Adaptive Technology and Its Applications

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Before the advent of software engineering, the lack of memory space in computers and the absence of established programming methodologies led early programmers to use self-modification as a regular coding strategy. Although unavoidable and valuable for that class of software, solutions using self-modification proved inadequate while programs grew in size and complexity, and security and reliability became major requirements. Software engineering, in the 70’s, almost led to the vanishing of self-modifying software, whose occurrence was afterwards limited to small low-level machinelanguage programs with very special requirements. Nevertheless, recent research developed in this area, and the modern needs for powerful and effective ways to represent and handle complex phenomena in hightechnology computers are leading self-modification to be considered again as an implementation choice in several situations. Artificial intelligence strongly contributed for this scenario by developing and ap

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