Steps Towards Pervasive Software: Does Software Engineering Need Reengineering?

Dana Al Kukhun (1) , Florence Sèdes (1, 2)

1 IRIT-SIG - Systèmes d’Informations Généralisées
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

Nowadays, the definition of service is demanding machines to turn into human beings. In order to work efficiently, machines need to analyze current situations, perceive user needs and provide users with intelligent, automatic and proactive adaptation that responds to current contexts. System performance will be guaranteed only if we add new features to its behavior, such as: self-adaptation, self-organization, self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing and self-protecting. These challenging automated processes can produce proactive behavior if software engineers change the engineering logic and use the environment context as a solution instead of thinking about it as an obstacle.

Mots clés: pervasive systems; ubiquitous computing; software engineering; adaptation; context-awareness.

Domaines: Réseaux sociaux et d'information [cs.SI]

Dana Al Kukhun, Florence Sèdes. Steps Towards Pervasive Software: Does Software Engineering Need Reengineering?. 14th ISPE Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications (2007), Jul 2007, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. pp.143-150, ⟨10.1007/978-1-84628-976-7_16⟩. ⟨hal-03773764⟩