Evolutionary modelling of software systems

摘要

Evolution of software systems can be conceived from the Theory of Systems as a maturation process in which the developer have an active participation. This paper presents a two levels architecture: system and Meta-system. The developer interacts with the high level, Meta-system, for evolving the structure of the software system defined in the first level in which the user works. This architecture can be used to model the structure, functioning and evolution of any kind of software systems. In concrete, as the paper describes, it is applied to agents-based systems and hypermedia systems in a satisfactory way.