E-CARe: A Process for Engineering Ubiquitous Information Systems

Ansem Ben Cheikh, Agnès Front, Jean-Pierre Giraudin and Stéphane Coulondre
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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

International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), 2013, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-31

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.

Date: 2013
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