Self-Sustaining Systems - First Workshop, S3 2008 Potsdam, Germany, May 15-16, 2008, Proceedings

The Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) is a forum for the discussion of topics relating to computer systems and languages that are able to bootstrap, implement, modify, and maintain themselves. One property of these systems is that their implementation is based onsmall but powerfulabstractions;examples include (amongst others) Squeak/Smalltalk, COLA, Klein/Self, PyPy/Python, Rubinius/Ruby,andLisp.Suchsystemsaretheenginesoftheirownreplacement, giving researchers and developers great power to experiment with, and explore future directions from within, their own small language kernels. S3 took place on May 15-16, 2008 at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany. It was an exciting opportunity for researchers and prac- tioners interested in self-sustaining systems to meet and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development. S3 provided an - portunity for a community to gather and discuss the need for self-sustainability in software systems, and to share and explore thoughts on why such systems are needed and how they can be created and deployed. Analogies were made, for example, with evolutionary cycles, and with urban design and the subsequent inevitable socially-driven change. TheS3participantsleftwithagreatersenseofcommunityandanenthusiasm for probing more deeply into this subject. We see the need for self-sustaining systems becoming critical not only to the developer's community, but to e- users in business, academia, learning and play, and so we hope that this S3 workshop will become the ?rst of many.

List of contents

Invited Talks.- Open, Extensible Object Models.- The Lively Kernel A Self-supporting System on a Web Page.- On Sustaining Self.- Research Papers.- Huemul - A Smalltalk Implementation.- SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp.- Reflection for the Masses.- Back to the Future in One Week - Implementing a Smalltalk VM in PyPy.- Are Bytecodes an Atavism?.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert Hirschfeld (Editor), Kim Rose (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2008
• EAN: 9783540892748
• ISBN: 978-3-540-89274-8
• No. of pages: 157
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 9 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Illustrations: VII, 157 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Programming and Software Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; C, Computerprogrammierung und Softwareentwicklung, Betriebssysteme, Theoretische Informatik, Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme, computer science, Programming Techniques, Computer programming, Architecture, Computer, Computer System Implementation, Operating systems, Computers, Computer programming / software engineering, Expert systems / knowledge-based systems, Operating systems (Computers), Special purpose computers, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Models and Principles, Models of Computation