An object-oriented software development framework for autonomous decentralized systems

Developing software for distributed computing systems is challenging, due to lack of good software development methodologies for distributed computing systems. It is very important to develop reliable, adaptable and expandable application software for distributed computing systems. Autonomous decentralized systems (ADS) is a distributed computing system with online expandability, online maintainability and fault tolerance capability. A framework for developing ADS application software is presented. Our framework consists of object oriented requirements analysis, system design, implementation, allocation, verification and maintenance. It is based on the object oriented computation model developed for ADS application software development which supports online expandability and online modifiability. CASE environments for ADS software development are also discussed