MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE APPLICATIONS - An Architecture and a Metamodel

Keywords: MDD, Context-awareness, Metamodeling, Transformation.Abstract: The development of context-aware application has been the subject of many research works in ubiquitous com-puting. Nowadays, there is a lack of generic approaches for formalizing the activity of development for thistype of applications, and consequently this activity is very cumbersome and time consuming. This work pro-poses to use Model Driven Development to promote reuse, adaptability and interoperability in the developmentof context-aware applications. Through the separation of concerns in individual models and transformationtechniques, context can be modeled and adapted independently of business logic and platform details. Thispaper presents an architecture and a metamodel for model driven development of context-aware applications.The architecture illustrates the different steps and techniques involved in the process of development. Themetamodel provides a formal representation of contextual information.