Ambientprisma follows model driven engineering to represent mobility and location in a software architecture. Ambient calculus is a formalism that provides primitives to describe mobile systems in an abstract way. This chapter focuses on designing software architectures of mobile applications using an aspect oriented architecture description language aoadl. Designing software architectures with an aspectoriented architecture description language. Its goal is to increase productivity, speed, predictability and reliability of software development process of group of applications called software families comparing to currentnonautomated development paradigm. In this paper, we describe how our work combines ambient calculus with prisma to develop distributed and mobile systems gaining their advantages. Nour ali, isidro ramos, carlos solis, ambient prisma. Ambientprisma enriches an aspectoriented software architectural approach called prisma with the ambient concept from ambient calculus.
Visual specification and analysis of contractbased. Software factories is an approach to automate parts of software development and uses a few well known techniques. The software architecture of a system describes its structure in terms of components. The authors report on a middleware and a case tool, which support the approach. Modeling support for mobile ambients in service oriented. Software architecture for big data and the cloud is designed to be a single resource that brings together research on how software architectures can solve the challenges imposed by building big data software systems. Computers and office automation data security management software software architecture.
Software architecture for big data and the cloud 1st edition. This work presents an approach called ambientprisma for modelling and developing distributed and mobile applications. Net constructs in order to allow the execution of ambient prisma distributed and mobile software systems. The service provision and consumption platform described in this paper is designed for the mobile device of the prosumer user, and consists of a set of subsystems see figure 2 which perform the functions of orchestration, resolution and capability invocation. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar.
Mobile ambients using an aspectoriented software architectural model nowadays. Add open access links from to the list of external document links if available. Ambients in mobile aspectoriented software architecture, journal of systems and software, v. The aoadl follows an approach called ambientprisma which enables designers to address, in an explicit and abstract way, the notion of location and mobility. We have designed an algorithm based on swarm optimization technique in order to optimally to plan the reconfiguration process according to. Developing mobile ambients using an aspectoriented. The implementation of an ambient prisma aspect oriented software architecture is supported by ambient prismanet middleware. Sensors free fulltext enabling flexible and continuous. Ambients in mobile aspectoriented software architecture article in journal of systems and software 836. Prisma is an approach that integrates the advantages of componentbased software development and aspectoriented software development for specifying software architectures.
Stability assessment of aspectoriented software architectures. Aspectoriented software development and software architectures promise to achieve reusability, maintenance and adaptability, which are all essential for the development of distributed systems. Mobility is a paradigm which exploits distributed systems, where. This volume provides an overview of current work in software engineering techniques that can enhance the quality of software. Mobile ambients in aspectoriented software architecture bsc in computer science from birzeit university palestine. The challenges of big data on the software architecture can relate to scale, security, integrity, performance, concurrency, parallelism, and dependability, amongst others. Prisma provides a formal aspectoriented architecture description language aoadl for specifying aspectoriented software architectures. An aspectoriented approach for supporting autonomic reconfiguration of software architectures. Managing tradeoffs in adaptable software architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. Mobile prosumer environments require the communication with heterogeneous devices during the execution of mobile services. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. Net for supporting ambient prisma code generation is also presented. Journal of systems and software 83 6, 937958, 2010. An adl centric approach for the formal design of realtime systems.
Journal of systems and software software architecture. The design of models is performed using an aspectoriented architecture description language. Designing mobile aspectoriented software architectures. Nowadays, distributed and mobile systems are acquiring greater importance and becoming more widely used to support ubiquitous computing however, developing systems of this kind is a difficult task instead of concentrating on how problems should be solved developers must worry about implementation details ambient calculus is a formalism that provides primitives to describe mobile systems in an. Ambient prismanet maps the primitives of ambient prisma into. Ambientprisma is an architectural approach for specifying aspectoriented software architecture and generating code of distributed and mobile systems. Visual specification and analysis of contractbased software. Middleware support for selfadaptation in ubiquitous and serviceoriented environments.
Developing mobile ambients using an aspectoriented software. Sigsoft 02fse10 proceedings of the 10th acm sigsoft symposium on foundations of software engineering pages 4150 charleston, south carolina, usa november 18 22, 2002. Mar 03, 2016 at the digital catapult centre brighton event, tech beyond the screen. Enabling flexible and continuous capability invocation in. Ambients in mobile aspectoriented software architecture 1.
In this paper, we provide an architecturecentricapproach to model this decision problem. We build on ambients a modelling approach that can explicitly capture functional boundaries and their adaptation. It is considered to be the bridge between the requirements and implementation phases of the software life cycle. We build onambients a modelling approach that can explicitly capturefunctional boundaries and their adaptation. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Modeling service oriented architectures of mobile applications by extending soaml with ambients. This chapter focuses on designing software architectures of mobile applications using an aspectoriented architecture description language aoadl. Distribution and mobility in aspectoriented software architectures nour ali irshaid department of information systems and computation polytechnic university of valencia a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master in software engineering, formal methods and information systems. Dr nour ali is a senior lecturer in the department of computer science at brunel university london since june 2017. This work shows how a mobile agent case study can be described in a platformindependent way using the aoadl. In proceedings of the 1st international workshop on software architectures and mobility leipzig, germany, may 10. Lncs 4276 developing mobile ambients using an aspect.
Ambients in mobile aspectoriented software architecture. In the last few decades, the information society has undergone important changes. The initial configuration of the software architecture of the mobile. Using modeling and simulation to define information. In proceedings of the first international workshop on software architectures and mobility collocated with icse08, pp. These environments integrate sensors, actuators and smart devices, whose availability continuously changes. Visual specification and analysis of contractbased software architectures mert ozkaya department of computer engineering, istanbul kemerburgaz university, istanbul. Architectural primitives for distribution and mobility. The chapters of this volume, organized by key topic area, create an agenda for the ifip working conference on software engineering techniques, set 2006. As a result, it is important to take into account distribution and mobility from the early stages of the development process instead of delaying their considerations to the implementation stage. In this paper, we present how a platformindependent model called ambient prisma combines both ambient calculus and aspect oriented software architecture for the specification of distributed and mobile systems. Ambientprisma lacks a precise semantics due to the fact that it is based only on a metamodel.
Aspectoriented software development and software architectures promise to achieve. Ambient prisma follows model driven engineering to represent mobility and location in a software architecture. This is achieved by confluence of componentbased development. A classification and comparison of model checking software architecture techniques. Special issue on software architecture and mobility. The software architecture when the agentnonsite executes the exit.
Iii abstract nowadays, distributed systems have become part of our daily lives thanks to the success of internet. Ambient prisma lacks a precise semantics due to the fact that it is based only on a metamodel. Its aoadl is independent of technology and is based on formal languages and formalisms to preserve nonambiguity in. Ambient prisma is an architectural approach for specifying aspect oriented software architecture and generating code of distributed and mobile systems. Lero the irish software, engineering research centre, university of limerick, limerick, ireland. Developing mobile ambients using an aspectoriented software architectural model. Sep 20, 2017 xcd is a designbycontract based architecture description language that supports modular specifications in terms of components and connectors i. Dr nour ali selected publications brunel university london. The aim of this paper is to design a reference architecture for implementing a model for continuous service execution and access to capabilities, i. Abstract ambientprisma is an architectural approach for specifying aspectoriented software architecture and generating code of distributed and mobile systems. An aspectoriented approach for supporting autonomic. Overall architecture for service orchestration, resolution and invocation. Ambients in aspectoriented software architectures nour ali irshaid department of information systems and computation polytechnic university of valencia.
Software architecture for big data and the cloud 1. Xcd is supported by a translator that produces formal models in spins promela formal verification language, which can then be formally analysed using spins model checker. In this paper, we provide an architecture centric approach to model this decision problem. In this paper, we present how a platformindependent model called ambientprisma combines both ambient calculus and aspectoriented software architecture for the specification of distributed and mobile systems. We extend the aspectoriented architectural metamodelling approach of ambients ambientprisma with microservice ambients. In this paper, ambientprisma is mapped into a formal language called channel ambient calculus, a process algebra for specifying mobile. Coping with crosscutting and dynamic features of software systems has significant impacts on software modularity, reusability, adaptability, and maintainability. At the digital catapult centre brighton event, tech beyond the screen. In ambientprisma there is always a default gateway ambient that. In this paper, ambient prisma is mapped into a formal language called channel ambient calculus, a. When ambients move, the service oriented architecture is reconfigured by autonomic ambients according to the available resources. The aoadl follows an approach called ambient prisma which enables designers to address, in an explicit and abstract way, the notion of location and mobi. Mobility of architectural elements is supported by reconfiguring the software architecture. Mobile ambients in aspectoriented software architectures 37 result, there is a loss of traceability, and the system is subject to a specific technological platform such as corba 1 or.
Ambients in aspect oriented software architectures. However, dealing with such features is a tremendous challenge for different software paradigms, particularly componentbased software development cbsd where components can be used as black box software units. Principal lecturer in software engineeringuniversity of brighton. Software architecture to everything brunel software engineering lab. An aspect oriented approach for supporting autonomic reconfiguration of software architectures. The research into software architecture and structural patterns encompasses the understanding and development of techniques used for building software products, we focus on investigating the attributes that make up the architecture and explore ways of measuring the quality, maintainability, performance and overall success of varying approaches to software architecture. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including tradeoffs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a wellfunctioning system throughout the lifetime of the system. A simple, leasttime, and energyefficient routing protocol with onelevel data aggregation for wireless sensor networks. Pdf developing mobile ambients using an aspectoriented. Journal of systems and software software architecture and. Digital catapult centre brighton dr nour ali slideshare. Ambientprisma enriches an aspectoriented software architectural approach.
Ambient as an aspectoriented, componentbased architectural. Mobile ambients in aspectoriented software architectures. In addition to the metamodel, ambientprisma uses the aspectoriented architecture description language aoadl 7 to allow the description of the distribution and mobile characteristics of software architectures at a pim level. Comparing architecture description languages for mobile software systems. This paper presents a metamodel that introduces ambients to design aspectoriented software architectural models for mobile systems. In this paper, ambientprisma is mapped into a formal language called channel ambient calculus, a process algebra for specifying mobile applications. Architectural models of ambientprisma in channel ambient. The development of distributed and mobile software is a complex task. Bibliographic content of journal of systems and software, volume 83. Currently most software systems have a distributed nature. Ambients are introduced in prisma as specialized kinds of connectors that offer mobility services to architectural elements components and connectors and are able to coordinate a boundary, which models the notion of location.
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