Internetware

Hong Mei, Gang Huang dan Tao Xie dari Peking University - Cina mengusulkan sebuah paradigma baru dalam pengembangan perangkat lunak berbasis web; yakni INTERNETWARE. Trio peneliti dari Peking University tersebut mengemukakan paradigma Internetware di Majalah Computer (June 2012 (Vol. 45, No. 6) pp. 26-310018-9162/12/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE; Published by the IEEE Computer Society)

Apa yang dimaksud dengan Internetware menurut Hong Mei, Gang Huang dan Tao Xie dari Peking University tersebut? Internetware adalah software paradigm (atau disebut juga programming paradigm) yang menyediakan sekumpulan teknologi dalam mengembangkan aplikasi untuk memenuhi persyaratan-persyaratan dalam lingkungan implementasi berupa internet.

Argumentasi mereka adalah ...

Software on the Internet differs from traditional software in terms of its form, structure, and behavior. Consequently, software applications (including software entities and their interactions) for Internet computing should be autonomous, cooperative, situational, evolvable, emergent, and trustworthy

Jadi, dari sudut pandang bentuk, struktur dan perilaku perangkat lunak di internet (misalnya web services) jika dibandingkan dengan aplikasi tunggal ataupun clien-server (LAN) memiliki perbedaan yang cukup tajam. 

Internetware harus memenuhi beberapa aspek terkait:

1) Software Model (what to be)

2) Software Operating Platform (how to run)

3) Engineering Approach (how to do)

4) Quality Assessment (how well)

Gambar diatas menunjukkan bagaimana para peneliti di China mengembangkan teknologi untuk mendukung internetware.

Yang diusulkan oleh rekan-rekan peneliti di China merupakan suatu terobosan dalam perkembangan keilmuan teknologi informasi. Tentu saja, perkembangan internet yang sedemikian pesat, membuat paradigma internetware mulai keliatan masuk akal. Kesediaan infrastruktur "keras" seperti konektivitas kabel maupun broadband, merupakan prasyarat mutlak dalam mengimplementasikan paradigma internetware.

Mungkin pada level universitas, seperti Universitas Sam Ratulangi, sudah dapat mengimplementasikan paradigma internetware dalam blue print pengembangan infrastruktur yang mendukung sistem penyelenggaraan universitas.

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Tulisan ini adalah adaptasi dari Majalah Computer Edisi Juni 2012, yang berjudul Internetware: A Software Paradigm for Internet Computing.

Tentang para penulis dapat dilihat dibawah ini:

Hong Mei is a professor in the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China. His research interests include software engineering, software reuse, distributed object technology and middleware, and programming languages. Mei received a PhD in computer science from Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is a senior member of IEEE. Contact him at meih@pku.edu.cn.

Gang Huang is a professor in the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University. His research interests include software engineering, particularly software architecture and middleware. Huang received a PhD in computer science from Peking University. He is a member of IEEE. Contact him at hg@pku.edu.cn.

Tao Xie is a visiting professor in the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, and an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. His research interests include software engineering, particularly software testing, program analysis, and software analytics. Xie received a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a member of IEEE and a senior member of ACM. Contact him at xie@csc.ncsu.edu.