MOBICHARTS: A Notation to Specify Mobile Computing Applications

A standard notation, that unambiguously expresses different aspects of a system, is important to the process of software development. The expressiveness of a standard notation helps analysts and developers to describe a computing scenario or to formulate software architecture and then to communicate these decisions unambiguously to other team members. Much attention is already given to the software development methodologies and architectural descriptions. Specifically, Statecharts and state transition diagrams have been used to show the state space of a system, the events that cause state transitions and the actions that result from a state change. The paradigm shift to object-oriented programming has changed the method of system analysis and design from traditional top-down approach to bottom-up object-oriented approach. This change in approach has motivated the development of Objectcharts that depict the behavior of objects used in a system. This paper extends the notational capabil...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Satyajit Acharya, Hrushikesha Mohanty, R. K. Shyamasundar
• Keywords: Biometrics, HICSS 2003, Mobile Computing, Mobile Computing Applications, Standard Notation, System Sciences