A New Approach for Quality Management in Pervasive Computing Environments
This paper provides an extension of MDA called Context-aware Quality Model Driven Architecture (CQ-MDA) which can be used for quality control in pervasive computing environments. The proposed CQ-MDA approach based on ContextualArchRQMM (Contextual ARCHitecture Quality Requirement MetaModel), being an extension to the MDA, allows for considering quality and resources-awareness while conducting the design process. The contributions of this paper are a meta-model for architecture quality control of context-aware applications and a model driven approach to separate architecture concerns from context and quality concerns and to configure reconfigurable software architectures of distributed systems. To demonstrate the utility of our approach, we use a videoconference system.
Keywords: MDA, Context, Quality Model, Dynamic reconfiguration, ADL
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Alti Adel
Adel Alti obtained the Master degree from the University of Setif (UFAS), Algeria, in 1998. He is holding a Ph.D. degree in software engineering from UFAS university of Sétif, Algeria, 2011. Right now he is an associate professor at University of Sétif. He is a member of the research group LRSD. His area of interests includes automated software engineering, mapping multimedia concepts into UML, semantic integration of architectural description into MDA platforms, context-aware quality software architectures and automated service management, Context and QoS. During his work he has published number of publications concerning these subjects.
Roose Philippe
Roose Philippe is an associate professor at the LIUPPA/UPPA – FRANCE. He obtained his PhD degree in computer science from university of Bayonne, France, 2001. He head of the MOJITO and AEXIUM projects. His research interests are software architecture and platforms, pervasifs and ubiquitous computing, mobility, software components services, context and QoS, multi-parts profiles. He is the co-author of three books on software component technologies.
Alti Adel
Adel Alti obtained the Master degree from the University of Setif (UFAS), Algeria, in 1998. He is holding a Ph.D. degree in software engineering from UFAS university of Sétif, Algeria, 2011. Right now he is an associate professor at University of Sétif. He is a member of the research group LRSD. His area of interests includes automated software engineering, mapping multimedia concepts into UML, semantic integration of architectural description into MDA platforms, context-aware quality software architectures and automated service management, Context and QoS. During his work he has published number of publications concerning these subjects.
Roose Philippe
Roose Philippe is an associate professor at the LIUPPA/UPPA – FRANCE. He obtained his PhD degree in computer science from university of Bayonne, France, 2001. He head of the MOJITO and AEXIUM projects. His research interests are software architecture and platforms, pervasifs and ubiquitous computing, mobility, software components services, context and QoS, multi-parts profiles. He is the co-author of three books on software component technologies.