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Viewpoint: Hybrid Intelligence Supports Application Development for Diabetes Lifestyle Management

Type II diabetes is a complex health condition requiring patients to closely and continuously collaborate with healthcare professionals and other caretakers on lifestyle changes. While intelligent products have tremendous potential to support such Diabetes Lifestyle Management (DLM), existing products are typically conceived from a technology-centered perspective that insufficiently acknowledges the degree to which collaboration and inclusion of stakeholders is required. In this article, we argue that the emergent design philosophy of Hybrid Intelligence (HI) forms a suitable alternative lens for research and development. In particular, we (1) highlight a series of pragmatic challenges for effective AI-based DLM support based on results from an expert focus group, and (2) argue for HI’s potential to address these by outlining relevant research trajectories.

A scoping review of In-the-loop paradigms in the energy sector focusing on software-in-the-loop

AbstractSoftware-in-the-Loop (SIL) testing is an approach used for verification and validation in the energy sector. However, there is no comprehensive overview of the application, potential, and challenges of SIL within this sector. Therefore, this paper conducts a thorough scoping review of the existing literature within the scope of SIL and related in-the-loop approaches in the energy sector. A total of 88 full-text articles from four significant databases ACM, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and Web of Science are analyzed and categorized to map the purpose, methods, architecture, interoperability and protocols, technologies, challenges, and limitations. The results present a grand perspective of in-the-loop across several domains followed by an analysis of SIL in the energy sector. The application domains carry characteristics from complex systems, systems-of-systems, cyber-physical systems, critical systems, real-time systems, and sociotechnical systems. The energy sector and the automotive industry are amongst the most applied domains. Within energy- and electricity systems, hardware-based in-the-loop paradigms are mostly applied for testing low-level signaling, and SIL is used for control strategy testing, optimization, dispatching, and experimentation. The examined SIL architectures have distributed-, real-time, and closed-loop properties, and are constrained by specialized simulation power hardware. Future research should address how to systematically develop SIL testing environments with guiding principles to support application development for the future digitalized energy system.

The Influence of on the Academic Procrastination of Community Science Polytechnic Cadents

Starting from excessive use of smartphones and the phenomenon of violations of cadet life regulations regarding careless use of smartphones, the author raised this issue into a scientific article. This article uses quantitative research methods with a population of 345 cadets and a sample of 181 cadets of the 55th Class of Correctional Science Polytechnic using calculations from the Krejci and Morgan sample table. This article finds that there is an influence of Smartphone Addiction on the Academic Procrastination of Correctional Science Polytechnic Cadets. This shows that the more the quality of Smartphone Addiction Cadets increases, the level of Academic Procrastination of the Correctional Science Polytechnic Cadets will also increase. From the results of the Coefficient Test (R2), it is known that the influence of Smartphone Addiction on the Academic Procrastination of Correctional Science Polytechnic Cadets has a percentage of 11.7% and 88.3% is influenced by factors other than Smartphone Addiction. Some of the suggestions given by the author are: Educational Programs on Healthy Smartphone Use, Development of Learning Support Applications, Time Management Skills Workshops, Development of a Supportive Learning Environment, Data Collection and Advanced Research, Collaboration with other institutions, and Tightening Enforcement of Disciplinary Punishments Regarding Use Smartphones. From the results of the Coefficient Test (R2), it is known that the influence of Smartphone Addiction on the Academic Procrastination of Correctional Science Polytechnic Cadets has a percentage of 11.7% and 88.3% is influenced by factors other than Smartphone Addiction.

COMPARISON OF CHARACTERISTICS OF BIM VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTIVE APPLICATION BASED ON WEBGL AND GAME ENGINE

Abstract. How can we make the building information model accessible to all stakeholders on a project? An efficient approach is to access the building information model is to use the software that created the model. However, not all stakeholders will be able to use this highly specialized software—due to lack of training and expensive licences—even if some software specially developed a simplified version of the viewer to browse the model, however, it still failed to provide convenient access to these models for participants from a wide range of backgrounds. The current development of BIM model visualization and interactive applications is mainly based on two technologies: WebGL and game engines. What is the general workflow of WebGL and Game Engines supporting application development? What are their characteristics respectively? What conditions are restricted? There are no relevant academic papers to discuss and compare these two types of platforms. Therefore, this is the content of this essay. By comparing the workflow and characteristics of BIM visualization and interactive application development based on WebGL and Game Engine, it can provide a reference for heritage building managers when planning the development of relevant application tools and meet the participation needs of different stakeholders.

The influence of users’ perspective factors on mobile banking adoption in Indonesia

Purpose The low adoption of mobile banking (m-banking) in Indonesia and limited research on the adoption of m-banking motivate this research to understand the factors needed in developing m-banking to support the achievement of the national digital economy strategy in creating a digital ecosystem in Indonesia. This study aims to analyze the individual perspective factors that influence the adoption of m-banking applications in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach This study used a quantitative approach using an online questionnaire to survey 444 respondents who used m-banking applications in Indonesia. The data obtained were processed using covariance-based structural equation modeling. Findings The results showed that health consciousness, the availability of resources, personal innovativeness and perceived information quality factors influenced the adoption of mobile banking applications in the static stage. In addition, this study found that one adoption stage could positively impact another adoption stage in adopting m-banking applications. Practical implications The development of m-banking can be promoted by considering the readiness of operational support infrastructure, regulations and application development, including functionality, security and user experience. Superior m-banking has implemented an end-to-end banking process with integrated customer relationship management (CRM) that supports cross-selling features according to user needs. Originality/value This study addresses the knowledge gap on individual perspectives that influence m-banking applications adoption. The authors integrate the e-government adoption model and CRM model in this study.

Assessing the Alignment between the Information Needs of Developers and the Documentation of Programming Languages: A Case Study on Rust

Programming language documentation refers to the set of technical documents that provide application developers with a description of the high-level concepts of a language (e.g., manuals, tutorials, and API references). Such documentation is essential to support application developers in effectively using a programming language. One of the challenges faced by documenters (i.e., personnel that design and produce documentation for a programming language) is to ensure that documentation has relevant information that aligns with the concrete needs of developers, defined as the missing knowledge that developers acquire via voluntary search. In this article, we present an automated approach to support documenters in evaluating the differences and similarities between the concrete information need of developers and the current state of documentation (a problem that we refer to as the topical alignment of a programming language documentation). Our approach leverages semi-supervised topic modelling that uses domain knowledge to guide the derivation of topics. We initially train a baseline topic model from a set of Rust -related Q&A posts. We then use this baseline model to determine the distribution of topic probabilities of each document of the official Rust documentation. Afterwards, we assess the similarities and differences between the topics of the Q&A posts and the official documentation. Our results show a relatively high level of topical alignment in Rust documentation. Still, information about specific topics is scarce in both the Q&A websites and the documentation, particularly related topics with programming niches such as network, game, and database development. For other topics (e.g., related topics with language features such as structs, patterns and matchings, and foreign function interface), information is only available on Q&A websites while lacking in the official documentation. Finally, we discuss implications for programming language documenters, particularly how to leverage our approach to prioritize topics that should be added to the documentation.

Application of the Active Learning Model in Admin Panel Development as Application Development Support at PT Kinema Systrans Multimedia

This research aims to explore the application of the active learning model in admin panel development as an integral part of application development at PT Kinema Systrans Multimedia. In the rapidly developing digital era, developing applications is becoming increasingly important as a tool to support business operations. However, developing an admin panel, which is a user interface for managing and monitoring applications, requires an appropriate learning approach in order to achieve optimal results. In this research, we focus on the application of active learning models, which involve students directly in the learning process, to understand how this approach can influence the development of admin panels. Various active learning models such as problem-based learning, project-based learning, and cooperative learning will be explored in the context of information technology development. The research method used includes data collection through observation of the learning process, interaction between developers, and evaluation of the results resulting from the application of the active learning model. Qualitative analysis will be conducted to identify the benefits and challenges of implementing this learning approach in the context of admin panel development. It is hoped that the results of this research will provide valuable insight for PT Kinema Systrans Multimedia and the academic community about the importance of appropriate learning approaches in developing effective information technology. Thus, it is hoped that this research can become a basis for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of admin panel development to support application development at PT Kinema Systrans Multimedia.

CURIE: Towards an Ontology and Enterprise Architecture of a CRM Conceptual Model

Companies face the challenge of managing customer relationships (CRM) in a context marked by a drastic digital transformation and unbridled evolution of consumer behavior, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The customer is more demanding, has access to the global market and interacts with companies through multiple digital channels, such as email, social networks, mobile apps or instant messaging. In this situation, the success of a CRM implementation highly depends on information technology and the applications used. To harmonize this new business context with the development of information systems (IS), a suitable CRM ontology and enterprise architecture (EA) is needed. While an ontology-based conceptual model provides a unifying framework, aids sharing and reusing knowledge, and facilitates communication within a domain, an EA-based model unequivocally describes, analyzes, and visualizes how an organization should operate from the perspective of business, application, and technology. The purpose of the paper is the proposal of CURIE-O, a CRM OntoUML UFO-based ontology, together with CURIE-EA, a CRM ArchiMate-based EA to serve business managers and IS specialists an updated unifying framework of reference in the CRM domain as well as a highly efficient tool to support application development and maintenance in this changing and increasingly digital context. Modeling has proven to be an essential element to achieve high-performance information systems. In order to apply the ontology and the EA proposed here, the authors developed a CRM task management application prototype that was implemented as a case study in a consulting company. The methodology followed was design science research (DSR), in order to design and validate the artifacts. Within the DSR framework, other complementary research methods have been used, in particular literature research, interviews and focus groups carried out with several hotel chains in Tenerife (Canary Islands). The main existing CRM models in the scientific literature have also been analyzed together with the leading CRM market solutions.

A Soft Coprocessor Approach for Developing Image and Video Processing Applications on FPGAs.

Developing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based applications is typically a slow and multi-skilled task. Research in tools to support application development has gradually reached a higher level. This paper describes an approach which aims to further raise the level at which an application developer works in developing FPGA-based implementations of image and video processing applications. The starting concept is a system of streamed soft coprocessors. We present a set of soft coprocessors which implement some of the key abstractions of Image Algebra. Our soft coprocessors are designed for easy chaining, and allow users to describe their application as a dataflow graph. A prototype implementation of a development environment, called SCoPeS, is presented. An application can be modified even during execution without requiring re-synthesis. The paper concludes with performance and resource utilization results for different implementations of a sample algorithm. We conclude that the soft coprocessor approach has the potential to deliver better performance than the soft processor approach, and can improve programmability over dedicated HDL cores for domain-specific applications while achieving competitive real time performance and utilization.

Implementation and evaluation of MPI 4.0 partitioned communication libraries

Partitioned point-to-point communication primitives provide a performance-oriented mechanism to support a hybrid parallel programming model and have been included in the upcoming MPI-4.0 standard. These primitives enable an MPI library to transfer parts of the data buffer while the application provides partial contributions using multiple threads or tasks or simply pipelines the buffers sequentially. The focus of this paper is the design and implementation of a layered library that provides the functionality of these newer APIs and supports application development using these newer APIs. This library provides an opportunity to explore potential optimizations and identify further enhancements to the APIs. Initial experience in designing this library along with preliminary performance results are presented. In addition, the library is compared to initial prototype libraries that have recently become available that have been updated to the standard-compliant interface. These prototype libraries were built on remote-memory-access (RMA) primitives, offering insight into different implementation strategies. In general, we observe an interesting trade-off space, with the RMA-based implementation proving more performant for send-side partitioning, with increases in perceived bandwidth 8.9x on average over a single send, compared to the persistent-based implementation, which shows improvements 4.0x on average. In comparing the two implementations, we find that the persistent-based implementation enables more overlap for receive-side partitioning up to 5.37X the RMA library’s overlap, while the RMA-based implementation provides better send-side performance of up to 70%.

Needs Survey for Health Support Application Development Project for Residents Returning from Evacuation After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.

The purpose of this study was to identify the needs of stakeholders in developing a mobile application (MP) to be used by returning residents and providers of healthcare and medical/social services. The needs assessment of the residents revealed that among the elderly, ownership of smartphones and tablets was low and they were less likely to use the applications themselves.

ENHANCED SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR THE SMART HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM

Elderly care as well as enhance the quality of life for seniors, the users must be supplied with a lot of personal information about their homes and personal lives. This promising technology is being blocked by results in security and privacy. With the intent to empower end users, we did semi-struct interviews with 42 potential new and novice Smart Home customers. The issues they were concerned with focused on were connected around attacks on Smart Home data and devices, as well as the effect on users in general, to the importance of keeping their functionality balanced with the expectations of the people in their surroundings. In addition, we use measures from an interdisciplinary point of view to deal with the four topics The paper concludes with a few ideas for dealing with users' concerns, along with ideas for supporting application developers in crafting effective user-oriented digital assistants.

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

Software systems from smart city vendors

The concept of a smart city has recently gained attention in academic, industry, and governments. Smart cities could be considered as urban areas that use data collection sensors and digital technologies which cooperate to create benefits for citizens in terms of well being, inclusion and participation, environmental quality, and intelligent development. Smart city vendors provide software systems to support application developers, city managers, urban planners, and policy-makers in designing, implementing, deploying, and managing smart city applications for an effective urban development and management. Although there exist a variety of smart city software systems, their benefits and limitations are still unknown. In this paper we review smart city vendors and we provide insight into their software systems for smart cities. Thus, we come up with a good entry point, and here survey a large amount of information to help developers, city managers, urban planners, and policy-makers to take better decisions when choosing smart city software systems.

Laying the foundation for smart contract development: an integrated engineering process model

Smart contracts are seen as the major building blocks for future autonomous blockchain- and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-based applications. Engineering such contracts for trustless, append-only, and decentralized digital ledgers allows mutually distrustful parties to transform legal requirements into immutable and formalized rules. Previous experience shows this to be a challenging task due to demanding socio-technical ecosystems and the specificities of decentralized ledger technology. In this paper, we therefore develop an integrated process model for engineering DLT-based smart contracts that accounts for the specificities of DLT. This model was iteratively refined with the support of industry experts. The model explicitly accounts for the immutability of the trustless, append-only, and decentralized DLT ecosystem, and thereby overcomes certain limitations of traditional software engineering process models. More specifically, it consists of five successive and closely intertwined phases: conceptualization, implementation, approval, execution, and finalization. For each phase, the respective activities, roles, and artifacts are identified and discussed in detail. Applying such a model when engineering smart contracts will help software engineers and developers to better understand and streamline the engineering process of DLTs in general and blockchain in particular. Furthermore, this model serves as a generic framework which will support application development in all fields in which DLT can be applied.

The Fog Development Kit: A Platform for the Development and Management of Fog Systems

With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing has emerged to help traditional cloud computing in meeting scalability demands. Fog computing makes it possible to fulfill real-time requirements of applications by bringing more processing, storage, and control power geographically closer to end devices. However, since fog computing is a relatively new field, there is no standard platform for research and development in a realistic environment, and this dramatically inhibits innovation and development of fog-based applications. In response to these challenges, we propose the Fog Development Kit (FDK). By providing high-level interfaces for allocating computing and networking resources, the FDK abstracts the complexities of fog computing from developers and enables the rapid development of fog systems. In addition to supporting application development on a physical deployment, the FDK supports the use of emulation tools (e.g., GNS3 and Mininet) to create realistic environments, allowing fog application prototypes to be built with zero additional costs and enabling seamless portability to a physical infrastructure. Using a physical testbed and various kinds of applications running on it, we verify the operation and study the performance of the FDK. Specifically, we demonstrate that resource allocations are appropriately enforced and guaranteed, even amidst extreme network congestion. We also present simulation-based scalability analysis of the FDK versus the number of switches, the number of end devices, and the number of fog devices.

ProFUSO: Business process and ontology-based framework to develop ubiquitous computing support systems for chronic patients’ management

New advances in telemedicine, ubiquitous computing, and artificial intelligence have supported the emergence of more advanced applications and support systems for chronic patients. This trend addresses the important problem of chronic illnesses, highlighted by multiple international organizations as a core issue in future healthcare. Despite the myriad of exciting new developments, each application and system is designed and implemented for specific purposes and lacks the flexibility to support different healthcare concerns. Some of the known problems of such developments are the integration issues between applications and existing healthcare systems, the reusability of technical knowledge in the creation of new and more sophisticated systems and the usage of data gathered from multiple sources in the generation of new knowledge. This paper proposes a framework for the development of chronic disease support systems and applications as an answer to these shortcomings. Through this framework our pursuit is to create a common ground methodology upon which new developments can be created and easily integrated to provide better support to chronic patients, medical staff and other relevant participants. General requirements are inferred for any support system from the primary attention process of chronic patients by the Business Process Management Notation. Numerous technical approaches are proposed to design a general architecture that considers the medical organizational requirements in the treatment of a patient. A framework is presented for any application in support of chronic patients and evaluated by a case study to test the applicability and pertinence of the solution.

Supporting openEHR Java desktop application developers.

The openEHR community suggests that an appropriate approach for creating a graphical user interface for an openEHR-based application is to generate forms from the underlying archetypes and templates. However, current generation techniques are not mature enough to be able to produce high quality interfaces with good usability. Therefore, developing efficient ways to combine manually designed and developed interfaces to openEHR backends is an interesting alternative. In this study, a framework for binding a pre-designed graphical user interface to an openEHR-based backend is proposed. The proposed framework contributes to the set of options available for developers. In particular we believe that the approach of combining user interface components with an openEHR backend in the proposed way might be useful in situations where the quality of the user interface is essential and for creating small scale and experimental systems.

An efficient and secure RSA-based certificateless signature scheme for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of a large number of autonomous sensor nodes, spatially distributed to monitor environmental and physical conditions. As such networks use wireless environment for communication, they are highly vulnerable to security attacks. Various security solutions based on public key infrastructure (PKI) have been proposed in past. In this paper, we proposed an RSA-based certificateless signature scheme using service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is a type of middleware that supports application development and communication through various services deployed at every sensor node constituting the network. Random oracle model is a way to prove the security, correctness of cryptography based algorithms, which use exponential operations and hash functions. Proposed scheme provides security against type I and type II attack and reducing computation cost in signature generation phase. It has additional features viz., authentication, integrity, non-repudiation, scalability, heterogeneity, flexibility, interoperability, and reusability.

On Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Survey of the Emerging 5G Network Edge Cloud Architecture and Orchestration

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an emerging ecosystem, which aims at converging telecommunication and IT services, providing a cloud computing platform at the edge of the radio access network. MEC offers storage and computational resources at the edge, reducing latency for mobile end users and utilizing more efficiently the mobile backhaul and core networks. This paper introduces a survey on MEC and focuses on the fundamental key enabling technologies. It elaborates MEC orchestration considering both individual services and a network of MEC platforms supporting mobility, bringing light into the different orchestration deployment options. In addition, this paper analyzes the MEC reference architecture and main deployment scenarios, which offer multi-tenancy support for application developers, content providers, and third parties. Finally, this paper overviews the current standardization activities and elaborates further on open research challenges.