Composition Process Based on Heterogeneous Software Entities for Mobile Applications

Abstract

Despite the plethora of available mobile applications (apps) with theirs different implementations forms (e.g. Component, service, or app) the user's needs differ from user to another. Moreover, the mobile devices are characterized by heterogeneous software and hardware configurations. Thus, an important challenge in the development of mobile apps is their deployment in the heterogeneous devices available on the market. To tackle these challenges, there is a need for a composition process to reuse existing heterogeneous entities for developing mobile apps according to user's requirements and that the behavior of the desired apps can be customized according to theirs various context information. In this paper we address this issue by proposing context-aware mobile apps composition process based-on existing heterogeneous software entities.