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An Adaptive Design Methodology for Reduction of Product Development Risk
Embedded systems interaction with environment inherently complicates
understanding of requirements and their correct implementation. However,
product uncertainty is highest during early stages of development. Design
verification is an essential step in the development of any system, especially
for Embedded System. This paper introduces a novel adaptive design methodology,
which incorporates step-wise prototyping and verification. With each adaptive
step product-realization level is enhanced while decreasing the level of
product uncertainty, thereby reducing the overall costs. The back-bone of this
frame-work is the development of Domain Specific Operational (DOP) Model and
the associated Verification Instrumentation for Test and Evaluation, developed
based on the DOP model. Together they generate functionally valid test-sequence
for carrying out prototype evaluation. With the help of a case study 'Multimode
Detection Subsystem' the application of this method is sketched. The design
methodologies can be compared by defining and computing a generic performance
criterion like Average design-cycle Risk. For the case study, by computing
Average design-cycle Risk, it is shown that the adaptive method reduces the
product development risk for a small increase in the total design cycle time.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figure
Canevas sémantique et méthodologie formelle pour le développement des applications ambiantes multi-domaine
Ambient Intelligence is considered as the major application domain of ubiquitous computing. It aims at implementing intelligent environments to improve the daily activities, the well-being and the safety of users. An ambient environment has a multitude of devices (sensors, actuators), providing atomic ubiquitous services which are distributed and heterogeneous. These atomic services available in these environments, do not directly or fully meet all the requirements and the needs of users. Moreover, these high-level services may involve the interaction of ubiquitous services owned and/or controlled by different structures or domains (i.e. multi-domain environment). In this work, we studied the problems related to the aggregation of atomic ubiquitous services in cooperations and compositions in an ambient multi-domain environment in order to meet users' needs. This study concerns the semantic and behavioral interoperability of high-level composite services and their formal specification. This latter, is based on the Basic Constructive Description Logic, namely, BCDL0 formal model. This work contributes by realizing a semantic framework for the design and formal verification of cooperative processes in the interactive theorem prover Isabelle/HOL. The proposed semantic framework consists of an extensible cooperation ontology, a sound formal specification language of ubiquitous services and a components for mapping the formally proved cooperatives processes to the targeted infrastructuresL'intelligence ambiante est considérée comme l'une des évolutions majeures de l'informatique ubiquitaire. Elle vise la mise en œuvre des environnements ambiants ou des espaces intelligents permettant d'améliorer la vie quotidienne des utilisateurs, leur bien-être et leur sécurité. Un environnement ambiant dispose d'une multitude d'équipements (capteurs, actionneurs), fournissant des services ubiquitaires atomiques qui sont distribués et de nature hétérogène. Ces services atomiques disponibles dans ce type d'environnement, ne répondent pas directement ou complètement à toutes les exigences et les besoins des utilisateurs. Par ailleurs, ces services de haut niveau peuvent impliquer l'interaction de services ubiquitaires appartenant et/ou contrôlés par différentes structures ou domaines (i.e. environnement multi-domaine). Dans ces travaux de thèse, on a étudié les problématiques reliées à l'agrégation des services ubiquitaires atomiques dans des coopérations et des compositions dans un environnement ambiant multi-domaine afin de répondre à des besoins utilisateurs. Cette étude concerne l'interopérabilité sémantique et comportementale des compositions de services ainsi que leurs spécifications dans un modèle formel basé sur la logique constructive BCDL0. Cette thèse a contribuée par la réalisation d'un canevas sémantique permettant la conception et la vérification formelles des processus coopératifs dans l'assistant à la preuve Isabelle/HOL. Le canevas sémantique proposé consiste en une ontologie de coopération extensible et un langage de spécification de services fiable (Sound) ainsi que des modules de mise en correspondance vers des infrastructures cible
Developing a distributed electronic health-record store for India
The DIGHT project is addressing the problem of building a scalable and highly available information store for the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the over one billion citizens of India
Intelligent agent for formal modelling of temporal multi-agent systems
Software systems are becoming complex and dynamic with the passage of time, and to provide better fault tolerance and resource management they need to have the ability of self-adaptation. Multi-agent systems paradigm is an active area of research for modeling real-time systems. In this research, we have proposed a new agent named SA-ARTIS-agent, which is designed to work in hard real-time temporal constraints with the ability of self-adaptation. This agent can be used for the formal modeling of any self-adaptive real-time multi-agent system. Our agent integrates the MAPE-K feedback loop with ARTIS agent for the provision of self-adaptation. For an unambiguous description, we formally specify our SA-ARTIS-agent using Time-Communicating Object-Z (TCOZ) language. The objective of this research is to provide an intelligent agent with self-adaptive abilities for the execution of tasks with temporal constraints. Previous works in this domain have used Z language which is not expressive to model the distributed communication process of agents. The novelty of our work is that we specified the non-terminating behavior of agents using active class concept of TCOZ and expressed the distributed communication among agents. For communication between active entities, channel communication mechanism of TCOZ is utilized. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed agent using a real-time case study of traffic monitoring system
A Survey on Service Composition Middleware in Pervasive Environments
The development of pervasive computing has put the light on a challenging problem: how to dynamically compose services in heterogeneous and highly changing environments? We propose a survey that defines the service composition as a sequence of four steps: the translation, the generation, the evaluation, and finally the execution. With this powerful and simple model we describe the major service composition middleware. Then, a classification of these service composition middleware according to pervasive requirements - interoperability, discoverability, adaptability, context awareness, QoS management, security, spontaneous management, and autonomous management - is given. The classification highlights what has been done and what remains to do to develop the service composition in pervasive environments
ISML: an interface specification meta-language
In this paper we present an abstract metaphor model situated within a model-based user interface framework. The inclusion of metaphors in graphical user interfaces is a well established, but mostly craft-based strategy to design. A substantial body of notations and tools can be found within the model-based user interface design literature, however an explicit treatment of metaphor and its mappings to other design views has yet to be addressed. We introduce the Interface Specification Meta-Language (ISML) framework and demonstrate its use in comparing the semantic and syntactic features of an interactive system. Challenges facing this research are outlined and further work proposed
Proceedings of International Workshop "Global Computing: Programming Environments, Languages, Security and Analysis of Systems"
According to the IST/ FET proactive initiative on GLOBAL COMPUTING, the goal is to obtain techniques (models, frameworks, methods, algorithms) for constructing systems that are flexible, dependable, secure, robust and efficient.
The dominant concerns are not those of representing and manipulating data efficiently but rather those of handling the co-ordination and interaction, security, reliability, robustness, failure modes, and control of risk of the entities in the system and the overall design, description and performance of the system itself.
Completely different paradigms of computer science may have to be developed to tackle these issues effectively. The research should concentrate on systems having the following characteristics: • The systems are composed of autonomous computational entities where activity is not centrally controlled, either because global control is impossible or impractical, or because the entities are created or controlled by different owners.
• The computational entities are mobile, due to the movement of the physical platforms or by movement of the entity from one platform to another.
• The configuration varies over time. For instance, the system is open to the introduction of new computational entities and likewise their deletion.
The behaviour of the entities may vary over time.
• The systems operate with incomplete information about the environment.
For instance, information becomes rapidly out of date and mobility requires information about the environment to be discovered.
The ultimate goal of the research action is to provide a solid scientific foundation for the design of such systems, and to lay the groundwork for achieving effective principles for building and analysing such systems.
This workshop covers the aspects related to languages and programming environments as well as analysis of systems and resources involving 9 projects (AGILE , DART, DEGAS , MIKADO, MRG, MYTHS, PEPITO, PROFUNDIS, SECURE) out of the 13 founded under the initiative. After an year from the start of the projects, the goal of the workshop is to fix the state of the art on the topics covered by the two clusters related to programming environments and analysis of systems as well as to devise strategies and new ideas to profitably continue the research effort towards the overall objective of the initiative.
We acknowledge the Dipartimento di Informatica and Tlc of the University of Trento, the Comune di Rovereto, the project DEGAS for partially funding the event and the Events and Meetings Office of the University of Trento for the valuable collaboration
Supporting Management lnteraction and Composition of Self-Managed Cells
Management in ubiquitous systems cannot rely on human intervention or centralised
decision-making functions because systems are complex and devices
are inherently mobile and cannot refer to centralised management applications
for reconfiguration and adaptation directives. Management must be devolved,
based on local decision-making and feedback control-loops embedded in autonomous
components. Previous work has introduced a Self-Managed Cell (SMC)
as an infrastructure for building ubiquitous applications. An SMC consists
of a set of hardware and software components that implement a policy-driven
feedback control-loop. This allows SMCs to adapt continually to changes in
their environment or in their usage requirements. Typical applications include
body-area networks for healthcare monitoring, and communities of unmanned
autonomous vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance and reconnaissance operations.
Ubiquitous applications are typically formed from multiple interacting autonomous
components, which establish peer-to-peer collaborations, federate and
compose into larger structures. Components must interact to distribute management
tasks and to enforce communication strategies. This thesis presents
an integrated framework which supports the design and the rapid establishment
of policy-based SMC interactions by systematically composing simpler abstractions
as building elements of a more complex collaboration. Policy-based
interactions are realised – subject to an extensible set of security functions –
through the exchanges of interfaces, policies and events, and our framework
was designed to support the specification, instantiation and reuse of patterns of
interaction that prescribe the manner in which these exchanges are achieved.
We have defined a library of patterns that provide reusable abstractions for
the structure, task-allocation and communication aspects of an interaction,
which can be individually combined for building larger policy-based systems in
a methodical manner. We have specified a formal model to ensure the rigorous
verification of SMC interactions before policies are deployed in physical devices.
A prototype has been implemented that demonstrates the practical feasibility
of our framework in constrained resources
A Framework for Evaluating Model-Driven Self-adaptive Software Systems
In the last few years, Model Driven Development (MDD), Component-based
Software Development (CBSD), and context-oriented software have become
interesting alternatives for the design and construction of self-adaptive
software systems. In general, the ultimate goal of these technologies is to be
able to reduce development costs and effort, while improving the modularity,
flexibility, adaptability, and reliability of software systems. An analysis of
these technologies shows them all to include the principle of the separation of
concerns, and their further integration is a key factor to obtaining
high-quality and self-adaptable software systems. Each technology identifies
different concerns and deals with them separately in order to specify the
design of the self-adaptive applications, and, at the same time, support
software with adaptability and context-awareness. This research studies the
development methodologies that employ the principles of model-driven
development in building self-adaptive software systems. To this aim, this
article proposes an evaluation framework for analysing and evaluating the
features of model-driven approaches and their ability to support software with
self-adaptability and dependability in highly dynamic contextual environment.
Such evaluation framework can facilitate the software developers on selecting a
development methodology that suits their software requirements and reduces the
development effort of building self-adaptive software systems. This study
highlights the major drawbacks of the propped model-driven approaches in the
related works, and emphasise on considering the volatile aspects of
self-adaptive software in the analysis, design and implementation phases of the
development methodologies. In addition, we argue that the development
methodologies should leave the selection of modelling languages and modelling
tools to the software developers.Comment: model-driven architecture, COP, AOP, component composition,
self-adaptive application, context oriented software developmen
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