Metaprogramming Techniques for Designing Embedded Components for Ambient Intelligence

The design for ambient intelligence (AmI) requires the development and adoption of the novel domain analysis methods and design methodologies. Our approach is based on the domain and application-specific analysis methods adopted from the SW engineering domain, the generic embedded component (EC) model and the metaprogramming (MPG) techniques. The novelty of our approach is that we apply MPG systematically in order to deal with a vast quantity, diversity and heterogeneity of the ECs, raise the level of abstraction in embedded system design, and achieve higher flexibility, reusability and customisability for AmI-oriented design. We provide three case studies and discuss the application of the heterogeneous MPG techniques for designing