[...]... gyimi@inf.u-szeged.hu K.K Breitman, R.N Horspool (eds.), Patterns, Programming and Everything, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2350-7_3, © Springer-Verlag London 2012 19 20 V Bilicki et al 1 Introduction M2M (Machine-to-Machine) systems have recently gained new momentum thanks to the increasing availability of low-cost components, and to the growing demand for more automated and advanced user interaction with the surrounding... widget), but video and audio are stuttered and not synchronized with the current slide (Fig 1(2)) Upon reaching the airport Marco recharges his smartphone and he tries again to use the previously built widget mash-up and he is surprised to be able to enjoy video, audio and other multimedia content of the fully featured version (Fig 1(3)) As a result, Marco does not trust the e-learning service and judges it... Edition Applications are developed and deployed by using standard techniques and tools, such as the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit C HAMELEON can be used as it is; (ii) The Google’s Android OS uses the Dalvik virtual machine to run applications that are commonly written in a dialect of Java and compiled to the Dalvik bytecode Even though different, the Dalvik bytecode and the J2ME bytecode present many... aycock@ucalgary.ca K.K Breitman, R.N Horspool (eds.), Patterns, Programming and Everything, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2350-7_2, © Springer-Verlag London 2012 13 14 J Aycock in critical sections—like the living-room couch in front of the television and are seemingly oblivious to all attempts to remove them short of force majeure They consume massive resources, especially beer, and while the resources are eventually released,... Horspool (eds.), Patterns, Programming and Everything, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2350-7_1, © Springer-Verlag London 2012 1 2 M Autili et al dexes, responsiveness, etc.) of the components constituting the system and how they are assembled together, the goal of the dependability analysis is to predict the values of dependability attributes Following this line of research, architects, designers and developers... a set of agile and userfriendly extensions to Java for easily specifying generic code in a flexible and declarative way, while being close to the Java programming language The generic code consists of two parts, the core code and the adaptable code, and allows for specifying both the invariant semantics and the degree of variability of the application, respectively Concretely, the adaptable code provides... by taking into consideration the specified dependability and the context conditions Furthermore, the assembling process of MAUS can be no longer assumed to be handled by IT experts only Rather, end users play a crucial role prior to and after the composition process, and changes to their needs, as much as in context of use, should be adequately handled Note that, in principle, it might be possible to... directly built, requires a high level battery state-of-charge and a fast connection speed to properly work Unfortunately, considering the current network condition, only a (low-speed) GPRS connection can be established and, hence, the built system is able to only display slides with stuttered audio and video, and not synchronized video and audio Upon reaching the airport, the system Marco is using... controlling of IT systems is end user programming There are numerous approaches for enabling the end users to define the business logic starting with decision trees and ending with domain specific languages In order to enable the end user to program in the smart home we have ported the Drools toolkit and runtime, a well-known open source environment, to the Android platform, and we have integrated it with the... for implementing the e-learning client and server components This framework is fully implemented in Java [4, 5] and allows for developing context-aware applications that are adaptable to the resources offered by the execution environment and network, and to some (a priori specified) dependability requirements of the user Foreground: Marco takes up his smartphone and connects, through his elearning client, . x0 y0 w1 h0" alt="" Patterns, Programming and Everything Karin K. Breitman r R. Nigel Horspool Editors Patterns, Programming and Everything Editors Karin. relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at