Sponsor: Fujitsu Network Communication, Inc.
Since the dynamically changing social environment and continuous advances of computer technologies, there is a trend that future communication systems will be based on the concept of autonomous distributed systems. In an autonomous distributed communication system, it may be composed of hundreds or thousands of autonomous agents each of which possesses part of the overall knowledge of an organization. Each agent(developer,vendor,etc) in the system may locate in different places and independently build its new system or add new features/service to the system. Realization of this future autonomous distributed communication system will increasingly depend on the ability to precisely specify features and to nderstand the interaction among features. because of the huge number of features available in the present commnication systems, and becauuse of the reliability and real-time requirements, the feature interaction problem is becoming a major obstacle to introducing new features rapidly and correctly. When multiple vendors or developer independently introduce new features/services into a communication system or even develop their own system that must eventually work together, the issues surrounding how to understand,classify,and specify features/services in an autonomous distributed communication system,and techniques to study and detect the interaction among features become necessary. In this project, we study the following problem: (1) Feature interaction in autonomous distributed communication systems; (2)Requirement specification and analysis from a viewpoint of communication between between customers and designers; (3) High performance evaluation of requirements specification language.
