Abstract: Contemporary computing infrastructure, such as networking stacks, OS and middleware, are made up of layers of software functionality to support the broadest range of applications. The feature richness and the layers of functionality, however, tend to be a source of performance overhead for cyber physical systems. The paper presents an approach to systematically specialize general-purpose middleware based on the principles of feature-oriented software development. It requires deducing an algebraic structure of contemporary middleware based on a higher level of abstraction of features. The paper showcases how origami matrices and generative programming can play a key role in realizing the specializations.

Key words: computing infrastructure, feature-oriented software development, origami matrices, features