Context-Aware Adaptive Services for Pervasive Heterogeneous Computing Infrastructures

Abstract

The near future envisions a pervasive heterogeneous computing infrastructure that makes it possible for mobile users to run software services on a variety of devices, from networks of devices to stand-alone wireless resource-constrained ones. To ensure that users meet their non-functional requirements by experiencing the best Quality of Service according to their needs and specific contexts of use, services need to be context-aware and adaptable. The development and the execution of such services is a big challenge and it is far to be solved. In this seminar I present our experience in this direction by describing our approach to context-aware adaptive services within the IST PLASTIC project. The approach makes use of CHAMELEON, a formal framework for adaptive Java applications.

Biography

Marco Autili received a first-class honors degree in Computer Science on April 2004, and a PhD in Computer Science on April 2008 from the University of L’Aquila, Computer Science Department. Currently, he is a Research Assistant at the Computer Science Department of the University of L’Aquila. In the field of Component Based Software Engineering and Service Oriented Architectures, his research interests include: Formal Methods to the Automatic Adaptation and Composition of Software Components and Services w.r.t. interaction protocol and resource consumption in a given execution environment. In the field of Formal Requirements Specification his research interests include simple but expressive formalisms for temporal properties specification.