Traditional software development is based on the closed-world assumption that the boundary between system and environment is known and unchanging. However, this assumption no longer works within today's unpredictable open-world settings, which demands techniques that let software react to changes by self-organizing its structure and self-adapting its behavior.
Index Terms:
software engineering, open-world software, polymorphism, middleware systems, web services, grid computing, autonomic computing
Citation:
Luciano Baresi, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Carlo Ghezzi, "Toward Open-World Software: Issue and Challenges," Computer, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 36-43, Oct. 2006, doi:10.1109/MC.2006.362