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Towards Defining Families of Systems in IoT: Logical Architectures with Variation Points

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Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures (IoT360 2015)

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In system design, the distinction between a logical architecture at design level and the corresponding physical distributed architecture at implementation level is recognised as good practice. In this paper we show how we can define logical architectures in which variation points can be defined explicitly. Such architectures define families of systems, and should therefore be useful for defining such families in IoT.

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Notes

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    Notwithstanding Broy’s view of software architectures as task level artefacts, as reflected by the automotive software standard AUTOSAR (www.autosar.org).

  2. 2.

    A hierarchical representation of a product family in terms of features.

  3. 3.

    Extensions to Koala for configuration definition and generation are provided by Koalish [2] and Kumbang [1].

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    The example has been created using our FX-MAN Eclipse tool.

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    Simone Di Cola, Kung-Kiu Lau, Cuong Tran & Chen Qian

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Di Cola, S., Lau, KK., Tran, C., Qian, C. (2016). Towards Defining Families of Systems in IoT: Logical Architectures with Variation Points. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_43

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