
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Laddaga, R. (2000). Active Software. In: Robertson, P., Shrobe, H., Laddaga, R. (eds) Self-Adaptive Software. IWSAS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44584-6_2
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