Title: 

OdMoMS: Multi-objective Miniaturization of Software

Abstract:

Smart phones, gaming  consoles, wireless routers are ubiquitous;  the increasing diffusion of such  devices with limited resources,  together with society's  unsatiated appetite for new applications, pushes companies to miniaturize their programs.  Miniaturizing a program for  a  hand-held device  is  a time-consuming  task  often  requiring complex  decisions. Companies  must accommodate conflicting constraints:  customers' satisfaction  may  be in conflict with a device's limited  storage and memory, application reliability is paramount as well  as performance. This talk  presents a process, OdMoMS,  for supporting developers porting applications on hand-held devices via multi-objective miniaturization.

The  process directs:  the  elicitation  of customer  pre-requirements,  their mapping  to program  features, the selection  of the  features to  port and  the evaluation  of needed computational power. The  talk also present preliminary results on  two case studies based on Pooka, an email client, and  SIP Communicator, an instant messenger to demonstrate that OdMoMS applicability.