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BPMDS 2015, EMMSAD 2015: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling pp 360–375Cite as

Designing Software Ecosystems: How Can Modeling Techniques Help?

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Abstract

It has become an increasingly common practice for software companies to collaborate with external developers in order to develop software platforms for a shared market, constituting software ecosystems. Creating and sustaining a software ecosystem is a challenging problem that involves numerous technical, organizational, and business concerns. To support the systematic design of software ecosystems, modeling is a crucial tool. In this paper, we (a) identify a set of descriptive and analytical requirements raised in the design of software ecosystems; (b) review several modeling techniques used for describing and examining software ecosystems; and (c) assess the support of the reviewed techniques towards addressing the identified requirements. The results provide insight into the gaps between the issues raised in the design of software ecosystems, and the coverage of the studied techniques, suggesting an agenda for future research.

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  • Software ecosystems
  • Design
  • Modeling
  • Analysis
  • Review

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Mahsa H. Sadi & Eric Yu

  2. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Eric Yu

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  2. Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  3. Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  4. Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal

    Sérgio Guerreiro

  5. Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Qin Ma

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H. Sadi, M., Yu, E. (2015). Designing Software Ecosystems: How Can Modeling Techniques Help?. In: Gaaloul, K., Schmidt, R., Nurcan, S., Guerreiro, S., Ma, Q. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2015 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 214. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19237-6_23

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