Unanticipated Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Applications

• Author(s): Mohammad Ullah Khan,
• Publisher: kassel university press GmbH
• Pages: 181
• ISBN_10: 389958919X
  ISBN_13: 9783899589191
  
• Language: en

Description:... Front cover -- Titelseite -- Impressum -- Abstract -- Zusammenfassung -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Background -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Adaptation in Terms of Anticipation -- 1.1.1 Anticipated Adaptation -- 1.1.2 Semi-anticipated Adaptation -- 1.1.3 Unanticipated Adaptation -- 1.2 Motivating Scenario -- 1.2.1 Scene 1 - Traveling to the Netherlands -- 1.2.2 Scene 2 - Unanticipated Discovery of U-MUSIC Components -- 1.2.3 Scene 3 - Use of the Online Ticket Facility -- 1.2.4 Scene 4 - In the Tulip Garden -- 1.2.5 Scene 5 - Return Trip to Germany -- 1.3 Scenario Analysis -- 1.4 Challenges -- 1.4.1 Application Variability -- 1.4.2 Inter-operability and Heterogeneity -- 1.4.3 Dynamic Discovery of Devices and Services -- 1.4.4 Dynamic Updates of Requirements -- 1.4.5 Context Sensing and Reasoning -- 1.4.6 Adaptation Reasoning - Performance and Scalability -- 1.4.7 Robustness -- 1.4.9 Usability and Security -- 1.5 Focus and Contribution -- 1.6 Document Structure -- 2 Adaptation Concepts -- 2.1 Context Awareness and Self-adaptation -- 2.2 Adaptation Approaches -- 2.2.1 Compositional Adaptation -- 2.2.2 Parameterized Adaptation -- 2.2.3 Adaptation by Aspect-weaving -- 2.2.4 Adopted Adaptation Approach -- 2.3 Adaptation Reasoning Policies -- 2.3.1 Action or Rule-based Adaptation Reasoning -- 2.3.2 Goal-based Adaptation Reasoning -- 2.3.3 Utility-based Adaptation Reasoning -- 2.3.4 Adopted Reasoning Policy -- 3 Related Work -- 3.1 MADAM and MUSIC -- 3.2 Context-aware Self-adaptation -- 3.3 Semi-anticipated and Unanticipated Adaptation -- Part II Supporting Unanticipated Adaptation -- 4 Development of Concepts -- 4.1 Conceptual Meta-model -- 4.2 Creating Application Variants -- 5 Runtime Adaptation Mechanism -- 5.1 Deployment of Bundles -- 5.2 Constructing the Application Variability Model.