Towards a methodology for prosumer service provision in ambient intelligence scenarios

Ramón Alcarria¹⁺, Diego Martín², and Tomás Robles²

¹Dep. de Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
ramon.alcarria@upm.es

²Dep. de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

{diego.martin, tomas.robles}@upm.es

Abstract

The difficulty of finding flexible tools for creating prosumer services is translated into a lack of tools that take into account the prosumer role and also in the lack of information on service development methodologies considering cooperation between the roles of consumers, prosumers, software developers and domain experts. Service creation for ambient intelligence scenarios adds complexity to the service lifecycle. This paper proposes a methodology for the creation of a prosumer platform for ambient intelligence scenarios. We propose to treat these services as knowledge objects to use knowledge management techniques in the interaction between different roles (users, service consumers, prosumers, advanced prosumers, platform developers and domain experts), and the development of a service provisioning platform that allows the management of the service lifecycle through defined processes.

Keywords: prosumer, mobile service provision, SPEM, prosumerization, end-user development

+: Corresponding author: Ramón Alcarria
Departamento de Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avenida del Mediterráneo km 7,0, 28031 Madrid, Spain, Tel: +34-91-336-6487

IT Convergence Practice (INPRA), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 3-16, March 2015 [pdf]