Duro, Nuno, Rui Santos, João M. Lourenço, Hervé Paulino, and João Martins. "
Open Virtualization Framework for Testing Ground Systems."
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems (PADTAD'10). New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2010. 67-73.
AbstractThe recent developments in virtualization change completely the panorama of the Hardware/OS deployment. New bottlenecks arise in the deployment of application stacks, where IT industry will spend most of the time to assure automation. VIRTU tool aims at managing, configuring and testing distributed ground applications of space systems on a virtualized environment, based on open tools and cross virtualization support. This tool is a spin-off of previous activities performed by the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) and thus it covers the original needs from the ground data systems infrastructure division of the European Space Agency. VIRTU is a testing oriented solution. Its ability to group several virtual machines in an assembly provides the means to easily deploy a full testing infrastructure, including the client/server relationships. The possibility of making on-demand request of the testing infrastructure will provide some infrastructure optimizations, specially having in mind that ESA maintains Ground Control software of various missions, and each mission cam potentially have a different set of System baselines and last up to 15 years. The matrix array of supported system combinations is therefore enormous and any improvement on the process provides substantial benefits to ESA, by reducing the effort and schedule of each maintenance activity. The ESOC's case study focuses on the development and validation activities of infrastructure or mission Ground Systems solutions. The Ground Systems solutions are typically composed of distributed systems that could take advantage of virtualized environments for testing purposes. Virtualization is used as way to optimize maintenance for tasks such as testing new releases and patches, test different system's configurations and replicate tests. The main benefits identified are related to deployment test environment and the possibility to have on-demand infrastructure.
Cardoso, Tiago, and Luis M. Camarinha-Matos. "
Pro-active asset entities in collaborative networks."
Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010. 93-102.
AbstractIn a Collaborative Network (CN) scenario it would be desirable that CN members could be able to start collaboration within their Virtual Organization Breeding Environments or Professional Virtual Communities in a short time-frame, whenever a new Business Opportunity appears.
As a contribution towards such dynamic scenario, this paper proposes the concepts of Assets Entity, Pro-Active Assets Entity and Integrated Market of Pro-Active Assets Entities. The first concept can be used to model attributes and all functional and intelligent content elements a CN member can provide (its Assets). The second is responsible for the representation and promotion of an Assets Entity. The later offers an adaptation of the market place concept where each Pro-Active Assets Entity registers itself, brokers post their needs and try to find the best providers, through a bidding and negotiation process.
Cardoso, Tiago, and Luis M. Camarinha-Matos. "
Pro-Active Service Entity Framework for a Better Mapping between Business and Software."
Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010. 451-460.
Abstracthe service concept is widely used in distinct research and application areas. Particularly in Collaborative Networks, Service Orientation represents a main trend in the development of support platforms. Nevertheless, a literature review shows that it does not gather a common understanding, namely from the software and business perspectives. This paper proposes a conceptual framework aiming at contributing to make these two perspectives come closer, through a refinement of the Service concept itself and the usage of Pro-Activeness.
Lourenço, João M., Eitan Farchi, and Shmuel Ur Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging (PADTAD'10). Eds. João M. Lourenço, Eitan Farhi, and Shmuel Ur. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2010.
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F. Heidenreich, P. Sanchez, J. Santos, S. Zschaler, M. Alferez, J. Araújo, L. Fuentes, U. Kulesza, A. Moreira, and A. Rashid. "
Relating Feature Models to Other Models of a Software Product Line - A Comparative Study of FeatureMapper and VML*."
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VII, Special Issue on A Common Case Study for Aspect-Oriented Modeling. LNCS 6210 (2010): 69-114.
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SCUTARU, G., F. SANDU, E. COCORADA, M. PAVALACHE, D. KRISTALY, L. Gomes, F. Coito, A. K. MÖRSKY-LINDQUIST, S. CSEREY, M. DASCĂLU, and others RELATÓRIO EDUCATIVO. IDENTITY; 229930-CP-1-2006-1-RO-MINERVA-M, 2010.
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