A software framework for context-aware secure intelligent applications of distributed systems

Abstract

Future distributed reconfigurable systems need to provide smarter services. Therefore the used software need to include advanced mechanisms such as the context-awareness, artificial intelligence, collaboration between distributed parts of the system, as well as the secure data exchange. Most of the existing context-aware frameworks are restricted to a part of the mentioned scopes and are generally not suitable to reconfigurable systems. Hence, there is a need for a software engineering solution that reconciles all the said requirements. In this paper, we propose a software framework for developing collaborative, intelligent, and secure applications of distributed systems. This paper extends an existing framework with the mentioned features and shows its new structure and design. A software tool developing the proposed contributions is implemented using Java programming language. An example of microgrids software applications is used to show the suitability of the contributions.