Software Engineering Approach Research Articles

ExaFEL: extreme-scale real-time data processing for X-ray free electron laser science

ExaFEL is an HPC-capable X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) data analysis software suite for both Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SFX) and Single Particle Imaging (SPI) developed in collaboration with the Linac Coherent Lightsource (LCLS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory. ExaFEL supports real-time data analysis via a cross-facility workflow spanning LCLS and HPC centers such as NERSC and OLCF. Our work therefore constitutes initial path-finding for the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program. We present the ExaFEL team's 7 years of experience in developing real-time XFEL data analysis software for the DOE's exascale supercomputers. We present our experiences and lessons learned with the Perlmutter and Frontier supercomputers. Furthermore we outline essential data center services (and the implications for institutional policy) required for real-time data analysis. Finally we summarize our software and performance engineering approaches and our experiences with NERSC's Perlmutter and OLCF's Frontier systems. This work is intended to be a practical blueprint for similar efforts in integrating exascale compute resources into other cross-facility workflows.

Trust, artificial intelligence and software practitioners: an interdisciplinary agenda

AbstractTrust and trustworthiness are central concepts in contemporary discussions about the ethics of and qualities associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and the relationships between people, organisations and AI. In this article we develop an interdisciplinary approach, using socio-technical software engineering and design anthropological approaches, to investigate how trust and trustworthiness concepts are articulated and performed by AI software practitioners. We examine how trust and trustworthiness are defined in relation to AI across these disciplines, and investigate how AI, trust and trustworthiness are conceptualised and experienced through an ethnographic study of the work practices of nine practitioners in the software industry. We present key implications of our findings for the generation of trust and trustworthiness and for the training and education of future software practitioners.

Applying Process Mining: The Reality of a Software Development SME

One of the challenges the organizations confront is to extract data from the information systems to know the reality of their processes to improve their efficiency. In this study, the application of Process Mining is addressed as an opportunity in the specific context of an SME dedicated to software development, implementing the L* life cycle model methodology from a layered Software Engineering approach. This research is carried out based on process improvement in an initial SME project. Subsequently, it is compared with a second project, using different Process Mining perspectives such as control flow, case, organization, and time, with the aim of extending the process model. This holistic view allows not only to better understand the processes involved, but also to identify and analyze the similarities and differences between the two projects. As a result, the Process Mining analysis shows crucial aspects such as the representation of integrated models, traces on sequences of actions, and the interaction of activities with specific roles and deviations in the flow of activities that compromise the quality of the process and the product. At the same time, the challenges that emerged during the improvement cycle are highlighted. These challenges cover issues such as data extraction, fluid communication between those involved, and the documentation associated with the processes. This study contributes to the body of knowledge of Process Mining. Likewise, the case study results offer a vision for other SMEs seeking to incorporate Process Mining as part of their improvement strategies.

Active Blended Learning Model for Teaching IoT Application Development Course: A Case Study

Abstract—Traditional University learning approaches in Software Engineering, focusing on students listening to lecturers, then individually performing tasks is an isolating experience, a long way from the inherently collaborative approach in the workforce. Active learning focuses on student-centered learning in a much more authentic experience. This paper focuses on experiences in developing a course in the transnational education context involving a partnership between Indian and Australian universities. It highlights the design of a technical Software Engineering course for Internet of Things (IoT) application development with blended and active learning strategies and focuses on insights gained from implementing this curriculum for two different cohorts at an Indian university. Keywords—Active Learning, Blended Learning, IoT, Student Engagement, Embedded System, Software Engineering.

Building Custom Spreadsheet Functions with Python: End-User Software Engineering Approach

Building Custom Spreadsheet Functions with Python: End-User Software Engineering Approach

A Lingual Agnostic Information Retrieval System.

The exclusion of monolingual natives from cyberspace is a global socioeconomic and cultural problem. Efforts at addressing this problem have been socioeconomic, culminating in training, empowerment, and digital access with the indelible hurt of language inequities. This paper is aimed at the cyber-inclusion of monolingual natives. Since cyber participation is basically through human interaction with cyber-applications in a human language, encapsulating these applications for interaction in any human language will help evade the hurt of language inequities. Information retrieval system (IRS) remains a fundamental cyber-application. Consequently, adopting the design science research methodology, we introduced a lingual agnostic IRS architecture designed on the principle of transparency on user language detection, information translations, and caching. The detailed design of the architecture was done using the unified modeling language. The designed IRS architecture has been implemented using the agile and component-based software engineering approaches. The resultant lingual agnostic IRS (LAIRS) was evaluated using heuristics and system evaluation methods for parity of language of interaction against the default language and was excellently stable across queries and languages, guaranteeing 86% parity with the default language in the use of other languages for information access and retrieval. Furthermore, it has been shown that LAIRS is the most appropriate IRS to address the problem of language barriers to cyber-inclusion compared with existing IRSs.

Rancang Bangun Purwarupa Alat Pencitraan Gerak Model Gestur Berbasis Mikrokontroler Arduino

In the era of rapidly developing technology, the integration between body and technology becomes real, especially in the development of human and computer interaction. This research focuses on creating prototypes of motion imaging tools using microcontroller technology, responding to the need for more intuitive interactive tools in translating human movements. Using hardware and software engineering approaches, this study designed and tested a tool consisting of Gyrometer and Flex sensors. The gyrometer measures the orientation of motion, while the Flex sensor detects the curvature of the gesture. Tests include calibration between sensors, integration with the HC-05 Bluetooth transmission module as a wireless communication medium, and applications installed on smartphones as processing output information . The study introduced a method of gesture imaging of gestures, providing a solution to interact with computers more naturally. The urgency of this research answers the need to help translate human movement into digital input. The modeled tool is able to detect hand gestures with good accuracy. The smartphone as an output successfully displays information in the form of text and voice based on detected movements. This gesture model motion imaging tool successfully passed the testing stage, showing the effective results of the Gyrometer and Flex sensors in detecting and translating hand movements. The Bluetooth module as a data transmitter runs well sending data to an application on the smartphone, which then displays the information accurately.

Summary of the 5th International Workshop on Automated andverifiable Software sYstem DEvelopment (ASYDE)co-located with the 38th IEEE/ACM ASE 2023

Over the past three decades, automation in software development has gone mainstream. Software development teams strive to automate as much of the software development activities as possible, spanning requirements specification, system modeling, code generation, testing, deployment, verification, as well as release phases, project status reporting and system maintenance. Automation helps to reduce development time and cost, as well as to concentrate knowledge by bringing quality into every step of the development process. The Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem DEvelopment (ASYDE) provided a forum to share and discuss innovative contributions to research and practice related to novel software engineering approaches to automated and verifiable development of software systems. The 5th edition took place on September 11th, 2023, in Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Notably, this marked the inaugural co-location of ASYDE with the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).

Enhancing Blockchain Adoption through Tailored Software Engineering: An Industrial-grounded Study in Education Credentialing

Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in both academic proposals and industrial adoptions of blockchain technology. However, a majority of the projects remain at the stage of prototype proposals and their real-world deployment has not met the anticipated level. This gap can be attributed to three major barriers - technical difficulties, human factors, and social context. Most of the existing research leans towards addressing the technical challenges, leaving the human and social aspects inadequately explored. Moreover, a lack of practical insights in the existing blockchain software engineering frameworks further exacerbates the adoption problem. To address these gaps, we introduce a Blockchain-oriented Software Engineering Approach for Higher Adoption Possibility (BOSE-HAP) . This approach emphasizes collaboration, reflective thinking, and iterative development, aiming to bolster implementation consistency and stimulate industry adoption. We have applied this approach in the design, development, and launch of a blockchain credentialing product, CValid.org , in the context of a university-level summer school. The product achieves industry-accepted System Usability Score and has seen successful real-world deployment. In addition, this study embed usability considerations throughout the process, involved a total of 112 stakeholders across different development stages, with 25 of them participating in our in-depth interviews and usability testing. Drawing from our firsthand experience and industrial-grounded findings, we deliver eight reflections and propose five best practice suggestions relevant to blockchain adoption. We believe these insights will provide invaluable guidance for both academic researchers and industry practitioners involved in the field of blockchain technology.

Risk analysis for the multilanguage architecture design of a mini-PFAL (Plant Factory with Artificial Lighting) module with a Software Engineering approach

The Plant Factory are technologies that have begun to be detonated since 1980 and over the years have evolved in anamazing way, providing technological tools that boost their capabilities such as Big Data, IoT, ubiquitous computing,among others. The software that operates the control algorithms for the operation of the controlled microenvironmentstations, is an essential core part for its optimal operation, thus the tools for the timely administration of the softwaredesign are key agents to guarantee a timely development of the interfaces. The present work exposes the case study ofthe risk analysis for a mini PFAL module, where the requirements analysis is established, exposition of the technicalresults of the PFAL system achieved, identification of the project problem, risk management process, process riskprojection; and finally, with the help of scatter and superimposition graphs, the latent risks of the system that areproposed to be assessed for the success of the project with a view to being part of a risk mitigation, monitoring andmanagement plan (MMMR) in future phases are concluded.

The impact of security and privacy threat modeling on blockchain-enabled-electronic voting system

Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed ledger that records transactions between two parties. A blockchain-based software system is a new and innovative approach to software engineering that uses blockchain technology. This approach has several advantages over traditional software engineering approaches, including improved security and transparency. The most common software engineering approaches are waterfall, agile and hybrid models. Each of these has its strengths and weakness. A blockchain-based system has the advantage of being more secure and transparent than any of these approaches. It also can track changes more accurately, which can improve quality control. Blockchain technologies have incredible potential but also have some problems. One problem is security and privacy issues, which brings into question the resilience of existing security and trust mechanisms. The distributed application (dApp) framework for the proposed electronic voting system is built with the help of blockchain technology in this proposal. As a result, fewer crimes has committed against sensitive data during the electoral process because of immutability, transparency and privacy. Ganache, Metamask and hashing algorithms are used to develop the dApp. The paper's strengths lie in its ability to create and analyze threat models for blockchain-enabled-electronic voting systems and to identify the types of threats using Microsoft STRIDE.

A Low-Code Approach for Connected Robots

Advanced robotic systems are finally becoming a reality; following the increased attention that robotics have attracted during the last few decades, new types of robotic applications are launched, from robotic space vessels and fully autonomous cars to robotic dancers and robot companions. Even more, following the advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain, robots can now participate in more complex systems, namely Cyber-physical systems (CPS). In such systems, robots, software, sensors and/or “things” cooperate seamlessly in order to exhibit the desired outcome. However, the high heterogeneity of the components comprising CPS systems requires expertise in various scientific domains, a fact that makes development of CPS applications a resource- and time-consuming process. In order to alleviate this pain, model-driven (or model-based) approaches have been introduced. They employ a low code software engineering approach and hide the domain-specific knowledge needed, by providing an abstract representation that can be more easily understood. Following the low-code paradigm, current work focuses on the development of Domain-specific Languages (DSL) for ROS2 (Robot Operating System 2) systems in order to hide low-level middleware-specific setup and configuration details and enable access to robot development by non ROS experts. Furthermore, in order to enable the integration of ROS2 robots in CPS, a second DSL was developed. The first language, GeneROS, is used for the development and configuration of the core functionalities of the robot (such as hardware drivers and algorithms), while the second language, ROSbridge-DSL, implements the interfaces for connecting robots to the Edge and the Cloud, enabling this way remote monitoring and control in the context of IoT and CPS.

An Agile Model-Based Software Engineering Approach Illustrated through the Development of a Health Technology System

Model-Based Software Engineering (MBSE) is an architecture-based software development approach. Agile, on the other hand, is a light system development approach that originated in software development. To bring together the benefits of both approaches, this article proposes an integrated Agile MBSE approach that adopts a specific instance of the Agile approach (i.e., Scrum) in combination with a specific instance of an MBSE approach (i.e., Model-Based System Architecture Process—“MBSAP”) to create an Agile MBSE approach called the integrated Scrum Model-Based System Architecture Process (sMBSAP). The proposed approach was validated through a pilot study that developed a health technology system over one year, successfully producing the desired software product. This work focuses on determining whether the proposed sMBSAP approach can deliver the desired Product Increments with the support of an MBSE process. The interaction of the Product Development Team with the MBSE tool, the generation of the system model, and the delivery of the Product Increments were observed. The preliminary results showed that the proposed approach contributed to achieving the desired system development outcomes and, at the same time, generated complete system architecture artifacts that would not have been developed if Agile had been used alone. Therefore, the main contribution of this research lies in introducing a practical and operational method for merging Agile and MBSE. In parallel, the results suggest that sMBSAP is a middle ground that is more aligned with federal and state regulations, as it addresses the technical debt concerns. Future work will analyze the results of a quasi-experiment on this approach focused on measuring system development performance through common metrics.

Software Engineering for Responsible AI

The unique characteristics of artificial intelligence (AI) systems pose new challenges to traditional software engineering approaches. Thus, new software engineering approaches are required to develop AI systems in a responsible manner.

An Effective Software Architecture of Islamic Inheritance System Employing Structured Paradigm

Distribution of wealth of a deceased person among the heirs is a critical and complicated problem in Islamic jurisprudence system. In a Muslim society, the demand of a wealth calculation system is very high and plays a pivotal role in day-to-day life of Muslim families. In this paper, we propose a structured and well-defined software solution that employs structured software engineering approach using Data Flow Diagram (DFD), structure chart and program description language (PDL). The proposed system distributes shares among the heirs based on Islamic rules. Many such systems have been built by different govt agencies of different Muslim majority countries. Many of those systems are error prone and are not well defined from the software engineering perspective. In many cases, the software architecture of such systems is undisclosed and their applicability in many complex deceased-heir relationship provides wrong calculation. The proposed solution on the other hand, makes the successful use of software engineering approach to interpret Islamic Inheritance rules in a more manageable, scalable and maintainable fashion. The system is rigorously tested on different complex scenarios and the results are verified by Muslim family lawyers. The system is developed using C programming language and we make the source code open.

Predictive maintenance using digital twins: A systematic literature review

Predictive maintenance is a technique for creating a more sustainable, safe, and profitable industry. One of the key challenges for creating predictive maintenance systems is the lack of failure data, as the machine is frequently repaired before failure. Digital Twins provide a real-time representation of the physical machine and generate data, such as asset degradation, which the predictive maintenance algorithm can use. Since 2018, scientific literature on the utilization of Digital Twins for predictive maintenance has accelerated, indicating the need for a thorough review. This research aims to gather and synthesize the studies that focus on predictive maintenance using Digital Twins to pave the way for further research. A systematic literature review (SLR) using an active learning tool is conducted on published primary studies on predictive maintenance using Digital Twins, in which 42 primary studies have been analyzed. This SLR identifies several aspects of predictive maintenance using Digital Twins, including the objectives, application domains, Digital Twin platforms, Digital Twin representation types, approaches, abstraction levels, design patterns, communication protocols, twinning parameters, and challenges and solution directions. These results contribute to a Software Engineering approach for developing predictive maintenance using Digital Twins in academics and the industry. This study is the first SLR in predictive maintenance using Digital Twins. We answer key questions for designing a successful predictive maintenance model leveraging Digital Twins. We found that to this day, computational burden, data variety, and complexity of models, assets, or components are the key challenges in designing these models.

Analysis on Intelligent Agent based Approach for Software Engineering

A broad area of research, known as "Agent-Based Computing", focuses on developing "agent-based" intelligent software using agent-based techniques. However, there is a scarcity of research focusing on providing enough evidence of the superiority of agent-based techniques in creating complex software systems. This article has attempted to provide evidence for why agent-based techniques are superior to traditional methods for creating complex software systems, such as control systems. A case of a distinct agent-based control system (the power transportation management system used by Iber-26 drola) is used to illustrate these broader principles. This line of reasoning allows advocates of complex software engineering paradigms to accurately assert that their method can replicate the essential ideas behind agent-based computing. When broken down to their most basic components, agent-based systems are just computer programmes, and every programme has the same set of computable functionalities. The value of a paradigm lies in the way of thinking and the tools it teaches to programmers. As such, agent-based ideas and approaches are not just an extension of those now accessible within existing paradigms, but also well suited to the development of large, networked systems.

OntoSuSD: Software engineering approaches integration ontology for sustainable software development

AbstractDifferent software development approaches (SDAs) are developed with broad portfolios of development processes. Each of the approaches has certain exclusive principles, practices, thinking, and values, which are informally represented, implemented, and improperly institutionalized. Ontologies are developed for the representation, assessment, and adaptation of SDAs separately without having a shared terminology which may lead to terminological conflict and confusion affecting the simultaneous representation and implementation in software development industry and academia. The software engineering approaches does not consider and support sustainability as priority concern. However, the approaches have capabilities of supporting sustainable software development in different sustainability aspects. This research article aims for the designing and development of an integrated ontology of software engineering approaches (i.e., agile, lean, and green) named OntoSuSD (ontology for sustainable software development) to support sustainable software development knowledge, awareness, and implementation. The goal of OntoSuSD is to propose, design and develop a formal, generic, consistent, and shared knowledge base containing semantic terminology and description of concepts and relationships generated around the representation and implementation of lean, agile, and green approaches in software development processes, which will facilitate their simultaneous implementation and assessment for sustainable software development. The OntoSuSD is developed using practical ontology engineering methodology by reusing relevant ontologies and explicit concepts and properties are defined to fulfill knowledge requirements and representations of the domain. The OntoSuSD is evaluated, and results infer OntoSuSD has high ontological design, good domain coverage, potential applications and achieves purpose of the ontology development.

Green Based Software Engineering Approach for Sustainable Protocol

Abstract: A sturdy green software model is the prominent necessity for various governments fields and banking areas for Energy utilization processing. The model should give all the Energy consumption aspects namely power consumption, utilization of Memory, (Co2) Carbon dioxide release which is related to development of software and make it energy efficient. For Software Development Life Cycle phases this research paper proposes a new green software model for the virtual host machine, which is the base for all the Green based Software Development process.

Pengembangan Aplikasi E-Form Daftar Seleksi Bahan Perpustakaan di Perpustakaan Nasional RI

Library material selection is one of the main tasks performed by librarians at National Library of Indonesia in the implementation of library collection development. Compilation of library material selection list, especially foreign monographs, performed by librarians often results in diverse format, incomplete fill in bibliography description, inaccurate pricing, less effective and efficient in the process. It is caused by no standard format in compiling of foreign monographs library material selection list assigned as reference for librarians. This research uses software engineering approach to produce e-form application prototype of library material selection list. Data is collected by interview with stakeholders. Development of e-form application of library materials selection list was designed according topredefined standard format. This research has succeeded in developing application that can improve effectiveness and efficiency in compiling library material selection list, therefore the next workflow, acquisiton of library collection in National Library of Indonesia, can be achieved quickly, precisely, and accurately.