Mobile systems offer the possibility of delivering software services that tightly match user needs,thanks to their availability right at the moment and place where they are needed, and their ability to take advantage of local resources and self-adapt to their environment of use. Alas, writing software for mobile systems is not an easy endeavour. Mobile software construction imposes a number challenges that render existing programming technology insufficient to write such software conveniently. To improve this situation, we have taken a language engineering approach. In this chapter we identify the main challenges encountered in mobile software construction and the requirements they rise in the design of programming languages. By way of illustration, we present the result of our language engineering experiments —four programming models to ease the construction of software that can cope gracefully with the challenges brought about by mobility.
Contribution à ouvrage collectif (Book Chapter) – Chapitre
Access type
Accès restreint
Publication date
2012
Language
Anglais
Host document
edited by Paulo Alencar and Donald Cowan ; "the Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering: Design, Implementation and Emergent Applications" (ISBN : 978-1-61520-655-1)
Bainomugisha, Engineer ; Cadiz Rodriguez, Alfredo Jaime ; Costanza, Pascal ; De Meuter, Wolfgang ; Gonzalez Montesinos, Sebastian Andres ; et. al. Language engineering for mobile software. In: edited by Paulo Alencar and Donald Cowan, the Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering: Design, Implementation and Emergent Applications, IGI Global 2012
Van Cutsem, Tom
[Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium]
