Authors:
Boris Shishkov
1
;
Marten van Sinderen
1
;
Kecheng Liu
2
and
Hui Du
3
Affiliations:
1
University of Twente, Netherlands
;
2
Informatics Research Centre, The University of Reading, United Kingdom
;
3
School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Keyword(s):
Business modelling, Application design, Context-Aware applications, Norm Analysis.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Semiotics
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
In this paper, we consider the challenge of designing context-aware applications, stressing especially on the usefulness of elaborating process models with semiotic norms. Such an elaboration can bring value in specifying and elaborating complex behaviors that may include alternative (context-driven) processes (we assume that a user context space can be defined and that each context state within this space corresponds to an alternative application service behavior). Hence, the main contribution of this paper comprises an adaptability-driven methodological support to the design of context-aware applications.