Toward a Tool-Based Development Methodology for Pervasive Computing Applications

Abstract

Despite much progress, developing a pervasive computing application remains a challenge because of a lack of conceptual frameworks and supporting tools. This challenge involves coping with heterogeneous devices, overcoming the intricacies of distributed systems technologies, working out an architecture for the application, encoding it in a program, writing specific code to test the application, and finally deploying it.This paper presents a design language and a tool suite covering the development life-cycle of a pervasive computing application. The design language allows to define a taxonomy of area-specific building-blocks, abstracting over their heterogeneity. This language also includes a layer to define the architecture of an application, following an architectural pattern commonly used in the pervasive computing domain. Our underlying methodology assigns roles to the stakeholders, providing separation of concerns. Our tool suite includes a compiler that takes design artifacts written in our language as input and generates a programming framework that supports the subsequent development stages, namely implementation, testing, and deployment. Our methodology has been applied on a wide spectrum of areas. Based on these experiments, we assess our approach through three criteria: expressiveness, usability, and productivity.

Internet of Things: From Small- to Large-Scale Orchestration

“…For example, we created a taxonomy of entities for the domain of assisted living. More details can be found elsewere [7], [8].…”

“…Our domain-specific language approach has been implemented and takes the form of a tool-based design methodology, dedicated to develop IoT applications [7], [8]. It has been applied across a spectrum of infrastructure sizes and application areas, ranging from an automated pilot in avionics [9], to an assisted living platform for the home of seniors [10], to a parking management system in a smart city [11].…”

“…Following the domain-specific approach, we introduce a design language, named DiaSpec [13], [8], which decomposes the SCC paradigm into SCC-specific constructs. Let us, examine the concepts included in DiaSpec that match the SCC model ( Figure 2).…”

Adaptive Exchange of Distributed Partial Models@run.time for Highly Dynamic Systems

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Design-driven development methodology for resilient computing

“…Our approach relies on DiaSuite, a design-driven methodology dedicated to the SCC paradigm [5]. This paradigm originates from the Sense/Compute/Control architectural pattern, promoted by Taylor et al [19].…”