Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers

Creating, modifying and/or maintaining a software system is a time consuming and complex process. The digital ecosystem is a new concept introduced into the computer science and information systems world. New and already existing systems need to be integrated into these wider digital ecosystems. Her...

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Main Authors: McMeekin, David, Hadzic, Maja, Chang, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Okyay Kaynak
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34871
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description Creating, modifying and/or maintaining a software system is a time consuming and complex process. The digital ecosystem is a new concept introduced into the computer science and information systems world. New and already existing systems need to be integrated into these wider digital ecosystems. Here, it is crucial for the developer to understand the systems that need to be integrated to ensure that the modifications are effective and do not introduce new defects into the system. Developers need to be able to effectively model such systems to assist them in their system understanding, enabling them to create, modify and evolvethe system into the associated digital ecosystems. This paper proposes sequence diagrams be used to represent and model the collaborative nature of digital species within digital ecosystems to assist developer understanding and comprehension of these systems. An illustration from the health domain, specifically, anelectronic health records application is given. Also, a conjecture is also made within the paper that some software systems, in and of themselves, reflect and resemble the attributes and characteristics of a digital ecosystem.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-348712022-12-09T06:09:43Z Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers McMeekin, David Hadzic, Maja Chang, Elizabeth Okyay Kaynak Mukesh Mohania Creating, modifying and/or maintaining a software system is a time consuming and complex process. The digital ecosystem is a new concept introduced into the computer science and information systems world. New and already existing systems need to be integrated into these wider digital ecosystems. Here, it is crucial for the developer to understand the systems that need to be integrated to ensure that the modifications are effective and do not introduce new defects into the system. Developers need to be able to effectively model such systems to assist them in their system understanding, enabling them to create, modify and evolvethe system into the associated digital ecosystems. This paper proposes sequence diagrams be used to represent and model the collaborative nature of digital species within digital ecosystems to assist developer understanding and comprehension of these systems. An illustration from the health domain, specifically, anelectronic health records application is given. Also, a conjecture is also made within the paper that some software systems, in and of themselves, reflect and resemble the attributes and characteristics of a digital ecosystem. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34871 10.1109/DEST.2009.5276734 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle McMeekin, David
Hadzic, Maja
Chang, Elizabeth
Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers
title Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers
title_full Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers
title_fullStr Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers
title_full_unstemmed Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers
title_short Sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers
title_sort sequence diagrams: an aid for digital ecosystem developers
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34871