Software Engineering Architecture Research Articles

Software engineering architecture and its promising opportunities

The evolution of software architecture has witnessed the transition from monolithic to microservices, offering enhanced scalability, maintainability, and flexibility. With the rise of Microservices Architecture (MA), containerization has emerged as a pivotal technology to encapsulate microservices in isolated environments, ensuring consistent deployment. This paper delves into the intricate relationship between Microservices Architecture and containerization, focusing on the benefits, challenges, and practical implications of integrating both. Through a comprehensive experimental setup simulating an e-commerce platform, we quantitatively evaluate the performance metrics of a containerized microservices system versus a traditional monolithic setup. Our findings accentuate the performance gains achieved through MA and containerization, while also shedding light on areas that demand caution and further research. The insights presented serve as a beacon for organizations aiming to transition to or optimize their microservices and containerization practices.

Realtime National Health Insurance Scheme (RNHIS): Means To Achieve Health for All

E-health, tele-medicine, and informatics are terms prominent in the health sector nowadays; Real-time Health Insurance should be among. The laudable program, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) introduced in Nigeria can only be effective and efficient with the introduction of dynamic and integrated online NHIS system. Data were gathered through document examination, internet and interview of NHIS desk officers, health record officers, and NHIS accountant in two of our tertiary hospitals. Data were analysed and graphs were drawn to show current status. Software Engineering architecture for its development for better system was introduced. From the data analysed, it was found that none of the current Nigeria HMOs, Health Facilities (HFs) and NHIS headquarters is fully computerised and networked which is making the current system epileptic. People on transit and rural areas are not adequately catered for. Therefore, a workable Real-time Health Insurance Scheme will help people on transit and bridge urban-rural health divide.

Realtime National Health Insurance Scheme (RNHIS) : Means to Achieve Health for all

E-health, tele-medicine, and informatics are terms prominent in the health sector nowadays; Real-time Health Insurance should be among. The laudable program, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) introduced in Nigeria can only be effective and efficient with the introduction of dynamic and integrated online NHIS system. Data were gathered through document examination, internet and interview of NHIS desk officers, health record officers, and NHIS accountant in two of our tertiary hospitals. Data were analysed and graphs were drawn to show current status. Software Engineering architecture for its development for better system was introduced. From the data analysed, it was found that none of the current Nigeria HMOs, Health Facilities (HFs) and NHIS headquarters is fully computerised and networked which is making the current system epileptic. People on transit and rural areas are not adequately catered for. Therefore, a workable Real-time Health Insurance Scheme will help people on transit and bridge urban-rural health divide.

Twin Peaks goes Agile

Activities related to software requirements engineering and software architecture significantly contribute to the success of software development projects. In software engineering practice, requirements and architecture affect each other and should not be treated in isolation. However, from a research and conceptual perspective, the dependencies between requirements and architecture are usually investigated by focusing on either requirements engineering or software architecture. Therefore, the Fifth International Workshop on the Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture explored the relationship between requirements and software architecture in the broader context of software engineering in general. Based on the outcomes of previous editions of the workshop, this edition aimed at exploring the relationship between requirements and architecture in the context of agile software development. In general, the discussions at the workshop centered on proactive versus reactive software architecture engineering. We found that proactive architecture engineering provides benefits in certain contexts and domains. However, in order to succeed in competitive and fast-moving markets, reactive software architecture engineering may be more suitable, even though reactive architecture engineering could be difficult to in practice since it may require a different mindset from requirements engineers and architects.

A framework to explore innovation at SAP through bibliometric analysis of patent applications

Easily accessible patent databases and advances in technology have enabled the exploration of organizational innovation through the analysis of patent records. However, the textual content of patents presents obstacles to gleaning useful information. In this study, we develop an expert system framework that utilizes text and data mining procedures for analyzing innovation through textual patent data. Specifically, we use patent titles representing the innovation activity at one company (SAP) and perform a bibliometric analysis using our proposed framework. Enterprise software, of which SAP is a pioneering developer, must serve a wide assortment of functions for companies in many different industries. In addition, SAP's sole focus is on enterprise software and it is a market leader in the category with substantial patent activity over the last decade. Using our framework to analyze SAP's patent activity provides a demonstration of how our bibliometric analysis can summarize and identify trends in innovation in a large software company. Our results illustrate that SAP has a breadth of innovative activity spread over the three-tier software engineering architecture and a lack of topical repetition indicative of limited depth. SAP's innovation is also seen to emphasize data management and quickly integrate emerging technologies. Results of an analysis on any company following our framework could be used for a variety of purposes, including: to examine the scope and scale of innovation of an organization, to examine the influence of technological trends on businesses, or to gain insight into corporate strategy that could be used to aid planning, investment, and purchasing decisions.

Semantic Enrichment of GSM-Based Artifact-Centric Models

We provide a comprehensive framework for semantic GSM artifacts, discuss in detail its properties, and present main software engineering architectures it is able to capture. The distinguishing aspect of our framework is that it allows for expressing both the data and the lifecycle schema of GSM artifacts in terms of an ontology, i.e., a shared and formalized conceptualization of the domain of interest. To guide the modeling of data and lifecycle we provide an upper ontology, which is specialized in each artifact with specific lifecycle elements, relations, and business objects. The framework thus obtained allows to achieve several advantages. On the one hand, it makes the specification of conditions on data and artifact status attribute fully declarative and enables semantic reasoning over them. On the other, it fosters the monitoring of artifacts and the interoperation and cooperation among different artifact systems. To fully achieve such an interoperation, we enrich our framework by enabling the linkage of the ontology to autonomous database systems through the use of mappings. We then discuss two scenarios of practical interest that show how mappings can be used in the presence of multiple systems. For one of these scenarios we also describe a concrete instantiation of the framework and its application to a real-world use case in the energy domain, investigated in the context of the EU project ACSI.

1007 Using Statecharts and the Model-View-Controller Architecture to Develop a Novel On-Line Fully Interactive Sipap Device for Training and Competency Assessment

Performance-based training and competency assessment of junior medical and nursing staff in the use of medical devices such as ventilators places significant demands on instructor time. The development of hi-fidelity...

9.1.1 Method & Tools for constrained System Architecting

AbstractThis paper describes a system or software architecture engineering approach, named ARCADIA (ARChitecture Analysis & Design Integrated Approach), based on architecture‐centric and model‐driven engineering activities. It targets systems whose architecture is largely constrained by issues such as performance, safety, security, when these issues must simultaneously be taken into account to find the best architectural compromise out of them. Tools supporting the method allow formalizing these constraints, modeling the architecture, and evaluating its compliance with these constraints in an iterative and short‐loop way, while capitalizing engineering know‐how.

Novozymes acquires Biocon's enzyme business

Easily accessible patent databases and advances in technology have enabled the exploration of organizational innovation through the analysis of patent records. However, the textual content of patents presents obstacles to gleaning useful information. In this study, we develop an expert system framework that utilizes text and data mining procedures for analyzing innovation through textual patent data. Specifically, we use patent titles representing the innovation activity at one company (SAP) and perform a bibliometric analysis using our proposed framework. Enterprise software, of which SAP is a pioneering developer, must serve a wide assortment of functions for companies in many different industries. In addition, SAP's sole focus is on enterprise software and it is a market leader in the category with substantial patent activity over the last decade. Using our framework to analyze SAP's patent activity provides a demonstration of how our bibliometric analysis can summarize and identify trends in innovation in a large software company. Our results illustrate that SAP has a breadth of innovative activity spread over the three-tier software engineering architecture and a lack of topical repetition indicative of limited depth. SAP's innovation is also seen to emphasize data management and quickly integrate emerging technologies. Results of an analysis on any company following our framework could be used for a variety of purposes, including: to examine the scope and scale of innovation of an organization, to examine the influence of technological trends on businesses, or to gain insight into corporate strategy that could be used to aid planning, investment, and purchasing decisions.

A domain-specific software architecture engineering process outline

One of the dilemmas that has prevented software developers from resuing software is the lack of software artifacts to use or the existence of artifacts that are difficult to integrate. Domain-Specific Software Architectures (DSSAs) have been proposed[4] in order to address these issues. A DSAA not only provides a framework for reusable software components to fit into, but captures the design rationale and provides for a degree of adaptability. This paper 1 presents an outline for a Domain-Specifid Software Architecture engineering process.