An Event-Based Coordination Model for Context-Aware Applications

Context-aware applications adapt their behavior depending on changes in their environment context. Programming such applications in a modular way requires to modularize the global context into more specific contexts and attach specific behavior to these contexts. This is reminiscent of aspects and has led to the notion of context-aware aspects. This paper revisits this notion of context-aware aspects in the light of previous work on concurrent event-based aspect-oriented programming (CEAOP). It shows how CEAOP can be extended in a seamless way in order to define a model for the coordination of concurrent adaptation rules with explicit contexts. This makes it possible to reason about the compositions of such rules. The model is concretized into a prototypical modeling language.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COORDINATION
• Authors: Angel Núñez, Jacques Noyé
• Keywords: Context-aware Applications, Context-aware Aspects, COORDINATION 2008, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Event-based Aspect-oriented Programming