Research Topics

My main fields of interest are concentrated on deployment and management of adaptive distributed applications. An embedded software system is reconfigurable when it can modify its behavior or its architecture. The reconfigurations are launched according to the evolution of context requirements and the variation of execution environment constraints. The constant growth of the complexity in embedded systems makes the reconfiguration more important and more difficult to achieve. The challenges concern as much the design model level as the runtime support level. The development of these systems according to the traditional processes is not more applicable in this context. New methods are necessary to conceive and to supply reconfigurable embedded software architectures. We aim to propose a model-oriented approach that enables to specify dynamic embedded software architectures with respect to non-functional properties. We aim also to propose a runtime support that enables to perform dynamic embedded applications generated from a high level of description.

Master's thesis

Modelling and Refinement of Dynamic Deployment of Distributed Software Architectures

Publications

International Conferences Articles

Fatma Krichen, Brahim Hamid, Bechir Zalila, and Bernard Coulette. Designing dynamic reconguration of distributed real time embedded systems. In Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTERE 2010), Tozeur, Tunisie, June 2010. IEEE Computer Society. [ BibTeX ]

Book Chapters

Mohamed Nadhmi Miladi, Fatma Krichen, Mohamed Jmaiel, and Khalil Drira. A UML based deployment and management modeling for cooperative and distributed applications. In Proceedings of the 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Monreal, Canada, May 2010. Springer. [ BibTeX, DOI ]

International Workshops

Fatma Krichen. Position paper: Advances in recongurable distributed real time embedded systems. In International workshop on Distributed Architecture modeling for Novel component based Embedded systems (DANCE 2010), Tozeur, Tunisie, May 2010. IEEE Computer Society. [ BibTeX ]

Educational activities

Teaching assistant
National School of Engineers of Sfax
Department of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (DGIMA)
University of Sfax-Tunisia