Section: New Results

Introduction

The ARLES project-team investigates solutions in the forms of languages, methods, tools and supporting middleware to assist the development of distributed software systems, with a special emphasis on mobile distributed systems enabling the ambient intelligence/pervasive computing vision.

Our research activities in 2013 have in particular accounted for the increasingly connected networking environment, as envisioned by the Future Internet, and further focused on one of its major components that is the Internet of Things, which allows connecting the physical with the digital word. In more detail, our research has focused on the following areas:

• Dynamic interoperability among networked systems toward making them eternal, by way of on-the-fly generation of connectors based on adequate system models (§  6.2 );

• Revisiting service-oriented computing toward the Future Internet, in particular dealing with the composition of highly heterogeneous services while ensuring quality of service (§  6.3 );

• Service oriented middleware for the ultra large scale future mobile Internet of Things (§  6.4 );

• Abstractions for enabling domain experts to easily compose applications on the Internet of Things (§  6.5 );

• Lightweight streaming middleware for the Internet of Things (§  6.6 ); and

• Dynamic decision networks for decision-making in self-adaptive systems (§  6.7 ).