Aplicación distribuida para la monitorización y diagnosis de automóviles

En este proyecto se va desarrollar una aplicación distribuida para la diagnosis y monitorización de automóviles. Se pretende poder realizar estas funciones en prácticamente cualquier automóvil del mercado (con fabricación a partir del año 1996 para el caso de automóviles gasolina y para el año 2000 en el caso de automóviles diésel) de manera remota, aprovechando la conectividad a Internet que actualmente brindan la mayoría de los smartphones. La viabilidad del proyecto reside en la existencia de estándares para la diagnosis de la electrónica del motor. Para poder llevar a cabo esta tarea, se empleará una interfaz de diagnóstico ELM327 bluetooth, que servirá de enlace entre el vehículo y el teléfono móvil del usuario y que a su vez se encargara de enviar los datos que reciba del vehículo a un terminal remoto. De esta manera, se tendrá la aplicación dividida en dos partes: por un lado la aplicación que se ejecuta en el terminal móvil del usuario que actuará como parte servidora, y por el otro la aplicación cliente que se ejecutará en un terminal remoto. También estará disponible una versión de la aplicación servidora para PC. El potencial del proyecto reside en la capacidad de visualización en tiempo real de los parámetros más importantes del motor del vehículo y en la detección de averías gracias a la funcionalidad de lectura de la memoria de averías residente en el vehículo. Así mismo, otras funcionalidades podrían ser implementadas en posteriores versiones de la aplicación, como podría ser el registro de dichos parámetros en una base de datos para su posterior procesado estadístico; de este modo se podría saber el consumo medio, la velocidad media, velocidad máxima alcanzada, tiempo de uso, kilometraje diario o mensual… y un sin fin de posibilidades. ABSTRACT. In this project a distributed application for car monitor and diagnostic is going to be developed. The idea is to be able to connect remotely to almost any car (with production starting in 1996 in the case of petrol engines and production starting in 2000 in case of diesel engines) using the Internet connection available in almost every smartphone. The project is viable because of the existence of standards for engine electronic unit connection. In order to do that, an ELM327 bluetooth interface is going to be used. This interface works as a link between the car and the smartphone, and it is the smartphone which sends the received data from the car to a remote terminal (computer). Thus, the application is divided into two parts: the server which is running on smartphone and the client which is running on a remote terminal. Also there is available a server application for PC. The potential of the project lies in the real-time display data capacity of the most important engine parameters and in the diagnostic capacity based on reading fault memory. In addition, other features could be implemented in later versions of the application, as the capacity of record data for future statistic analysis. By doing this, it is possible to know the average fuel consumption, average speed, maximum speed, time of use, daily or monthly mileage… and an endless number of possibilities.

Análisis de ataques avanzados y sus técnicas de detección

Los ataques a redes de información son cada vez más sofisticados y exigen una constante evolución y mejora de las técnicas de detección. Para ello, en este proyecto se ha diseñado e implementado una plataforma cooperativa para la detección de intrusiones basada en red. En primer lugar, se ha realizado un estudio teórico previo del marco tecnológico relacionado con este ámbito, en el que se describe y caracteriza el software que se utiliza para realizar ataques a sistemas (malware) así como los métodos que se utilizan para llegar a transmitir ese software (vectores de ataque). En el documento también se describen los llamados APT, que son ataques dirigidos con una gran inversión económica y temporal. Estos pueden englobar todos los malware y vectores de ataque existentes. Para poder evitar estos ataques, se estudiarán los sistemas de detección y prevención de intrusiones, describiendo brevemente los algoritmos que se tienden a utilizar en la actualidad. En segundo lugar, se ha planteado y desarrollado una plataforma en red dedicada al análisis de paquetes y conexiones para detectar posibles intrusiones. Este sistema está orientado a sistemas SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Adquisition) aunque funciona sobre cualquier red IPv4/IPv6, para ello se definirá previamente lo que es un sistema SCADA, así como sus partes principales. Para implementar el sistema se han utilizado dispositivos de bajo consumo llamados Raspberry PI, estos se ubican entre la red y el equipo final que se quiera analizar. En ellos se ejecutan 2 aplicaciones desarrolladas de tipo cliente-servidor (la Raspberry central ejecutará la aplicación servidora y las esclavas la aplicación cliente) que funcionan de forma cooperativa utilizando la tecnología distribuida de Hadoop, la cual se explica previamente. Mediante esta tecnología se consigue desarrollar un sistema completamente escalable. La aplicación servidora muestra una interfaz gráfica que permite administrar la plataforma de análisis de forma centralizada, pudiendo ver así las alarmas de cada dispositivo y calificando cada paquete según su peligrosidad. El algoritmo desarrollado en la aplicación calcula el ratio de paquetes/tiempo que entran/salen del equipo final, procesando los paquetes y analizándolos teniendo en cuenta la información de señalización, creando diferentes bases de datos que irán mejorando la robustez del sistema, reduciendo así la posibilidad de ataques externos. Para concluir, el proyecto inicial incluía el procesamiento en la nube de la aplicación principal, pudiendo administrar así varias infraestructuras concurrentemente, aunque debido al trabajo extra necesario se ha dejado preparado el sistema para poder implementar esta funcionalidad. En el caso experimental actual el procesamiento de la aplicación servidora se realiza en la Raspberry principal, creando un sistema escalable, rápido y tolerante a fallos. ABSTRACT. The attacks to networks of information are increasingly sophisticated and demand a constant evolution and improvement of the technologies of detection. For this project it is developed and implemented a cooperative platform for detect intrusions based on networking. First, there has been a previous theoretical study of technological framework related to this area, which describes the software used for attacks on systems (malware) as well as the methods used in order to transmit this software (attack vectors). In this document it is described the APT, which are attacks directed with a big economic and time inversion. These can contain all existing malware and attack vectors. To prevent these attacks, intrusion detection systems and prevention intrusion systems will be discussed, describing previously the algorithms tend to use today. Secondly, a platform for analyzing network packets has been proposed and developed to detect possible intrusions in SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Adquisition) systems. This platform is designed for SCADA systems (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) but works on any IPv4 / IPv6 network. Previously, it is defined what a SCADA system is and the main parts of it. To implement it, we used low-power devices called Raspberry PI, these are located between the network and the final device to analyze it. In these Raspberry run two applications client-server developed (the central Raspberry runs the server application and the slaves the client application) that work cooperatively using Hadoop distributed technology, which is previously explained. Using this technology is achieved develop a fully scalable system. The server application displays a graphical interface to manage analytics platform centrally, thereby we can see each device alarms and qualifying each packet by dangerousness. The algorithm developed in the application calculates the ratio of packets/time entering/leaving the terminal device, processing the packets and analyzing the signaling information of each packet, reating different databases that will improve the system, thereby reducing the possibility of external attacks. In conclusion, the initial project included cloud computing of the main application, being able to manage multiple concurrent infrastructure, but due to the extra work required has been made ready the system to implement this funcionality. In the current test case the server application processing is made on the main Raspberry, creating a scalable, fast and fault-tolerant system.

Configuración de un entorno de trabajo para el desarrollo de software ágil con integración continua

Hoy en día, existen numerosos sistemas (financieros, fabricación industrial, infraestructura de servicios básicos, etc.) que son dependientes del software. Según la definición de Ingeniería del Software realizada por I. Sommerville, “la Ingeniería del Software es una disciplina de la ingeniería que comprende todos los aspectos de la producción de software desde las etapas iniciales de la especificación del sistema, hasta el mantenimiento de éste después de que se utiliza.” “La ingeniería del software no sólo comprende los procesos técnicos del desarrollo de software, sino también actividades tales como la gestión de proyectos de software y el desarrollo de herramientas, métodos y teorías de apoyo a la producción de software.” Los modelos de proceso de desarrollo software determinan una serie de pautas para poder desarrollar con éxito un proyecto de desarrollo software. Desde que surgieran estos modelos de proceso, se investigado en nuevas maneras de poder gestionar un proyecto y producir software de calidad. En primer lugar surgieron las metodologías pesadas o tradicionales, pero con el avance del tiempo y la tecnología, surgieron unas nuevas llamadas metodologías ágiles. En el marco de las metodologías ágiles cabe destacar una determinada práctica, la integración continua. Esta práctica surgió de la mano de Martin Fowler, con el objetivo de facilitar el trabajo en grupo y automatizar las tareas de integración. La integración continua se basa en la construcción automática de proyectos con una frecuencia alta, promoviendo la detección de errores en un momento temprano para poder dar prioridad a corregir dichos errores. Sin embargo, una de las claves del éxito en el desarrollo de cualquier proyecto software consiste en utilizar un entorno de trabajo que facilite, sistematice y ayude a aplicar un proceso de desarrollo de una forma eficiente. Este Proyecto Fin de Grado (PFG) tiene por objetivo el análisis de distintas herramientas para configurar un entorno de trabajo que permita desarrollar proyectos aplicando metodologías ágiles e integración continua de una forma fácil y eficiente. Una vez analizadas dichas herramientas, se ha propuesto y configurado un entorno de trabajo para su puesta en marcha y uso. Una característica a destacar de este PFG es que las herramientas analizadas comparten una cualidad común y de alto valor, son herramientas open-source. El entorno de trabajo propuesto en este PFG presenta una arquitectura cliente-servidor, dado que la mayoría de proyectos software se desarrollan en equipo, de tal forma que el servidor proporciona a los distintos clientes/desarrolladores acceso al conjunto de herramientas que constituyen el entorno de trabajo. La parte servidora del entorno propuesto proporciona soporte a la integración continua mediante herramientas de control de versiones, de gestión de historias de usuario, de análisis de métricas de software, y de automatización de la construcción de software. La configuración del cliente únicamente requiere de un entorno de desarrollo integrado (IDE) que soporte el lenguaje de programación Java y conexión con el servidor. ABSTRACT Nowadays, numerous systems (financial, industrial production, basic services infrastructure, etc.) depend on software. According to the Software Engineering definition made by I.Sommerville, “Software engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production from the early stages of system specification through to maintaining the system after it has gone into use.” “Software engineering is not just concerned with the technical processes of software development. It also includes activities such as software project management and the development of tools, methods, and theories to support software production.” Software development process models determine a set of guidelines to successfully develop a software development project. Since these process models emerged, new ways of managing a project and producing software with quality have been investigated. First, the so-called heavy or traditional methodologies appeared, but with the time and the technological improvements, new methodologies emerged: the so-called agile methodologies. Agile methodologies promote, among other practices, continuous integration. This practice was coined by Martin Fowler and aims to make teamwork easier as well as automate integration tasks. Nevertheless, one of the keys to success in software projects is to use a framework that facilitates, systematize, and help to deploy a development process in an efficient way. This Final Degree Project (FDP) aims to analyze different tools to configure a framework that enables to develop projects by applying agile methodologies and continuous integration in an easy and efficient way. Once tools are analyzed, a framework has been proposed and configured. One of the main features of this FDP is that the tools under analysis share a common and high-valued characteristic: they are open-source. The proposed framework presents a client-server architecture, as most of the projects are developed by a team. In this way, the server provides access the clients/developers to the tools that comprise the framework. The server provides continuous integration through a set of tools for control management, user stories management, software quality management, and software construction automatization. The client configuration only requires a Java integrated development environment and network connection to the server.

Framework para el desarrollo con el DNIe

El proyecto se trata de una API de desarrollo para el DNI electrónico que permita crear de forma sencilla aplicaciones cuya funcionalidad se apoye en el uso del DNI electrónico. De esta forma, el framework facilita el acceso a las principales operaciones soportadas por el DNIe mediante la invocación de métodos sencillos. Una de las funcionalidades es la de realizar un proceso de autenticación con el DNIe utilizando para ello las capacidades criptográficas del chip que incorpora y el certificado de autenticación. Esta funcionalidad puede ser accedida también de forma dividida en dos pasos, para dar soporte a aplicaciones con arquitectura cliente-servidor. El framework también ofrece la funcionalidad de firma electrónica con el DNIe, una firma legalmente válida y que permite chequear también la integridad del mensaje firmado. También se soporta por el framework la comprobación de un certificado mediante el protocolo OCSP, funcionalidad que si bien no implica directamente al DNIe, sí que es importante en el marco de procesos que se ven involucrados en cualquier Infraestructura de Clave Pública. ABSTRACT The project is a development API for DNIe card that allows easily create applications whose functionality is supported in the use of DNIe. Thus, the framework provides access to the main operations supported by the DNIe by invoking simple methods. One of the features is to perform an authentication process with the DNIe using its chip’s capabilities and authentication certificate. This functionality can also be accessed so divided into two steps, to support applications with client-server architecture. The framework also provides the functionality of electronic signatures with DNIe, a legally valid signature and allows also check the integrity of the signed message. Verification of a certificate using OCSP, functionality but does not imply directly to DNIe is also supported by the framework, yes it is important in the context of processes that are involved in any Public Key Infrastructure.

Cuadro de mando, plataforma de gestión para el modelo EFQM

La propuesta del trabajo de fin de grado escogida por el autor del proyecto se basa en la continuación del proyecto comenzado durante la asignatura de Prácticum del pasado semestre. El nacimiento del mismo se gestó en una pequeña empresa de consultoría llamada ‘Grupo Develop’ (en la sección ‘Entidad colaboradora y ubicación’ se describe más detalladamente la organización) situada al este de Madrid, una organización con carácter de fundación y dedicada, esencialmente, al sector de la consultoría en el sector de la calidad. Grupo Develop necesitaba aprovechar la utilidad de las nuevas tecnologías para ofrecer un nuevo y mejor servicio para sus clientes mediante un proyecto que fuera dirigido y llevado a cabo por un ingeniero informático. Partiendo de este contexto se vislumbró un proyecto consistente en diseñar, desplegar, programar y mantener una plataforma-sistema informático capaz de ayudar a las organizaciones (en este caso particular la mayoría son organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro) a gestionarse mejor de acuerdo a distintos modelos de calidad como pueden ser el EFQM1 o ISO. Además, la certificación en ambos modelos son cada vez más demandados como garantía de calidad por organismos públicos y privados e incluso por los clientes. Por lo tanto, este programa debe llegar a ser una herramienta que realmente apoye a cada entidad a elaborar un diagnóstico de su gestión y, por supuesto, debe conseguir acercar a estas empresas a los certificados más prestigiosos. Desde el punto de vista de un profesional del sector de la informática, el proyecto se estructura de una forma clara en una arquitectura cliente-servidor clásica donde todas las entidades (de momento 15) han participado de forma activa y paralela al desarrollo del proyecto. Si bien es cierto que esto ha ralentizado notablemente el desarrollo del proyecto y ha requerido una sincronización entre dos proyectos paralelos (uno para el despliegue y otro para el desarrollo).---ABSTRACT---The proposal of my graduation work is a continuation of the project that I already started in the Practicum subject the first part of the academic year. The birth of that project arose in a small consulting firm (Grupo Develop) in the east of Madrid, an organization that at the same time is incorporated as a Foundation. This organization works with different NGO´s and their work covers the Quality Consulting Sector. Grupo Develop needed to use new technologies to give a new and best service to our customers through a project managed by a person trained in the computer science area. Starting from this context, Grupo Develop saw a new opportunity to create a project to design, deploy and maintain a platform-system that can help our customers (in this case the organizations are often organizations from the Third Sector) to get a best management in some Norms or Models like ISO or EFQM. Also in some cases the Certifications of any of these models are increasingly demanded as quality assurance by public entities, privates and even by clients. Therefore, this program should be a tool that helps to any organization to make a diagnosis of their management and, of course, should close to these companies to the most prestigious Certificates. From a point of view of a computer science student, the software project has a defined structure in a classic client-server model where all the organizations (15) have actively participated in parallel mode to the development of the project. It is true that the involvement of the organizations has slowed the development of the project so I had to create two projects (one for the different organizations and the other one to develop the major improvements).

Visual perception for the 3D recognition of geometric pieces in robotic manipulation

During grasping and intelligent robotic manipulation tasks, the camera position relative to the scene changes dramatically because the robot is moving to adapt its path and correctly grasp objects. This is because the camera is mounted at the robot effector. For this reason, in this type of environment, a visual recognition system must be implemented to recognize and “automatically and autonomously” obtain the positions of objects in the scene. Furthermore, in industrial environments, all objects that are manipulated by robots are made of the same material and cannot be differentiated by features such as texture or color. In this work, first, a study and analysis of 3D recognition descriptors has been completed for application in these environments. Second, a visual recognition system designed from specific distributed client-server architecture has been proposed to be applied in the recognition process of industrial objects without these appearance features. Our system has been implemented to overcome problems of recognition when the objects can only be recognized by geometric shape and the simplicity of shapes could create ambiguity. Finally, some real tests are performed and illustrated to verify the satisfactory performance of the proposed system.

Towards Automation in Digital Investigations : Seeking Efficiency in Digital Forensics in Mobile and Cloud Environments

Cybercrime and related malicious activity in our increasingly digital world has become more prevalent and sophisticated, evading traditional security mechanisms. Digital forensics has been proposed to help investigate, understand and eventually mitigate such attacks. The practice of digital forensics, however, is still fraught with various challenges. Some of the most prominent of these challenges include the increasing amounts of data and the diversity of digital evidence sources appearing in digital investigations. Mobile devices and cloud infrastructures are an interesting specimen, as they inherently exhibit these challenging circumstances and are becoming more prevalent in digital investigations today. Additionally they embody further characteristics such as large volumes of data from multiple sources, dynamic sharing of resources, limited individual device capabilities and the presence of sensitive data. These combined set of circumstances make digital investigations in mobile and cloud environments particularly challenging. This is not aided by the fact that digital forensics today still involves manual, time consuming tasks within the processes of identifying evidence, performing evidence acquisition and correlating multiple diverse sources of evidence in the analysis phase. Furthermore, industry standard tools developed are largely evidence-oriented, have limited support for evidence integration and only automate certain precursory tasks, such as indexing and text searching. In this study, efficiency, in the form of reducing the time and human labour effort expended, is sought after in digital investigations in highly networked environments through the automation of certain activities in the digital forensic process. To this end requirements are outlined and an architecture designed for an automated system that performs digital forensics in highly networked mobile and cloud environments. Part of the remote evidence acquisition activity of this architecture is built and tested on several mobile devices in terms of speed and reliability. A method for integrating multiple diverse evidence sources in an automated manner, supporting correlation and automated reasoning is developed and tested. Finally the proposed architecture is reviewed and enhancements proposed in order to further automate the architecture by introducing decentralization particularly within the storage and processing functionality. This decentralization also improves machine to machine communication supporting several digital investigation processes enabled by the architecture through harnessing the properties of various peer-to-peer overlays. Remote evidence acquisition helps to improve the efficiency (time and effort involved) in digital investigations by removing the need for proximity to the evidence. Experiments show that a single TCP connection client-server paradigm does not offer the required scalability and reliability for remote evidence acquisition and that a multi-TCP connection paradigm is required. The automated integration, correlation and reasoning on multiple diverse evidence sources demonstrated in the experiments improves speed and reduces the human effort needed in the analysis phase by removing the need for time-consuming manual correlation. Finally, informed by published scientific literature, the proposed enhancements for further decentralizing the Live Evidence Information Aggregator (LEIA) architecture offer a platform for increased machine-to-machine communication thereby enabling automation and reducing the need for manual human intervention.

Clinical decision support system for point of care use: ontology driven design and software implementation

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this research was to design a clinical decision support system (CDSS) that supports heterogeneous clinical decision problems and runs on multiple computing platforms. Meeting this objective required a novel design to create an extendable and easy to maintain clinical CDSS for point of care support. The proposed solution was evaluated in a proof of concept implementation. METHODS: Based on our earlier research with the design of a mobile CDSS for emergency triage we used ontology-driven design to represent essential components of a CDSS. Models of clinical decision problems were derived from the ontology and they were processed into executable applications during runtime. This allowed scaling applications' functionality to the capabilities of computing platforms. A prototype of the system was implemented using the extended client-server architecture and Web services to distribute the functions of the system and to make it operational in limited connectivity conditions. RESULTS: The proposed design provided a common framework that facilitated development of diversified clinical applications running seamlessly on a variety of computing platforms. It was prototyped for two clinical decision problems and settings (triage of acute pain in the emergency department and postoperative management of radical prostatectomy on the hospital ward) and implemented on two computing platforms-desktop and handheld computers. CONCLUSIONS: The requirement of the CDSS heterogeneity was satisfied with ontology-driven design. Processing of application models described with the help of ontological models allowed having a complex system running on multiple computing platforms with different capabilities. Finally, separation of models and runtime components contributed to improved extensibility and maintainability of the system.

Towards a web-based progressive handwriting recognition environment for mathematical problem solving

The emergence of pen-based mobile devices such as PDAs and tablet PCs provides a new way to input mathematical expressions to computer by using handwriting which is much more natural and efficient for entering mathematics. This paper proposes a web-based handwriting mathematics system, called WebMath, for supporting mathematical problem solving. The proposed WebMath system is based on client-server architecture. It comprises four major components: a standard web server, handwriting mathematical expression editor, computation engine and web browser with Ajax-based communicator. The handwriting mathematical expression editor adopts a progressive recognition approach for dynamic recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions. The computation engine supports mathematical functions such as algebraic simplification and factorization, and integration and differentiation. The web browser provides a user-friendly interface for accessing the system using advanced Ajax-based communication. In this paper, we describe the different components of the WebMath system and its performance analysis.

Design of a dynamic e-commerce system with engineering applications

The primary purpose of this thesis was to design and develop a prototype e-commerce system where dynamic parameters are included in the decision-making process and execution of an online transaction. The system developed and implemented takes into account previous usage history, priority and associated engineering capabilities. The system was developed using three-tiered client server architecture. The interface was the Internet browser. The middle tiered web server was implemented using Active Server Pages, which form a link between the client system and other servers. A relational database management system formed the data component of the three-tiered architecture. It includes a capability for data warehousing which extracts needed information from the stored data of the customers as well as their orders. The system organizes and analyzes the data that is generated during a transaction to formulate a client's behavior model during and after a transaction. This is used for making decisions like pricing, order rescheduling during a client's forthcoming transaction. The system helps among other things to bring about predictability to a transaction execution process, which could be highly desirable in the current competitive scenario.

Studio e prototipazione di un'architettura software di alto livello per lo sviluppo di applicazioni di mixed reality su piattaforma HoloLens

La tesi si pone come obiettivo quello di realizzare un'architettura di alto livello per lo sviluppo di applicazioni dirette alla piattaforma HoloLens. Per conseguire tale risultato si è rivelata necessaria una prima parte di studio dei concetti di mixed reality, con riferimento particolare al caso specifico HoloLens, per poi dirigere l'attenzione alla comprensione dell'architettura di applicazioni olografiche. L'analisi delle API rilasciate per lo sviluppo di applicazioni HoloLens ha permesso di riscontrare varie criticità, alle quali si è posto rimedio tramite l'introduzione di un livello di astrazione, che possa consentire uno sviluppo di applicazioni ad un livello più alto. Si è poi introdotto il concetto di augmented worlds (mondi aumentati), i cui principi cardine hanno fornito le basi per la progettazione e lo sviluppo di un sistema client-server, nel quale il dispositivo HoloLens agisce come un client e la logica di controllo degli elementi del modello dell'applicazione viene gestita lato server.

Streaming di immagini via ethernet con Zynq con sistemi operativi Standalone e Linux

Il seguente lavoro di tesi si inserisce all'interno di un progetto accademico volto alla realizzazione di un sistema capace elaborare immagini utilizzando una rete FPGA, acquisite da un sensore. Ogni scrittura di un nuovo frame in memoria RAM genera un interrupt. L'obiettivo della tesi è creare un sistema client/server che permetta il trasferimento del flusso di frame dalla ZedBoard a un PC e la visualizzazione a video. Il progetto eseguito sulla ZedBoard è proposto in due versioni: la prima in assenza di sistema operativo (Standalone) e una seconda implementata su Linux. Il progetto eseguito sul PC è compatibile con Linux e Windows. La visualizzazione delle immagini è implementata utilizzando la libreria OpenCV.

Realtà virtuale multiutente

L’obbiettivo di questa tesi è realizzare il prototipo di un’applicazione client-server che permetta di utilizzare in remoto applicazioni in Virtual Reality, fornendo allo stesso tempo supporto alla multiutenza. L’applicazione in realtà virtuale dovrà girare sul server, dispositivo con capacità di calcolo notevolmente superiori rispetto a quelle del client. Più utenti dovranno avere la possibilità di connettersi contemporaneamente e condividere lo stesso spazio virtuale. Il client sarà, in questo caso, un’applicazione Android che si connetterà al server e avrà il compito di mostrare all'utente l’output dell’applicazione in Virtual Reality e allo stesso tempo ricevere l’input da inviare al server. Un altro obbiettivo durante lo sviluppo del prototipo è quello di realizzare una libreria che offra le funzionalità sopraelencate, facilmente integrabile in nuovi progetti o in progetti già esistenti. Utilizzando questa struttura client-server sarà possibile sviluppare applicazioni che permettano a più persone di condividere lo stesso spazio virtuale, ognuno dal proprio punto di vista, utilizzando visori e sistemi operativi diversi.

Conceção de um sistema informático de gestão do pessoal do ISCED – Cabinda

Com um aumento significativo dos dados nos setores empresariais, urge a necessidade de criar formas de facilitar o seu tratamento para um ganho do tempo na execução das atividades, garantindo uma maior eficiência dos sistemas e também proporcionando a maximização do lucro às empresas, quando for esse o caso. O sucesso de uma empresa depende bastante dos seus recursos humanos e estes, constituem o seu “instrumento” mais importante. É (ou seria) das pessoas que a empresa define ações estratégicas, constituindo ganhos de diversas naturezas (de conhecimento, de marca, económicas ou financeiras). O objetivo principal desta dissertação é permitir que a instituição universitária ISCED – Cabinda se adapte ao potencial digital pelo recurso às tecnologias de informação e comunicação, no contexto da sua gestão de Recursos Humanos. Em consequência, a instituição beneficiará com a maior facilidade e rapidez do acesso à informação e a facilidade na atualização dos dados do sistema. Uma vez automatizado, o sistema poderá facilitar o acesso aos dados a fim de responder a uma determinada necessidade que possa existir, independentemente de estar prevista ou não (tornando o sistema mais flexível e adaptável a novas realidades). Com uma Base de dados, far-se-á o cadastro dos dados dos funcionários da instituição fazendo assim evoluir a gestão de Recursos Humanos e proporcionando a busca de informação relativa a um determinado funcionário de uma forma fácil, rápida, precisa, fiável e coerente. Recorrendo ao desenvolvimento de uma aplicação móvel baseada na arquitetura cliente-servidor, as operações de consultas (adicionar, modificar, eliminar), ficam facilitadas e permitem ainda uma maior exploração de dados. A apresentação de uma aplicação móvel para a consulta no âmbito da gestão de Recursos Humanos é complementada com uma agenda de trabalhos a serem desenvolvidos para garantir a proposta de um sistema de gestão de Recursos Humanos para o ISCED.

EMMA 2--a MAGE-compliant system for the collaborative analysis and integration of microarray data

Background: Understanding transcriptional regulation by genome-wide microarray studies can contribute to unravel complex relationships between genes. Attempts to standardize the annotation of microarray data include the Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME) recommendations, the MAGE-ML format for data interchange, and the use of controlled vocabularies or ontologies. The existing software systems for microarray data analysis implement the mentioned standards only partially and are often hard to use and extend. Integration of genomic annotation data and other sources of external knowledge using open standards is therefore a key requirement for future integrated analysis systems. Results: The EMMA 2 software has been designed to resolve shortcomings with respect to full MAGE-ML and ontology support and makes use of modern data integration techniques. We present a software system that features comprehensive data analysis functions for spotted arrays, and for the most common synthesized oligo arrays such as Agilent, Affymetrix and NimbleGen. The system is based on the full MAGE object model. Analysis functionality is based on R and Bioconductor packages and can make use of a compute cluster for distributed services. Conclusion: Our model-driven approach for automatically implementing a full MAGE object model provides high flexibility and compatibility. Data integration via SOAP-based web-services is advantageous in a distributed client-server environment as the collaborative analysis of microarray data is gaining more and more relevance in international research consortia. The adequacy of the EMMA 2 software design and implementation has been proven by its application in many distributed functional genomics projects. Its scalability makes the current architecture suited for extensions towards future transcriptomics methods based on high-throughput sequencing approaches which have much higher computational requirements than microarrays.