Model Driven Development based Framework for Autonomic Mobile Commerce Engineering

  • Authors:

  • Yousef Abuseta;A. Taleb-Bendiab

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK;School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce: Proceedings of TAMoCo 2009
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Mobile Commerce is composed of applications and services that are accessible from Internet-enabled mobile devices such as phones and PDAs. However, this device and location independent accessibility has brought a set of technical challenges that needs to be addressed so mobile devices users can make business and use different services in an easy and secure environment. Such challenges may include guaranteed service provision, assurance, and security. To overcome and address the latter challenges, we propose in this paper an autonomic computing based framework that serves as a complete lifecycle process for autonomic mobile commerce development. Such s framework is compliant with the Model Driven Development (MDD) approach to minimise the technology change effect and to include the domain expert in the design loop. Since a set of models is involved, one for each stage and these models are very likely to be modified in order for the system under study to evolve and respond to some events, a synchronisation mechanism should be put in place to maintain the stability and integrity characteristics. A model synchronisation framework is presented here which is based on the autonomic computing idea where the model at any stage is treated as a managed element. The model here is also seen as a service that can be queried to view some specific information and enables (via the sensing and actuation layer in this case) making required changes and modifications.