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Software testing plays a major role for engineering future systems that become more and more ubiquitous and also more critical for every days life. In order to fulfill the high demand, test automation is needed as a keystone. However, test automation, as it is used today, is counting on scripting and capture-and-replay and is not able to keep up with autonomous and intelligent systems. Therefore,...
Travelers mobility simulation is a powerful tool to test strategies in a virtual environment, without impacting the quality of the real traffic network. However, existing mobility multiagent and micro-simulations can only consider a sample of the real volumes of travelers, especially for big regions. With distributed simulations, it would be easier to analyze and predict the status of nowadays networks...
This article proposes a path for doing Data Science using browsers as computing and data nodes. This novel idea is motivated by the cross-fertilized fields of desktop grid computing, data management in grids and clouds, Web technologies such as NoSQL tools, models of interactions and programming models in grids, cloud and Web technologies. We propose a methodology for the modeling, analyzing, implementation...
The increasing diversity of end-devices used by users to access their applications and systems strengthens the need for device-independent methods for implementing these applications. The Device-Independent Architecture (DIA) is one of the available approaches to this problem, but it does not directly address the issue of user interface (UI) device-independency. This issue can be addressed by real-time...
A self-adaptive software aims at adjusting itself in response to changes at runtime while considering several important factors. To do this task, such a system should realize the adaptation process, which consists of four phases. Among those phases, we just focus on the deciding (planning) process, especially addressing adequate reflection of requirements to adaptation. In this paper, we represent...
Reusability of software artifacts reduces development time, effort, and error-proneness. Nevertheless, in the development of autonomic systems, developers often start from scratch when building a new system instead of reusing existing components. Many frameworks offer reusability on a higher level of abstraction, but neglect reusability on the lower component implementation level. In this short paper,...
Traditional meters present both the users and utilities providers with various challenges in developing countries. For instance utility providers must get access to their users' premises to be able to read these meters or check fraudulent connections. Users on the other hand have to wait for months or more before knowing their utility consumptions or join long queues to purchase credit for the post-payment...
Self-adaptive systems overcome many of the limitations of human supervision in complex software-intensive systems by endowing them with the ability to automatically adapt their structure and behavior in the presence of runtime changes. However, adaptation in some classes of systems (e.g., Safety-critical) can benefit by receiving information from humans (e.g., Acting as sophisticated sensors, decision-makers),...
The evolution of mobile technologies allows the emerging of ubiquitous systems, able to anticipate user needs and to seamlessly adapt to context changes. These systems present the problem of dynamic adaptation in a highly distributed, heterogeneous and volatile environment, since it may be difficult to collect and process context information from distributed unknown sources. In order to facilitate...
Cyber analysis is a difficult task for analysts due to huge amounts of noise-abundant monitoring data and increasing complexity of the reasoning tasks. Therefore, experience from experts can provide guidance for analysts' analytical reasoning and contribute to training. Despite its great potential benefits, experience has not been effectively leveraged in the existing reasoning support systems due...
Large-scale online service providers have been increasingly relying on geographically distributed cloud infrastructures for service hosting and delivery. In this context, a key challenge faced by service providers is to determine the locations where service applications should be placed such that the hosting cost is minimized while key performance requirements (e.g. response time) are assured. Furthermore,...
In this paper we describe our methodology for building context-aware applications. It supports a systematic definition, conception and development of the context-aware features of an application along the different phases of a software development process. Its application has helped us in the discussion and conception of these features in project teams with non-technical domain experts. A context...
REST has become a popular architectural style among service providers. It is considered as an easy way to design and consume Web services. REST can be realized as using HTTP PUT, POST, and GET operations. However, the focus on the implementation technique often leads to ignoring the original REST constraints and definitions proposed by R. Fielding. Thus, this way of thinking might result in misuse...
Provision of ubiquitous services is considered as an important source of revenue generation for future telecommunication operators. However, these services must be adaptable to a large variety of users within administrative networks. The request of such adaptations will be processed by various Adaptation Mechanisms (ADME) located in different parts of the administrative network; therefore ADMEs' selection...
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