DRAFT : Task System and Item Architecture (TSIA)

TL;DR

The paper introduces TSIA, a flexible architecture for task and item management that supports diverse application execution features like parallelism, distribution, and adaptivity, enabling structured and dynamic application definitions.

Contribution

It proposes a comprehensive task system and item architecture that unifies various execution features and supports complex application structures.

Findings

Supports arrays, routines, and structures of items.

Enables parallel, distributed, and real-time execution.

Facilitates structured and adaptive application definitions.

Abstract

During its execution, a task is independent of all other tasks. For an application which executes in terms of tasks, the application definition can be free of the details of the execution. Many projects have demonstrated that a task system (TS) can provide such an application with a parallel, distributed, heterogeneous, adaptive, dynamic, real-time, interactive, reliable, secure or other execution. A task consists of items and thus the application is defined in terms of items. An item architecture (IA) can support arrays, routines and other structures of items, thus allowing for a structured application definition. Taking properties from many projects, the support can extend through to currying, application defined types, conditional items, streams and other definition elements. A task system and item architecture (TSIA) thus promises unprecedented levels of support for application execution and definition.