NDLI: A Domain-Specific Language for Ubiquitous Healthcare

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Munnelly, J. Clarke, S.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Trinity Coll. Dublin, Dublin (Munnelly, J.; Clarke, S.)
Abstract	The development of ubiquitous healthcare applications has proved to be significantly more complex than traditional healthcare applications. In software engineering research, there are two approaches of interest to us for handling the kind of complexity that emerges. The first is the use of domain-specific languages, which abstracts the low-level domain knowledge required when using general-purpose programming languages into more expressive domain-specific constructs. The second is advanced modularity techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming, that provide for modularisation of concerns that complicate code by cutting across a broad code base and tangling with other concerns. In this paper, we identify a set of ubiquitous healthcare concerns that complicate their software development. We use advanced modularity techniques to provide good separation of these concerns and encapsulate their behaviour within a new domain-specific language, ALPH that provides the application developer with a high level of abstraction. The result is a means to develop ubiquitous healthcare applications more easily and in a more timely fashion, while improving software quality by increasing modularity in the code.
Starting Page	757
Ending Page	762
File Size	2187955
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424420209
DOI	10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783710
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-10-06
Publisher Place	Egypt
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Encapsulation Ubiquitous Healthcare Medical services Quality of service Ubiquitous computing Educational institutions Application software Domain specific languages Computer languages Domain-Specific Languages Software quality Abstracts Programming Languages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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