Supporting Different Roles and Responsibilities in Developing and Using Context-Based Adaptive Personalized Collaboration Environments Compliant to the Law.

Developing context-based adaptive applications that are compliant to the law require experts from different domains, e.g. software designer, developers, legal professionals, providers and users, and a tight collaboration between them. Software providers must be assured that the applications they serve to users run compliant to the law. Additionally, it is important to support users to act according to the law, e.g. when they upload content which may concern the Copyright Law. This aspect is also relevant to providers, because they are responsible for users’ legal breaches. To support users to act compliant to the law when using an application, it is important that they understand the current situation and the related consequences to the usage of the system. This paper presents a development and provisioning process for domain-specific context-based adaptive software applications. We define roles and responsibilities as well as artifacts that need to be specified in the different lifecycle phases of the process. Using the process, related stakeholders will be able to integrate legal regulations into context-based adaptive systems. We use a sample scenario, where Copyright Law and personalized explanations get relevant, to describe how legal experts support other stakeholders in the development process and how they can configure legal requirements and provide explanations. Our approach adds flexibility to the development and provisioning process, because only relevant regulations for a specific application have to be considered.