A Modeling Tool for Sensor-based Mobile Applications

Abstract

With the variety of the sensors on mobile devices, sensor-based mobile applications are constantly emerging. Usually, it is necessary to model sensor-based mobile applications, and the modeling requires the domain metamodels and the modeling tools. This paper presents a set of the modeling concepts from the aspects of sensor data perception, sensor data understanding, and sensor data processing, and then builds a metamodel with UML profile mechanism. Moreover, the paper proposes a modeling tool architecture and discusses the design and implementation of key modules in the architecture based on this metamodel. According to the metamodel, architecture, and key modules, the developers can build the tools to model sensor-based mobile applications and generate key code to greatly improve the development productivity and quality of the applications.