Research on Measure Method for Reconfigurability

Some certain criteria will be required to evaluate the reconfiguration of a system or an individual as well as its reconfiguration value. In the paper a methodology on evaluating the reconfigurability has been proposed. It was intended for the paper to study quantitatively and qualitatively the feasibility of the system to reconfigurate. The reconfiguration distance has been put forward based on the information distance and its calculation model has been given. In the paper, reconfiguration distance was proposed to measure the reconfiguration value. This method can be used to determine the level of its reconfigurability, providing a basis for decision-makers. For the system's or individual's reconfiguration, the focus of this paper is the determination of indicators to measure the reconfiguration, i.e., costs of reconfiguration, and reconfiguration realizability used to describe the obstacles, costs needed to pay, and the degree to realize when reconfigurating the system or individual, which will further improve the reconfiguration theory. Only thus the truly meaningful reconfiguration can be achieved.