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E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems

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  • Ansem Ben Cheikh

    (LIG - Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, Grenoble University, Grenoble, France)

  • Agnès Front

    (LIG - Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, Grenoble University, Grenoble, France)

  • Jean-Pierre Giraudin

    (LIG - Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, Grenoble University, Grenoble, France)

  • Stéphane Coulondre

    (LIRIS - Informatics, Image and Information Systems Laboratory, Lyon University, Lyon, France)

Abstract

Ubiquity in Information Systems (ISs) is a new requirement widely expressed by customers and users due to emerging and evolving communication and mobile technologies. Each IS should support a set of mobile applications used either to interact smartly with the changing environment, to provide adaptive services to customers or both. Designing ISs with highly technological risks requires a precise and appropriate development process. However, such processes fail to consider ubiquitous requirements throughout the development process. This paper tries to solve this issue by proposing a process for identifying and modeling ubiquitous requirements that can be integrated into an existing IS engineering process. This process, called E-CARe, focuses on adapting to the surrounding context; this requires detailed specification and analysis work by a context designer. E-CARe uses an event-driven logic, as dynamicity and reactivity are the major properties required from ubiquitous applications. A Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach is used to automate specification work. In order to test the process, a case study from the intelligent transport domain is applied as an illustration.

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  • Ansem Ben Cheikh & Agnès Front & Jean-Pierre Giraudin & Stéphane Coulondre, 2013. "E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems," International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), IGI Global, vol. 4(3), pages 1-31, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jismd0:v:4:y:2013:i:3:p:1-31
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