Domain specific modeling methodology for reconfigurable networked systems

Abstract

Our empirical study shows that reconfigurable networked systems executing software components deployed on interconnected heterogeneous hardware nodes highly benefit from an effective framework and a normative design methodology relying on domain specific models supporting both application and platform domains. The approach is based on building metamodels for various expert domains to enable precise knowledge codification in the form of interpretable and analyzable information frameworks. The core platform architecture is characterized by interlinked on-the-fly reconfigurable communicating components whose behavior is specified by finite state machine model of computation. The proposed methodology covers the whole development and operation life cycle. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.