Miniature High Efficiency Piezoelectric Motor

Not Available Large-scale software systems are often highly complex, rigid structures, which makes them difficult to adapt to dynamically changing requirements. The overwhelming complexity and high rigidity of present systems stems from their underlying architectures (or lack thereof), which are ill equipped to accommodate changes in scale. A new software architecture based on inherent scalability and dynamic adaptation will eliminate the root causes of these problems by allowing for dynamic assembly and evolution of systems over time. Fractal scalable systems will have constant perceived complexity (from the viewpoint of users and developers) while providing support for increased complexity and growth. Dynamic adaptation provides numerous benefits to software systems and leads to a new development paradigm where applications are fluidly assembled, modified and enhances at runtime. This paradigm is based on interoperable components that can be manipulated visually (or using other intuitive assembly metaphors) within running applications. The paradigm also provides implicit support for workflow-based processing at the application level; components can be shared among widely distributed systems, and applications are seamlessly transported between end users and create on the fly. We believe a fractal scaleable, dynamically adaptable software architecture can be developed, and propose investigating its initial design and feasibility during Phase I.