2 \Gls{TOP
} and
\gls{iTasks
} have been designed to offer a high abstraction level
3 through a
\gls{EDSL
} that describes workflows as
\glspl{Task
}.
\gls{iTasks
} has
4 been shown to be useful in fields such as incident
5 management~
\cite{lijnse_top_2013
}. However, there still lacks support for small
6 devices to be added in the workflow. In principle such adapters can be written
7 as
\glspl{SDS
}\footnote{Similar as to resources such as time are available in
8 the current
\gls{iTasks
} implementation
} but this requires a very specific
9 adapter to be written for every device and functionality. Oortgiese et al.\
10 lifted
\gls{iTasks
} from a single server model to a distributed server
11 architecture~
\todo{Add cite
} that is also runnable on smaller devices like
12 \acrshort{ARM
}. However, this is limited to fairly high performance devices
13 that are equipped with high speed communication lines. Devices in
\gls{IoT
}
14 often only have LPLB communication with low bandwidth and a very limited amount
15 of processing power.
\glspl{mTask
} will bridge this gap. It can run on devices
16 as small as Arduino microcontrollers and operates via the same paradigms as
17 regular
\glspl{Task
}. The
\glspl{mTask
} have access to
\glspl{SDS
} and can run
18 small imperative programs.
20 \section{Document structure
}
21 The structure of the thesis is as follows.
22 Chapter~
\ref{chp:introduction
} contains the problem statement, motivation and
23 the structure of the
document.
24 Chapter~
\ref{chp:methods
} describes the foundations on which the implementation
25 is built together with the new techniques introduced.
26 Chapter~
\ref{chp:results
} shows the results in the form of an example
27 application accompanied with implementation.
28 Chapter~
\ref{chp:conclusion
} concludes by answering the research question (s)
29 and discusses future research.
30 Appendix~
\ref{app:communication-protocol
} shows the concrete protocol used for
31 communicating between the server and client.
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