Towards a Model-Driven Requirements Specification of Context-Aware Services

Author

Boudaa, Boudjemaa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ibn Khaldoun Univ., Tiaret, Algeria

fYear

2014

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

200

Abstract

Requirements Engineering (RE) represents the most intricate phase in software development process, especially for pervasive applications built on context-aware services (CASs) in which the context can affect requirements engineering process. Many researches that advocate model-driven development have been proposed to design and develop such kind of services. Unfortunately, most of them ignore this phase in their proposals for its difficulty. The present work introduces a model-driven approach specifying functional requirements of CASs in different context situations. An extended use case metamodel to cover context-awareness types is proposed, which constitute the Computation-Independent Model (CIM). Furthermore, the Platform-Independent Model (PIM) can be obtained by a Model-to-Model transformation based on a model elements mapping determined in this paper.

Keywords

formal specification; formal verification; software engineering; ubiquitous computing; CAS; CIM; PIM; RE; computation-independent model; context-aware services; extended use case metamodel; model element mapping; model-driven requirement specification; model-to-model transformation; pervasive applications; platform-independent model; requirements engineering; software development process; Adaptation models; Computational modeling; Computer integrated manufacturing; Context; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Unified modeling language; Computation-Independent Model; Context-Aware Service; Model-Driven Requirements Engineering; Use case;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), 2014 Tenth International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SITIS.2014.52

Filename

7081547