Modeling information in software languages

Ohjelmiston kehitystyökalut käyttävät infromaatiota kehittäjän tuottamasta lähdekoodista. Informaatiota hyödynnetään ohjelmistoprojektin eri vaiheissa ja eri tarkoituksissa. Moderneissa ohjelmistoprojekteissa käytetyn informaation määrä voi kasvaa erittäin suureksi. Ohjelmistotyökaluilla on omat informaatiomallinsa ja käyttömekanisminsa. Informaation määrä sekä erilliset työkaluinformaatiomallit tekevät erittäin hankalaksi rakentaa joustavaa työkaluympäristöä, erityisesti ongelma-aluekohtaiseen ohjelmiston kehitysprosessiin. Tässä työssä on analysoitu perusinformaatiometamalleja Unified Modeling language kielestä, Python ohjelmointikielestä ja C++ ohjelmointikielestä. Metainformaation taso on rajoitettu rakenteelliselle tasolle. Ajettavat rakenteet on jätetty pois. ModelBase metamalli on yhdistetty olemassa olevista analysoiduista metamalleista. Tätä metamallia voidaan käyttää tulevaisuudessa ohjelmistotyökalujen kehitykseen.

Modeling Information Diffusion in University Libraries: Assessing Peer Interaction Patterns as a Complex Dynamic System

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Astrocytes and human cognition: Modeling information integration and modulation of neuronal activity

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Research commentary: Information systems and conceptual modeling - A research agenda

Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptual-modeling work is important because it facilitates early detection and correction of system development errors. It also plays an increasingly important role in activities like business process reengineering and documentation of best-practice data and process models in enterprise resource planning systems. Yet little research has been undertaken on many aspects of conceptual modeling. In this paper, we propose a framework to motivate research that addresses the following fundamental question: How can we model the world to better facilitate our developing, implementing, using, and maintaining more valuable information systems? The framework comprises four elements: conceptual-modeling grammars, conceptual-modeling methods, conceptual-modeling scripts, and conceptual-modeling contexts. We provide examples of the types of research that have already been undertaken on each element and illustrate research opportunities that exist.

La digitalizzazione del processo costruttivo: la strategia Building Information Modeling and Management (BIMM) applicata ad un caso di studio di edilizia scolastica.

L’obiettivo della tesi è quello di fare una panoramica sulla strategia BIM e quindi sulla digitalizzazione del processo costruttivo. Grazie alla analisi di un caso di studio, altro obiettivo è quello di analizzare e valutare la metodologia BIM 4D/5D, ossia la gestione dei tempi e dei costi di realizzazione dell’opera. Nella prima fase si affronta il tema del BIM, con una analisi sull’evoluzione degli strumenti di elaborazione e rappresentazione digitale del progetto architettonico, su come questi strumenti si differenzino sia dal punto di vista operativo che concettuale rivoluzionando il flusso di lavoro odierno. Quindi, partendo da un’analisi che e ritrae l’estrema frammentazione del settore delle costruzioni, si va ad analizzare come il BIM aumenti e favorisca la collaborazione delle parti interessate, armonizzando l’intero processo costruttivo dell’opera. Si prosegue con l'esame della diffusione e del livello di maturità degli strumenti BIM, di come i privati e le amministrazioni pubbliche, a livello mondiale, stiano spingendo per favorire l’adozione della metodologia BIM. Inoltre si analizzano le dinamiche dell’interoperabilità, delle metodologie e protocolli di interscambio dati, che sono un elemento chiave per il successo del BIM per via dei numerosi strumenti, specializzati nelle varie discipline del settore edile. Nella terza parte, dedicata al Project Management di un caso di studio, si verifica la bontà delle metodologie teorizzate attraverso la realizzazione di un modello virtuale in Revit. Dal modello realizzato dal laureando sono estrapolate le informazioni necessarie alla gestione, e tramite il software STRVison CPM, si elaborano i principali documenti per la progettazione e gestione del cantiere: il CM, il CME, i tempi operativi, il cronoprogramma Gantt. Obbiettivo è constatare l’effettivo livello di maturità della strategia BIM 4D e 5D e la reale possibilità di un impiego capillare nel panorama italiano del settore delle costruzioni.

Representing part-whole relationships in conceptual modeling: An empirical evaluation

The part-of or part-whole construct is a fundamental element of many conceptual modeling grammars that is used to associate one thing (a component) with another thing (a composite). Substantive theoretical issues surrounding the part-whole construct remain to be resolved, however. For instance, contrary to widespread claims, the relationship between components and composites is not always transitive. Moreover, how the partwhole construct should be represented in a conceptual schema diagram remains a contentious issue. Some analysts argue composites should be represented as a relationship or association. Others argue they should be represented as an entity. In this paper we use an ontological theory to support our arguments that composites should be represented as entities and not relationships or associations. We also describe an experiment that we undertook to test whether representing composites as relationships or entities enables users to understand a domain better. Our results support our arguments that using entities to represent composites enables users to better understand a domain.

Business Modeling of the Application Architecture of the Bulgarian Folklore Artery

In an attempt to answer the need of wider accessibility and popularization of the treasury of Bulgarian folklore, a team from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has planned to develop the Bulgarian folklore artery within the national project ―Knowledge Technologies for Creation of Digital Presentation and Significant Repositories of Folklore Heritage‖. This paper presents the process of business modeling of the application architecture of the Bulgarian folklore artery, which aids requirements analysis, application design and its software implementation. The folklore domain process model is made in the context of the target social applications—e-learning, virtual expositions of folklore artifacts, research, news, cultural/ethno-tourism, etc. The basic processes are analyzed and modeled and some inferences are made for the use cases and requirements specification of the Bulgarian folklore artery application. As a conclusion the application architecture of the Bulgarian folklore artery is presented.

Mallinnusinformaation hyödyntäminen ohjelmistokehityksessä

Ohjelmistoprosesseissa kulkee käytännössä sama tieto muuntuen eri vaiheissa käyttökohteensa mukaan. Tätä mallinnusinformaatiota on mahdollista siirtää ja käyttää uudelleen, mikä säästää resursseja ja vähentää riskejä kaikissa projektin vaiheissa. Projektin alussa ohjelmiston toimintoja suunnitellaan ja niitä mallinnetaan esim. UML-malleilla. Tätä mallinnusinformaatiota hallitaan erilaisilla CASE-työkaluilla, joiden avullamalleja on helppo konvertoida toteutusvaihetta varten lähdekoodiksi. Lähdekoodivoidaan tuoda takaisin malliksi jatkosuunnittelua varten, jos työkalu tukee ominaisuutta. Testausvaiheessa lähdekoodi voidaan parsia, jotta siitä saadaan esille olennainen mallinnusinformaatio testejä varten. Lopulta dokumentaatiota voidaan generoida automaattisesti esim. Javadocilla. Mallinnusinformaation hyödyntäminen onnistuu hyvin teoriassa, mutta se ei ole niin suoraviivaista käytännössä. Tämänhetkiset työkalut eivät ole tarpeeksi joustavia mallinnusinformaation palauttamiseksi edellisiin vaiheisiin, joten ne ajavat toteuttamaan projekteja lineaarisesti. Keskikokoisessakin ohjelmistoprojektissa on suuri määrä mallinnusinformaatiota ja se lisää haasteita. Vaikka työkalut ovat kankeita, mallinnusinformaation hyödyntämisen on koettu tehostavan ohjelmistoprosesseja. Siksi sen keinoja tutkitaan ahkerasti.

Ontological evaluation of enterprise systems interoperability using ebXML

Enterprise systems interoperability (ESI) is an important topic for business currently. This situation is evidenced, at least in part, by the number and extent of potential candidate protocols for such process interoperation, viz., ebXML, BPML, BPEL, and WSCI. Wide-ranging support for each of these candidate standards already exists. However, despite broad acceptance, a sound theoretical evaluation of these approaches has not yet been provided. We use the Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) models, in particular, the representation model, to provide the basis for such a theoretical evaluation. We, and other researchers, have shown the usefulness of the representation model for analyzing, evaluating, and engineering techniques in the areas of traditional and structured systems analysis, object-oriented modeling, and process modeling. In this work, we address the question, what are the potential semantic weaknesses of using ebXML alone for process interoperation between enterprise systems? We find that users will lack important implementation information because of representational deficiencies; due to ontological redundancy, the complexity of the specification is unnecessarily increased; and, users of the specification will have to bring in extra-model knowledge to understand constructs in the specification due to instances of ontological excess.

MODELING OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR WINE TRACEABILITY BASED ON A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

The purpose is to present a scientific research that led to the modeling of an information system which aimed at the maintenance of traceability data in the Brazilian wine industry, according to the principles of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Since 2005, traceability data maintenance is an obligation for all producers that intend to export to any European Union country. Also, final customers, including the Brazilian ones, have been asking for information about food products. A solution that collectively contemplated the industry was sought in order to permit that producer consortiums of associations could share the costs and benefits of such a solution. Following an extensive bibliographic review, a series of interviews conducted with Brazilian researchers and wine producers in Bento Goncalves - RS, Brazil, elucidated many aspects associated with the wine production process. Information technology issues related to the theme were also researched. The software was modeled with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and uses web services for data exchange. A model for the wine production process was also proposed. A functional prototype showed that the adopted model is able to fulfill the demands of wine producers. The good results obtained lead us to consider the use of this model in other domains.

Building information modeling: oportunidades e desafios para projectistas e donos de obra em Portugal

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil-Perfil de Construção

Building information modeling como ferramenta de visualização de realidade aumentada em obras de reabilitação – um caso de estudo

Congresso Construção 2012 - 4º Congresso Nacional/17, 18 e 19 Dezembro

Aplicação do Building Information Modeling na gestão de projetos de construção

Dissertação de mestrado em Construção e Reabilitação Sustentáveis

A integração de técnicas BIM (Building Information Modeling) no projeto e na construção de estruturas de madeira

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

A integração do Building Information Modeling (BIM) num projeto de reabilitação

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil