Since the early 2000s, Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have played a key role in the development of complex applications within a virtual organization (VO) context. Grids and workflows have emerged as vital technologies for addressing the (SOA) paradigm. Given the variety of Grid middleware, scientific workflow systems and Grid workflows available, bringing the two technologies together in a flexible, reusable and generalized way has been largely overlooked, particularly from a scientific end user perspective. The lack of domain focus in this area has led to a slow uptake of Grid technologies. This thesis aims to design a framework for Grid-enabling workflows, which identifies the essential technological components, how these components fit together in layered architecture and the interactions between them. To produce such a framework, this thesis first investigates the definition of a Grid-workflow architecture and mapping Grid functionality to workflow nodes, focusing on striking a balance between performance, usability and the Grid functionality supported. Next, it presents an examination of framework extensions for supporting various forms of Grid heterogeneity, essential for ii VO based collaboration. Given the complex nature of Grid technologies, the work presented here investigates abstracting Grid based workflows through high-level definitions and resolution using semantic technologies. Finally, this thesis presents a way to resolves abstract Grid workflows using semantic technologies and intelligent, autonomous agents. The frameworks presented in this thesis are tested and evaluated within the context of domain-based case studies defined in the SIMDAT, BRIDGE and ARGUGRID EU funded research projects.

Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is a large field of research, and is rapidly expanding in terms of capabilities and applications. As the number of SDR platforms, deployments, and use-cases grow, interoperability, compatibility, and software re-use becomes more difficult. Additionally, advanced SDR applications require more advanced hardware and software platforms to support them, necessitating intelligent management of resources and functionality. Realizing these goals can be done using the paradigms of Component-Based Design (CBD) and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Component-based design has been applied to the field of SDR in the past to varying levels of success. We discuss the benefits of CBD, and how to successfully use CBD for SDR. We assert that by strictly enforcing the principles of CBD, we can achieve a high level of independence from both the hardware and software platforms, and enable component compatibility and interoperability between SDR platforms and deployments. Using CBD, we also achieve the use-case of a fully distributed SDR, where multiple hardware nodes act as one cohesive radio unit. Applying the concept of service-orientation to SDR is a novel idea, and we discuss how this enables a new radio paradigm in the form of goal-oriented autonomic radios. We define SOAs in the context of SDR, explain how our vision is different than middle-wares like CORBA, describe how SOAs can be used, and discuss the possibilities of autonomic radio systems. This thesis also presents our work on the Cognitive Radio Open Source Systems (CROSS) project. CROSS is a free and open-source prototype architecture that uses CBD to achieve platform independence and distributed SDR deployments. CROSS also provides an experimental system for using SOAs in SDRs. Using our reference implementation of CROSS, we successfully demonstrated a distributed cognitive radio performing dynamic spectrum access to communicate with another SDR while avoiding an interferer operating in the spectrum. / Master of Science

We describe CoSMo, a Cognitively Inspired Service and Model Architecture for situational awareness and monitoring of vehicular traffic in urban transportation systems using a network of wireless sensors. The system architecture combines (i) a cognitively inspired internal representation for analyzing and answering queries concerning the observed system and (ii) a service oriented architecture that facilitates interaction among individual modules, of the internal representation, the observed system and the user. The cognitively inspired model architecture allows one to effectively respond to deductive as well as inductive queries by combining simulation based dynamic models with traditional relational databases. On the other hand the service oriented design of interaction allows one to build flexible, extensible and scalable systems that can be deployed in practical settings. To illustrate our concepts and the novel features of our architecture, we have recently completed a prototype implementation of CoSMo. The prototype illustrates advantages of our approach over other traditional approaches for designing scalable software for situational awareness in large complex systems. The basic architecture and its prototype implementation are generic and can be applied for monitoring other complex systems. CoSMo's architecture has a number of features that distinguish cognitive systems. This includes: dynamic internal models of the observed system, inductive and deductive learning and reasoning, perception, memory and adaptation. This thesis describes the service oriented model and the associated prototype implementation. Two important contributions of this thesis include the following: The Generic Service Architecture - CoSMo's service architecture is generic and can be applied to many other application domains without much change in underlying infrastructure. Integration of emerging web technologies - Use of Web Services, UPnP, UDDI and many other emerging technologies have taken CoSMo beyond a prototype implementation and towards a real production system. / Master of Science

This thesis details the design of a protocol translator between the industrial-automation protocol OPC UA, and HTTP. The design is based on the architecture of the protocol translator of the Arrowhead framework, and is interoperable with all of its associated protocols. The design requirements are defined to comply with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and RESTful interaction through HTTP, with minimal requirement of the consuming client to be familiar with OPC UA semantics. Effort is put into making translation as transparent as possible, but limits the scope of this work to exclude a complete semantic translation. The solution presented in this thesis satisfies structural- and foundational interoperability, and bridges interaction to be independent of OPC UA services. The resulting translator is capable of accessing the content of any OPC UA server with simple HTTP-requests, where addressing is oriented around OPC UA nodes.

Orientadora: Prof.ª Dr.ª Fabiana Soares Santana / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação, 2014. / As empresas produtoras de software precisam de métodos eficientes para obter resultados competitivos. Uma das principais causas dos resultados negativos em projetos de software se deve às deficiências na engenharia de requisitos de software. A especificação de requisitos inadequada ou incompleta pode levar à construção de sistemas que não estão em conformidade com as necessidades dos clientes, resultando no aumento de custos, atrasos nos cronogramas e realização de atividades desnecessárias. A fim de minimizar os problemas na especificação de requisitos, as boas práticas de engenharia de software recomendam o entendimento adequado do ambiente de tecnologia da informação (TI) e das regras de negócio. O uso de processos de negócio tem sido adotado pela maioria das organizações para mapear as suas necessidades e alinhar o conhecimento entre as equipes de negócio e de TI. BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation, no original em inglês, ou Notação para Modelagem de Processos de Negócios) é a notação mais comumente adotada pelo mercado para a modelagem de processos de negócio, com diversas ferramentas disponíveis para o mapeamento e simulação de processos. Além da preocupação com os processos de negócio, as organizações têm adotado arquiteturas orientadas a serviços (SOA, Service Oriented Architectures, no original em inglês) com o intuito de facilitar a integração entre processos e tecnologia, resultando em soluções mais flexíveis para atender às constantes necessidades de mudanças e oportunidades de negócio. A união de BPMN e SOA permite o melhor entendimento dos sistemas através do mapeamento e modelagem dos processos de negócio, a partir dos quais é possível identificar os serviços que devem ser encapsulados dentro de um determinado ambiente tecnológico. O resultado é o aumento na produtividade, a melhoria na qualidade dos sistemas (QoS, Quality of Software, no original em inglês) e a redução de custos. Este trabalho propõe um método para modelagem de processos na engenharia de requisitos, incorporando formalmente o uso de processos de negócios na especificação dos requisitos de software. Um estudo de caso foi desenvolvido para experimentar o método proposto e mostrar a sua aplicação. Embora experimentos adicionais sejam recomendados, os resultados do estudo de caso foram promissores e mostram que a análise minuciosa dos processos de negócios na etapa de especificação de requisitos auxilia no entendimento e na identificação mais precisa dos requisitos do sistema, melhorando o potencial de sucesso na produção de software. / Producing software companies need effective methods to achieve competitive results. A major cause of adverse outcomes in software projects is due to deficiencies in the software requirements engineering. The specification of inadequate or incomplete requirements can lead to the construction of systems that are not in accordance with customer needs, resulting in increased costs, schedule delays, and development of unnecessary activities. In order to minimize the problems in the requirements specification, best practices in software engineering recommend a proper understanding of the information technology (IT) environment and of the business rules. The use of business processes has been adopted by many organizations to map their needs and to align the knowledge among business teams and IT. BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) is the notation most commonly adopted by the software companies for business processes modeling. Various software tools are available for processes mapping and simulation. In addition to the concern with business processes, many organizations are adopting service-oriented architectures (SOA) in order to facilitate the integration between processes and technology, resulting in more flexible solutions to meet the ever changing IT needs and the new business opportunities. The union of BPMN and SOA allows a better understanding of the systems to be developed by mapping and modeling business processes, from which it is possible to identify the services that should be encapsulated within a particular technological environment. Results include increased productivity, improved quality of software (QoS) and cost reduction. This work proposes a method for including the processes modeling as part of the requirements engineering, formally incorporating the use of business processes in the software requirements specification. A case study was developed to experiment the proposed method and to illustrate its application. Although further experiments are recommended, the results of the case study are promising and show that a thorough analysis of the business processes as part of the requirements specification phase helps in understanding and obtaining a more accurate identification of the system requirements, improving the potential for successful software production.

In this dissertation, we propose service-oriented sensor-actuator networks (SOSANETs) as a new paradigm for building the next generation of customizable, open, interoperable sensor-actuator networks. In SOSANETs, nodes expose their capabilities to applications in the form of service profiles. A node's service profile consists of a set of services (i.e., sensing and actuation capabilities) that it provides and the quality of service (QoS) parameters associated with those services (delay, accuracy, freshness, etc.). SOSANETs provide the benefits of both application-specific SANETs and generic SANETs. We first define a query model and an architecture for SOSANETs. The proposed query model offers a simple, uniform query interface whereby applications specify sensing and actuation queries independently from any specific deployment of the underlying SOSANET. We then present μRACER (Reliable Adaptive serviCe-driven Efficient Routing), a routing protocol suite for SOSANETs. μRACER consists of three routing protocols, namely, SARP (Service-Aware Routing Protocol), CARP (Context-Aware Routing Protocol), and TARP (Trust-Aware Routing Protocol). SARP uses an efficient service-aware routing approach that aggressively reduces downstream traffic by translating service profiles into efficient paths. CARP supports QoS by dynamically adapting each node's routing behavior and service profile according to the current context of that node, i.e. number of pending queries and number and type of messages to be routed. Finally, TARP achieves high end-to-end reliability through a scalable reputation-based approach in which each node is able to locally estimate the next hop of the most reliable path to the sink. We also propose query optimization techniques that contribute to the efficient execution of queries in SOSANETs. To evaluate the proposed service-oriented architecture, we implemented TinySOA, a prototype SOSANET built on top of TinyOS with uRACER as its routing mechansim. TinySOA is designed as a set of layers with a loose interaction model that enables several cross-layer optimization options. We conducted an evaluation of TinySOA that included a comparison with TinyDB. The obtained empirical results show that TinySOA achieves significant improvements on many aspects including energy consumption, scalability, reliability and response time. / Ph. D.

This thesis is focused on the application of Component-Based (CB) technology to shop floor devices using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) for the purpose of realising future generation agile manufacturing systems. The environment of manufacturing enterprises is now characterised by frequently changing market demands, time-to-market pressure, continuously emerging new technologies and global competition. Under these circumstances, manufacturing systems need to be agile and automation systems need to support this agility. More specifically, an open, exible automation environment with plug and play connectivity is needed. Technically, this requires the easy connectivity of hardware devices and software components from different vendors. Functionally, there is a need of interoperability and integration of control functions on different hierarchical levels ranging from field level to various higher level applications such as process control and operations management services. A potential solution is to realise a modular and reconfigurable automation system, based on a platform of reusable components; while simultaneously reducing the number of unique components. For designing such reusable components, a component-based technology has been used in current thesis. The automation components created are active and distributed entities interacting through their data, event and service ports. To communicate these entities, this thesis focuses on applying SOA and WS at device level. SOA and WS have already been proven successful in linking business applications. If SOA can be applied at shop floor using the embedded devices, it can enable entirely new automation architecture based on peer-to-peer interactions between autonomous devices. The adoption of this SOA-WS approach at shop floor level would enable a seamless integration of higher level business applications and shop- floor level system. This will also provide a loosely coupled message-oriented service in embedded device networks and geographically distributed automation system. SOA can be implemented using Web Services on the embedded devices, which will provide even greater exibility and interoperability because WS is platform neutral. This SOA-WS approach will enable end users to operate and maintain the supplied system easily. A key aim of this thesis is to examine if the adoption of SOA-WS at the embedded control devices can provide the same level of message speed and reliability as the current control systems. It is expected that the desired distributed, loosely coupled and reconfigurable automation system can be formed by a network of these collaborative autonomous SOA-WS based devices using an open control platform. This approach has been experimentally evaluated both in terms of quantity and quality using various parameters involved in the design, implementation, evaluation and recon guration of SOA-WS based automation systems. This has been done using the Ford Festo test rig located at the Manufacturing System Integration Research Institute of Loughborough University. The mechanisms on this test rig represent control problems typically associated in engine assembly and handling machines. Therefore, the result of experimental studies performed on this test rig can be considered applicable to real manufacturing applications.

O planejamento de experimentos em sistemas computacionais não é uma tarefa trivial, pois envolve diversas etapas tais como, o planejamento propriamente dito, a execução dos experimentos e a análise dos resultados. A definição e a utilização de metodologias adequadas para cada uma destas etapas facilita a obtenção dos resultados de um experimento em um sistema computacional. Neste trabalho são apresentados mecanismos para auxiliar o planejamento e execução de experimentos em sistemas orientados a serviços. O planejamento de experimento é realizado a partir de um modelo baseado nos conjuntos de entradas comuns a arquiteturas orientadas a serviço. A execução deste planejamento é feita em um ambiente colaborativo real, a qual auxilia a identificação de gargalos que não estão presentes em simulações ou modelos analíticos. Um estudo de caso aplicado na arquitetura WSARCH, possibilitou avaliar seu desempenho e identificar problemas de configuração / The design of experiments in computational systems is not a trivial task as it involves several steps such as planning and execution of the experiments and the analyse of the results. The use of appropriate methodologies for each of these steps makes it easier obtain the experiment results of a computer system. In this dissertation, mechanisms to assist the planning and execution of experiments in service-oriented systems are presented. The planning of the experiment is made according to a model based on a set of common entries for service-oriented architectures. The experiment execution is performed in a real collaborative environment, which helps to identify bottlenecks that are not found in simulations or analytical models. A study case applied in WSARCH architecture, enables to evaluate the performance and identify configuration problems

A predição de estruturas de proteínas é um campo de pesquisa que busca simular o enovelamento de cadeias de aminoácidos de forma a descobrir as funções das proteínas na natureza, um processo altamente dispendioso por meio de métodos in vivo. Inserida no contexto da Bioinformática, é uma das tarefas mais computacionalmente custosas e desafiadoras da atualidade. Devido à complexidade, muitas pesquisas se utilizam de gateways científicos para disponibilização de ferramentas de execução e análise desses experimentos, aliado ao uso de workflows científicos para organização de tarefas e disponibilização de informações. No entanto, esses gateways podem enfrentar gargalos de desempenho e falhas estruturais, produzindo resultados de baixa qualidade. Para atuar nesse contexto multifacetado e oferecer alternativas para algumas das limitações, esta tese propõe uma arquitetura modular baseada nos conceitos de Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) para oferta de recursos computacionais em gateways científicos, com foco nos experimentos de Protein Structure Prediction (PSP). A Arquitetura Modular Distribuída para auxílio à Predição de Estruturas de Proteínas (MDAPSP) é descrita conceitualmente e validada em um modelo de simulação computacional, no qual se pode identificar suas capacidades, detalhar o funcionamento de seus módulos e destacar seu potencial. A avaliação experimental demonstra a qualidade dos algoritmos propostos, ampliando a capacidade de atendimento de um gateway científico, reduzindo o tempo necessário para experimentos de predição e lançando as bases para o protótipo de uma arquitetura funcional. Os módulos desenvolvidos alcançam boa capacidade de otimização de experimentos de PSP em ambientes distribuídos e constituem uma novidade no modelo de provisionamento de recursos para gateways científicos. / PSP is a scientific process that simulates the folding of amino acid chains to discover the function of a protein in live organisms, considering that its an expensive process to be done by in vivo methods. PSP is a computationally demanding and challenging effort in the Bioinformatics stateof- the-art. Many works use scientific gateways to provide tools for execution and analysis of such experiments, along with scientific workflows to organize tasks and to share information. However, these gateways can suffer performance bottlenecks and structural failures, producing low quality results. With the goal of offering alternatives to some of the limitations and considering the complexity of the topics involved, this thesis proposes a modular architecture based on SOA concepts to provide computing resources to scientific gateways, with focus on PSP experiments. The Modular Distributed Architecture to support Protein Structure Prediction (MDAPSP) is described conceptually and validated in a computer simulation model that explain its capabilities, detail the modules operation and highlight its potential. The performance evaluation presents the quality of the proposed algorithms, a reduction of response time in PSP experiments and prove the benefits of the novel algorithms, establishing the basis for a prototype. The new modules can optmize the PSP experiments in distributed environments and are a innovation in the resource provisioning model for scientific gateways.

O planejamento de experimentos em sistemas computacionais não é uma tarefa trivial, pois envolve diversas etapas tais como, o planejamento propriamente dito, a execução dos experimentos e a análise dos resultados. A definição e a utilização de metodologias adequadas para cada uma destas etapas facilita a obtenção dos resultados de um experimento em um sistema computacional. Neste trabalho são apresentados mecanismos para auxiliar o planejamento e execução de experimentos em sistemas orientados a serviços. O planejamento de experimento é realizado a partir de um modelo baseado nos conjuntos de entradas comuns a arquiteturas orientadas a serviço. A execução deste planejamento é feita em um ambiente colaborativo real, a qual auxilia a identificação de gargalos que não estão presentes em simulações ou modelos analíticos. Um estudo de caso aplicado na arquitetura WSARCH, possibilitou avaliar seu desempenho e identificar problemas de configuração / The design of experiments in computational systems is not a trivial task as it involves several steps such as planning and execution of the experiments and the analyse of the results. The use of appropriate methodologies for each of these steps makes it easier obtain the experiment results of a computer system. In this dissertation, mechanisms to assist the planning and execution of experiments in service-oriented systems are presented. The planning of the experiment is made according to a model based on a set of common entries for service-oriented architectures. The experiment execution is performed in a real collaborative environment, which helps to identify bottlenecks that are not found in simulations or analytical models. A study case applied in WSARCH architecture, enables to evaluate the performance and identify configuration problems