Adaptation of automotive infotainment interfaces using static and dynamic adapters

Abstract

Software adaptation is a promising approach to building flexible interfaces for variable software systems. In this contribution we present a novel adapter modeling approach. The key idea is to split the adapter model into two parts. The first, the static adapter model, addresses the most usual adaptations in an easy way. The second, the dynamic adapter model, may be used for complex behavioral adaptations including timing and parallelism. Additionally we show how both models are merged in order to obtain and validate the overall adapter behavior. We apply the approach to an in-vehicle infotainment system and show a practical realization of the models.