Component Model for SISARL Devices and Systems

This paper describes a component model, called SISARL model. It is the basis of component-based approach to building families of smart devices and systems that enhance life quality and well being of elderly individuals. In addition to providing the traditional view of hardware, firmware and software components, as do existing component models, SISARL model also provides developers with an operational view. The view enables the developer to specify device-user interactions as executable workflows and allows the device operations and user actions to be experimented with and their correctness ascertained throughout the design, development and assessment process. After describing the elements and usages of the model, the paper presents a simulation environment for this purpose. Copyright @ April 2007 Submitted to ACM EMSOFT 2007 Component Model for SISARL Devices and Systems T. Y. Chen, P. H. Tsai, T. S. Chou National Tsing-Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan +886-2-2788-3799 {yen, peipei}@iis.sinica.edu.tw J. W. S. Liu, A. Thamizhmani Academia Sinica Box 128, Academia Road, Sec. 2 Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan +886-919-36-4433 {janeliu}@iis.sinica.edu.tw C. S. Shih, T. W. Kuo National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan