CNAO Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Pavia University, Biomedical Informatics Lab "Mario Stefanelli", Pavia, Italy
The Italian National Hadrontherapy Center (CNAO) is a particle treatment and research center equipped with a synchrotron accelerator. The configuration and support environment of CNAO’s control system, originally designed in 2003, is currently being upgraded to incorporate mobile devices. As part of the technological upgrade, a product line architecture has been designed with intent to define application scope, reusability of core assets, and specification of variation points. Implementation and compliance with the product line architecture aims at reducing application’s development time, improving reliability, and aiding medical certification procedures. However, definition and compliance with the architecture comes with considerable overhead development costs. In order to assist the development of new environment applications, a visual wizard has been developed to create customized base applications. This paper presents the challenges encountered and description of the product line architecture for the upgraded configuration and support environment. Alongside, we also describe the Wizard Generator, currently implemented applications, and planned application validation.
