On the Requirements of New Software DevelopmentVincenzo De Florio & Chris Blondia
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Vol. 3, No. 3, Inderscience, 2008.
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@Article{DeFl08,
author = {Vincenzo De Florio, Chris Blondia},
title = {On the Requirements of New Software Development},
journal = {International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining},
year = {2008},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
publisher={Inderscience},
url = {http://euterpe.cmi.ua.ac.be/~vincenz/adidrds.pdf},
abstract={Changes, they use to say, are the only constant in life. Everything changes rapidly around us, and more and
more key to survival is the ability to rapidly adapt to changes. This consideration applies to many aspects of
our lives. Strangely enough, this nearly self-evident truth is not always considered by software engineers with the
seriousness that it calls for: The assumptions we draw for our systems often do not take into due account that e.g.,
the run-time environments, the operational conditions, or the available resources will vary. Software is especially
vulnerable to this threat, and with today’s software-dominated systems controlling crucial services in nuclear plants,
airborne equipments, health care systems and so forth, it becomes clear how this situation may potentially lead to
catastrophes. This paper discusses this problem and defines some of the requirements towards its effective solution,
which we call “New Software Development” as a software equivalent of the well-known concept of New Product
Development. The paper also introduces and discusses a practical example of a software tool designed taking those
requirements into account—an adaptive data integrity provision in which the degree of redundancy is not fixed once
and for all at design time, but rather it changes dynamically with respect to the disturbances experienced during
the run time.}
}
Abstract:
Changes, they use to say, are the only constant in life. Everything changes rapidly around us, and more and key to survival is the ability to rapidly adapt to changes. This consideration applies to many aspects of lives. Strangely enough, this nearly self-evident truth is not always considered by software engineers with the that it calls for: The assumptions we draw for our systems often do not take into due account that e.g., run-time environments, the operational conditions, or the available resources will vary. Software is especially to this threat, and with today’s software-dominated systems controlling crucial services in nuclear plants, equipments, health care systems and so forth, it becomes clear how this situation may potentially lead to This paper discusses this problem and defines some of the requirements towards its effective solution, we call “New Software Development” as a software equivalent of the well-known concept of New Product The paper also introduces and discusses a practical example of a software tool designed taking those into account—an adaptive data integrity provision in which the degree of redundancy is not fixed once for all at design time, but rather it changes dynamically with respect to the disturbances experienced during run time.
