MADAMS: A software architecture for the management of networked measurement services

  • Authors:

  • Franco Cicirelli;Angelo Furfaro;Domenico Grimaldi;Libero Nigro;Francesco Pupo

  • Affiliations:

  • Laboratorio di Ingegneria del Software, Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití della Calabria, I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy;Laboratorio di Ingegneria del Software, Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití della Calabria, I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy;Laboratorio di Ingegneria del Software, Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití della Calabria, I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy;Laboratorio di Ingegneria del Software, Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití della Calabria, I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy;Laboratorio di Ingegneria del Software, Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití della Calabria, I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

MADAMS (Management Architecture for Distributed meAsureMent Services) is a novel service-based software framework designed for publishing, retrieving, configuring, setting up, monitoring and executing distributed measurement services over the Internet. The basic building block is the measurement service, i.e. a software object properly configured and made remote accessible across a network. A measurement service corresponds either to a single (virtual or physical) instrument, or to a collection of measurement services abstracting a test method. Service attributes include the graphical interface which supports user interactions. MADAMS is especially tuned to: (i) defining a common way to manage and use distributed measurement services, (ii) introducing a data-exchange layer for inter-instrument communications, (iii) exploiting a design pattern which separates definition of service functionalities from distribution concerns. This paper introduces MADAMS, outlines its current implementation which depends on Java/Jini, and shows its application to a demand monitoring-control measurement system.