Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004. / Thesis Advisor(s): Douglas E. Brinkley. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-118). Also available online.

Esta tese aborda o problema de prover a independência de plataforma em transformações de modelos no contexto da MDA (Model Driven Architecture). A MDA é uma abordagem de desenvolvimento de software baseada na criação e na transformação de modelos. Assim, em MDA os modelos são os principais artefatos ao longo do ciclo de vida de desenvolvimento de software e as transformações desempenham um papel fundamental. No entanto, a maioria das iniciativas MDA são dedicadas, isto é, as características da plataforma são implicitamente especificadas nas regras de transformação. À medida que os aspectos ligados à plataforma não são separados das regras de transformação, para cada plataforma selecionada deve haver uma transformação de modelos correspondente. Por um lado, isto facilita o desenvolvimento de transformações de modelo. Por outro lado, a transformação torna-se limitada a uma plataforma específica, uma vez que os recursos da plataforma estão fortemente associados com as regras de transformação. Um dos desafios consiste em criar regras de transformação independentes das características da plataforma de implementação de sistemas de software. Esta tese propõe um método para a criação de transformações de modelo chamado PI-MT (Platform Independent - Model Transformations). O PI-MT é voltado ao desenvolvimento de software embarcado baseado em Sistemas Operacionais em Tempo-Real (RTOS - Real-Time Operating System). Além disso, o método permite a adaptação de transformações de modelos para diferentes plataformas baseadas em RTOS, por meio de modelos de plataforma explicitamente definidos. Como resultado, o método de PI-MT oferece independência entre as regras de transformação e as características da plataforma. / This thesis deals with the platform-independence matter in the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) context. MDA is an approach to software development based on the design and transformation of models. In the MDA approach models are the core artifacts throughout the entire software development lifecycle, and thus a key role is played by model transformations. Nevertheless, most MDA initiatives are dedicated, i.e., the platform features are implicitly employed in the transformation rules. As the aspects associated with the platform are not separated from the transformation rules, for each selected platform there must be a corresponding model transformation. On the one hand, this makes the model transformation development easier. On the other hand, model transformation becomes limited to a specific platform, once the platform features are strongly associated with the transformation rules. An open challenge consists of how to create transformation rules independently of the deployment platform features of software systems. This thesis proposes a method for creating model transformations, called PI-MT (Platform Independent - Model Transformations). The PI-MT is particularly applied to embedded software development based on Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS). In addition, it allows the adaptation of the model transformation process to different RTOS-based platforms by means of Platform Models explicitly defined. As a result, the PI-MT method provides independence between the model transformation rules and the platform features.

Orientador: Roberta Spolon / Banca: José Remo Ferreira Brega / Banca: Sarita Mazzini Bruschi / Resumo: Devido a queda gradual no custo de aquisição de novos computadores, há cada vez mais dispositivos computacionais adentrando o mercado. A grande quantidade de novos dispositivos gera heterogeneidade entre eles e esta dificulta a administração de ambientes computacionais, pois é necessário manter os sistemas funcionando em compatibilidade com dispositivos bastante distintos simultaneamente. O sistema WSE-OS propõe uma solução de centralização de dados e recursos que aborda o problema da heterogeneidade de maneira eficaz. Fazendo uso da tecnologia wireless a ferramenta WSE-OS utiliza uma estrutura Thin Client que permite aos seus clientes executarem instanciações de sistemas operacionais virtualizados armazenados no servidor. Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta que altera a estrutura do WSE-OS incluindo a capacidade de operar com múltiplos servidores, tendo como objetivo aumentar a escalabilidade, disponibilidade e confiabilidade da ferramenta por meio de técnicas de replicação do servidor e escalonamento das conexões. A replicação de dados consiste em detectar as alterações sofridas nos dados contidos em um determinado servidor e transmiti-las aos demais priorizando a consistência entre as réplicas. O escalonamento de conexões funciona ativamente distribuindo os clientes dentre os servidores para melhorar o desempenho da ferramenta / Abstract: Due to a gradual decrease in the cost of purchasing new computers, there is more and more computing devices entering the market. The large quantity of new devices creates heterogeneity among them and this complicates the administration of computing environments, because is necessary to keep the systems running in compatibility with quite different devices simultaneously. The WSE-OS system proposes a solution for centralizing data and resources that addresses this problem effectively. Using wireless networking technology, the WSE-OS tool uses a Thin Client structure that allows its clients to execute instantiations of virtualized operating systems stored on the server. This paper presents a proposal that changes WSE-OS's structure including the ability to run with multiple servers, having as its goal increase scalability, availability and reliability through server's data replication and staggering of connections. Data replication consists in detecting changes on data from a given server and transmit it to the others prioritizing the consistency among replicas. The staggering of connections works on actively distributing the clients among servers to improve system's performance / Mestre

Orientador: Hans Kurt Edmund Liesenberg / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T00:52:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kollross_Diogo_M.pdf: 31909718 bytes, checksum: 107b2440c38f63fc3880fa52f54ea0d7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumos: Sistemas reativos têm grande importância em muitas áreas da engenharia e da computação, mas a qualidade e maturidade das metodologias e ferramentas de apoio ao desenvolvimento deixam a desejar em relação às voltadas a sistemas transformacionais. Uma das metodologias de destaque é a Arquitetura Orientada a Modelos, onde os sistemas reativos são descritos por modelos que podem ser diretamente traduzidos em formas executáveis. A linguagem mais bem sucedida na modelagem de sistemas reativos é Statechart, que deu origem a variações como os diagramas de máquinas de estado do padrão UML e à linguagem Xchart. Essa linguagem é uma extensão de Statechart que introduz construções para controle de processos externos, história de ativações e hierarquização de eventos. Para superar as limitações da ferramenta já existente para edição de diagramas Xchart conhecida como Smart, foi desenvolvido o editor Sins (Sins 1s Not Smart), implementado como plugin para o ambiente integrado de desenvolvimento Eclipse. Com o editor Sins é possível editar os diagramas através de manipulação direta, diagramar a especificação automaticamente e gerar o código fonte correspondente na linguagem textual TEXchart. O algoritmo de layout implementado é uma variação do algoritmo de Sugiyama, modificado para melhorar a legibilidade do dia:grama ao garantir a consistência na apresentação de suas estruturas e gerar mapas semelhantes aos desenhados livremente / Abstract: Reactive systems have great importance in many areas of Engineering and Computing, but the quality and maturity of the development support methodologies and tools Iack when compared to those directed to transformational systems. One of the outstanding methodologies is Model Oriented Architecture, where the reactive systems are described by models that can be directly translated to executable form. The best succeeded language for modeling of reactive systems is Statechart, which is the origin of variations like state machine diagrams from the UML standard and the Xchart Language. This language is an extension of Statechart that introduces eIements for external process control, activation history and hierarchization of events. To overcome the limitations of the already existing tool for the edition of Xchart diagramas known as Smart, the Sins editor was developed (Sins Is Not Smart), implemented as a plugin for the Eclipse IDE. With the Sins editor it is possible to edit diagramas through direct manipulation, layout the specification automatically and generate the corresponding source code in the textual Language TEXchart. The implemented layout algorithm is a variation of the Sugiyama algorithm, modified for better legibility of the diagram by assuring consistency in the presentation of its structures and generation of layouts similar to those freely drawn / Mestrado / Sistemas de Computação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

New hardware devices are continually being released to the public by hardware manufactures around the world. For these new devices to be usable under a PC operating system, device drivers that extend the functionality of the target operating system have to be constructed. This work examines and compares the device driver architectures currently in use by two of the most widely used operating systems, Microsoft’s Windows and Linux. The IEEE1394 (high speed serial bus) device driver stacks on each operating system are examined and compared as an example of a major device driver stack implementation, including driver requirements for the upcoming IEEE1394.1 bridging standard.

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The Spider Project is an object-oriented distributed system which provides a testbed for researchers in the Department of Computer Science, CSUSB, to conduct research on distributed systems.

Spider II system is the second version implementation of the Spider project. This system is the first distributed computation research project in the Department of Computer Science at CSUSB. Spider II is a distributed virtual machine on top of the UNIX or LINUX operating system. Spider II features multi-tasking, load balancing and fault tolerance, which optimize the performance and stability of the system.

The development of enterprise software is a complex activity that requires a diverse set of stakeholders to communicate and coordinate in order to achieve a successful outcome. In this dissertation I introduce a high-level physical architecture for a platform titled FeatureIT that has the goal of supporting the collaboration between stakeholders throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). FeatureIT is the result of unifying the theoretical foundations of the multi-disciplinary field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) with the paradigm and associated technologies of Web 2.0. The architecture was borne out a study of literature in the fields of CSCW, Web 2.0 and software engineering, which facilitated the identification of functional and non-functional requirements necessary for the platform. The design science research methodology was employed to construct this architecture iteratively to satisfy the requirements while validating its efficacy against a comprehensive set of scenarios that typically occur in the SDLC. / Computing / M. Sc. (Information Systems)

The World Wide Web is becoming a basic infrastructure for a variety of services, and the increases in audience size and client network bandwidth create service demands that are outpacing server capacity. Web clusters are one solution to this need for highperformance, highly available web server systems. We are interested in load distribution techniques, specifically Layer-7 algorithms that are content-aware. Layer- 7 algorithms allow distribution control based on the specific content requested, which is advantageous for a system that offers highly heterogenous services. We examine the performance of the Client Aware Policy (CAP) on a Linux/Apache web cluster consisting of a single web switch that directs requests to a pool of dual-processor SMP nodes. We show that the performance advantage of CAP over simple algorithms such as random and round-robin is as high as 29% on our testbed consisting of a mixture of static and dynamic content. Under heavily loaded conditions however, the performance decreases to the level of random distribution. In studying SMP vs. uniprocessor performance using the same number of processors with CAP distribution, we find that SMP dual-processor nodes under moderate workload levels provide equivalent throughput as the same number of CPU’s in a uniprocessor cluster. As workload increases to a heavily loaded state however, the SMP cluster shows reduced throughput compared to a cluster using uniprocessor nodes. We show that the web cluster’s maximum throughput increases linearly with the addition of more nodes to the server pool. We conclude that CAP is advantageous over random or round-robin distribution under certain conditions for highly dynamic workloads, and suggest some future enhancements that may improve its performance.