Self-Designing Software

Barry Porter; Penn Faulkner Rainford; Roberto Rodrigues-Filho

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Self-Designing Software

Barry Porter

Penn Faulkner Rainford Roberto Rodrigues-Filho

Communications of the ACM Vol. 68 No. 1 pp. 50-59 · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Abstract

Exploring ways to include a software system as an active member of its own design team, able to reason about its own design and to synthesize better variants of its own building blocks as it encounters different deployment conditions.

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Published: Dec 20, 2024
Vol/Issue: 68(1)
Pages: 50-59
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Authors

B

Barry Porter

Lancaster University, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

P

Penn Faulkner Rainford

University of York, Department of Computer Science, York, Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

R

Roberto Rodrigues-Filho

Federal University of Santa Catarina, Department of Computing, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Cite This Article

Barry Porter, Penn Faulkner Rainford, Roberto Rodrigues-Filho (2024). Self-Designing Software. Communications of the ACM, 68(1), 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678165

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