Section: Application Domains

Pervasive systems

Pervasive systems are another class of systems raising interesting challenges in terms of software structuring. Such systems are highly concurrent and distributed. Moreover, they assume a high-level of mobility and context-aware interactions between numerous and heterogeneous devices (laptops, PDAs, smartphones, cameras, electronic appliances...). Programming such systems requires proper support for handling various interfering concerns like software customization and evolution, security, privacy, context-awareness...Additionally, service composition occurs spontaneously at runtime.

This year, as part of understanding the potential target applications of our new language ECaesarJ (see Sec.  5.2 ), we have shown how a proper combination of advanced features inherited from Object-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented, and Event-based Programming could support the programming of context-aware applications (see Sec.  6.1 ).