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The adoption of Model-driven Software Engineering (MDSE) to develop complex software systems in application domains like automotive and aerospace is being supported by the maturation of model-driven platforms and tools. However, empirical studies show that a wider adoption of MDSE technologies is still an issue. One limiting factor is related to the limited support for collaborative MDSE. This paper...
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a development paradigm that brings the benefits of increased automation to the software development cycle. The MDE community tries to promote MDE adoption by pushing models written in diagram-based languages, supported by extensive tooling. While there is increasing evidence that MDE facilitates the design of complex software, its level of acceptance by software developers...
The paper presents an ongoing research within a multidisciplinary collaboration aiming at improving information and tools to prepare local authorities, volunteers and citizens (at a municipal and/or inter-municipal level) to anticipate, cope with, resist against and recover from the impacts of hydro-geological hazards. In particular, the paper aims at presenting the general framework and first results...
DIVERSIFY is an EU funded project, which aims at favoring spontaneous diversification in software systems in order to increase their adaptive capacities. This objective is founded on three observations: software has to constantly evolve to face unpredictable changes in its requirements, execution environment or to respond to failure (bugs, attacks, etc.): the emergence and maintenance of high levels...
Software engineering projects are highly collaborative. Existing tools designed to support collaboration usually provide some specific service, and integration with other tools using data and events. However, Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments have traditionally been designed with different assumptions. The process is usually considered as the central aspect of the software project,...
DHS has recently established the Analytic Capability Development Working Group (ACDWG) whose aim is to reduce the lifecycle and capital investment costs of analytic efforts while continually enhancing the ability to inform decision-makers within mandated timeframes. Specifically, the working group is helping to develop a common analytic frameworks in order to address the challenges that users and...
Collaborative research has facilitated the development of distributed systems that provide users nontrivial access to geographically dispersed resources that are administered in multiple computer domains. The term grid computing is popularly used to refer to such distributed systems. Scientific simulations have traditionally been the primary benefactor of grid computing. The application of this technology...
The enterprises worldwide unify their business communication/collaboration channels in order to improve their employees' productivity, reduce the delays and costs associated with sharing of the business knowledge. Almost states that their employees use few different channels and applications for communication every day. However, the paradox is that more tools do not imply more effective collaboration...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) represent 90 % of all U.S. Enterprises and 99 % of all European Enterprises and are of high social and economic importance within the U.S. and Europe. Due to their limited resources, SME struggle with structural problems. A possible solution for SME is building networks to act on an extended resource base. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can act as...
The mobile Internet has come to permeate into everyday life. It is expected to accommodate a larger part of the digital economy in the near future. Mobile digital ecosystems have more complicated dynamisms due to the mobile-specific dependencies among their stake-holders. The author presents a framework for mobile digital ecosystems with an entity model, a dynamics model, and an acceptance model....
During realization of an eLearning platform, we discovered that there is a general interest in online communication and collaboration tools in different fields. There were frequent requests for adaptations of our system to further use cases beyond eLearning. In this paper, we present a general approach for online communication and collaboration which is supported by an especially developed platform...
With the growing number of botnet attacks, the botnet detection is becoming increasingly important for the network security. To enhance the existing botnet detection systems which are short of efficient information collection functions, this paper presents a collaborative information collection model with a new 5-tuple structural mode. In the model, we introduce the static and dynamic roles to meet...
The proposed complex logistics system is the theoretical innovation of supply chain management, Its research is still in the initial stage. Based on previous studies, this paper will continue to explore the concept, characteristics and structure of complex logistics system in theory; in application, sum up the characteristics of complexity simulation software Vensim, analyze the feasibility of using...
The paper describes a business reengineering process (BPR) approach to address multi-timezone (3-timezone or 3TZ) collaborative teamwork environments by combining the Holonic architecture with the Zachman Metamodel Framework. While the use of collaborative project systems is not new, the methodology to share time resources from different timezones seeks to address pedagogical and engineering process...
Industry trends in the United States have started to recognize the value of collaborative efforts in producing buildings, thus the growing popularity of design build and integrated practice models. In an academic setting there are no economic forces driving disciplines to unite in order to create more efficient and effective delivery models, but the rewards of teaching in a collaborative model are...
The outsourcing has become the hot spot of the current applied economics strategic management study for the developing countries, especially China. However, its theory's construction is still in the fumble stage, and the basic construction survey question of competitive ability of contract has become the key whether outsourcing behavior study turns into academic question. This research will analyze...
This paper firstly introduces the QualiPSo project, then it discusses ten knowledge creation principles for open source software (OSS) development. Finally three challenges for open source competence centers (OSCC) are put forward for discussion further. The ten knowledge creation principles are self-organizing, code sharing, dissemination and adaptation, ease of use, sustainability, talent, interaction,...
The willingness of non-programmers to develop or modify their software depends not only on using the right interfaces and programming model but also on users making positive judgment about the balance of benefits and costs such as learning time and errors. This paper reports on a questionnaire-based survey which charts this economic dimension of end-user development (EUD) within the area of task management...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
In this paper we present a digital learning ecosystem model, which similarly to nature ecosystems consists of species, populations and communities interacting with each other and with the environment. We believe that this model can help the design of new learning tools especially during the inception phase.
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