Durant la dernière décennie, les architectures orientées services (SOA) d'une part et la gestion des processus business (BPM) d'autre part ont beaucoup évolué et semblent maintenant en train de converger vers un but commun qui est de permettre à des organisations complètement hétérogènes de partager de manière flexible leurs ressources dans le but d'atteindre des objectifs communs, et ce, à travers des schémas de collaboration avancée. Ces derniers permettent de spécifier l'interconnexion des processus métier de différentes organisations. La nature dynamique et la complexité de ces processus posent des défis majeurs quant à leur bonne exécution. Certes, les langages de description de chorégraphie aident à réduire cette complexité en fournissant des moyens pour décrire des systèmes complexes à un niveau abstrait. Toutefois, rien ne garantit que des situations erronées ne se produisent pas suite, par exemple, à des interactions "mal" spécifiées ou encore des comportements malhonnêtes d'un des partenaires. Dans ce manuscrit, nous proposons une approche décentralisée qui permet la supervision de chorégraphies au moment de leur exécution et la détection instantanée de violations de séquences d'interaction. Nous définissons un modèle de propagation hiérarchique pour l'échange de notifications externes entre les partenaires. Notre approche permet une génération optimisée de requêtes de supervision dans un environnement événementiel, et ce, d'une façon automatique et à partir de tout modèle de chorégraphie.

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Our society is increasingly demanding situation-aware smarter software (SASS) systems, whose goals change over time and depend on context situations. A system with such properties must sense their dynamic environment and respond to changes quickly, accurately, and reliably, that is, to be context-aware and self-adaptive. The problem addressed in this dissertation is the dynamic management of context information, with the goal of improving the relevance of SASS systems' context-aware capabilities with respect to changes in their requirements and execution environment. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on the investigation of dynamic context management and self-adaptivity to: (i) improve context-awareness and exploit context information to enhance quality of user experience in SASS systems, and (ii) improve the dynamic capabilities of self-adaptivity in SASS systems. Context-awareness and self-adaptivity pose signi cant challenges for the engineering of SASS systems. Regarding context-awareness, the rst challenge addressed in this dissertation is the impossibility of fully specifying environmental entities and the corresponding monitoring requirements at design-time. The second challenge arises from the continuous evolution of monitoring requirements due to changes in the system caused by self-adaptation. As a result, context monitoring strategies must be modeled and managed in such a way that they support the addition and deletion of context types and monitoring conditions at runtime. For this, the user must be integrated into the dynamic context management process. Concerning self-adaptivity, the third challenge is to control the dynamicity of adaptation goals, adaptation mechanisms, and monitoring infrastructures, and the way they a ect each other in the adaptation process. This is to preserve the eff ectiveness of context monitoring requirements and thus self-adaptation. The fourth challenge, related also to self-adaptivity,concerns the assessment of adaptation mechanisms at runtime to prevent undesirable system states as a result of self-adaptation. Given these challenges, to improve context-awareness we made three contributions. First, we proposed the personal context sphere concept to empower users to control the life cycle of personal context information in user-centric SASS systems. Second, we proposed the SmarterContext ontology to model context information and its monitoring requirements supporting changes in these models at runtime. Third, we proposed an effi cient context processing engine to discover implicit contextual facts from context information speci fied in changing context models. To improve self-adaptivity we made three contributions. First, we proposed a framework for the identi cation of adaptation properties and goals, which is useful to evaluate self-adaptivity and to derive monitoring requirements mapped to adaptation goals. Second, we proposed a reference model for designing highly dynamic self-adaptive systems, for which the continuous pertinence between monitoring mechanisms and both changing system goals and context situations is a major concern. Third, we proposed a model with explicit validation and veri cation (V&V) tasks for self-adaptive software, where dynamic context monitoring plays a major role. The seventh contribution of this dissertation, the implementation of Smarter-Context infrastructure, addresses both context-awareness and self-adaptivity. To evaluate our contributions, qualitatively and quantitatively, we conducted several comprehensive literature reviews, a case study on user-centric situation-aware online shopping, and a case study on dynamic governance of service-oriented applications. / Graduate

The hydrolysis reaction of N2O5 was investigated at room temperature on two aerosol types using a flow tube coupled to a newly built Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (CIMS). This instrument was fully constructed and optimized during this research period, as well as employed to conduct one of two aerosol studies. The first examined the reaction on ammonium bisulphate aerosols using a new ion detection method, I-•N2O5 cluster formation, which proved to be highly advantageous over the common approach of dissociative charge transfer, yielding a sensitivity for I-•N2O5 of 0.024 Hz/pptv. The uptake coefficients at 30% and 50% relative humidity were 0.0067 ± 0.0002 and 0.0120 ±0.0014, respectively. The second study was performed using a different CIMS previously assembled in the laboratory. In this case, the reaction was investigated on secondary organic aerosols produced through the ozonolysis of α-pinene, and resulted in an uptake coefficient of 8.5x10-5 ± 7x10-6 at 0% relative humidity.

The hydrolysis reaction of N2O5 was investigated at room temperature on two aerosol types using a flow tube coupled to a newly built Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (CIMS). This instrument was fully constructed and optimized during this research period, as well as employed to conduct one of two aerosol studies. The first examined the reaction on ammonium bisulphate aerosols using a new ion detection method, I-•N2O5 cluster formation, which proved to be highly advantageous over the common approach of dissociative charge transfer, yielding a sensitivity for I-•N2O5 of 0.024 Hz/pptv. The uptake coefficients at 30% and 50% relative humidity were 0.0067 ± 0.0002 and 0.0120 ±0.0014, respectively. The second study was performed using a different CIMS previously assembled in the laboratory. In this case, the reaction was investigated on secondary organic aerosols produced through the ozonolysis of α-pinene, and resulted in an uptake coefficient of 8.5x10-5 ± 7x10-6 at 0% relative humidity.

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In these cases a mix of Object-Oriented (OO) elements and SOC principles, concepts, technologies and techniques could be used to provide better results. This work presents an iterative approach to develop software that uses OO and services, named IASWS (Iterative Approach for Software Development using Web Services) based on the Incremental model. It incorporates business process modeling using BPMN; XP and SoaML profile. This approach differs from the others as it allows services and SOC gradual adoption and is comprised of nine phases: Requirements Identification, Business Process (BP) and Services Contextualization, Service Design, Service Implementation, Service Testing, Solution Design, Solution Implementation, Solution Testing and Acceptance Verification. This dissertation is focused on the four initial phases: Requirements Identification, BP and Services Contextualization, Service Design and Solution Design which are responsible for: system requirements gathering, requirements analysis and solution elaboration, service design and solution design. Software increments are delivered as iterations complete and includes the implementation of one or more business process. Delivering software increments to the customer allows for development progress visualization and provides feedback on what had been implemented. Business process modeling using BPMN contributes to understanding customer s business area and improves requirements identification. Services are modeled and specified using SoaML profile allowing automatic code generation at the implementation phase. Two examples applying approach to development were carried out to investigate the IASWS applicability. / O desenvolvimento de sistemas de software exige ferramentas, tecnologias e processos de desenvolvimento adequados para criar sistemas que atendem às necessidades de negócio do cliente e que sejam suficientemente flexíveis para acompanhar as constantes mudanças e evoluções dos negócios. A Computação Orientada a Serviços (COS) é um paradigma de TI que pode auxiliar nesse desenvolvimento, desde que haja um processo de desenvolvimento que considere as suas peculiaridades. Alguns desses processos foram analisados neste trabalho e observou-se que eles tem o enfoque no desenvolvimento de sistemas compostos exclusivamente por serviços, o que nem sempre é interessante: a) quando se deseja construir a interface gráfica do software, b) quando é preciso encapsular a lógica de negócio, que faz o diferencial competitivo entre os produtos, ou c) em empresas que estão iniciando a adoção da COS. Nessas situações a utilização conjunta de elementos da Orientação a Objetos (OO) com princípios, conceitos, tecnologias e técnicas da COS pode trazer benefícios. Dessa forma, nesta dissertação foi criada uma abordagem iterativa de desenvolvimento de software que utiliza OO e serviços, denominada IASWS (em inglês, Iterative Approach for Software Development using Web Services), tendo como base o modelo incremental; a modelagem de processos de negócio (PN), usando BPMN; XP e o perfil SoaML. A abordagem IASWS tem como diferencial a possibilidade da adoção gradual de serviços e da COS, sendo composta por nove fases: Identificar Requisitos, Contextualizar PN com Serviços, Projetar Serviços, Implementar Serviços, Testar Serviços, Projetar Solução, Implementar Solução, Testar Solução e Verificar Aceitação. No escopo desta dissertação são tratadas as quatro fases iniciais: Identificar Requisitos, Contextualizar PN com Serviços, Projetar Serviços e Projetar Solução as quais sãos as responsáveis pela: obtenção de requisitos do sistema, análise desses requisitos e elaboração de uma solução, projeto de serviços e projeto da solução. A cada iteração é gerado um incremento no software, que inclui a implementação de um ou mais processos de negócio, e que é entregue ao cliente para que esse possa visualizar o avanço no desenvolvimento, ao mesmo tempo em que fornece feedbacks sobre o desenvolvimento do sistema. A modelagem de processos de negócio utilizando BPMN, além de contribuir para o entendimento do negócio do cliente, favorece também a identificação dos requisitos. Serviços são representados e especificados utilizando o perfil SoaML que possibilita a geração automatizada do código do serviço na fase de implementação. Dois exemplos de aplicação da abordagem foram desenvolvidos para analisar a aplicabilidade da IASWS.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DissIMF.pdf: 12997797 bytes, checksum: 61ca28804fe846c5e4f1f3d97a366017 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-13 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / The popularization of mobile devices capable of communicating via wireless network technologies allows us to consider different scenarios in which these devices may autonomously interact with each other. The envisioned communications would occur in a P2P fashion, as each device could simultaneously provide and consume services. A mechanism for dynamically discovering nearby devices and the available services would be necessary. Although a few existing applications already provide the direct interaction among devices they are purpose-specific and rely on pre-configured information for identifying other devices. A service-oriented architecture (SOA), based on HTTP requests and the REST or SOAP protocols, is commonly used in this type of communication. However, automatically finding available known services is still challenging. Service discovery is usually based exclusively on service name, which is not very flexible. This work proposes a new model for the direct interaction between computing devices. In an attempt to facilitate service discovery and selection we propose a content centric model in which interactions are defined according to an object’s type and the action to be applied to it. The proposed approach can workatop of existing discovery protocols, based on extensible metadata fields and on existing service data. Our proposal is evaluated according to i) the viability of direct communication between nearby devices, even when carried by users or associated to vehicles; ii) the proposed service discovery and matching using the content centric approach; iii) the effectiveness of a middleware to support the development of generic applications for direct device communication. Simulation results show our proposed model is viable. A preliminary implementation of the middleware was also evaluated and the results show that spontaneous, opportunistic, service-based interactions among devices can be achieved for different types of services. / A popularização de dispositivos móveis dotados de capacidade de comunicação sem fio possibilita a criação de ambientes onde estes dispositivos interagem diretamente entre si. Essas comunicações ocorrem no modelo P2P, de forma que cada dispositivo pode implementar simultaneamente papéis de cliente e de servidor. Contudo, para que ocorram interações di- retas entre dispositivos através de aplicações, é preciso que estes dispositivos implementem algum mecanismo de descoberta. Atualmente, a maioria das aplicações que se comunicam diretamente utilizam informações pré-configuradas para identificação de dispositivos e serviços. Uma forma utilizada para interação entre dispositivos é através da oferta e consumo de serviços utilizando a arquitetura orientada a serviços (SOA), baseada em requisições HTTP utilizando os padrões REST ou SOAP. Um problema recorrente para consumidores de serviços é a identificação de serviços disponíveis. A identificação utilizada em protoco- los de descoberta existentes baseia-se apenas no nome do serviço, salvo em comunicações pré-configuradas, o que não apresenta flexibilidade para descobrir novos serviços. De forma a facilitar a troca de informações entre dispositivos, este trabalho propõe um modelo em que interações diretas entre dispositivos sejam centradas no conteúdo envolvido na interação e nas ações que se deseja realizar sobre eles. Para tanto, uma identificação de serviço pode ser baseada em metadados que são adicionados às descrições de serviços existentes, ou em informações obtidas com protocolos de descoberta de serviço existentes. Para avaliar o modelo proposto, esse trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre i) a viabilidade de interações diretas entre dispositivos, considerando suas mobilidades; ii) o uso de um modelo de interação centrado em conteúdo e ação; iii) o desenvolvimento de um Middleware para simplificar o desenvolvimento de aplicações que usem o modelo de serviço proposto. Os resultados de simulação obtidos mostram que o modelo é viável. Além disso, uma versão preliminar do Middleware proposto foi avaliada e mostra que a interação direta entre dispositivos pode ocorrer de forma oportunística e espontânea.

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.

O surgimento de novos serviços que requerem uma largura de banda cada vez maior, bem como o crescente número de usuários de tais serviços, têm introduzido desafios às empresas operadoras de telecomunicações em sua capacidade de atender a estas demandas sem perda apreciável da qualidade de serviço e mantendo, ainda assim, os custos num nível aceitável pelos usuários. Neste contexto, redes ópticas passivas (PONs) vêm atraindo grande interesse em anos recentes. Na sua variante de longo-alcance, as redes PON permitem uma consolidação do uso dos equipamentos e centrais de serviço requeridos, reduzindo custos operacionais e de instalação. Uma das formas de atingir este maior alcance dá-se por meio da inserção de amplificadores ópticos nas redes de acesso. Neste trabalho, portanto, estudaram-se alguns tipos de amplificadores ópticos e suas possíveis aplicações em redes de acesso, levando a topologias de longo alcance e alta capacidade. Foram realizadas avaliações experimentais de um extensor, baseado em amplificadores ópticos semicondutores (SOAs), na rede GPON do CPqD, sob a Meta 3 do Projeto GIGA, possibilitando a obtenção de uma topologia do tipo Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB) com 80 km de extensão e 128 usuários atendidos por uma única central de serviço. Além dessas validações experimentais, foram simulados computacionalmente SOAs com características otimizadas bem como sistemas que utilizam fibras dopadas com érbio bombeadas remotamente, sendo que nestes últimos, atingiram-se distâncias superiores a 100 km. / The emergence of new services which require an increasing bandwidth, as well as the growing number of users of such services, have introduced challenges to the network operators in regard to their capacity of supporting these demands with no penalty on the required quality of service, while keeping the costs at an acceptable level for the users. In this context, passive optical networks (PONs) have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. In the long-reach configuration, PON networks allow for a consolidation of equipament usage, reducing operational and installation costs. One way to achieve this longer reach is by the insertion of optical amplifiers in the access network. Therefore, in our work, we have investigated several optical amplifier configurations, as well as their application in access networks, leading to longreach and high capacity network topologies. Experimental evaluations of an extender, based on semiconductor optical amplifiers, were carried out in the CPqD GPON network, under Goal 3 of GIGA Project, allowing the achievement of a Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB) topology with 80km of extension and 128 users served by a single central office. Besides these experimental validations, were simulated computationally SOAs with optimized characteristics as well as systems using remotely pumped erbium-doped fibers, whereas in the latter were reached distances exceeding 100 km.

Web service-based mobile applications have become emergent in the recent years. Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture style introduced the concept of Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA), which has been widely used for building applications for all platforms. This master’s thesis designs and develops a Web service-based mobile application for Android platform following the constraints of REST architectural style. It also proposes an authentication model for RESTful applications. The master’s thesis is completed at the company Inspectera HK AB in Norrköping, Sweden. The developed application is called the “Mobile version of Inspectera Online.”