Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future

By Linda M. Northrop, P. Feiler, R. Gabriel, John B. Goodenough, R. Linger, T. Longstaff, R. Kazman, M. Klein, D. Schmidt, K. Sullivan and 1 more. 2006

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Research Directions in Requirements Engineering (2007, background): “An example class of systems that exhibit many of these new scale factors are the ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems [126] proposed for next-generation military command and control systems.”
Engineering Self-Adaptive Systems through Feedback Loops (2009, background): “, the Web is basically decentralized as a global system, but local sub-webs are highly centralized or server farms are both centralized and decentralized) [5].”
Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap (2009, background): “The simultaneous explosion of information, the integration of technology, and the continuous evolution from software-intensive systems to ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems require new and innovative approaches for building, running, and managing software systems [1].”
Hierarchical control of multiple resources in distributed real-time and embedded systems (2006, background): “These characteristics are beginning to emerge in today’s large-scale systems of systems (CORPORATE Computer Science and Telecommunications Board 1992), and they will dominate in the next-generation of ultra-large-scale DRE systems (Institute 2006).”
Self-adaptive software: Landscape and research challenges (2009, background): “The emergence of Ultra-Large Scale (ULS) systems adds to the significance of interoperability, and at the same time, creates new challenges in this regard [Northrop 2006].”
Industrial Cyberphysical Systems: A Backbone of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2017, background): “This is attested by several ICPS efforts carried out worldwide, tackling design and operation of ultralargescale systems [83], as well as assessment of their impacts.”