Enabling Dynamic Crowdsensing through Models@Runtime

Authors

  • Paulo Cesar Ferreira Melo Instituto de Informática Universidade Federal de Goiás
  • Ricardo Couto Antunes da Rocha Instituto de Informática Universidade Federal de Goiás
  • Fabio M. Costa Instituto de Informática Universidade Federal de Goiás

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/jacr.2016.51.02

Abstract

The complexity of applications in the mobile crowdsensing domain is due to factors such as interoperability among heterogeneous devices, recruiting of devices, collection of data from these devices, and adaptation of application operation in dynamic environments. This paper introduces a platform based on models at runtime (M@RT) for the development of the mobile crowdsensing functionality of applications. The platform supports model-based creation and processing of queries that target a distributed and dynamic set of sensor-capable devices. The paper also presents the results of an evaluation that shows the impact of runtime model processing on the performance of applications in mobile crowdsensing scenarios.

Keywords: participatory sensing, models at runtime, model execution engine, mobile computing.

Author Biographies

Paulo Cesar Ferreira Melo, Instituto de Informática Universidade Federal de Goiás

Paulo Cesar received his Masters degree in Computer Science from UFG in 2014. He is currently a substitute professor at the Institute of Informatics at UFG.

Ricardo Couto Antunes da Rocha, Instituto de Informática Universidade Federal de Goiás

Ricardo received his PhD in Informatics from PUC-Rio in 2009. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Department of Computer Science at UFG, Regional Catalão-GO. His research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, ubiquitous computing and systems security.

Fabio M. Costa, Instituto de Informática Universidade Federal de Goiás

Fabio M. Costa received his PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University (UK) in 2001. He is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Informatics, UFG, where he is a faculty member since 1995. His current research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, models@runtime and ubiquitous computing.

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2016-06-17

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