The MUSIC project is a FP6 European Integrated Project that aims to develop a comprehensive open-source software development framework that facilitates the development of self-adapting, reconfigurable software that seamlessly adapts to the highly dynamic user and execution context, and maintains a high level usefulness across context changes.

 

For this purpose, the project comprises of the following components:

 

• A design methodology for self-adapting applications.A distributing system architecture, which provides a solid basis for the design and implementation of self-adapting applications in ubiquitous computing environments.

• A comprehensive open-source software development framework that facilitates the development of self-adapting, reconfigurable software that seamlessly adapts to the highly dynamic user and execution context and maintains a high level of usability and usefulness across the context changes.

• Enhanced modelling languages for the specification of context dependencies and adaptation capabilities, supported by model specification and validation tools.

• Middleware and infrastructure services supporting functionality that is 'commonly' needed in the type of adaptable mobile applications addressed in the project.

• A prototype test and simulation environments, to allow developers to observe and analyse the effects of context changes and adaptation and so be able to carry out adaptation training.

• The main contribution of Integrasys to the MUSIC project is focused on the development of trial services to test and validate the proposed solution and on the development of the Middleware services.

 

The partners in this project are SINTEF ICT, Appear Networks, Condat, Hewlett Packard, Integrasys, Mobicomp, SID2U.com, Telefonica I+D, Telecom Italia, RATP, European Media Lab, University of Cyprus, University of Kassel, Catholic University of Leuven, and University of Oslo.