ECBS

Use case driven modularization improves code comprehension and maintenance and provides another view on software alongside object-oriented modularization. However, approaches enabling use case driven modularization require to modularize code manually. ...

This research article presents an extension of the most suitable business process modeling formalism BPMN 2.0 for including and implementing the knowledge dimension in Sensitive Business Processes (SBPs). This extension is semantically rich and well-...

Model driven security (MDS) is a well known approach in the access control domain. It proposes a security-by-design approach intended to link the encoded policy to the security policy modeling. However, this technique does not tie in the specificity and ...

Introducing a microservice system is a challenging task and requires the exploration and documentation of several related areas of design. Exploration and documentation of software architecture design is supported by decision guidance models in software ...

The potential of the adaptive morphogenesis methods proposed by architect Christopher Alexander is yet to be fully realised in enterprise data analysis context. These could be customised to provide a suitable metaphor for organising analyses and to ...

As of today, model-based testing is considered as a leading-edge technology in the IT industry. In model-based testing, an implementation under test is tested for compliance with a model that describes the required behaviour of the implementation. U...

Motivated by airborne intruder detection and defence systems, we examine sparse random graphs with linear number of connections. We establish theoretical bounds on domination number and our analysis gives a partial solution of the problem posed in [6]. ...

The trend of unifying communication by deploying TCP/IP also influenced the domain of tactical networks. Commonly used narrowband waveform tactical radios offer only the low bandwidth data transfer. Because of very restricted resources available in ...

Connected vehicles utilize various communication types that take place between different entities such as vehicle, infrastructure, cloud, and mobile. Connected vehicles have sensors and Electronic Control Units (ECUs) that perform in-vehicle ...

Today more than ever, energy and power distribution on heterogeneous multicore platforms have immense influence on hardware and software architectures because of general tendencies towards energy efficient solutions. This paper provides an insight into ...

This paper presents a realtime, collision-free motion coordination and navigation system for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fleet. The proposed system uses geographical locations of the UAVs and of the successfully detected, static and moving ...

The expressiveness of constraints has a potential to define network behavior and defend against complex network intrusions. This potential can be an integral part of an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for defending networks against various attacks. The ...

Although Python is one of the most widely used programming languages, and it is a foundation for a variety of parallel and distributed computing frameworks, it still lacks an applicable and reliable software transactional memory. In this paper, we ...

Parallel programming platforms are heterogeneous and incompatible; a common approach is needed to free programmers from platforms' technical intricacies, allowing <u>flexible execution</u> in which sequential and parallel executions produce identical ...

The paper deals with the modern concepts of distributed and hierarchical storage systems. Because of the high capacity of modern storage devices, the increasing number of files stored in such systems and the new client access patterns of mobile devices, ...

Cloud computing enables cloud providers to offer computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in the form of virtual machines (VMs). Cloud management platforms automate the allocation of VMs to physical machines (PMs). An adaptive VM allocation policy ...

The congestion control avoidance of TCP (Transport Control Protocol), the most used protocol in Internet, is based on critical RTT (Round Trip Time) forecasting process. Currently, several delay predictors are proposed in literature; but practical ...

In our previous papers we have focused on problems of model and/or information system evolution. We have dealt with popular technologies and languages for data storage and data management, such as XML, SQL, XPath, REST, BPMN, etc. In this paper we sum ...

Situational Method Engineering (SME) approaches help construct bespoke software development processes according to the specifications of the project at hand, but they are time-consuming and costly. A Software Process Line (SPrL) tackles this problem by ...

Defying attacks and vulnerabilities has been a challenge since the beginning of modern technology and especially after the gigantic leap of the online market system. Developers tend to aim at protection against theft in a new binary world that opened up ...

A selection of the optimal placements of the access points and sensors constitutes one of the fundamental challenges in the monitoring of spatial phenomena in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Access points should occupy the best locations in order to ...

This work presents the design and implementation of a beam steering transceiver prototype targeting narrowband IoT communications. The proposed architecture, integrating an open-source 8051 processor IP-core and a revised 4-channel DDS-PLL phase shifter,...