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Entity-adaptation: a programming model for development of context-aware applications

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Michael Vögler,

Schahram DustdarAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '14: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 436 - 443

https://doi.org/10.1145/2554850.2555015

Published: 24 March 2014 Publication History

Abstract

In recent years, new business and research opportunities have increasingly emerged in the field of large-scale pervasive platforms (e.g., building management systems, pervasive health-care, environmental monitoring). These platforms are characterized by the need to monitor and control a large number of heterogeneous environments with significantly different capabilities and utilize many distributed context sources and actions. Hence, they require additional support in terms of programming models and abstractions that can assist with the development of context-aware applications as generic and reusable components. Previous research studies in context-aware systems have proposed many different programming models, but none of them are enough to support the development of truly reusable applications.

In this paper, we introduce the Entity-Adaptation programming model as a novel approach for the development of context-aware applications. The benefit of the Entity-Adaptation model is that it decouples context-aware applications from the underlying physical environments and allows them to be implemented as generic and reusable components. We additionally present the design and implementation of the CAPA framework, which provides support for deployment and execution of context-aware applications developed with the Entity-Adaptation programming model. Finally, we evaluate the solution using a case study that demonstrates effectiveness of the approach in a real-world scenario.

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Entity-adaptation: a programming model for development of context-aware applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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SAC '14: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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DOI:10.1145/2554850

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Seoul National University, Korea
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Kyungpook National University, Korea
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Southern Polytechnic State University
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Soongsil University, South Korea

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Dustdar SMutlu OVijaykumar NDustdar S(2020)Rethinking Divide and Conquer—Towards Holistic Interfaces of the Computing StackIEEE Internet Computing10.1109/MIC.2020.302624524:6(45-57)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2020
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