Serenoa Theoretical framework

The Theoretical ground of the Serenoa Project is structured in three main components: a Context-aware Reference Framework (CARF), a Context-aware Design Space (CADS) and a Context-aware Reference Ontology (CARFO). The CARF provides to stakeholders the core concepts for defining and implementing adaptive and adaptable systems. The CADS provides means to analyse, evaluate and compare multiple applications regarding their coverage level of adaptation, especially concerning certain specific dimensions (such as: modality types). The CARFO not only formalizes the core concepts defined by CARF and their relationships, but also enables the request and retrieval of relevant information for defining and executing the adaptation process. Both industrial and scientific domains can benefit of these theoretical models, once they provide support for the whole development life-cycle of adaptive and adaptable