Towards an architecture for runtime interoperability

  • Authors:
  • Amel Bennaceur;Gordon Blair;Franck Chauvel;Huang Gang;Nikolaos Georgantas;Paul Grace;Falk Howar;Paola Inverardi;Valérie Issarny;Massimo Paolucci;Animesh Pathak;Romina Spalazzese;Bernhard Steffen;Bertrand Souville

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, CRI Paris-Rocquencourt, France;Lancaster University, UK;School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China;School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China;INRIA, CRI Paris-Rocquencourt, France;Lancaster University, UK;Technische Universitat Dortmund, Germany;Universit degli Studi dell'Aquilà, Italy;INRIA, CRI Paris-Rocquencourt, France;DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany;INRIA, CRI Paris-Rocquencourt, France;Universit degli Studi dell'Aquilà, Italy;Technische Universitat Dortmund, Germany;DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISoLA'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Leveraging applications of formal methods, verification, and validation - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Interoperability remains a fundamental challenge when connecting heterogeneous systems which encounter and spontaneously communicate with one another in pervasive computing environments. This challenge is exasperated by the highly heterogeneous technologies employed by each of the interacting parties, i.e., in terms of hardware, operating system, middleware protocols, and application protocols. This paper introduces CONNECT, a software framework which aims to resolve this interoperability challenge in a fundamentally different way. CONNECT dynamically discovers information about the running systems, uses learning to build a richer view of a system's behaviour and then uses synthesis techniques to generate a connector to achieve interoperability between heterogeneous systems. Here, we introduce the key elements of CONNECT and describe its application to a distributed marketplace application involving heterogeneous technologies.