title: Reusing models of actors and services in smart homecare to improve sustainability.
abstract: Industrial countries are faced with a growing elderly population. Homecare systems with assistive smart house technology enable elderly to live independently at home. Development of such smart home care systems is complex and expensive and there is no common reference model that can facilitate service reuse. This paper proposes reusable actor and service models based on a model-driven development process where end user organizations and domain healthcare experts from four European countries have been involved. The models, specified using UML can be reused actively as assets in the system design and development process and can reduce development costs, and improve interoperability and sustainability of systems. The models are being evaluated in the European IST project MPOWER.
authors.affiliation: SINTEF ICT, Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Ståle
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Walderhaug
authors.forename: Erlend
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stav
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mikalsen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D005060:Europe; D005103:Expert Systems; D016330:Frail Elderly; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012656:Self-Help Devices; D012985:Software Design; D017432:Unified Medical Language System