research-article

On the role of software process modeling in software ecosystem design

Authors:

Oskar Pettersson,

Martin Svensson,

Jesper Andersson,

Marcelo MilradAuthors Info & Claims

ECSA '10: Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume

Pages 103 - 110

https://doi.org/10.1145/1842752.1842778

Published: 23 August 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Software Ecosystems (SECOs) have in recent years emerged as a promising approach for improved inter and intra organizational reuse and for reusability involving end-users in the software development process. Understanding the software's role in a larger perspective and how it interconnects with stakeholders is key for progress in those directions. However, for SECOs, several theoretical and methodological gaps remain to be charted. This paper identifies one such gap, the need for precise process modeling. It elaborates on experiences gained from the analysis of a SECO for mobile learning and brings up several aspects and insights for this particular domain. The main contributions are an initial reference model for the mobile learning domain and an outline for an analysis method for domain specific SECOs.

References

[1]

I. Bittencourt, E. Costa, S. Isotani, R. Mizoguchi, and I. Bittencourt. Towards a Reference Model to Semantic Web-based Educational Systems. In Workshop on Semantic Web and Education, Fortaleza, Brazil. Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education, pages 1--10, 2008.

[2]

J. Bosch and P. Bosch-Sijtsema. From integration to composition: On the impact of software product lines, global development and ecosystems. Journal of Systems and Software, 83(1):67--76, 2010.

Digital Library

[3]

J. Brodo. Today's Ecosystem of e-learning. Trainer Talk, Professional Society for Sales & Marketing Training, 3(4), 2006.

[4]

H. Demirkan, M. Goul, and M. Gros. A Reference Model for Sustainable E-Learning Service Systems: Experiences with the Joint University/Teradata Consortium. Journal of Innovative Education, 8(1):151--189, 2010.

[5]

D. Frohberg. Mobile Learning is Coming of Age: What we have and what we still miss. In Proceedings of DeLFI, pages 327--338, 2006.

[6]

D. Frohberg, C. Göth, and G. Schwabe. Mobile Learning projects - a critical analysis of the state of the art. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25(4):307--331, 2009.

[7]

IEEE. Systems and software engineering - software life cycle processes (iso/iec 12207:2008(e)), Feb 2008.

[8]

S. Jansen, A. Finkelstein, and S. Brinkkemper. A sense of community: A research agenda for software ecosystems. In 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 187--190, 2009.

[9]

M. L. Kool. A model for framing mobile learning. From book Mobile learning: Transforming the delivery of education and training, pages 25--47. 2009.

[10]

Object Management Group (OMG). Software process engineering metamodel (spem) 2.0., 2008.

[11]

L. Osterweil. Software processes are software too. In ICSE '87: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software Engineering, pages 2--13, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 1987. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Digital Library

[12]

O. Pettersson. Software ecosystems and e-learning: recent developments and future prospects. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, pages 427--431. ACM, 2009.

Digital Library

[13]

O. Pettersson and D. Gil. On the issue of resuability and adaptability in Mobile Learning. In IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, pages 161--165, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2010.

Digital Library

[14]

H. Sharp, A. Finkelstein, and G. Galal. Stakeholder identification in the requirements engineering process. Proceedings. Tenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 99, pages 387--391, 1999.

Digital Library

[15]

D. Spikol, A. Kurti, and M. Milrad. Collaboration in Context as a Framework for Designing Innovative Mobile Learning Activities. From book Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies., pages 172--196. IDEA GROUP INC., 2008.

[16]

J. Traxler. Learning in a Mobile Age. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 1(March):1--12, 2008.

[17]

J. Traxler. Current state of mobile learning. From book Mobile learning: Transforming the delivery of education and training, pages 9--24. 2009.

[18]

B. Vogel, D. Spikol, A. Kurti, and M. Milrad. Integrating Mobile, Web and Sensory Technologies to Support Inquiry-Based Science Learning. In IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, 2010.

Digital Library

Cited By

Oyewale CAbolade AOyewumi O(2023)Effective Working Environment and Factor for A Software Engineer in Companies That Are Not ICT BasedProceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3588001.3609381(155-158)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588001.3609381
Vegendla ADuc AGao SSindre G(2021)A Systematic Mapping Study on Requirements Engineering in Software EcosystemsResearch Anthology on Recent Trends, Tools, and Implications of Computer Programming10.4018/978-1-7998-3016-0.ch056(1202-1226)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3016-0.ch056
Steglich CMajdenbaum AMarczak SSantos R(2020)A Study on Organizational IT Security in Mobile Software Ecosystems Literature2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C)10.1109/ICSA-C50368.2020.00047(234-241)Online publication date: Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C50368.2020.00047
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

On the role of software process modeling in software ecosystem design
1. Software and its engineering

Recommendations

Formalizing software ecosystem modeling
IWOCE '09: Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Open component ecosystems

Currently there is no formal modeling standard for software ecosystems that models both the ecosystem and the environment in which software products and services operate. Major implications are (1) software vendors have trouble distinguishing the ...
Software ecosystem modeling: the value chains
MEDES '13: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

The software ecosystem is providing a new way of interpreting the software industry. Primarily, software ecosystem modeling, one of the most studied areas in the software ecosystem domain, is an emerging field. However, modeling software ecosystems ...
Applying agent technology to software process modeling and process-centered software engineering environment
SAC '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing

The software processes can be analyzed, designed, and maintained as if it is a piece of software. This view enables the application of software engineering technologies to software process modeling (SPM) and process-centered software engineering ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

ECSA '10: Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume

August 2010

367 pages

ISBN:9781450301794

DOI:10.1145/1842752

Conference Chair:
Ian Gorton
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
,
Editor:
Carlos E. Cuesta
Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
,
Program Chair:
Muhammad Ali Babar
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Copyright © 2010 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

SAS
FIRST

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 23 August 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

ECSA '10

Sponsor:

ECSA '10: 4th European Conference on Software Architecture

August 23 - 26, 2010

Copenhagen, Denmark

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 48 of 72 submissions, 67%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

27
Total Citations
View Citations
538
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)9
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 25 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Oyewale CAbolade AOyewumi O(2023)Effective Working Environment and Factor for A Software Engineer in Companies That Are Not ICT BasedProceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3588001.3609381(155-158)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588001.3609381
Vegendla ADuc AGao SSindre G(2021)A Systematic Mapping Study on Requirements Engineering in Software EcosystemsResearch Anthology on Recent Trends, Tools, and Implications of Computer Programming10.4018/978-1-7998-3016-0.ch056(1202-1226)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3016-0.ch056
Steglich CMajdenbaum AMarczak SSantos R(2020)A Study on Organizational IT Security in Mobile Software Ecosystems Literature2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C)10.1109/ICSA-C50368.2020.00047(234-241)Online publication date: Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C50368.2020.00047
Afonso AChueri LSantos R(2020)Business Process Management in Digital and Software Ecosystems: A Systematic Mapping Study2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C)10.1109/ICSA-C50368.2020.00046(226-233)Online publication date: Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C50368.2020.00046
Coutinho ESantos IMoreira LBezerra CMachado ISouza RMaciel RSant'Anna C(2019)A Report on the Teaching of Software Ecosystems in Software Engineering DisciplineProceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3350768.3351302(130-139)Online publication date: 23-Sep-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3350768.3351302
Steglich CMarczak SGuerra LMosmann LPerin MFilho Fde Souza C(2019)Revisiting the mobile software ecosystems literatureProceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and 13th Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems and Systems-of-Systems10.1109/SESoS/WDES.2019.00015(50-57)Online publication date: 28-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SESoS/WDES.2019.00015
Vegendla ADuc AGao SSindre G(2018)A Systematic Mapping Study on Requirements Engineering in Software EcosystemsJournal of Information Technology Research10.4018/JITR.201801010411:1(49-69)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/JITR.2018010104
Abdalla AStröele VCampos FDavid JBraga R(2018)Software Ecosystem Platform for Recommendation SystemsProceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems10.1145/3229345.3229418(1-9)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229345.3229418
Hewapathirana RAmarakoon PBraa J(2018)Open Source Software Ecosystems in Health Sector: A Case Study from Sri LankaInformation and Communication Technologies for Development10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_7(71-80)Online publication date: 30-Jan-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_7
Coutinho EViana Ddos Santos RChechik MRuscio DRumpe B(2017)An exploratory study on the need for modeling software ecosystemsProceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Modelling in Software Engineering10.5555/3104068.3104081(47-53)Online publication date: 20-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3104068.3104081
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten