HEP-Frame: A software engineered framework to aid the development and efficient multicore execution of scientific code

This work was supported by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) within Project Scope (UID/CEC/00319/2013), by LIP (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas) and by Project Search-ON2 (NORTE-07-0162- FEDER-000086), co-funded by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2 - O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework, through the European Regional Development Fund.

Improving quality of medical service with mobile health software

An increasing number of m-Health applications are being developed benefiting health service delivery. In this paper, a new methodology based on the principle of calm computing applied to diagnostic and therapeutic procedure reporting is proposed. A mobile application was designed for the physicians of one of the Portuguese major hospitals, which takes advantage of a multi-agent interoperability platform, the Agency for the Integration, Diffusion and Archive (AIDA). This application allows the visualization of inpatients and outpatients medical reports in a quicker and safer manner, in addition to offer a remote access to information. This project shows the advantages in the use of mobile software in a medical environment but the first step is always to build or use an interoperability platform, flexible, adaptable and pervasive. The platform offers a comprehensive set of services that restricts the development of mobile software almost exclusively to the mobile user interface design. The technology was tested and assessed in a real context by intensivists.

Refinement and variability techniques in model transformation of software requirements

Tese de Doutoramento em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação

Estudo e implementação de testes de software em desenvolvimento ágil

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia de Sistemas

Frameworks no desenvolvimento de software: o caso da Elevation da PRIMAVERA BSS

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Feature Nets: behavioural modelling of software product lines

Software product lines (SPL) are diverse systems that are developed using a dual engineering process: (a)family engineering defines the commonality and variability among all members of the SPL, and (b) application engineering derives specific products based on the common foundation combined with a variable selection of features. The number of derivable products in an SPL can thus be exponential in the number of features. This inherent complexity poses two main challenges when it comes to modelling: Firstly, the formalism used for modelling SPLs needs to be modular and scalable. Secondly, it should ensure that all products behave correctly by providing the ability to analyse and verify complex models efficiently. In this paper we propose to integrate an established modelling formalism (Petri nets) with the domain of software product line engineering. To this end we extend Petri nets to Feature Nets. While Petri nets provide a framework for formally modelling and verifying single software systems, Feature Nets offer the same sort of benefits for software product lines. We show how SPLs can be modelled in an incremental, modular fashion using Feature Nets, provide a Feature Nets variant that supports modelling dynamic SPLs, and propose an analysis method for SPL modelled as Feature Nets. By facilitating the construction of a single model that includes the various behaviours exhibited by the products in an SPL, we make a significant step towards efficient and practical quality assurance methods for software product lines.

From software extensions to product lines of dataflow programs

Abstract Dataflow programs are widely used. Each program is a directed graph where nodes are computations and edges indicate the flow of data. In prior work, we reverse-engineered legacy dataflow programs by deriving their optimized implementations from a simple specification graph using graph transformations called refinements and optimizations. In MDE-speak, our derivations were PIM-to-PSM mappings. In this paper, we show how extensions complement refinements, optimizations, and PIM-to-PSM derivations to make the process of reverse engineering complex legacy dataflow programs tractable. We explain how optional functionality in transformations can be encoded, thereby enabling us to encode product lines of transformations as well as product lines of dataflow programs. We describe the implementation of extensions in the ReFlO tool and present two non-trivial case studies as evidence of our work’s generality

Oclusão percutânea das comunicações interventriculares: experiência inicial

OBJETIVO: Avaliar a experiência inicial com o fechamento percutâneo das comunicações interventriculares (CIV), em especial, das CIV perimembranosas (CIVPM) com a nova prótese de Amplatzer. MÉTODOS: Foram submetidos ao procedimento onze pacientes, seis com CIV perimembranosas (CIVPM) e cinco com CIV musculares (CIVM). Dois apresentavam infecções repetidas do trato respiratório e tinham baixo ganho ponderal. Um apresentou história prévia de endocardite infecciosa. Os demais eram assintomáticos e foram selecionados pela ecocardiografia transtorácica (ETT). RESULTADOS: No grupo das CIVM (n=5), um paciente tinha uma CIV apical, dois tinham defeitos médio-septais e dois pacientes apresentavam defeitos múltiplos. Neste grupo, foi utilizada uma prótese de comunicação interatrial (CIA) (Amplatzer Septal Occluder®) e cinco próteses para CIVM (Amplatzer VSD-MUSC Occluder®), sendo que uma mesma paciente recebeu dois dispositivos. Todos os implantes foram bem sucedidos e transcorreram sem complicações. No grupo das CIVPM (n=6), dois tinham aneurismas de septo membranoso. Em 5, identificamos dois pertuitos com angiografia seletiva. Utilizamos próteses de Amplatzer para canal arterial (PCA) (Amplatzer Duct Occluder®) em 1 paciente e próteses específicas para CIVPM nos demais (Amplatzer VSD-MEMB Occluder®). Um oclusor perimembranoso migrou imediatamente depois de liberado, sendo retirado da aorta descendente. Outro paciente apresentou bloqueio atrioventricular total (BAVT), que reverteu após corticoterapia. CONCLUSÃO: O procedimento é tecnicamente complexo e deve ser executado apenas em centros especializados. Apesar disso, mostrou-se seguro e eficaz nos casos selecionados, e pode ser oferecido como alternativa ao tratamento cirúrgico tradicional.