Paper Info
Title
From applications to a software ecosystem platform: an exploratory study
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2536146.2536159
MEDES
Keywords
Field
DocType
main function,business process model,software ecosystem platform,exploratory study,current model,application diadia,main actor,evolution process,existing software system,software supply network,software ecosystem concept,software platform,software life cycle
Computer science,Package development process,Knowledge management,Software system,Software development process,Component-based software engineering,Software ecosystem,Software development,Software framework,Social software engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.42
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriella Costa140.42
Felyppe Silva240.42
Rodrigo Santos3496.52
Cláudia Werner4715.52
Toacy Oliveira5295.10