<p>In this thesis we will identify which are the desired features and functionalities for implementing a system capable of acting as an information bridge for content available in the “wired” Internet to be delivered to mobile devices. We will also explore how to design and build such a system based on the specifications within parts of the MUSIS project. The MUSIS’ system development is used as a base of the work described in this thesis and the experiences from those efforts are used in order to design a system with more focus on data portability and media migration.</p><p>During the development of the MUSIS platform, problems related to system upgrading, i.e. adding new ad-hoc functionalities were discovered. Due to the fact that a user-centred design approach was taken, this was essential in the project. To solve some of these issues, we propose a new component-based system with a high level of scalability and re-usability. We name this system Collect, Convert and Send, CCS. The system shall be seen as a base that can be used as a core system for different projects where interoperability of content between different platforms, devices or systems is important.</p><p>The implementation of the system is based on the use cases and those theoretical aspects and ideas related to component software, interoperability, media migration and metadata in a Web service context. The results of our efforts give some indications that the use of component software gives a foundation for a service-oriented architecture.</p>

Att designa en generell och utbyggbar mjukvara är inte enkelt, då det krävs en bred kompetens inom många olika områden. Vi belyser i detta arbete en del av problematiken kring design. Utgångspunkten är ett praktikfall vars målmiljö rör processer och integrationer. Huvudfokus ligger på designmönster, men även en bredare genomgång av ämnen så som utvecklingsmetodik, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services (WS) och utvecklingsmiljöer presenteras. Arbetet bedrivs i enlighet med riktlinjer från Rational Unified Process (RUP) och slutprodukten är en checklista på tre punkter. De tre punkterna speglar de lärdomar vi dragit av arbetet genom saker vi gjort och saker vi borde ha gjort. God design kan uppnås genom att förstå den uppgift man åtagit sig, utvärdera sitt resultat och delresultat samt genom användandet av rätt verktyg. Framtida forskningsområden med anknytning till vårt rör förslagsvis metoders betydelse för mjukvarudesign, dynamiska perspektiv hos utvecklare och mer enhetlighet kring begreppet SOA.

Nowadays, wireless sensor network (WSN) is becoming popular in various fields of different industries along with the rapid development of hardware and software. Whereas more and more WSN applications come into use has make it difficult for consumers especially those who do not have professional knowledge to use. So it is urgently necessary and significant to offer services which do not need professional knowledge to satisfy consumers’ requirements from the users’ point of view. Therefore, service oriented architecture (SOA) is introduced as a method to do our research from the users’ point of view. After asimple overall introduction of WSN which include the system architecture, hardware, software and supported technologies, we pay our emphasis on the power consumption modeling for WSN and get some formulations following the operation cycle. Last but not least, SOA method is analyzed and some SOA based WSN applications are introduced as examples to further understand of SOA based WSN for readers.

Les entrées et sorties unimodales dans les systèmes actuels ont atteint une maturité reconnue, avec les applications tactiles ou par les services distribués pour la géo-localisation ou la reconnaissance de la parole, du son ou l’'image. Cependant, l'intégration et l’instanciation de toutes ces modalités, manque d’une gestion intelligente du contexte d’acquisition et de restitution basée sur des notions fortement formalisées mais reflétant le sens commun. Ceci demande un comportement plus dynamique du système avec une approche plus adéquate pour gérer l'environnement de l'utilisateur. Cependant,la technologie nécessaire pour atteindre un tel objectif n’est pas encore disponible de façon standardisée, tant au niveau des descriptions fonctionnelles des services unimodaux que de leur description sémantique. Ceci est aussi le cas pour les architectures multimodales, où la composante sémantique est produite par chaque projet sans un accord commun pour assurer l’interoperabilité et est souvent limitée au traitement des entrées et sorties ou aux processus de fusion/fission strictement nécessaires au projet.Pour combler cette lacune, nous proposons une approche sémantique orientée services pour une architecture multimodale générique qui vise à améliorer la description et la découverte des composants de modalité pour les services d'assistance: l'architecture SOA2m. Cette architecture se veut entièrement focalisée sur la multimodalité et enrichie avec des technologies sémantiques car nous croyons que cette orientation permettra d'enrichir le comportement autonome des applications multimodales, avoir une perception robuste des échanges, et contrôler l'intégration sémantique. / Unimodal inputs and outputs in current systems have become very mature with touch applications or distributed services for geo-localization or speech, audio and image recognition. However, the integration and instantiation of all these modalities, lack of an intelligent management of the acquisition and restitution context, based on highly formalized notions reflecting common sense. This requires a more dynamic behavior of the system with a more appropriate approach to manage the user environment.However, the technology required to achieve such a goal is not yet available in a standardized manner, both in terms of the functional description of unimodal services and in terms of their semantic description. This is also the case for multimodal architectures, where the semantic management is produced by each project without a common agreement in the field to ensure inter-operability, and it is often limited to the processing of inputs and outputs or fusion / fission mechanisms. To fill this gap, we propose a semantic service-oriented generic architecture for multimodal systems. This proposal aims to improve the description and the discovery of modality components for assistance services: this is the architecture SOA2m. This architecture is fully focused on multimodality and it is enriched with semantic technologies because we believe that this approach will enhance the autonomous behavior of multimodal applications, provide a robust perception of the user-system exchanges, and help in the control of the semantic integration of the human-computer interaction.As a result, the challenge of discovery is addressed using the tools provided by the field of the semantic web services

Le travail de recherche présenté dans ce mémoire s'intéresse aux problèmes d'interopérabilité dans le domaine du Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) et vise à proposer une méthodologie capable d'y remédier. Nous définissons l'objectif stratégique du PLM comme la maîtrise de la complexité qui caractérise le développement et le suivi des produits. Dans ce cadre, l'objectif de l'interopérabilité est le contrôle des interactions entre constituants de ce système complexe PLM. Nous montrons que cet objectif est atteint si on assure la continuité et la conservation du flux sémantique qui circule dans le système. Notre étude est restreinte aux seuls domaines de la conception et de la production, mais a l'ambition de pouvoir s'appliquer à d'autres domaines. La continuité du flux sémantique est assurée par une architecture que nous avons baptisée « médiation multi-échelle orientée services ». Le cœur de cette architecture, le médiateur, se charge d'orienter les flux sémantiques vers les systèmes concernés, et met en correspondance sémantique les informations échangées en s'appuyant sur un méta-modèle d'unification. Nous montrons que pour assurer la robustesse, la flexibilité et l'agilité du système ainsi constitué, il faut privilégier le choix d'un méta-modèle standard générique et extensible. A cet effet, nous proposons une cartographie du standard STEP permettant de choisir le méta-modèle pertinent. Nous illustrons le choix et la définition de ce méta-modèle dans le cas de deux problèmes d'interopérabilité des domaines de la conception et de la production : l'interopérabilité CAO/PDM et l'interopérabilité PDM/ERP. Nous expliquons notre démarche dans la mise en œuvre de la norme PLCS. Par ailleurs, nous introduisons un modèle d'annotations sémantiques du produit qui permet de reconstruire des vues multiples correspondant à différents besoins métiers. Un ensemble de démonstrateurs permet de valider nos propositions et nos résultats.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-06-29T15:06:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2340814 bytes, checksum: bdce9ccd956442015a53d57f06a00741 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-29T15:06:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2340814 bytes, checksum: bdce9ccd956442015a53d57f06a00741 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-23 / Software Engineering is a discipline that encompasses all aspects of the production of a software system, from the early stages of the system specification to maintenance, when the system is already being used. A very interesting area in Software Engineering is software reuse, which impacts positively on reducing time, costs and risks in software development processes. Therefore, it can be stated that software reuse improves not only the software development process, but also the product itself. One of the main approaches for software reuse is service oriented development, which adopts the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. In SOA, services represent a natural evolution of component-based development, and therefore can be defined as loosely coupled, reusable software components, that encapsulate discrete functionality, can be distributed and remotely accessed through coding. It is important to highlight that while SOA is an architectural paradigm for developing software systems, Web Services represent the most widely existing technology adopted to implement SOA exploring protocols based on Internet standards and on XML. With the growth of the market and the use of web services, the tendency is always increase the number of services available for assembly applications in different contexts, making impractical the task of manually selecting the services required to compose a software system. Consequently, one can state that the effort needed to select the required services tends to increase more and more, creating a problem with a large and complex search space, making it necessary the automation of the selection process based on metaheuristic search techniques. In this context, the proposed work aims to automate the web services selection process using techniques of Search-Based Software Engineering, in which the selection strategy is guided by structural and functional metrics that have the purpose of evaluating the similarity between the specifications and respective implementations of candidate services as well as their dependencies, thus reducing the effort of adaptation and integration of web services developed by different suppliers. / Engenharia de Software é uma disciplina que engloba todos os aspectos da produção de um sistema de software, incluindo desde os estágios iniciais da especificação do sistema até sua manutenção, quando o sistema já está sendo utilizado. Uma área de estudo bastante interessante da Engenharia de Software é o reuso de software, que impacta positivamente na redução do tempo, dos custos e dos riscos provenientes de um processo de desenvolvimento de software. Portanto, é possível afirmar que o reuso de software melhora, não apenas o processo de desenvolvimento de software, mas também o próprio produto. Uma das principais abordagens de reuso de software é o desenvolvimento orientado a serviços, que adota o paradigma da Arquitetura Orientada a Serviços (SOA – Service-Oriented Architecture). No paradigma SOA, serviços representam uma evolução natural do desenvolvimento baseado em componentes, e, portanto, podem ser definidos como componentes de software de baixo acoplamento, reusáveis, que encapsulam funcionalidades discretas, que podem ser distribuídos e acessados remotamente de forma programática. É importante destacar que, enquanto SOA é um paradigma arquitetural para desenvolvimento de sistemas de software, serviços web (web services) representam a tecnologia existente mais amplamente adotada para implementar SOA explorando protocolos baseados em padrões da internet e em XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Com o crescimento do mercado e utilização dos serviços web, a tendência é sempre aumentar o número de serviços disponíveis para montagem de aplicações em diferentes contextos, tornando impraticável a tarefa de selecionar de forma manual os serviços requeridos para compor um sistema de software. Consequentemente, é possível afirmar que o esforço necessário para selecionar os serviços requeridos tende a aumentar cada vez mais, gerando um problema com um grande e complexo espaço de busca, tornando necessária a automatização do processo de seleção baseada em técnicas de busca metaheurística. Neste contexto, o trabalho proposto visa automatizar o processo de seleção de serviços web utilizando técnicas da Engenharia de Software Baseada em Buscas, cuja estratégia de seleção é orientada por métricas funcionais e estruturais, que têm o propósito de avaliar a similaridade entre as especificações e as respectivas implementações dos serviços candidatos, bem como as suas dependências, reduzindo assim o esforço de adaptação e integração de serviços web desenvolvidos por fornecedores distintos.

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2016-08-30T17:54:00Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação_Karina_CIN.pdf: 1045991 bytes, checksum: ab1e6ae77770903f6c88d33b95b07d99 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-30T17:54:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação_Karina_CIN.pdf: 1045991 bytes, checksum: ab1e6ae77770903f6c88d33b95b07d99 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-27 / Os Web Services são componentes de software que se utilizam de tecnologias e protocolos abertos: XML, SOAP, WSDL e UDDI, para fornecer seus serviços. Atualmente, os Web Services surgem como alternativa para melhorar a comunicação entre os sistemas. Esta dissertação apresenta uma reestruturação arquitetural de Web Service - em funcionamento há quatro anos, cuja finalidade do seu serviço visa possibilitar que operações DML sejam realizadas em diferentes bases de dados de forma transparente para os usuários - fazendo uso de refatoração e padrões de projetos, garantindo que os fatores de qualidade: manutenibilidade, confiabilidade, eficiência e portabilidade, sejam mantidos. Os objetivos propostos podem ser sintetizados no entendimento e caracterização das funcionalidades e das tecnologias que envolvem os Web Services; estudos e pesquisas para descobrir quais padrões de projetos e refatoração podem ser utilizados na implementação do Web Services, possibilitando desta forma que boas práticas de desenvolvimento sejam adotadas; definir quais fatores de qualidade podem ser utilizados no processo de validação, além de, realizar avaliações e testes de Web Service fazendo uso de ferramentas Open Source; e finalmente, analisar se os resultados obtidos após o uso destes padrões na implementação do Web Service são satisfatórios. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos foi realizada uma análise da arquitetura do Web Service, por meio da engenharia reversa e análise de código. Após esta análise, refatorações e padrões de projetos foram definidos e utilizados na nova arquitetura para a implementação do novo Web Service, com o intuito de prover e garantir os fatores de qualidade: manutenibilidade, confiabilidade, eficiência e portabilidade. E por fim, testes de desempenho, carga/stress e funcional foram realizados com auxílio de ferramentas Open Source, JMeter e SoapUI, nos dois Web Services, para posteriormente seus resultados serem analisados. Os resultados obtidos, após a realização de teste e avaliação comparativa entre os dois Web Services, demonstraram uma melhora na qualidade dos serviços fornecidos pelo Web Service reestruturado, além de proporcionar redução de custo de manutenção. Assim sendo, este estudo constatou que refatoração e padrões de projetos podem ser utilizados na implementação de Web Service. / Web Services are software components that use open technologies and protocols like XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, to provide its services. Currently, Web Services are an alternative to improve communication between the systems. This dissertation presents a Web Service architectural restructuring – in operation for four years, for the purpose of its service aims to enable DML operations are performed on different databases transparently to users – making use of refactoring and design patterns, ensuring that the factors of quality: maintainability, reliability, efficiency and portability are kept. The objectives proposed can be synthesized in the understanding and characterization of the features and technologies involving Web Services; study and research to find out which design patterns and refactoring can be used in the implementation of the Web Service, enabling this way that good development practices are adopted. We also identify quality factors that can be used in the validation process, as well as we carry out evaluations and testing of Web Service using Open Source tools. Finally, we analyze the results obtained after the use of these standards in the implementation of Web Service are satisfactory. To achieve the proposed was conducted an analysis of the architecture of the Web Service, by means of reverse engineering and code analysis. After this step, design patterns and refactoring have been defined and used in the new architecture for the implementation of the new Web Service, in order to provide and ensure the factors of quality: maintainability, reliability, efficiency and portability. Finally, performance testing, load/stress and functional were performed with the help of Open Source tools, JMeter and SoapUI Web Services, two for later results are analyzed. The results, after testing and benchmarking between the two Web Services, showed and improvement in the quality of services provided by the Web Service restructured, in addition to providing maintenance cost reduction. Therefore, this study found that refactorings and design patterns can be used in implementing the Web Service.

In this thesis we will identify which are the desired features and functionalities for implementing a system capable of acting as an information bridge for content available in the “wired” Internet to be delivered to mobile devices. We will also explore how to design and build such a system based on the specifications within parts of the MUSIS project. The MUSIS’ system development is used as a base of the work described in this thesis and the experiences from those efforts are used in order to design a system with more focus on data portability and media migration. During the development of the MUSIS platform, problems related to system upgrading, i.e. adding new ad-hoc functionalities were discovered. Due to the fact that a user-centred design approach was taken, this was essential in the project. To solve some of these issues, we propose a new component-based system with a high level of scalability and re-usability. We name this system Collect, Convert and Send, CCS. The system shall be seen as a base that can be used as a core system for different projects where interoperability of content between different platforms, devices or systems is important. The implementation of the system is based on the use cases and those theoretical aspects and ideas related to component software, interoperability, media migration and metadata in a Web service context. The results of our efforts give some indications that the use of component software gives a foundation for a service-oriented architecture.

This thesis emphasizes on investigating the relationship between the quality attributes and service oriented architecture (SOA). Due to quality attributes requirements drive the design of software architecture, it is necessary to maintain the positive quality of SOA and improve the negative quality of SOA. This thesis gives an introduction to SOA, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and MULE. Then, it covers information on quality of systems and tactics for achieving each quality attribute. Finally, we discuss the quality of SOA in detail, and illustrate how to set up a SOA and how to improve its quality using a case of an order for supermarket. / Order system

Even though there are many software development and project management methodologies available, research and practice both show that IT software development projects still fail, and that the quality of software products does not always meet customers' expectations. There might be multiple causes for such failures, but some of these reasons can be seen to influence or create others. Therefore, the larger the project is, the higher its risk of failure, especially if the teams involved work remotely (distributed and outsourced). This increase in project complexity is considered the motivation for this paper. Similarly, there are other factors that can result in a project's failure and customers' dissatisfaction regarding software quality. All such factors identified by research conducted by organizations specializing in this area are analyzed in order to identify a common root of IT project failures. Once the root causes of these failures have been identified and analyzed, the goal of the Interface based software development methodology is to solve them. The solution offered by an Interface based software development methodology is to improve understanding of software requirements and to describe these requirements with interfaces in an object-oriented way. Interface based software development will support and drive development towards service-oriented architecture (SOA) and component-based development (CBD). The goal of interface based software development is to increase software testability and maintainability and to make it more easily feasible to execute various software development processes in parallel.