A Domain-Specific Language for Ubiquitous Healthcare

Munnelly, Jennifer; Clarke, Siobhán

doi:10.1109/icpca.2008.4783710

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“…In (Brandtzaeg et al, 2012) is presented a DSL aimed at facilitating the deployment of applications, based on a component model of the environment used to locate the architecture nodes where business logic can be leveraged. ALPH (Munnelly and Clarke, 2008) is a DSL for ubiquitous healthcare that focuses on three concerns: mobility, by helping users to manage frequent devices disconnections; context-awareness to adapt application behaviour to environmental changes; and infrastructure, for managing the heterogeneity of communication protocols. Midgar (García et al, 2014) offers a visual interface to support end-users in controlling interconnected devices and generate the glue application making these devices interoperate.…”

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Towards User-centric DSLs to Manage IoT Systems

Amrani

Gilson²,

Debieche

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

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Hidden behind the Internet of Things (IoT), many actors are activelly filling the market with devices and services. From this profusion of actors, a large amount of technologies and APIs, sometimes proprietary, are available, making difficult the interoperability and configuration of systems for IoT technicians. In order to define and manipulate devices deployed in domestic environments, we propose IoTDSL, a Domain-Specific Language meant to specify, assemble and describe the behaviour of interconnected devices. Relying on a high-level rule-based language, users in charge of the deployment of IoT infrastructures are able to describe and combine in a declarative manner structural configurations as well as event-based semantics for devices. This way, language users are freed from technical aspects, playing with high-level representations of devices, while the complexity of the concrete implementation is handled in a dedicated layer where high-level rules are mapped to vendor's API.

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Towards User-centric DSLs to Manage IoT Systems

Amrani

Gilson²,

Debieche

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

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“…A DSL called ALPH for ubiquitous healthcare is presented in [ 39 ]. It aims to cover the following: (i) mobility, by assisting users concerning devices disconnections; (ii) context-awareness regarding the adaptation to environmental changes of the application behaviour; and (iii) infrastructure, aiming to control the communication protocol heterogeneity.…”

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A DSL-Based Approach for Detecting Activities of Daily Living by Means of the AGGIR Variables

Ramírez

Roose

Dalmau

et al. 2021

Sensors

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In this paper, we propose a framework for studying the AGGIR (Autonomie Gérontologique et Groupe Iso Ressources—Autonomy Gerontology Iso-Resources Groups) grid model, with the aim of assessing the level of independence of elderly people in accordance with their capabilities of performing daily activities as well as interacting with their environments. In order to model the Activities of Daily Living (ADL), we extend a previously proposed Domain Specific Language (DSL), by defining new operators to deal with constraints related to time and location of activities and event recognition. The proposed framework aims at providing an analysis tool regarding the performance of elderly/disabled people within a home environment by means of data recovered from sensors using a smart-home simulator environment. We perform an evaluation of our framework in several scenarios, considering five of the AGGIR variables (i.e., feeding, dressing, toileting, elimination, and transfers) as well as health-care devices for tracking the occurrence of elderly activities. The results demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed framework for managing the tracked records correctly and, thus, generate the appropriate event information related to the ADL.

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“…Specially crafted external DSLs require their own parsers, interpreter or compilers, while internal DSLs are built on top of an existing programming language (called the host language), allowing them to reuse the host language's infrastructure including IDEs and compilers [Mernik et al 2005]. DSL are a common practice in software engineering as several examples show [Arnold et al 1995;Groote et al 1995;Thibault et al 1997;Latry et al 2007;Munnelly and Clarke 2008].…”

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Design principles for internal domain-specific languages

Günther

Cleenewerck

2010

Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

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and Thomas Cleenewerck, Software Language Engineering Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Some programming languages, especially dynamic programming languages, offer suitable mechanisms for the construction of internal domain-specific languages (DSL). Internal DSLs inherit the facilities of their host language such as the availability of libraries, frameworks, tool support, and other DSLs. When developing an internal DSL, there are two challenges. First, to cope with the host language's syntactic and semantic restrictions. Careful and thoughtful extensions and modifications of the host language are crucial to overcome these restrictions without reverting to poor language design. Second, to support several design principles that are genuine for a DSL. Although there is an extensive body of knowledge about DSL design principles and desirable quality properties, it remains difficult to apply them, or to reason about whether a particular DSL exhibits specific desirable principles. Our objective is to put the two perspectives together. We research the most important design principles of a DSL and show how different patterns can be used to support these principles. This allows us to produce an extensive pattern catalog which is the foundation of principled approach for designing internal DSLs. The patterns can be used to assess the design quality of a DSL and structure its implementation. In particular, we show a complex DSL example illustrating each principle and the corresponding patterns. While we stick to Ruby for the explanation and application of the patterns, we also name known uses in Python, Scala, and Smalltalk. Patterns are explained with their context, problem, forces, solution, and consequences. We also explain the patterns with the classical structure of intent, motivation, forces, implementation and their consequences. Finally we reflect upon the pattern utilization by discussing their strengths and weaknesses.

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A Domain-Specific Language for Ubiquitous Healthcare

Cited by 10 publications

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Towards User-centric DSLs to Manage IoT Systems

Towards User-centric DSLs to Manage IoT Systems

A DSL-Based Approach for Detecting Activities of Daily Living by Means of the AGGIR Variables

Design principles for internal domain-specific languages

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