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The increasing complexity and size of software products combined with pressure to have shorter time-to-market is making manual testing techniques too costly and unscalable. This is particularly observed in industrial systems where continuous integration and deployment are applied. Therefore, there is a growing need to automate the testing process and make it scalable with respect to the context of...
The fierce competition among automotive manufacturers in introducing Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) and autonomous features has led to the explosive growth of the Electrical/Electronics (E/E) assets, including Software, in today's and future vehicles. The resource demand and quality requirements of these assets has increased consequently. Rigorous methodologies and tools are required for developing...
This paper is a short story of my adventures of the past 20 years trying to integrate academic research with software engineering problems in industry. I share the challenges I encountered on the way, my failures and successes, evolution of my research, and its adoption in industry. Though I faced many hardships, I feel great satisfaction in knowing that my research is applied today in the design...
This paper outlines challenges the authors have faced over decades of industrial experience with large-scale software analysis and maintenance projects (especially legacy modernization) for multiple organizations where millions of lines of source code are involved. Such projects require large teams cooperating on parsing, analyzing, and manipulating source code. In this context the use of traditional...
Novel technologies are essential to enable environmental and societal sustainable growth. Intellectual property rights (IPR) provide incentives to technology development. But this positive effect on innovation comes with the downside that IPR can also hinder the diffusion of technology. Open approaches have been suggested to overcome this. However, in spite of this relevance, existing literature about...
The advancement in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) has created an enormous market for the development of self-driving functionalities, raising the question of how it will transform the traditional vehicle development process. One adventurous proposal is to open the AV platform to third-party developers, so that AV functionalities can be developed in a crowd-sourcing way, which could provide tangible benefits...
Business Intelligence (BI) is an emergent domain with numerous implementation projects proliferating in the industry. However, several factors may influence the success of such projects. This study addresses the identification of the relevant dimensions that may affect success for leveraging a future empirical analysis of BI projects in Portugal through data mining using the quantitative features...
Data is the new natural resource of this century. As data volumes grow and applications aimed at monetizing the data continue to evolve, data processing platforms are expected to meet new scale, performance, reliability and data retention requirements. At the same time, storage hardware continues to improve in performance and price-performance. In this paper, we present TOKVS - Trillion Operation...
This paper discusses SEE effects in an architecture based on commercial-off-the-shelf multicore processors for consolidating mixed criticalities applications in single board computers for space applications. This paper builds on previously proposed system-level architectures for mixed-criticality applications, describing them both for convenience together with the previous validation results. The...
This study aims to group hotels in terms of the level of IT competencies, and to characterize each group according to contingency factors (size, category, type of customer, among others) and the characteristics of the human resources that work in them. The study focuses on Portuguese hotel industry, based on a sample of 163 hotel professionals, across 3, 4 and 5 star hotels categories. The performance...
Nowadays there is an increasing interest in mobile application development. However, developers often disregard, or at least significantly adapt, existing software development processes to suit their purpose, given the existing specific constraints. Such adjustments can introduce variations and new trends in existing processes that in many occasions are not shared with the scientific community since...
This paper contains a description of programs currently available for detecting physiological changes in the human reaction to a stressful situation. For each program described what is being evaluated, what we get like output of the program, advantages, disadvantages and potential contribution to commercial security. As alternative solutions are included training programs to help security personnel...
Innovation processes and methods have taken center stage in many organizations as companies begin to evaluate new ways to deliver growth and maintain a competitive edge. Specifically, the proliferation of methods originating in software development (agile) and product development (design thinking) put pressure on organizations to dedicate resources to apply these methods, irrespective of industry...
Digital content industry, listed as China's “key cultural industries”, has maintained high-speed growth in recent years. However, challenges still remain since piracy has become obstacles in long-term sustainable development. A firm may employ different pricing and investing policies with differentiated environmental conditions to protect intellectual property, increase legitimate sales and maximize...
In this paper, we suggest an PLC programming framework integrated with motion control software module. Our programming framework is characterized with the following features. Firstly, the framework provides programming environment for motion control codes. Secondly, the PLC program can be composed and edited by the use of pre-implemented software modules. Finally, we implemented the framework and...
Unfortunately, the work so far has focused on the technical aspects of Software Engineering rather than non-technical aspects. This has led to the conclusion that Software Engineering is still an immature profession in terms of research. There is still room to do more research in this profession. Besides, this field has also become broad in nature and covers many aspects which are from other domains...
The research presents the analysis of literature and network sources, the study of purpose and capabilities of the most popular CAD software tools used in the packaging industry. The effectiveness of the commissioning of packaging CAD-systems is proven by the example of many enterprises. The application-dependent software makes an integrated design with simulation of a complete production cycle possible:...
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