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LEAD An Ob ject Oriented Language for Dynamically Adaptable Software Mo del Noriki Amano and Takuo Watanab e  Graduate Scho ol of Information Science Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Asahidai Tatsunokuchi Ishikawa JAPAN Phone Fax EMAIL fnamano takuo gjaistacjp A bstract Software has dynamic adaptability if it can adapt to develop such sp ecic applications individually Thus itself to dynamically changing runtime environments As the software must have the ability which can adapt it op enended distributed systems and mobile computing self to the states in runtime We call the ability dy systems have spread widely the need for software with dynamic adaptability increases We prop ose a mo del of namic adaptability Dynamically adaptable software can the software with dynamic adaptability We are cur change its own functionalities exibly to make full use of rently designing and implementing a programming lan the runtime environments prop erties such as the com guage based on the mo del The basic idea is that we in tro duce the mechanism which changes pr ocedure invocations puting p ower hardware software resources etc dynamically dep ending on the states of runtime environ Since we cannot obtain accurate information of run ments Our language LEAD provides the mechanism time environments and their states b eforehand there is as a language functionality Although our software mo del is simple it can realize highly dynamic adaptability in limitation on dynamic adaptabil