Self-Adaptive Healthcare Platforms Development: A Dynamic Product Line Approach Driven by Ontologies

Software reuse has been a fundamental and recurring problem in software engineering since its inception. Its main objective is to reduce software development and maintenance costs by facilitating the reuse of existing software components. Currently, the approach of software product lines and software architecture enables the simultaneous achievement of these objectives. The objectives include the development of a Healthcare dynamic product line and the identification of reusable components. This dynamic product line will later allow the generation of various applications based on user requirements. Additionally, we aim to construct a domain ontology that represents the feature model of e-health, determining the common functionalities and variabilities of software in this domain. The architecture is modeled following component-based principles to enhance reuse. In summary, our research project aims to address the challenges of software reuse by developing an e-health product line, constructing a domain ontology, and adopting a component oriented architecture.