Section: Application Domains

Introduction

Building on our previous work, we are studying software development in the context of communication services, in their most general forms. That is, going beyond human-to-human interactions, and covering human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions. Software systems revolving around such forms of communications can be found in a number of areas, including telephony, pervasive computing, and assisted living; we view these software systems as coordinating the communication between networked entities, regardless of their nature, human, hardware or software. In this context, our three main application domains are pervasive computing, avionics and cognitive assistance.