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E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems

E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems

Ansem Ben Cheikh, Agnès Front, Jean-Pierre Giraudin, Stéphane Coulondre
Copyright: © 2013 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 31
ISSN: 1947-8186|EISSN: 1947-8194|EISBN13: 9781466634572|DOI: 10.4018/jismd.2013070101
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Ben Cheikh, Ansem, et al. "E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems." IJISMD vol.4, no.3 2013: pp.1-31. http://doi.org/10.4018/jismd.2013070101

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Ben Cheikh, A., Front, A., Giraudin, J., & Coulondre, S. (2013). E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems. International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), 4(3), 1-31. http://doi.org/10.4018/jismd.2013070101

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Ben Cheikh, Ansem, et al. "E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems," International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD) 4, no.3: 1-31. http://doi.org/10.4018/jismd.2013070101

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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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