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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an established technology and has the potential, in a variety of applications, to significantly reduce cost and improve performance. RFID may dramatically change an organization’s capacity to obtain real-time information concerning the location and properties of tagged people or objects. However, simply adding RFID to an existing process is a losing proposition. The entire process should be reconsidered in order to take advantage of real-time inventory data and the near real-time tracking and management of inventory. As RFID-enabled applications will fulfill similar tasks across a range of processes adapted to use the data gained from RFID tags, they can be considered as software products derived from a common infrastructure and assets that capture specific abstractions in the domain. That is, it may be appropriate to design RFID-enabled applications as elements of a product line. This paper discusses product line architecture for RFID-enabled applications. In developing this architecture, common activities are identified among the RFID-enabled applications and the variability in the common activities is analyzed in detail using variation point concepts. A product line architecture explicitly representing commonality and variability is described using UML activity diagrams. Sharing a common architecture and reusing assets to deploy recurrent services may be considered an advantage in terms of economic significance and overall quality.
This work was supported by the Brain Korea 21 Project in 2007.
This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD) (The Regional Research Universities Program/Research Center for Logistics Information Technology).
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Moon, M., Yeom, K. (2007). Product Line Architecture for RFID-Enabled Applications . In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_50
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