X-Git-Url: https://git.martlubbers.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=introduction.tex;h=d2c34b5359198d0ec65167f41dbb643b2f5ce9f0;hb=707d0d237925bed908825196a0c4f553a3eac12c;hp=4352f6e594851f9c8a0eba26ac87083646f20ccc;hpb=7910fda15825b983fd6b1309b07872616cc6367b;p=msc-thesis1617.git diff --git a/introduction.tex b/introduction.tex index 4352f6e..d2c34b5 100644 --- a/introduction.tex +++ b/introduction.tex @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -\section{Motivation} +\section{Introduction} \Gls{TOP} and \gls{iTasks} have been designed to offer a high abstraction level -through a \gls{DSL} that describes workflows as \glspl{Task}. \gls{iTasks} has +through a \gls{EDSL} that describes workflows as \glspl{Task}. \gls{iTasks} has been shown to be useful in fields such as incident management~\cite{lijnse_top_2013}. However, there still lacks support for small devices to be added in the workflow. In principle such adapters can be written @@ -11,19 +11,16 @@ lifted \gls{iTasks} from a single server model to a distributed server architecture~\todo{Add cite} that is also runnable on smaller devices like \acrshort{ARM}. However, this is limited to fairly high performance devices that are equipped with high speed communication lines. Devices in \gls{IoT} -often only have LPLB communication with low bandwidth and a very limited amount -of processing power. \glspl{mTask} will bridge this gap. It can run on devices -as small as Arduino microcontrollers and operates via the same paradigms as -regular \glspl{Task}. The \glspl{mTask} have access to \glspl{SDS} and can run -small imperative programs. - -\section{Problem statement} -Therefore the problem statement is as follows: +often only have \gls{LTN} communication with low bandwidth and a very limited +amount of processing power. \glspl{mTask} will bridge this gap. It can run on +devices as small as Arduino microcontrollers and operates via the same +paradigms as regular \glspl{Task}. The \glspl{mTask} have access to \glspl{SDS} +and can run small imperative programs. \section{Document structure} The structure of the thesis is as follows. Chapter~\ref{chp:introduction} contains the problem statement, motivation and -the structure of the document +the structure of the document. Chapter~\ref{chp:methods} describes the foundations on which the implementation is built together with the new techniques introduced. Chapter~\ref{chp:results} shows the results in the form of an example