MADAM: towards a flexible planning-based middleware

ABSTRACT

By exploiting software components, component frameworks and architectural reflection, the European IST project MADAM aims to overcome the complexity of developing mobile context-aware adaptive systems. The MADAM middleware defines a domain and platform-independent flexible reference architecture that supports dynamic reconfiguration of both applications and the middleware itself. Furthermore it implements flexible context monitoring, adaptation planning and dynamic reconfiguration frameworks that embodies much of the complex logic of dynamic adaptation.

REFERENCES

• 1: MADAM Consortium. Mobility and ADaptation enAbling Middleware. http://www.ist-madam.org/consortium.html.
• 2: Jacqueline Floch , Svein Hallsteinsen , Erlend Stav , Frank Eliassen , Ketil Lund , Eli Gjorven, Using Architecture Models for Runtime Adaptability, IEEE Software, v.23 n.2, p.62-70, March 2006 [doi>10.1109/MS.2006.61]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
        D.2.11 Software Architectures
            Subjects: Languages (e.g., description, interconnection, definition); Patterns (e.g., client/server, pipeline, blackboard)
        D.2.13 Reusable Software
            Subjects: Reusable libraries; Reuse models

General Terms:
Design, Languages

Keywords:
adaptive middleware architecture, mobile computing, planning, self-adaptation