Rapidly Evolving Distributed Systems by Bridging the Deployment Gap

Abstract : The University of Colorado EDCS project has addressed problems in managing the configuration of evolved systems and deploying those systems back out into the field. The essential premise of this project was that configuration and deployment of distributed systems of systems is a critical piece of the cycle of evolutionary development of complex software systems. The University of Colorado EDCS project has been successful in achieving its objective; producing innovative, useful and interesting research results in the areas of software configuration and deployment. These research results were embodied in five prototype systems targeting five configuration and deployment problems; NUCM (distributed CM), SRM (software release), DVS (distributed development), Software Dock (distributed wide-area deployment), and Siena (internet-scale event notification). The results from this project have been widely disseminated in the form of publications, software distributions to over 600 sites, technical transfers to commercial practice, and through the graduation of quality Ph.D. and M.S. students.

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