Bei der Umsetzung moderner Managementkonzepte wie bspw. Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management und Partner Relationship Management werden Anwendungssysteme wertschöpfungskettenübergreifend eingesetzt. Das bedeutet, dass sowohl interne als auch externe Benutzer auf verschiedene Anwendungssysteme eines Unternehmens zugreifen. Die daraus resultierenden Anforderungen werden als Paradigma des homogenen Enterprise Access Managements (hEAM) beschrieben. Zur Umsetzung dieser Anforderungen wird ein Referenzmodell zur anwendungssystemübergreifend konsistenten Zugriffssteuerung (MAKS) entwickelt. Eine entsprechende Realisierungsmöglichkeit in Form eines zentralen Rollen- und Rechtemanagementsystems (ZR2MS) ergibt sich aus der Referenzarchitektur zur anwendungssystemübergreifend konsistenten Zugriffssteuerung (A2KS).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:46:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FredericoASL_TESE.pdf: 2802303 bytes, checksum: be814c8392c7d14ab8b3a30bbd50da04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-18 / One of the current challenges of Ubiquitous Computing is the development of complex applications, those are more than simple alarms triggered by sensors or simple systems to configure the environment according to user preferences. Those applications are hard to develop since they are composed by services provided by different middleware and it is needed to know the peculiarities of each of them, mainly the communication and context models. This thesis presents OpenCOPI, a platform which integrates various services providers, including context provision middleware. It provides an unified ontology-based context model, as well as an environment that enable easy development of ubiquitous applications via the definition of semantic workflows that contains the abstract description of the application. Those semantic workflows are converted into concrete workflows, called execution plans. An execution plan consists of a workflow instance containing activities that are automated by a set of Web services. OpenCOPI supports the automatic Web service selection and composition, enabling the use of services provided by distinct middleware in an independent and transparent way. Moreover, this platform also supports execution adaptation in case of service failures, user mobility and degradation of services quality. The validation of OpenCOPI is performed through the development of case studies, specifically applications of the oil industry. In addition, this work evaluates the overhead introduced by OpenCOPI and compares it with the provided benefits, and the efficiency of OpenCOPI s selection and adaptation mechanism / Um dos principais desafios atuais da computa??o ub?qua ? o desenvolvimento de aplica??es complexas, que consistem em mais do que simples alarmes disparados por sensores ou ferramentas para configurar o ambiente de acordo com prefer?ncias dos usu?rios. Tais aplica??es s?o dif?ceis de desenvolver uma vez que envolve uso de servi?os que s?o providos por diferentes middleware, sendo necess?rio conhecer as peculiaridades de cada um deles, principalmente no que diz respeito ao modelo de comunica??o e ao modelo de representa??o de informa??es de contexto. Essa tese de doutorado apresenta o OpenCOPI, uma plataforma para integra??o de diferentes middleware de provis?o de contexto que fornece um servi?o de contexto unificado e baseado em ontologias, bem como um ambiente que facilita o desenvolvimento das aplica??es ub?quas atrav?s da defini??o de workflows sem?nticos com a descri??o abstrata da aplica??o. Esses workflows sem?nticos s?o transformados em workflows concretos, chamados de planos de execu??o. Um plano de execu??o ? em uma inst?ncia de um workflow contendo atividades que s?o automatizadas por um conjunto de servi?os Web. O OpenCOPI suporta composi??o e sele??o autom?tica de servi?os Web, possibilitando o uso transparente de servi?os de contexto providos por diferentes middleware. Essa plataforma tamb?m fornece suporte para adapta??o da execu??o das aplica??es em caso de falha de servi?os, mobilidade do usu?rio ou degrada??o da qualidade do servi?o. A valida??o do OpenCOPI ? realizada atrav?s de estudos de caso, especificamente aplica??es da ind?stria do petr?leo e g?s (monitoramento de po?os e de dutos de transporte de petr?leo). Al?m disso, esse trabalho avalia o overhead introduzido pelo OpenCOPI, contrastando com os seus benef?cios, e tamb?m avalia a efici?ncia dos mecanismos de sele??o e adapta??o

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:48:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EvertonRSC_DISSERT.pdf: 4653595 bytes, checksum: 83e897be68464555082a55505fd406ea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-01-31 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / With the advance of the Cloud Computing paradigm, a single service offered by a cloud platform may not be enough to meet all the application requirements. To fulfill such requirements, it may be necessary, instead of a single service, a composition of services that aggregates services provided by different cloud platforms. In order to generate aggregated value for the user, this composition of services provided by several Cloud Computing platforms requires a solution in terms of platforms integration, which encompasses the manipulation of a wide number of noninteroperable APIs and protocols from different platform vendors. In this scenario, this work presents Cloud Integrator, a middleware platform for composing services provided by different Cloud Computing platforms. Besides providing an environment that facilitates the development and execution of applications that use such services, Cloud Integrator works as a mediator by providing mechanisms for building applications through composition and selection of semantic Web services that take into account metadata about the services, such as QoS (Quality of Service), prices, etc. Moreover, the proposed middleware platform provides an adaptation mechanism that can be triggered in case of failure or quality degradation of one or more services used by the running application in order to ensure its quality and availability. In this work, through a case study that consists of an application that use services provided by different cloud platforms, Cloud Integrator is evaluated in terms of the efficiency of the performed service composition, selection and adaptation processes, as well as the potential of using this middleware in heterogeneous computational clouds scenarios / Com o avan?o do paradigma de Computa??o em Nuvem, um ?nico servi?o oferecido por uma plataforma de nuvem pode n?o ser suficiente para satisfazer todos os requisitos da aplica??o. Para satisfazer tais requisitos, ao inv?s de um ?nico servi?o, pode ser necess?ria uma composi??o que agrega servi?os providos por diferentes plataformas de nuvem. A fim de gerar valor agregado para o usu?rio, essa composi??o de servi?os providos por diferentes plataformas de Computa??o em Nuvem requer uma solu??o em termos de integra??o de plataformas, envolvendo a manipula??o de um vasto n?mero de APIs e protocolos n?o interoper?veis de diferentes provedores. Nesse cen?rio, este trabalho apresenta o Cloud Integrator, uma plataforma de middleware para composi??o de servi?os providos por diferentes plataformas de Computa??o em Nuvem. Al?m de prover um ambiente que facilita o desenvolvimento e a execu??o de aplica??es que utilizam tais servi?os, o Cloud Integrator funciona como um mediador provendo mecanismos para a constru??o de aplica??es atrav?s da composi??o e sele??o de servi?os Web sem?nticos que consideram metadados acerca dos servi?os, como QoS (Quality of Service), pre?os etc. Adicionalmente, a plataforma de middleware proposta prov? um mecanismo de adapta??o que pode ser disparado em caso de falha ou degrada??o da qualidade de um ou mais servi?os utilizados pela aplica??o em quest?o, a fim de garantir sua a qualidade e disponibilidade. Neste trabalho, atrav?s de um estudo de caso que consiste de uma aplica??o que utiliza servi?os providos por diferentes plataformas de nuvem, o Cloud Integrator ? avaliado em termos da efici?ncia dos processos de composi??o de servi?os, sele??o e adapta??o realizados, bem como da potencialidade do seu uso em cen?rios de nuvens computacionais heterog?neas

De nos jours, la préservation de l’environnement constitue un enjeu prioritaire. La compréhension des phénomènes environnementaux passe par l’étude et la combinaison d’un nombre croissant de données hétérogènes. De nombreuses initiatives internationales (INSPIRE, GEOSS) visent à encourager le partage et l’échange de ces données. Dans ce sujet de recherche, nous traitons de l’intérêt de mettre à disposition des modèles scientifiques sur le web. Nous montrons l’intérêt d’utiliser des applications s’appuyant sur des données géoréférencées et présentons des méthodes et des moyens répondant aux exigences d’interopérabilité. Nous illustrons notre approche par l’implémentation de modèles d’estimation des besoins en eau agricoles et domestiques fonctionnant à diverses échelles spatiales et temporelles. Un prototype basé sur une architecture entièrement orientée services web a été développé. L’outil s’appuie sur les standards Web Feature Service (WFS), Sensor Observation Service (SOS) et Web Processing Service (WPS) de l’OGC. Enfin, la prise en compte des imperfections des données est également abordée avec l’intégration de méthodes d’analyse de sensibilité et de propagation de l’incertitude. / Nowadays, preservation of the environment is a main priority. Understanding of environmental phenomena requires the study and the combination of an increasing number of heterogeneous data. Several international initiatives (INSPIRE, GEOSS) aims to encourage the sharing and exchange of those data.In this thesis, the interest of making scientific models available on the web is discussed. The value of using applications based on geospatial data is demonstrated. Several methods and means that satisfy the requirements of interoperability are also purposed.Our approach is illustrated by the implementation of models for estimating agricultural and domestic water requirements. Those models can be used at different spatial scales and temporal granularities. A prototype based on a complete web service oriented architecture was developed. The tool is based on the OGC standards Web Feature Service (WFS), Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and Web Processing Service (WPS).Finally, taking into account the imperfections of the data is also discussed with the integration of methods for sensitivity analysis and uncertainty propagation.

Test Driven Development (TDD) é uma prática ágil que ganhou popularidade ao ser definida como parte fundamental na eXtreme Programming (XP). Essa prática determina que os testes devem ser escritos antes da implementação do código. TDD e seus efeitos têm sido amplamente estudados e comparados com a prática Test Last Development (TLD) em diversos trabalhos. Entretanto, poucos estudos abordam TDD no desenvolvimento de Web Services (WS), devido à complexidade em testar as dependências entre os componentes distribuídos e as particularidades da Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Este trabalho tem por objetivo definir e validar uma abordagem para o desenvolvimento de WS baseada na prática de TDD, denominada WS-TDD. Essa abordagem guia os desenvolvedores no uso de TDD durante o desenvolvimento de WS, sugerindo ferramentas e técnicas para lidar com as dependências e as particularidades de SOA, com foco na criação dos testes unitários e integrados automatizados na linguagem Java. No intuito de definir e validar a abordagem proposta, quatro métodos de pesquisa foram executados: (i) questionário presencial; (ii) experimento; (iii) entrevista presencial com cada participante do experimento e (iv) triangulação dos resultados com as pessoas que participaram nos três métodos anteriores. De acordo com os resultados obtidos, a WS-TDD mostrou-se mais eficiente quando comparada a TLD, aumentando a qualidade interna do software e a produtividade dos desenvolvedores. No entanto, a qualidade externa do software diminuiu, apresentando um maior número de defeitos quando comparada a TLD. Por fim, é importante destacar que a abordagem proposta surge como uma alternativa simples e prática para a adoção de TDD no desenvolvimento de WS, trazendo benefícios a qualidade interna e contribuindo para aumentar a produtividade dos desenvolvedores. Porém, a qualidade externa do software diminuiu ao utilizar a WS-TDD. / Test Driven Development (TDD) is an agile practice that gained popularity when defined as a fundamental part in eXtreme Programming (XP). This practice determines that the tests should be written before implementing the code. TDD and its effects have been widely studied and compared with the Test Last Development (TLD) in several studies. However, few studies address TDD practice in the development of Web Services (WS), due to the complexity of testing the dependencies among distributed components and the specific characteristics of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This study aims to define and validate an approach to develop WS based on the practice of TDD, called WS-TDD. This approach guides developers to use TDD to develop WS, suggesting tools and techniques to deal with SOA particularities and dependencies, focusing on the creation of the unitary and integrated automated tests in Java. In order to define and validate the proposed approach, four research methods have been carried out: (i) questionnaire; (ii) practical experiment; (iii) personal interview with each participant in the experiment and (iv) triangulation of the results with the people who participated in the three previous methods. According to the obtained results, WS-TDD was more efficient compared to TLD, increasing internal software quality and developer productivity. However, the external software quality has decreased due to a greater number of defects compared to the TLD approach. Finally, it is important to highlight that the proposed approach is a simple and practical alternative for the adoption of TDD in the development of WS, bringing benefits to internal quality and contributing to increase the developers’ productivity. However, the external software quality has decreased when using WS-TDD.

Propõe-se na presente dissertação divulgar e apresentar à pesquisadoras e pesquisadores a organização da informação e a educação aberta, a plataforma Zotero, uma ferramenta de gestão de referências, por meio de oficinas e tutorial. Expor o contexto histórico de construção desta ferramenta, na perspectiva das humanidades digitais, mostrar sua utilização para coleta, organização, citação, formatação, compartilhamento e contextualização histórica do conhecimento.Como exemplo de organização da informação foi utilizada a coleção de documentos da Lélia Gonzalez, do Projeto Memória, assim como a disponibilização do tutorial para uso da plataforma Zotero como um Recursos Educacionais Abertos (REA). Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados, a partir da abordagem qualitativa e exploratória, do levantamento bibliográfico que compõe a fundamentação teórica, no aspecto comparativo das ferramentas de gestão de referências, Zotero e Mendeley e a escolha pela Zotero para a organização da coleção Lélia Gonzalez, refletem as perspectivas das humanidades digitais, assim como as perspectivas da educação aberta para a aplicação das oficinas à pesquisadoras e pesquisadores. / This dissertation intends to publicize and to present to researchers the organization of information and the open education, the Zotero platform, a tool for management of references, through workshops and tutorial. It also aims at exposing the historical context of the making of that tool, from the perspective of digital humanities, to show its use for collecting, organizing, citing, formatting, sharing and historical contextualization of knowledge. Lélia Gonzalez's collection of documents from “Projeto Memória” (Memory Project) was used as an example of organization of information, as well as the tutorial regarding the use of Zotero platform as an Open Educational Resource (OER). Based on the qualitative and exploratory approach of the bibliographic survey that composes the theoretical foundation, the methodological procedures adopted on the comparative aspect of the reference management tools, Zotero and Mendeley, and the choice by Zotero for the organization of Lélia Gonzalez collection reflect the perspectives of the digital humanities, as well as the perspectives of open education for the application of workshops to researchers.

Test Driven Development (TDD) é uma prática ágil que ganhou popularidade ao ser definida como parte fundamental na eXtreme Programming (XP). Essa prática determina que os testes devem ser escritos antes da implementação do código. TDD e seus efeitos têm sido amplamente estudados e comparados com a prática Test Last Development (TLD) em diversos trabalhos. Entretanto, poucos estudos abordam TDD no desenvolvimento de Web Services (WS), devido à complexidade em testar as dependências entre os componentes distribuídos e as particularidades da Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Este trabalho tem por objetivo definir e validar uma abordagem para o desenvolvimento de WS baseada na prática de TDD, denominada WS-TDD. Essa abordagem guia os desenvolvedores no uso de TDD durante o desenvolvimento de WS, sugerindo ferramentas e técnicas para lidar com as dependências e as particularidades de SOA, com foco na criação dos testes unitários e integrados automatizados na linguagem Java. No intuito de definir e validar a abordagem proposta, quatro métodos de pesquisa foram executados: (i) questionário presencial; (ii) experimento; (iii) entrevista presencial com cada participante do experimento e (iv) triangulação dos resultados com as pessoas que participaram nos três métodos anteriores. De acordo com os resultados obtidos, a WS-TDD mostrou-se mais eficiente quando comparada a TLD, aumentando a qualidade interna do software e a produtividade dos desenvolvedores. No entanto, a qualidade externa do software diminuiu, apresentando um maior número de defeitos quando comparada a TLD. Por fim, é importante destacar que a abordagem proposta surge como uma alternativa simples e prática para a adoção de TDD no desenvolvimento de WS, trazendo benefícios a qualidade interna e contribuindo para aumentar a produtividade dos desenvolvedores. Porém, a qualidade externa do software diminuiu ao utilizar a WS-TDD. / Test Driven Development (TDD) is an agile practice that gained popularity when defined as a fundamental part in eXtreme Programming (XP). This practice determines that the tests should be written before implementing the code. TDD and its effects have been widely studied and compared with the Test Last Development (TLD) in several studies. However, few studies address TDD practice in the development of Web Services (WS), due to the complexity of testing the dependencies among distributed components and the specific characteristics of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This study aims to define and validate an approach to develop WS based on the practice of TDD, called WS-TDD. This approach guides developers to use TDD to develop WS, suggesting tools and techniques to deal with SOA particularities and dependencies, focusing on the creation of the unitary and integrated automated tests in Java. In order to define and validate the proposed approach, four research methods have been carried out: (i) questionnaire; (ii) practical experiment; (iii) personal interview with each participant in the experiment and (iv) triangulation of the results with the people who participated in the three previous methods. According to the obtained results, WS-TDD was more efficient compared to TLD, increasing internal software quality and developer productivity. However, the external software quality has decreased due to a greater number of defects compared to the TLD approach. Finally, it is important to highlight that the proposed approach is a simple and practical alternative for the adoption of TDD in the development of WS, bringing benefits to internal quality and contributing to increase the developers’ productivity. However, the external software quality has decreased when using WS-TDD.

Propõe-se na presente dissertação divulgar e apresentar à pesquisadoras e pesquisadores a organização da informação e a educação aberta, a plataforma Zotero, uma ferramenta de gestão de referências, por meio de oficinas e tutorial. Expor o contexto histórico de construção desta ferramenta, na perspectiva das humanidades digitais, mostrar sua utilização para coleta, organização, citação, formatação, compartilhamento e contextualização histórica do conhecimento.Como exemplo de organização da informação foi utilizada a coleção de documentos da Lélia Gonzalez, do Projeto Memória, assim como a disponibilização do tutorial para uso da plataforma Zotero como um Recursos Educacionais Abertos (REA). Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados, a partir da abordagem qualitativa e exploratória, do levantamento bibliográfico que compõe a fundamentação teórica, no aspecto comparativo das ferramentas de gestão de referências, Zotero e Mendeley e a escolha pela Zotero para a organização da coleção Lélia Gonzalez, refletem as perspectivas das humanidades digitais, assim como as perspectivas da educação aberta para a aplicação das oficinas à pesquisadoras e pesquisadores. / This dissertation intends to publicize and to present to researchers the organization of information and the open education, the Zotero platform, a tool for management of references, through workshops and tutorial. It also aims at exposing the historical context of the making of that tool, from the perspective of digital humanities, to show its use for collecting, organizing, citing, formatting, sharing and historical contextualization of knowledge. Lélia Gonzalez's collection of documents from “Projeto Memória” (Memory Project) was used as an example of organization of information, as well as the tutorial regarding the use of Zotero platform as an Open Educational Resource (OER). Based on the qualitative and exploratory approach of the bibliographic survey that composes the theoretical foundation, the methodological procedures adopted on the comparative aspect of the reference management tools, Zotero and Mendeley, and the choice by Zotero for the organization of Lélia Gonzalez collection reflect the perspectives of the digital humanities, as well as the perspectives of open education for the application of workshops to researchers.

La question de recherche des objets vidéo basés sur le contenu lui-même, est de plus en plus difficile et devient un élément obligatoire pour les moteurs de recherche vidéo. Cette thèse présente un cadre pour la recherche des objets vidéo définis par l'utilisateur et apporte deux grandes contributions. La première contribution, intitulée DOOR (Dynamic Object Oriented Retrieval), est un cadre méthodologique pour la recherche et récupération des instances d'objets vidéo sélectionnés par un utilisateur, tandis que la seconde contribution concerne le support offert pour la recherche des vidéos, à savoir la navigation dans les vidéo, le système de récupération de vidéos et l'interface avec son architecture sous-jacente.Dans le cadre DOOR, l’objet comporte une représentation hybride obtenues par une sur-segmentation des images, consolidé avec la construction des graphs d’adjacence et avec l’agrégation des points d'intérêt. L'identification des instances d'objets à travers plusieurs vidéos est formulée comme un problème d’optimisation de l'énergie qui peut approximer un tache NP-difficile. Les objets candidats sont des sous-graphes qui rendent une énergie optimale vers la requête définie par l'utilisateur. Quatre stratégies d'optimisation sont proposées: Greedy, Greedy relâché, recuit simulé et GraphCut. La représentation de l'objet est encore améliorée par l'agrégation des points d'intérêt dans la représentation hybride, où la mesure de similarité repose sur une technique spectrale intégrant plusieurs types des descripteurs. Le cadre DOOR est capable de s’adapter à des archives vidéo a grande échelle grâce à l'utilisation de représentation sac-de-mots, enrichi avec un algorithme de définition et d’expansion de la requête basée sur une approche multimodale, texte, image et vidéo. Les techniques proposées sont évaluées sur plusieurs corpora de test TRECVID et qui prouvent leur efficacité.La deuxième contribution, OVIDIUS (On-line VIDeo Indexing Universal System) est une plate-forme en ligne pour la navigation et récupération des vidéos, intégrant le cadre DOOR. Les contributions de cette plat-forme portent sur le support assuré aux utilisateurs pour la recherche vidéo - navigation et récupération des vidéos, interface graphique. La plate-forme OVIDIUS dispose des fonctionnalités de navigation hiérarchique qui exploite la norme MPEG-7 pour la description structurelle du contenu vidéo. L'avantage majeur de l'architecture propose c’est sa structure modulaire qui permet de déployer le système sur terminaux différents (fixes et mobiles), indépendamment des systèmes d'exploitation impliqués. Le choix des technologies employées pour chacun des modules composant de la plate-forme est argumentée par rapport aux d'autres options technologiques. / With the ever increasing amount of available video content on video repositories the issue of content-based video objects retrieval is growing in difficulty and becomes a mandatory feature for video search engines.The present thesis advances a user defined video object retrieval framework and brings two major contributions. The first contribution is a methodological framework for user selected video object instances retrieval, entitled DOOR (Dynamic Object Oriented Retrieval), while the second one concerns the support offered for video retrieval, namely the video navigation and retrieval system and interface and its underlying architecture.Under the DOOR framework, the user defined video object comports a hybrid representation obtained by over-segmenting the frames, constructing region adjacency graphs and aggregating interest points. The identification of object instances across multiple videos is formulated as an energy optimization problem approximating an NP-hard problem. Object candidates are sub-graphs that yield an optimum energy towards the user defined query. In order to obtain the optimum energy four optimization strategies are proposed: Greedy, Relaxed Greedy, Simulated Annealing and GraphCut. The region-based object representation is further improved by the aggregation of interest points into a hybrid object representation. The similarity between an object and a frame is achieved with the help of a spectral matching technique integrating both colorimetric and interest points descriptors.The DOOR framework is suitable to large scale video archives through the use of a Bag-of-Words representation enriched with a query definition and expansion mechanism based on a multi-modal, text-image-video principle.The performances of the proposed techniques are evaluated on multiple TRECVID video datasets prooving their effectiveness.The second contribution is related to the user support for video retrieval - video navigation, video retrieval, graphical interface - and consists in the OVIDIUS (On-line VIDeo Indexing Universal System) on-line video browsing and retrieval platform. The OVIDIUS platform features hierarchical video navigation functionalities that exploit the MPEG-7 approach for structural description of video content. The DOOR framework is integrated in the OVIDIUS platform, ensuring the search functionalities of the system. The major advantage of the proposed system concerns its modular architecture which makes it possible to deploy the system on various terminals (both fixed and mobile), independently of the exploitation systems involved. The choice of the technologies employed for each composing module of the platform is argumented in comparison with other technological options. Finally different scenarios and use cases for the OVIDIUS platform are presented.

Increasing speed of networks and worldwide availability has made the World Wide Web the most significant medium for information exchange. Web technologies have become more and more important as large and small businesses continue to make their presence on the web. Today's businesses have more than just a "face" on the worldwide web. The use of a web browser is no longer restricted to viewing static pages. Browsers are becoming more and more a standard interface to a multifaceted reign of programs that live on the worldwide web. Two main technologies stand out for the implementation of web applications, Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft' Dot Net Framework. The purpose of this study is to provide an unbiased comparison of the two technologies based on performance and other software qualities.