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Engineering Task-Automation Systems for Domain Specificity

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Abstract

Domain specificity is largely recognized as a means to foster the adoption of systems by specific communities of non-technical users. This paper presents an architecture for the development of Task-Automation Systems that can be customized in specific domains. It is one of the results of a human-centred design process we performed to support non-technical people to program the behaviour of smart objects by defining event-condition-action (ECA) rules. We illustrate the main modules of the proposed architecture, also describing how it supports the creation of ECA rules constrained by means of temporal and spatial conditions. Finally, we report on the development of a Task-Automation System customized by developing and comparing three different composition paradigms.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo Ardito & Giuseppe Desolda

  2. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20134, Milan, Italy

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Ardito, C., Desolda, G., Matera, M. (2018). Engineering Task-Automation Systems for Domain Specificity. In: Garrigós, I., Wimmer, M. (eds) Current Trends in Web Engineering. ICWE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74433-9_9

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