The ARCADIA project, which is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 645372) and spans on the period January 2015 – December 2017, has published its first press release.
ARCADIA aims to design and validate a novel reconfigurable-by-design highly distributed applications development paradigm over programmable infrastructure.The proposed framework is going to rely on the design and development of a novel reactive software development paradigm for concurrent and highly distributed applications as well as the design and development of a holistic applications’ deployment and management framework over programmable infrastructure. The notion of breakdown of applications in a set of micro-services along with the definition of appropriate service chaining schemes that are used during the applications’ deployment and execution time is dominant within the project. Adoption of principles and techniques already available in novel software engineering paradigms as well as those evolved within the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) era are highly envisaged.
ARCADIA’s reference implementation and developed toolkits are going to facilitate application developers to design and develop infrastructural-agnostic applications and lead to the evolvement of novel and innovative paradigms for the deployment of advanced applications, boosting in this way their productivity as well as the competitiveness of the EU software development industry. It should be noted that validation of the designed and developed solutions within ARCADIA is going to be realized via three business-oriented use cases in the domains of “Quality of Service (QoS) and energy efficiency”, “security and privacy” and “Internet of Things (IoT) and emergency communications”. For more information, you can download the ARCADIA press release here.
