The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel organized a special event with the participation of Atzmon Hen-Tov, who talked about the “Adaptive Object Model”.

Title: Adaptive-Object-Model – Empower your users to evolve the system

Abstract: In this talk Atzmon Hen-Tov will introduce the Adaptive-Object-Model (AOM) architecture style.

Architectures that can dynamically adapt to changing requirement are sometimes called reflective or meta-architectures. We call a particular kind of reflective architecture an Adaptive Object-Model (AOM). An Adaptive Object-Model is a system that represents classes, attributes, relationships, and behavior as metadata.

Users change the metadata (object model) to reflect changes to the domain model. AOM stores its Object-Model in XML files or in a database and interprets it on the fly. Consequently, the object model is adaptive; when the descriptive information for the object model is changed, the system immediately reflects those changes.

“If something is going to vary in a predictable way, store the description of the variation in a database so that it is easy to change” — Ralph Johnson

Bio: Atzmon Hen-Tov is the VP R&D at Pontis, where he leads the development of the company’s Marketing Platform, iCLM™ on top of the ModelTalk AOM engine. Atzmon has led the development of the ModelTalk AOM Engine since its inception and is co-founder of the Ink AOM open-source framework. Atzmon is interested in Model driven software development and other methods for software development industrialization. Contact him at atzmon@ieee.org.

These are the original slides of Atzmon’s presentation:

Here is the video of the entire talk (in Hebrew):

And here is an animated version of the slides at Prezi.

This meeting was organized with the cooperation of ILTAM and sponsored by LivePerson. Special thanks to Dima Khalatov who helped with the organization.

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