Coloured Petri nets in development of a pervasive health care system

  • Authors:
  • Jens Bæk Jørgensen

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Pervasive Computing, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • ICATPN'03 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Applications and theory of Petri nets
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Pervasive computing implies new challenges for software developers. In addition to tackling common problems pertaining to IT systems in general, new issues like mobility and context-awareness must be dealt with. The contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) have potential as an aid in the development of pervasive systems. On a case study of a pervasive health care system for the hospitals in Aarhus, Denmark, we describe how CPN are applied in the everyday software development disciplines of requirements engineering and design. A number of the observations made in the case study are of a nature making them applicable to use of CPN in development of pervasive systems in general.