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Towards a collaborative framework for the design and development of data-intensive mobile applications

Authors: Mirco Franzago, Henry Muccini, Ivano MalavoltaAuthors Info & Claims

MOBILESoft 2014: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

Pages 58 - 61

Published: 02 June 2014 Publication History

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Guidelines and best practices on how to design and develop mobile applications are being periodically released by mobile OS vendors, mobile developers, and researchers. Still, a framework that collects and integrates them in a simple, holistic, and automated approach is missing.

This work proposes a modelling framework supporting the collaborative design and development of data-intensive mobile applications. By using Model-Driven Engineering techniques, we define four modelling languages covering the main concerns coming from the mobile app development domain; the framework supports the analysis of models and the automated synthesis of executable mobile applications for multiple platforms. This paper provides an overall view of the modelling framework, and highlights its main features for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Towards a collaborative framework for the design and development of data-intensive mobile applications
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers

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MOBILESoft 2014: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

June 2014

108 pages

ISBN:9781450328784

DOI:10.1145/2593902

General Chair:
Tiziana Catarci
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Aharon Abadi
IBM Research, Israel
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Anthony I. Wasserman
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, USA

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