@article {rofelopi, title = {Developing a Secure Mobile Grid System through a UML Extension}, journal = {Journal of Universal Computer Science}, volume = {16}, number = {17}, year = {2010}, month = {Sep 2010}, pages = {2333-2352}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {

The idea of developing software through systematic development processes toimprove software quality is not new. Nevertheless, there are still many information systemssuch as those of Grid Computing which are not developed through methodologies that areadapted to their most differentiating features. A systematic development process for Gridsystems that supports the participation of mobile nodes and incorporates security aspects intothe entire software lifecycle will thus play a significant role in the development of systemsbased on Grid computing. We are creating a development process for the construction ofinformation systems based on Grid Computing, which is highly dependent on mobile devices,in which security plays a highly important role. One of the activities in this process is that ofanalysis which is focused on ensuring that the system{\textquoteright}s security and functional requirements areelicited, specified and modelled. In our approach, this activity is driven by use cases andsupported by the reusable repository. This obtains, builds, defines and refines the use cases ofthe secure Mobile Grid systems which represent the functional and non-functional requirementsof this kind of systems. In this paper, we present the proposed development process throughwhich we introduce the main aspects of the UML profile defined for building use case diagramsin the mobile Grid context through which it is possible to represent specific mobile Gridfeatures and security aspects, showing in detail how to build use case diagrams for a real mobile Grid application by using our UML profile, denominated as GridUCSec-Profile.

}, issn = {0948-695x}, doi = {10.3217/jucs-016-17-2333}, author = {David G. Rosado and Eduardo Fernandez-Medina and Javier Lopez and Mario Piattini} }