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From applications to a software ecosystem platform: an exploratory study

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MEDES '13: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

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The essence of the software ecosystem concept encourages external developers to interact with a software platform, enabling them to contribute or evolve such platform. Trying to expand a product into a platform on which components, services and applications can be created, a company may provide the basis for an ecosystem and its life cycle. In this paper, we describe the evolution process of an application towards an ecosystem using current models and taking into account the reuse of an existing software system. The application DiaDia has been developed for smartphones and its main function consists in helping the treatment of diabetic patients. Two different models are used to discuss the transition of the application to an ecosystem: one is an adaptation of the Software Supply Network which represents the main actors that interact with the ecosystem, and the other covers the process of creating an application and its evolution to an ecosystem through Business Process Model and Notation.

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From applications to a software ecosystem platform: an exploratory study
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing industry
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software libraries and repositories

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MEDES '13: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

October 2013

358 pages

ISBN:9781450320047

DOI:10.1145/2536146

Conference Chairs:
Latif Ladid
University of Luxembourg Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Luxembourg
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Antonio Montes
Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer, Brazil
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Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria
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CNR, Italy
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Richard Chbeir
UPPA University, France

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