The Internet has scaled massively over the past 15 years to extend to billions of users. These users increasingly require extensive applications and capabilities from the Internet, such as Quality of Service (QoS) optimized paths between end hosts. When default Internet paths may not meet their requirements adequately, there is a need to facilitate the discovery of such QoS optimized paths. Fortunately, even though the route offered by the Internet may not work (to the required level of performance), often there exist alternate routes that do work. When the direct Internet path between two Internet hosts for instance is sub-optimal (according to specific user defined criterion), there is a possibility that the direct paths of both to a third host may not be suffering from the same problem owing to path disjointness. Overlay Networks facilitate the discovery of such composite alternate paths through third party hosts. To discover such alternate paths, overlay hosts regularly monitor both Internet path quality and choose better alternate paths via other hosts. Such measurements are costly and pose scalability problems for large overlay networks. This thesis asserts and shows that these overheads could be lowered substantially if the network layer path information between overlay hosts could be obtained, which facilitates selection of disjoint paths. This thesis further demonstrates that obtaining such network layer path information is very challenging. As opposed to the path monitoring which only requires cooperation of overlay hosts, disjoint path selection depends on the accuracy of information about the underlay, which is out of the domain of control of the overlay and so may contain inaccuracies. This thesis investigates how such information could be gleaned at different granularities for optimal tradeoffs between spatial and/or temporal methods for selection of alternate paths. The main contributions of this thesis are: (i) investigation of scalable techniques to facilitate alternate path computation using network layer path information; (ii) a review of the realistic performance gains achievable using such alternate paths; and (iii) investigation of techniques for revealing the presence of incorrect network layer path information, proposal of new techniques for its removal.

The Internet has scaled massively over the past 15 years to extend to billions of users. These users increasingly require extensive applications and capabilities from the Internet, such as Quality of Service (QoS) optimized paths between end hosts. When default Internet paths may not meet their requirements adequately, there is a need to facilitate the discovery of such QoS optimized paths. Fortunately, even though the route offered by the Internet may not work (to the required level of performance), often there exist alternate routes that do work. When the direct Internet path between two Internet hosts for instance is sub-optimal (according to specific user defined criterion), there is a possibility that the direct paths of both to a third host may not be suffering from the same problem owing to path disjointness. Overlay Networks facilitate the discovery of such composite alternate paths through third party hosts. To discover such alternate paths, overlay hosts regularly monitor both Internet path quality and choose better alternate paths via other hosts. Such measurements are costly and pose scalability problems for large overlay networks. This thesis asserts and shows that these overheads could be lowered substantially if the network layer path information between overlay hosts could be obtained, which facilitates selection of disjoint paths. This thesis further demonstrates that obtaining such network layer path information is very challenging. As opposed to the path monitoring which only requires cooperation of overlay hosts, disjoint path selection depends on the accuracy of information about the underlay, which is out of the domain of control of the overlay and so may contain inaccuracies. This thesis investigates how such information could be gleaned at different granularities for optimal tradeoffs between spatial and/or temporal methods for selection of alternate paths. The main contributions of this thesis are: (i) investigation of scalable techniques to facilitate alternate path computation using network layer path information; (ii) a review of the realistic performance gains achievable using such alternate paths; and (iii) investigation of techniques for revealing the presence of incorrect network layer path information, proposal of new techniques for its removal.

Thesis (M.S. in Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008. / Thesis Advisor(s): Brutzman, Don. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on 28 January 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183). Also available in print.

<p>To support the difficult process of SOA adoption, SOA maturity models are published.</p><p>In this thesis a literature analysis introduces the area of SOA maturity models and highlights benefits and criticism.</p><p>As a result, the combined SOA maturity model (CSOAMM), a model to facilitate the interpretation and comparison of SOA maturity models, is proposed.</p><p>CSOAMM is a model with 10 levels that describes SOA maturity by combining level characteristics of two recently published maturity models: SIMM and SOAMM.</p><p>CSOAMM was created by a comparative analysis in combination with a relational content analysis.</p><p>The model can be used for collaboration between companies and points out that a common understanding of SOA adoption exists.</p>

Το αντικείμενο που πραγματεύεται είναι η χρήση τεχνικών και τεχνολογιών υπηρεσιοστραφούς αρχιτεκτονικής και σημασιολογικού ιστού περιλαμβάνοντας κανόνες σημασιολογίας και κατανεμημένου λογισμικού για την κάθετη ολοκλήρωση και ανάπτυξη προσβάσιμων επιχειρησιακών συστημάτων. Επομένως, η παρούσα διατριβή εστιάζει αφενός με την ολοκλήρωση ετερογενών συστημάτων μέσω της χρήσης μεθόδων και τεχνικών σημασιολογικής ολοκλήρωσης και υπηρεσιοστραφούς αρχιτεκτονικής και αφετέρου με την εισαγωγή μιας πρωτότυπης μεθοδολογίας για την ολοκλήρωση προτύπων και τεχνικών προσβασιμότητας προκειμένου να παραχθούν προσβάσιμα διαδικτυακά συστήματα για άτομα με κάθε μορφής αναπηρία. Μέρος της διατριβής αυτή έγινε στα πλαίσια του FP7 Ερευνητικού Προγράμματος με τίτλο ‘Accessibility Assessment Simulation Environment for New Applications Design and Development (ACCESSIBLE) καθώς και στα πλαίσια σχετικών συμβάσεων με την Νομαρχιακή Αυτοδιοίκηση Αχαΐας. / This Phd Thesis presents the usage of Service Oriented Technologies and techniques for the development of an hybrid top-down integrated framework that can be utilized for the integration of heterogeneous systems and the introduction of accessibility features. Taking into account the requirements of the successful deployment of semantic Web technologies regarding off-the-shelf and easy to use semantic SWRL and SPARQL rules and querry tools, the proposed muti-dimensional Framework should be capable of meeting the demands of different users. With the presented Framework, which allows for the selection of suitable matching approaches between well known tools and methodologies, we intend to contribute to the tackling of real world challenges and scenarios, with the aim of ensuring seamless interoperability and integration of different systems. Furthermore, the presented framework facilitates, for the first time, the development of an innovative methodology for the integration of international standards and appropriate techniques, in order to create accessible Web applications and systems. This thesis was partially supported by the European FP7 Research project ACCESSIBLE - Accessibility Assessment Simulation Environment for New Applications Design and Development as well as different contracts with prefecture of Achaia.

In this thesis project, a company’s continuously evolved service-oriented software architecture was studied for signs of architectural erosion. The architecture has been continuously developed over some time and the company have experienced a reduction in architectural quality and felt that it no longer fulfilled its design goals and therefore decided to start working on a replacement architecture based on the microservice archi-tectural style. This thesis project therefore aimed to study how the current architectures quality have changed during its evolution, find the causes of these changes in quality, andestimate how the planned microservice migration will effect these changes in quality. This study was performed in three steps. First, a suite of suitable quality metrics where gathered based on the stated architectural design goals and what information can be ex-tracted from the history of the implemented architecture. A tool was developed to model the architecture and to gather the quality metrics from the current architecture and how ithas changed over one year’s worth of development and evolution. Secondly, the causes ofthese changes in architectural quality was investigated through developer interviews with a wide range of developers that had worked on the architecture and the web application that it provides the structure for. The interviews focused on the topics of architectural knowledge, what consideration is taken to its design during component development, maintenance of existing components and architecture, as well as questions regardingspecific components and anomalies. Thirdly and finally, the migration to a microserviceand its effects on the quality of the current architecture is estimated through performing microservice reengineering on the model used to evaluate the current architecture. The tools developed during this thesis allowed for an analysis of the architecture didshow an increase in consistency violations, structural problems and level the of coupling have substantially increased over the version history that the model tracked. It was discov-ered by the developer interviews that some of the causes of this erosion was due to among other reasons an abandonment of some architectural deign decisions, lack of architectural knowledge on certain topics, and none-optimal development conditions and priorities. The microservice reengineering showed how the migration could be used to improve themeasured quality metrics and that a migration alongside some other architectural erosionprevention and repair methods could create an architecture that are more modular and erosion tolerant.

Os requisitos de manufatura industrial apontam uma necessidade de reconfiguração e reprogramação do fluxo de processo, a fim de atender modificações no produto com as mudanças dos requisitos de mercado. Estas mudanças implicam em alterações no processo de fabricação, o que, em muitos casos, significa alterar o leiaute, reprogramar controladores, modificar acoplamentos e interfaceamentos, etc. Os tamanhos dos lotes de produção estão ficando menores e a variedade de produtos em uma mesma linha tem aumentado. Isto torna o tempo de preparação dos dispositivos de manufatura fator crucial na formação do custo final. Dispositivos com mais autonomia, capazes de se autogerenciar e que permitam uma troca rápida de funcionalidades passam a serem desejados em um ambiente de manufatura, onde os sistemas convencionais com programação centralizada, sequência definida no controlador central e arranjo de funcionalidades fixas deixam a desejar. Orientação a serviços é um conceito que propõe a descentralização do controle e a disposição de componentes de forma a se agruparem virtualmente e formar novos dispositivos, com novas funcionalidades, otimizando investimento, recurso e tempo de produção. Nesta abordagem os equipamentos passam a se comportar como agentes de manufatura, em um universo de multi-agentes, que negociam entre si o processo requerido, propiciando o atendimento à variação de produto e dispondo de um número maior de funcionalidades, o que reduz o tempo de troca de processos. Um estudo de caso de um sistema orientado a serviços, sob uma plataforma multi-agentes, é proposto neste trabalho, buscando fornecer subsídios para a análise de desempenho e potencialidades deste conceito. / The industrial manufacturing requirements indicate a need for reconfiguration and reprogramming of process flow in order to meet changes in the product with the changing market requirements. These changes imply changes in the manufacturing process, which in many cases, means changing the layout, reprogram controllers, modify interfaces and couplings etc. The production lot sizes are getting smaller and the variety of products in the same line has increased. This makes the preparation time of manufacturing devices crucial factor in the formation of the final cost. Devices with more autonomy, able to manage themselves and allow a rapid exchange of features are to be desired in a manufacturing environment, where conventional systems with centralized scheduling, sequence defined in the central controller and array of features still fall short. Service orientation is a concept that proposes to decentralize the control and disposition of components in order to regroup virtually and form new devices with new features, optimizing investment, resource and production time. In this approach the devices start to act as agents of manufacturing, in a universe of multi-agents, who negotiate among themselves the process required, providing care for the product variation and having a greater number of features, which reduces the switching time processes. A case study of system-oriented services, under a multi-agent platform is proposed in this work, aiming to provide tools for performance analysis and potential of the concept.

Sistemas embarcados, em especial aqueles utilizados em robótica, apresentam, em sua estrutura, uma multiplicidade de dispositivos que resultam em uma arquitetura bastante heterogênea e bem distribuída. Para auxiliar na resolução dessa complexidade inerente, este trabalho resgata os conceitos de frameworks, buscando na sua integração e modelo conceitual, desenvolver um conjunto de ferramentas que gerencia a mediação entre sistemas embarcados e demais aplicações de software, fornecendo bibliotecas e componentes reutilizáveis para aplicações na robótica. Propõe-se utilizar framework e middleware de sistemas open-source para integração entre a plataforma de software e hardware. Um dos objetivos do projeto é criar um framework multi-plataforma com diferentes tipos de serviços para o de desenvolvimento de aplicações no campo da robótica. O projeto tem como estudo de caso sistemas embarcados aplicados em robótica móvel e tecnologia assistiva. / Embedded systems, especially those used in robotics, present in its structure, a plurality of devices that result in a very heterogeneous and well distributed architecture. To help resolve this inherent complexity, the work rescues the concepts of frameworks, seeking their integration and conceptual model, develop a set of tools that manage to mediate between embedded systems and other of software applications, providing reusable libraries and components for applications in robotics. It is proposed to use framework and middleware systems open source for integration between the platform software and hardware. One of the project objectives is to create a multi-platform framework with different types of services, considering the programming and compatibility with hardware for the development of applications in the field of robotics. The project’s case study developing embedded applied in mobile and Assistive Technology robotics.

No âmbito industrial, o custo empregado na manutenção de equipamentos ainda representa uma grande parcela dos investimentos. Dessa forma, o desenvolvimento de técnicas de manutenção, e o seu correto planejamento, cada vez mais estão assumindo papeis de grande importância nesse setor, visto que impactam diretamente no fator econômico das empresas. Neste sentido, o trabalho em questão apresenta a proposta de uma arquitetura orientada a serviços para um sistema de manutenção inteligente, a fim de possibilitar a integração de forma facilitada entre equipamentos e as ferramentas de análise de degradação. A arquitetura é composta por diferentes entidades, cada uma responsável por determinada tarefa para o funcionamento do sistema. No trabalho, as entidades são implementadas e experimentos são realizados a fim de validar a solução proposta. / In the industrial field, the costs associated with equipment’s maintenace still represents a large portion of the financial resources available to a company. Therefore, new researches in maintenance systems, and the correct task planning, are growing, since they impact directly on the economic side of the companies. Thus, current work presents a service-oriented architecture for maintenance systems integration. The proposed architecture intends to facilitate the integration of equipments and degradation analysis tools. The architecture is comprised of several entities, where each one is responsible for executing a given task in order to keep the system running properly. In this work, all the entities are implemented and experiments are performed in order to validate the proposed system.

abstract: Nowadays, Computing is so pervasive that it has become indeed the 5th utility (after water, electricity, gas, telephony) as Leonard Kleinrock once envisioned. Evolved from utility computing, cloud computing has emerged as a computing infrastructure that enables rapid delivery of computing resources as a utility in a dynamically scalable, virtualized manner. However, the current industrial cloud computing implementations promote segregation among different cloud providers, which leads to user lockdown because of prohibitive migration cost. On the other hand, Service-Orented Computing (SOC) including service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) promote standardization and openness with its enabling standards and communication protocols. This thesis proposes a Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Architecture by combining the best attributes of the two paradigms to promote an open, interoperable environment for cloud computing development. Mutil-tenancy SaaS applicantions built on top of SOCCA have more flexibility and are not locked down by a certain platform. Tenants residing on a multi-tenant application appear to be the sole owner of the application and not aware of the existence of others. A multi-tenant SaaS application accommodates each tenant’s unique requirements by allowing tenant-level customization. A complex SaaS application that supports hundreds, even thousands of tenants could have hundreds of customization points with each of them providing multiple options, and this could result in a huge number of ways to customize the application. This dissertation also proposes innovative customization approaches, which studies similar tenants’ customization choices and each individual users behaviors, then provides guided semi-automated customization process for the future tenants. A semi-automated customization process could enable tenants to quickly implement the customization that best suits their business needs. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Computer Science 2016