Middleware-layer connector synthesis: Beyond state of the art in middleware interoperability

V Issarny, A Bennaceur, YD Bromberg - … School on Formal Methods for the …, 2011 - Springer
This chapter deals with interoperability among pervasive networked systems, in particular
accounting for the heterogeneity of protocols from the application down to the middleware …

Introduction to active automata learning from a practical perspective

B Steffen, F Howar, M Merten - … International School on Formal Methods for …, 2011 - Springer
In this chapter we give an introduction to active learning of Mealy machines, an automata
model particularly suited for modeling the behavior of realistic reactive systems. Active …

Myhealthassistant: An event-driven middleware for multiple medical applications on a smartphone-mediated body sensor network

C Seeger, K Van Laerhoven… - IEEE journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ever-growing range of wireless sensors for medical monitoring has shown that there is
significant interest in monitoring patients in their everyday surroundings. It however remains …

The role of ontologies in emergent middleware: Supporting interoperability in complex distributed systems

GS Blair, A Bennaceur, N Georgantas, P Grace… - Middleware 2011: ACM …, 2011 - Springer
Interoperability is a fundamental problem in distributed systems, and an increasingly difficult
problem given the level of heterogeneity and dynamism exhibited by contemporary systems …

On middleware for emerging health services

J Singh, JM Bacon - Journal of Internet Services and Applications, 2014 - Springer
Healthcare concerns have become diverse, ranging from acute and chronic conditions to
lifestyle, wellbeing and the prevention of illness. Increasingly, individuals are taking …

A theory of mediators for eternal connectors

P Inverardi, V Issarny, R Spalazzese - International Symposium On …, 2010 - Springer
On the fly synthesis of mediators is a revolutionary approach to the seamless networking of
today's and future digital systems that increasingly need be connected. The resulting …

On Handling Data in Automata Learning: Considerations from the CONNECT Perspective

F Howar, B Jonsson, M Merten, B Steffen… - … Applications of Formal …, 2010 - Springer
Most communication with real-life systems involves data values being relevant to the
communication context and thus influencing the observable behavior of the communication …

Plug-and-play higher-order process integration

J Neubauer, B Steffen - Computer, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unexpected hurdles in dealing with integration, variability, and interoperability in software
development can be overcome using higher-order process integration. Even in its simplicity …

Automated inference of models for black box systems based on interface descriptions

M Merten, F Howar, B Steffen, P Pellicione… - … Applications of Formal …, 2012 - Springer
In this paper we present a method and tool to fully automatically infer data-sensitive
behavioral models of black-box systems in two coordinated steps:(1) syntactical analysis of …

Automated continuous quality assurance

J Neubauer, B Steffen, O Bauer… - … Workshop on Formal …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a case study that illustrates the power of active learning for enabling the
automated quality assurance of complex and distributed evolving systems. We illustrate how …