In the past few decades, a great number of hardware and software reliability models have been proposed to address hardware failures in hardware subsystems and software failures in software subsystems, respectively. The interactions between hardware a...
Sustainability in software engineering encompasses environmental, human, social, and economic dimensions, each essential for ensuring software’s positive and lasting impact. This paper presents an innovative Internet of Things (IoT)-based Smart...
Current Internet of Things (IoT) systems comprise multiple software systems that are deployed to provide users with the required functionalities. System architects create system blueprints and draw specifications for the software artefacts that are n...
There are a number of pavement management systems, but most of them are limited in providing pavement design and pavement design sensitivity information. This paper presents efforts towards the integrated pavement design and management system, by dev...
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 approache...
This paper develops a reliability analysis model for a class of computer systems composed of hardware and software in series, considering a repairman taking multiple vacations. The system follows a series failure rule: hardware can be repaired to be...
We investigate interaction effects of system attributes—age and volatility—and team attributes—instability and skill-diversity—on software maintenance productivity in the context of lifecycle maintenance involving multiple ser...
The article presents selected results of analytical and design works undertaken at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in the field of building a computer support and software lifecycle management system that is critical for flight safety. T...
Falls are a leading cause of death in older adults and result in high levels of mortality, morbidity and immobility. Fall Detection Systems (FDS) are imperative for timely medical aid and have been known to reduce death rate by 80%. We propose a nove...
In the complicated settings of WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) and IoT (Internet of Things) environments, keeping a number of heterogeneous devices updated is a challenging job, especially with respect to effectively discovering target devices and rap...
To successfully deal with emergent events or crises, it is necessary to have a fully planned integrated rescue system (IRS). The stages of the IRS are tested by exercises that aim to model rescue and clean-up operations as closely as possible. This a...
The transient process is the key for the design, operation and maintenance of the pipeline network system of the water supply project. This paper aims to study and develop a new type of visual numerical simulation software for the transient process o...
The latest changes on the distribution network due to the presence of distributed energy resources (DERs) and electric vehicles make it necessary to monitor the grid using a real-time high-precision system. The present work centers on the development...
To avoid degradation of navigation performance in the navigation warfare environment, the multi-radio integrated navigation system can be used, in which all available radio navigation systems are integrated to back up Global Navigation Satellite Syst...
The main advantage of software defined networking (SDN) is that it allows intelligent control and management of networking though programmability in real time. It enables efficient utilization of network resources through traffic engineering, and off...
Software-defined Networking (SDN) has recently developed and been put forward as a promising and encouraging solution for future internet architecture. Managed, the centralized and controlled network has become more flexible and visible using SDN. On...
Acceleration of energy transition will become the crucial social, political and technical challenge of the 21st century and will be largely associated with the growing use of renewable energy sources, including solar power. This study provides some e...
In recent years, many studies have been performed to develop simple and accurate methods to design micro-irrigation systems. However, most of these studies are based on numerical solutions that require a high number of iterations and attempts, withou...
Mechatronic systems, like mobile robots, are fairly complex. They are composed of electromechanical actuation components and sensing elements supervised by microcontrollers running complex embedded software. This paper proposes a novel approach to ai...
Publish/subscribe systems on the traditional Internet suffer from poor scalability and high delay in the face of the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. Being customizable, the paradigm of software-defined networking (SDN) provides a chance to esta...
One of the challenges apparent in the organisation of research projects is the uncertainties around the subject of demonstrators. A precise and detailed elicitation of the coverage for project demonstrators is often an afterthought and not sufficient...
Software testing and debugging is a crucial part of the software development process since defective software not only incurs customer dissatisfaction but also might incur legal issues. However, the managers of a software development company cannot a...
This research contributes an intelligent cloud-based software defect prediction system using data and decision-level machine learning fusion techniques. The proposed system detects the defective modules using a two-step prediction method. In the firs...
The development of photovoltaic (PV) technology is now a reality. The inclusion of lithium-ion batteries in grid-connected PV systems is growing, and the sharp drop in prices for these batteries will enable their use in applications such as PV water...
Choosing the most suitable tractor is a complex and high-stakes decision where technical performance, financial capability, and sustainability considerations must be balanced. However, tractor selection in existing studies lacks objective, sustainabi...
Accurate estimation of engine thrust and overload is crucial for ensuring structural integrity and optimizing the aircraft’s life-cycle design. To address this issue, this study develops an integrated thrust and load prediction framework that c...
The adoption of micro-scale renewable energy systems in the residential sector has started to be increasingly diffused in recent years. Among the possible systems, ground heat exchangers coupled with reversible heat pumps are an interesting solution...
The evolution of software is necessary for the success of software systems. Studying the evolution of software and understanding it is a vocal topic of study in software engineering. One of the primary concepts of software evolution is that the inter...
Recently, remarkable successes have been achieved in the quality assurance of automotive software systems (ASSs) through the utilization of real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. Based on the HIL platform, safe, flexible and reliable realis...
The huge spreading of Internet of things (IoT)-oriented modern technologies is revolutionizing all fields of human activities, leading several benefits and allowing to strongly optimize classic productive processes. The agriculture field is also affe...
This paper is devoted to software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of frequency modulated antipodal chaos shift keying (FM-ACSK) transceiver and presents results of prototype testing in real conditions. This novel and perspective class of spread-sp...
This paper represents observations on detection of Very High Frequency (VHF) anomalous propagation over the area of the Adriatic Sea. During the research campaign, a Software Defined Radio (SDR) Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver was empl...
Legacy software systems continue to support critical organizational operations, yet organizations often lack a structured and quantitative way to assess their actual condition. This paper presents a multidimensional framework based on the Goal–...
Hybrid power generation systems are an effective solution for matching energy production with electrical load demand. In this study, we examine the viability of a grid-connected hybrid PV/Wind system for meeting the electricity demand of the Lafarge...
Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, software, and components. As a result, it is crucial to evaluate their quality. Quality models for AI have in fact been proposed, but there is a la...
A low-resource environment has limitations in terms of resources, such as limited network availability and low-powered computing devices. In such environments, it is arguably more difficult to set up new software systems, maintain existing software,...
The identification of the appropriate distribution of faults is important for ensuring the reliability of a software system and its maintenance. It has been observed that different distributions explain faults in different types of software. Faults i...
Software stands out as one of the most rapidly evolving technologies in the present era, characterized by its swift expansion in both scale and complexity, which leads to challenges in quality assurance. Software defect prediction (SDP) has emerged a...
With the proliferation of the Internet of Things devices and cyber-physical systems, there is a growing demand for highly functional and high-quality software. To address this demand, it is crucial to employ effective software verification methods. T...
In software reliability engineering, software-rejuvenation and -checkpointing techniques are widely used for enhancing system reliability and strengthening data protection. In this paper, a stochastic framework composed of a composite stochastic Petr...
Software engineering is a field that demands extensive knowledge and involves numerous challenges in managing information. The information landscapes in software engineering encompass source code and its revision history, a set of explicit instructio...
Cyber-physical systems are typically composed of a physical system (plant) controlled by a software (controller). Such a controller, given a plant state s and a plant action u, returns 1 iff taking action u in state s leads to the physical system goa...
Space exploration has become an integral part of modern society, and since its early days in the 1960s, software has grown in importance, becoming indispensable for spaceflight. However, software is boon and bane: while it enables unprecedented funct...
This paper presents a comprehensive systematic review of personalized learning software systems. All the systems under review are designed to aid educational stakeholders by personalizing one or more facets of the learning process. This is achieved b...
Cybersecurity failures have become increasingly detrimental to organizations worldwide, impacting their finances, operations, and reputation. This issue is worsened by the scarcity of cybersecurity professionals. Moreover, the specialization required...
The automotive industry has seen a dynamic transformation from traditional hardware-defined to software-defined architecture enabling higher levels of autonomy and connectivity, better safety and security features, as well as new in-vehicle experienc...
The purpose of this study is to improve the architectural quality of software systems with microservice architecture by investigating and improving methods for automated transition from monolithic architecture to microservice architecture. The study...
The widespread adoption of mobile devices has driven the development of diverse educational technologies. In this context, Artificial Intelligence-based Mobile Adaptive Learning Systems (AI-based MALS) have emerged as an efficient alternative to comp...
To help stakeholders plan, research, and develop Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES), the elaboration of numerous modelling techniques and software simulation tools has been reported. The thorough analysis of these undoubtedly complex systems is s...
This paper aims to obtain the dynamical solution and instantaneous availability of software systems with aperiodic impulse rejuvenation. Firstly, we formulate the generic system with a group of coupled impulsive differential equations and transform i...
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