INR: A Programming Model for Developing APPs of Insect Intelligent Building

Abstract

Insect Intelligent Building (I2B) is a novel platform of intelligent buildings. The outstanding feature of I2B is the decentralized network structure connected by smart nodes. I2B can employ APPs (applications) developed by various practitioners or programming fans to manage and control buildings. However, due to the unique parallel operation of I2B platform and the popularization of APP developers, there still exists no effective approach to supporting I2B APP development. To deal with the challenges and provide meaningful guidance for describing and developing I2B APP and motivating the prospective programming language design, we propose INR, a programming model for I2B APP development. Three submodels in INR, namely, Individual, Neighborhood, and Region, are defined and implemented, respectively, for describing different task requirements. Moreover, new mechanisms of Tag-based programming and Clustering operation are established to support the plug-and-play and parallel abilities of APPs in I2B. Finally, we apply the programming model into an application case to illustrate the developing pattern of the I2B APP and verify the effectiveness of our approach.

Touch: A Textual Programming Language for Developing APPs of Insect Intelligent Building

“…In our previous work [29], a programming model called INR was proposed to effectively promote the development of I 2 B APPs, which established programming abstractions such as "Individual," "Neighborhood," and "Region" and the "Tag-Based Programming and Clustering Operation" programming mechanism. Although the INR is very descriptive for I 2 B application tasks, it does not consider the timevarying characteristics of the state parameters in the SIM, its proposed CPN interaction mode of "mailbox" is relatively complicated, and more importantly, it does not provide the language elements, syntax, and development tools of a programming language, so it cannot be directly used in the development of I 2 B APP.…”

“…Motivated by the example of personnel evacuation and the domain analysis of I 2 B, the conceptual programming architecture of Touch is first designed. Our previous work [29] proposed INR, a programming model for I 2 B APP development. INR contains three submodels, namely, Individual, Neighborhood, and Region, which are defined and implemented for describing different task requirements.…”

“…e basic unit programming concept accurately describes the time-varying characteristics of the information in the SIM using B data and eliminates the "slave devices" concept bound to the tags and the redundant "static functions" concept of the individual programming model in INR [29], which can better meet the programming requirements of local tasks.…”

“…Although some Internet of ings (IoT) programming methods [24][25][26] and multiagent programming languages [27,28] support network-parallel programming and addressless communication, these languages do not consider the domain characteristics of I 2 B, causing the complex interactions among nodes to be overfocused and making programming difficult. In our previous work [29], a programming model called INR (i.e., Individual, Neighborhood, and Region) is established for I 2 B APP development and to motivate programming language design, which abstracted and decomposed the actual application tasks of I 2 B into software entities in application software. e INR programming model eliminates dependencies between the application program and the CPN communication address.…”

“…To meet these challenges, this paper provides substantial improvements over our previous study [29] and presents Touch, a DSL for I 2 B APP development, which can adapt to the unique features of I 2 B such as decentralized, distributed, and parallel and reduce the difficulty of I 2 B APP development. Touch comprehensively considers the time-varying characteristics of state parameters in the standard information model (SIM), simplifies the information exchange method between CPNs, and can be directly applied to I 2 B APP development.…”