Prepared for: U.S. Army Research Office
P.O. Box 12211
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2211The objective of our effort is to develop a scientific basis for producing reliable
software that is also flexible and cost effective for the DoD distributed software domain.
This objective addresses the long term goals of increasing the quality of service provided
by complex systems while reducing development risks, costs, and time. Our work focuses on
"wrap and glue" technology based on a domain specific distributed prototype model. The key
to making the proposed approach reliable, flexible, and cost-effective is the automatic
generation of glue and wrappers based on a designer's specification. The "wrap and glue"
approach allows system designers to concentrate on the difficult interoperability problems
and defines solutions in terms of deeper and more difficult interoperability issues, while
freeing designers from implementation details. Specific research areas for the proposed
effort include technology enabling rapid prototyping, inference for design checking,
automatic program generation, distributed real-time scheduling, wrapper and glue
technology, and reliability assessment and improvement. The proposed technology will be
integrated with past research results to enable a quantum leap forward in the state of the
art for rapid prototyping.U. S. Army Research Office P.O. Box 12211 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-22110473-MA-SPApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited
