The complexity of development and deployment in today’s IT world is enormous. Despite the existence of so many pre-fabricated components, frameworks, cloud providers, etc., building IT systems still remains a major challenge and most likely overtaxes even a single ambitious developer. This results in spreading such development and deployment tasks over different team members with their own specialization. Nevertheless, not even highly competent IT personnel can easily succeed in developing and deploying a nontrivial application that comprises a multitude of different components running on different platforms (from frontend to backend). Current industry trends such as DevOps strive to keep development and deployment tasks tightly integrated. This, however, only partially addresses the underlying complexity of either of these two tasks. But would it not be desirable to simplify these tasks in the first place, enabling one person – maybe even a non-expert – to deal with all of them? Today’s approaches to the development and deployment of complex IT applications are not up to this challenge. “On-The-Fly Computing” offers an approach to tackle this challenge by providing complex IT services through largely automated configuration and execution. The configuration of such services is based on simple, flexibly combinable services that are provided by different software providers and traded in a market. This constitutes a highly relevant challenge for research in many branches of computer science, information systems, business administration, and economics. In this research note, it is analyzed which pieces of this new “On-The-Fly Computing” ecosystem already exist and where additional, often significant research efforts are necessary.

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新 IT 生态系统的案例：动态计算

当今 IT 世界中开发和部署的复杂性是巨大的。尽管存在如此多的预制组件、框架、云提供商等，但构建 IT 系统仍然是一项重大挑战，即使是一个雄心勃勃的开发人员也很可能负担过重。这导致将此类开发和部署任务分散到具有自己专业知识的不同团队成员身上。然而，即使是非常称职的 IT 人员也无法轻松成功地开发和部署由运行在不同平台（从前端到后端）上的众多不同组件的重要应用程序。DevOps 等当前的行业趋势努力保持开发和部署任务的紧密集成。然而，这仅部分解决了这两项任务中任何一项的潜在复杂性。但首先简化这些任务，让一个人——甚至可能是非专家——来处理所有这些任务难道不是可取的吗？当今开发和部署复杂 IT 应用程序的方法无法应对这一挑战。“即时计算”提供了一种通过高度自动化的配置和执行提供复杂 IT 服务来应对这一挑战的方法。此类服务的配置基于由不同软件提供商提供并在市场上交易的简单、灵活组合的服务。这对计算机科学、信息系统、工商管理和经济学的许多分支的研究构成了高度相关的挑战。在这份研究报告中，分析了这个新的“即时计算”生态系统的哪些部分已经存在，以及哪些部分已经存在，