Title: Amorphous transdisciplinary service systems

Authors: Michael Sobolewski

Addresses: Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, USA; Polish Japanese Academy of IT, 02-008 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract: Amorphous transdisciplinary system is the application of backend object-oriented service providers - local/remote objects - having independent limited computational functionalities - provider services - that dynamically actualise frontend service-oriented microservices and macroservices. A microservice binds to a single provider and executes a single provider service. A macroservice by contrast is a compound service request comprising of microservices and other macroservices with service fidelities and metafidelities. Macroservices express dynamic collaborations of large number of provider services (applications, tools, and utilities) with emergent multifidelity management. This type of agile service aggregation is often referred to as a system of systems. A metafidelity - fidelity of fidelities - is used by a fidelity management system to morph a macroservice for evolving collaboration of provider services at runtime. The presented amorphous transdisciplinary approach provides service-oriented modelling or programming, or both (mogramming) with a corresponding service-oriented operating system. The operating system runs amorphous frontend macroservices and dynamically manages its service processor - corresponding collaborations of backend service providers.

Keywords: service orientation; microservices; macroservices; provider services; multifidelities; metafidelities; system of systems; mogramming; SORCER.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2017.086152

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management, 2017 Vol.10 No.2, pp.93 - 115

Received: 17 Dec 2016
Accepted: 31 Jan 2017
Published online: 27 Aug 2017 *

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