A Domain Specific Language for High-Level Process Control Programming in Smart Buildings

Web services composition is a recurring idea in the field of smart residential environments (SRE), since it helps to solve complex problems such as energy saving, security control or health care by combining and orchestrating the available basic services. Smart environments are composed of networked devices (sensors and actuators) embedded within web services, which contain well-defined programming interfaces allowing them to share data, capture events and create composed control applications. There is still, however, a lack of domain specific languages (DSL) supporting a high degree of abstraction and transparency and allowing users to define control scenarios in a compact and comprehensible way. To satisfy these needs, the present paper aims to propose a DSL for describing scenarios to control SRE, with considerable gains in transparency, abstraction, expressiveness and simplicity. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.