Towards a model driven development of context-aware systems for AmI environments

Abstract

In this work, we introduce a software engineering method for AmI applications which is based on a model driven strategy. This method allows us to describe an AmI application a high level of abstraction by means of a set of models and then automatically obtain code from these models by following an automatic code generation strategy. To do this, a method proposed by authors in previous works is extended to support AmI applications properties. The introduced extensions are: (1) a set of models that allow us to represent the context information at conceptual level and (2) a strategy to allow the system infer knowledge in execution time to anticipate user actions and to adapt the system according to the context data. This method allows us to provide the development of AmI system with the benefits of using a software engineering method. © 2008 Springer-Verlag France, Paris.