Integrated Component-Based Framework for Effective and Flexible Telematics Application Development

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are considered today as a factor, which will transform and shape society profoundly in the future, by bringing solutions to a number of societal problems such as the stagnation of economic activities, threats to the environment and the lack of good healthcare and education for large parts of the world’s population. This rapid change and development of technology and organisational business processes result in many benefits but also in some problems and important consequences. The biggest challenge organizations that deploy and use software-intensive systems face today is how to manage the complexity inherent in the systems they are deploying, while at the same time being able to rapidly adapt to changes, without breaking the connection with previous knowledge and experience. This combination of complexity and changes provides the greatest risk to successful system deployment [Brown, 2000].