Pub Date : 2019-06-04DOI: 10.1007/s00450-019-00407-8
Antonio Brogi, Davide Neri, J. Soldani, O. Zimmermann
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Pub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s00450-019-00406-9
Sabine Glesner
Modern societies have undergone major changes during the last decade. Especially information and communication technologies have increasingly shaped many facets of the daily lives of many human beings as well as of, for example, industrial production, medicine technology, logistics, traffic management, environmental technology, and agriculture. Cyber-physical systems play a major role in this development. In many cases, they are equipped with large amounts of software and pose radically new challenges to developers and also users of these systems. This journal takes these developments into account and, hence, puts a special focus on software-intensive cyber-physical systems. Cyber-physical systems in general are distributed systems consisting of embedded subsystems that are connected by a network, in many cases by the internet itself as well as by local and/or proprietary networks. The range of cyberphysical systems is broad, spanning from cars and planes to smart homes and smart cities to energy management systems and globally spread production networks. Often, these systems are labelled smart or intelligent, which in most of the cases means that software is used to enhance and augment their functionality. With the new journal Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems (SICS), we want to put a special focus on these newly emerged systems and create a scientific and innovation oriented space to present cutting-edge research and developments in this area, always with a particular attention to the software-side of the systems. This journal, even though just newly founded, has already a long tradition in software engineering research as it is the successor of the well-known journal Computer Science— Research and Development (CSRD), which itself is the successor of the formerly German-based journal Informatik— Forschung und Entwicklung (IFE). Even though the title of CSRD has been rather universal, the journal has always paid special attention to software engineering research and developments, always also seeking to attract industrial papers as well as, of course, papers from the academic domain. We hope to continue our tradition of publishing research papers of high quality and look forward to receiving exciting submissions from both academic and industrial contexts. To close, please allow me to express my gratitude to the following people and institutions: Hermann Engesser who supported and accompanied IFE and CSRD over many years, Sabine Kathke who initiated the transformation from CSRD to SICS, Martin Börger who has organized and finally completed CSRD’s metamorphosis into SICS, the SpringerVerlag itself, all the members of the editorial board, the authors of the published articles, and, of course, our readers for their continuing support in reading and enjoying this journal.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-13DOI: 10.1007/s00450-019-00404-x
D. Tamburri, W. van den Heuvel, Chris Lauwers, P. Lipton, Derek Palma, Matt Rutkowski
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Pub Date : 2019-02-08DOI: 10.1007/s00450-019-00402-z
Justus Bogner, Stefan Wagner, Alfred Zimmermann
Software evolvability is an important quality attribute, yet one difficult to grasp. A certain base level of it is allegedly provided by Service- and Microservice-Based Systems, but many software professionals lack systematic understanding of the reasons and preconditions for this. We address this issue via the proxy of architectural modifiability tactics. By qualitatively mapping principles and patterns of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Microservices onto tactics and analyzing the results, we cannot only generate insights into service-oriented evolution qualities, but can also provide a modifiability comparison of the two popular service-based architectural styles. The results suggest that both SOA and Microservices possess several inherent qualities beneficial for software evolution. While both focus strongly on loose coupling and encapsulation, there are also differences in the way they strive for modifiability (e.g. governance vs. evolutionary design). To leverage the insights of this research, however, it is necessary to find practical ways to incorporate the results as guidance into the software development process.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-08DOI: 10.1007/s00450-019-00403-y
Stefano Forti, Ahmad Ibrahim, Antonio Brogi
CISCO FogDirector is one of the first available tools supporting the management of the entire life cycle of applications deployed to Fog infrastructures. In this paper, we present a simple operational semantics of the main features of FogDirector, which provides a compact reference for the tool. We then introduce a prototype, based on such semantics, that can constitute the core of a simulation environment of FogDirector application management. The usefulness of the prototype is illustrated over a motivating example.
{"title":"Mimicking FogDirector application management","authors":"Stefano Forti, Ahmad Ibrahim, Antonio Brogi","doi":"10.1007/s00450-019-00403-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-019-00403-y","url":null,"abstract":"CISCO FogDirector is one of the first available tools supporting the management of the entire life cycle of applications deployed to Fog infrastructures. In this paper, we present a simple operational semantics of the main features of FogDirector, which provides a compact reference for the tool. We then introduce a prototype, based on such semantics, that can constitute the core of a simulation environment of FogDirector application management. The usefulness of the prototype is illustrated over a motivating example.","PeriodicalId":41265,"journal":{"name":"SICS Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems","volume":"311 2","pages":"151-161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138495258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-06DOI: 10.1007/s00450-019-00397-7
Karoline Saatkamp, Uwe Breitenbücher, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann
For the automated deployment of applications, technologies exist which can process topology-based deployment models that describes the application’s structure with its components and their relations. The topology-based deployment model of an application can be adapted for the deployment in different environments. However, the structural changes can lead to problems, which had not existed before and prevent a functional deployment. This includes security issues, communication restrictions, or incompatibilities. For example, a formerly over the internal network established insecure connection leads to security problems when using the public network after the adaptation. In order to solve problems in adapted deployment models, first the problems have to be detected. Unfortunately, detecting such problems is a highly non-trivial challenge that requires deep expertise about the involved technologies and the environment. In this paper, we present (1) an approach for detecting problems in deployment models using architecture and design patterns and (2) the automation of the detection process by formalizing the problem a pattern solves in a certain context. We validate the practical feasibility of our approach by a prototypical implementation for the automated problem detection in TOSCA topologies.
{"title":"An approach to automatically detect problems in restructured deployment models based on formalizing architecture and design patterns","authors":"Karoline Saatkamp, Uwe Breitenbücher, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann","doi":"10.1007/s00450-019-00397-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-019-00397-7","url":null,"abstract":"For the automated deployment of applications, technologies exist which can process topology-based deployment models that describes the application’s structure with its components and their relations. The topology-based deployment model of an application can be adapted for the deployment in different environments. However, the structural changes can lead to problems, which had not existed before and prevent a functional deployment. This includes security issues, communication restrictions, or incompatibilities. For example, a formerly over the internal network established insecure connection leads to security problems when using the public network after the adaptation. In order to solve problems in adapted deployment models, first the problems have to be detected. Unfortunately, detecting such problems is a highly non-trivial challenge that requires deep expertise about the involved technologies and the environment. In this paper, we present (1) an approach for detecting problems in deployment models using architecture and design patterns and (2) the automation of the detection process by formalizing the problem a pattern solves in a certain context. We validate the practical feasibility of our approach by a prototypical implementation for the automated problem detection in TOSCA topologies.","PeriodicalId":41265,"journal":{"name":"SICS Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems","volume":"311 6","pages":"85-97"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138495254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-06DOI: 10.1007/s00450-019-00400-1
Michael Falkenthal, Uwe Breitenbücher, Johanna Barzen, Frank Leymann
Pattern languages are a pervasive means in many domains to capture proven solutions for recurring problems in an abstract manner. To improve reusability, they abstract from implementation details such as specific technologies or environments. However, while this abstraction provides a significant benefit as patterns can be applied to solve different manifestations of the general problem, this also leads to time-consuming efforts when patterns have to be applied as concrete solutions have to be elaborated and implemented over and over again. Moreover, as patterns are intended to be applied in combination with other patterns, the individual concrete solutions have to be aggregated into an overall solution, too. However, this immensely increases necessary expertise, required effort, and complexity. Therefore, we present a systematic approach that allows to (i) reuse and (ii) combine already developed concrete solutions on the basis of selected sequences of patterns. We establish the theory of solution algebras, which perceive concrete solutions and aggregation operators as mathematical objects. Thereby, domain-specific operators allow to combine and aggregate concrete solutions of patterns, which we validate in several different domains.
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