A Trading Service for COTS Components

Future Generation Computer Systems

et al. 2019

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The Internet of Things mechanisms enable the management of home environments since they can be developed as IoT based information systems. From standard smart homes to automated buildings, including other kind of domotics and inmotics solutions, every system must be tested and validated before its installation. The current tools offered by IoT and home automation vendors lack in emulation features close to the real behavior of the devices. In many cases, delaying the verification actions until the hardware is acquired and installed may cause some drawbacks, for example, from the economic point of view. This paper presents a solution for emulating home automation environments which are based on the KNX standard and can be represented by architectures of devices. The emulation consist of developing virtual implementations of real devices which operate and communicate through web technology. The technology implementing these virtual devices allows us to develop components which can provide different type of data related to the installation (audio, video, text, animations, images, etc.). The architectures can be managed using web services and their behavior can be tested through web user interfaces showing the mentioned data. Furthermore, virtual and physical devices are connected to validate the interoperability between the real installation and the emulation.

Section: Background Infrastructure Based On Saasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emulating home automation installations through component-based web technology

Asensio

Future Generation Computer Systems

et al. 2019

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“…The trading described in [10] is the basis of the work. It presents a mediation process for managing COTS components and building configurations at designtime.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With this aim, trading techniques are useful to facilitate the execution of export and import operations of services [11]. Furthermore, trading mechanisms can be used to solve component-based architectures from an architectural definition [10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Semantic Matching of Components at Run-Time in Distributed Environments

Iribarne

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Workshops

et al. 2015

Abstract. Software factories are a key element in Component-Based Software Engineering due to the common space provided for software reuse through repositories of components. These repositories can be developed by third parties in order to be inspected and used by different organizations, and they can also be distributed in different locations. Therefore, there is a need for a trading service that manages all available components. In this paper, we describe a matching process based on syntactic and semantic information of software components. This matching operation is part of a trading service which is in charge of generating configurations of components from architectural definitions. With this aim, the proposed matching allows us to evaluate and score the possible configurations, thus guiding a search process to build the architectural solution which best fulfills an input definition.

“…This proposal follows a bottom-up perspective for the building (at run-time) of the structure of the user interface from those GUI components available in one or more third-party repositories. The UI components, in our proposal, are called COTSgets, a combination of the terms COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) (Iribarne et al, 2004) and gadgets (understand as"gadget" any software that can work alone or as a piece of architecture).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the abstract level, Model-to-Model (M2M) transformation processes (Czarnecki and Helsen, 2003) are executed to change and adapt the abstract architectural models to the changes in context. However, the concrete architectural models are realized by a trading process (Iribarne et al, 2004), calculating the configurations of concrete components that best meet the abstract definitions. This provides the possibility of generating different software architectures based on the same abstract definition, for example to allow it to be executed on different platforms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A cloud service for COTS component-based architectures

Vallecillos

Computer Standards & Interfaces

et al. 2016

The management of software architectures is an important subject, especially in component-based web user interfaces to enhance their accessibility, dynamism and management at run-time. The Cloud offers some favorable mechanisms for this kind of systems, since it allows us to manage the software remotely, guarantees high availability of the resources and enables us to perform mass-storage. This article presents an infrastructure solution, based on the use of web services and cloud computing, for managing COTS-based architectures.