A generative programming approach to developing pervasive computing systems

Abstract

Developing pervasive computing applications is a difficult task because it requires to deal with a wide range of issues: heterogeneous devices, entity distribution, entity coordination, low-level hardware knowledge. . . Besides requiring various areas of expertise, programming such applications involves writing a lot of administrative code to glue technologies together and to interface with both hardware and software components.This paper proposes a generative programming approach to providing programming, execution and simulation support dedicated to the pervasive computing domain. This approach relies on a domain-specific language, named DiaSpec, dedicated to the description of pervasive computing systems. Our generative approach factors out features of distributed systems technologies, making DiaSpec-specified software systems portable.The DiaSpec compiler is implemented and has been used to generate dedicated programming frameworks for a variety of pervasive computing applications, including detailed ones to manage the building of an engineering school.

Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

“…This approach could still leverage the DiaSpec [24] platform while offering area-specific programming metaphors.…”

“…For example, a light follow-me application written in Pantagruel is displayed in Figure 8. Because Pantagruel leverages an entity discovery mechanism provided by its underlying platform [24], applications can manage appearing and disappearing entities. Such applications combine configuring and sensing components.…”

A Step-Wise Approach for Integrating QoS throughout Software Development

“…This presentation is done in the context of the DiaSuite development methodology [8]. We choose a control-loop system from the avionics domain: a simplified version of an aircraft guidance application, controlling the trajectory of an aircraft by correcting the configurations of ailerons.…”

“…Our approach has been integrated into DiaSuite, a tool-based development methodology dedicated to control-loop systems [8]. DiaSuite is based on a dedicated design language that we have enriched with timerelated performance properties.…”

Bridging communications and the physical world: Sense everything, control everything

“…Writing a specification in DiaSpec and then developing a service using the generated framework is definitely not suitable for nontechnical end users. The authors of DiaSpec extended [6] their initial work to support services beyond telephony, which include sensors and actuators. However, it is still only suitable for advanced developers.…”