Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
QuESo: a Quality Model for Open Source Software EcosystemsGESSI UPC
Open source software has witnessed an exponential growth in the last two decades and it is playing an increasingly
important role in many companies and organizations leading to the formation of open source software
ecosystems. In this paper we present a quality model that will allow the evaluation of those ecosystems in
terms of their relevant quality characteristics such as health or activeness.
Lessons Learned from the Siemens Smart Grid Innovation ContestMichael Heiss
Presentation at the Front End Innovation (FEI) Europe 2012 in Zurich. Repeated as webinar. Recordings available at http://www.frontendofinnovationblog.com/2012/12/webinar-recording-available-siemens.html . The talk includes some experience (and numbers) about crowd recruiting and conversion rates.
How to bring Sustainability in your Organization – Green ITPatricia Lago
(Invited talk at IT Circle Netherlands)
Many organizations struggle with the challenge of sustainability and how you can bring it to your IT organization. Patricia Lago, professor at VU Amsterdam is leading the Software and Services research group at VU. Her research focus is on energy-efficient software engineering and software sustainability. She, together with her colleague Ivano Malavolta shares her thoughts and experiences on how to deal with this emerging topic.
The History of Software Architecture: In the eye of the practitionerPatricia Lago
Software architecture (SA) is celebrating 25 years. This is so if we consider the seminal papers establishing SA as a distinct discipline, and scientific publications that have identified cornerstones of both research and practice, like architecture views, architecture description languages, and architecture evaluation.
With the pervasive use of cloud provisioning, the dynamic integration of multi-party distributed services, and the steep increase in the digitalization of business and society, making sound design decisions encompasses an increasingly-large and complex problem space. The role of SA is essential as never before, so much so that no organization undertakes ‘serious’ projects without the support of suitable architecture practices.
But, how did SA practice evolve in the past 25 years? And what are the challenges ahead?
There have been various attempts to summarize the state of research and practice of SA. Still, we miss the practitioners’ view on the questions above.
To fill this gap, we have first extracted the top-10 topics resulting from the analysis of 5,622 scientific papers. Then, we have used such topics to design an online survey filled out by 57 SA practitioners with 5 to 20+ years of experience.
Self-adaptation Approaches for Energy EfficiencyPatricia Lago
The increasing energy demands of software systems have set an
essential software quality requirement: energy efficiency. At the
same time, the many contextual changes faced by software systems
during execution can hamper their functionality and overall
quality. To address both problems, self-adaptation approaches can
empower software systems, at both design-time and runtime, to
adapt to dynamic conditions. In this way, software systems can
be more resilient to failure, hence more trustful to satisfy the demands
of modern digital society. In this paper, we perform a systematic
literature review to study the state-of-the-art on existing
self-adaptation approaches for energy efficiency. We analyze the
identified approaches from three different perspectives, namely
publication trends, application domains, and types of software systems.
Our findings can help solution providers to make guided
decisions to enable self-adaptability in designing and engineering
software systems.
Green scan methodology for green software assessmentPatricia Lago
Pragmatic yet effective methodology to evaluate green software for energy efficiency. It introduces the concept of "green hotspot", and is applicable for assessing software architectures against green aspects like energy efficiency and environmental sustainability
QuESo: a Quality Model for Open Source Software EcosystemsGESSI UPC
Open source software has witnessed an exponential growth in the last two decades and it is playing an increasingly
important role in many companies and organizations leading to the formation of open source software
ecosystems. In this paper we present a quality model that will allow the evaluation of those ecosystems in
terms of their relevant quality characteristics such as health or activeness.
Lessons Learned from the Siemens Smart Grid Innovation ContestMichael Heiss
Presentation at the Front End Innovation (FEI) Europe 2012 in Zurich. Repeated as webinar. Recordings available at http://www.frontendofinnovationblog.com/2012/12/webinar-recording-available-siemens.html . The talk includes some experience (and numbers) about crowd recruiting and conversion rates.
How to bring Sustainability in your Organization – Green ITPatricia Lago
(Invited talk at IT Circle Netherlands)
Many organizations struggle with the challenge of sustainability and how you can bring it to your IT organization. Patricia Lago, professor at VU Amsterdam is leading the Software and Services research group at VU. Her research focus is on energy-efficient software engineering and software sustainability. She, together with her colleague Ivano Malavolta shares her thoughts and experiences on how to deal with this emerging topic.
The History of Software Architecture: In the eye of the practitionerPatricia Lago
Software architecture (SA) is celebrating 25 years. This is so if we consider the seminal papers establishing SA as a distinct discipline, and scientific publications that have identified cornerstones of both research and practice, like architecture views, architecture description languages, and architecture evaluation.
With the pervasive use of cloud provisioning, the dynamic integration of multi-party distributed services, and the steep increase in the digitalization of business and society, making sound design decisions encompasses an increasingly-large and complex problem space. The role of SA is essential as never before, so much so that no organization undertakes ‘serious’ projects without the support of suitable architecture practices.
But, how did SA practice evolve in the past 25 years? And what are the challenges ahead?
There have been various attempts to summarize the state of research and practice of SA. Still, we miss the practitioners’ view on the questions above.
To fill this gap, we have first extracted the top-10 topics resulting from the analysis of 5,622 scientific papers. Then, we have used such topics to design an online survey filled out by 57 SA practitioners with 5 to 20+ years of experience.
Self-adaptation Approaches for Energy EfficiencyPatricia Lago
The increasing energy demands of software systems have set an
essential software quality requirement: energy efficiency. At the
same time, the many contextual changes faced by software systems
during execution can hamper their functionality and overall
quality. To address both problems, self-adaptation approaches can
empower software systems, at both design-time and runtime, to
adapt to dynamic conditions. In this way, software systems can
be more resilient to failure, hence more trustful to satisfy the demands
of modern digital society. In this paper, we perform a systematic
literature review to study the state-of-the-art on existing
self-adaptation approaches for energy efficiency. We analyze the
identified approaches from three different perspectives, namely
publication trends, application domains, and types of software systems.
Our findings can help solution providers to make guided
decisions to enable self-adaptability in designing and engineering
software systems.
Green scan methodology for green software assessmentPatricia Lago
Pragmatic yet effective methodology to evaluate green software for energy efficiency. It introduces the concept of "green hotspot", and is applicable for assessing software architectures against green aspects like energy efficiency and environmental sustainability
Sustainability - The Software PerspectivePatricia Lago
This is a guest lecture for the course Software Architectures at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. It provides 3 takeaways:
(1) software can help or hinder sustainability
(2) software architecture may provide the right "big picture"
(3) decision making must be informed
Presentation of the paper Creating a distributed mobile networking testbed environment - through the Living Labs approach, Proceedings of 2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom), Barcelona, Spain, March, 2006.
Designing Software with a Sustainability Intent - The Software Sustainability...Patricia Lago
This talk explains the SoSA method and how it can scope the complexity of the problem of designing for software solutions to realize sustainability goals.
Panel presentation at Software Institutes for Sustained Innovation (SI2) BoF at SuperComputing11 in Seattle.
Experiences and challenges identified from 7 years of working to build more maintainable software in research environments.
Green Software: Architecture Decision-making for SustainabilityPatricia Lago
Sustainability is one of the most obvious ethical quality attributes for IT systems.
Patricia Lago is a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and leads the Software and Services research group, with a special focus on sustainability and green IT. In this talk at the LAC 2018 (https://www.laccongres.nl), she will explain the notion of sustainability and the choices that architects can make to increase the sustainability of their design.
Lloyd Green (IEEE): Standardization Needs and Efforts in VR/ARAugmentedWorldExpo
A talk from the Develop Track at AWE USA 2017 - the largest conference for AR+VR in Santa Clara, California May 31- June 2, 2017.
Lloyd Green (IEEE): Standardization Needs and Efforts in VR/AR
Standardization is a key to growing markets and healthy ecosystems in many industries (if not all of them). What needs to be standardized or is being standardized in today's Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) industry? What outcome can be expected from these standards activities? How can they change the industry? In this session, VR/AR standards developers will give you the latest update.
http://AugmentedWorldExpo.com
Software Sustainability: The Challenges and Opportunities for Enterprises and...Patricia Lago
This is the opening keynote presentation to the 14th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM) 2021. See at https://poem2021.rtu.lv/program
TSSG Innovation Breakfast Seminar, Dublin - June 4thWalton Institute
TSSG's Research Unit 3MT held a Innovation Breakfast Seminar on June 4th in Dublin.
It included information on Innovation Vouchers, Innovation Partnerships and a testimonial from Iricent.
Software is being developed since decades without taking sustainability into consideration. This holds for its energy efficiency, that is the amount of energy software consumes while ensuring other system qualities like security, performance, reliability, etc. etc. Software un-sustainability, however, is becoming increasingly evident with the growing interest worldwide. Finally IT specialists are becoming aware that software solutions can, and should, be designed with sustainability concerns in mind. In doing so, they can create solutions that are technically more stable (hence requiring less modifications over time), target societal goals with a higher certainty, or help sustaining the business goals of both developing and consuming organizations. Everything sounds great. The real question is: how? How can we redirect software engineering practices toward sustainable software solutions? And how can we turn sustainability into a business so that companies will finally invest in it? This talk explores results and challenges in engineering software with a sustainability intent.
Adopting sustainability in ICT industry: from the trenchesPatricia Lago
This presentation was given at the 2017 National Sustainability Day in Higher Education, in collaboration with GreenIT Amsterdam.
It presented preliminary results of the GreenServe project, where we measured the sustainability impact of software-intensive systems of IT and software companies and built decision maps to help informed decision making.
All rights reserved (c) Patricia Lago.
Differing Approaches to Industry-University Engagementegiegerich
Differing Approaches to Industry-University Engagement -- A Panel Introduction and Presentation at the University Industry Demonstration Partnership meeting, December 2-4, 2008, at National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
From values to value creation in the French F/OSS industry, Paris Open Source...OW2
How to Drive Ecosystem Growth with Shared Values and Ethical Guidelines?, presentation by Stéphane Fermigier, Co-president CNLL, at the Open Source Community Summit, December 2018.
When the deal flow from the laboratories to the technology transfer office (TTO) is optimal, technology transfer officers are susceptible to receive many inventions with commercial interest. A lot of early-stage inventions require substantial human and financial resources to be developed into marketable products. In order to establish whether or not the resources of the TTO should be spent to seek a commercial exploitation, a first-stage evaluation is often performed shortly after an invention has been identified. The complex decision process that technology transfer officers go through in this regard is introduced below.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
Research Software Sustainability takes a VillageCarole Goble
The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Netherlands eScience Center hosted a two-day international workshop to set the future agenda for national and international funders to support sustainable research software.
As the importance of software in research has become increasingly apparent, so has the urgent need to sustain it. Funders can play a crucial role in this respect by ensuring structural support. Over the past few years, a variety of methods for sustaining research software have been explored, including improving and extending funding policies and instruments. During the workshop, funding organizations joined forces to explore how they can effectively contribute to making research software sustainable.
This keynote helped frame the discussion from the perspective of community involvement in research software sustainability.
https://future-of-research-software.org/
this talk is available at Goble, Carole. (2022, November 8). Research Software Sustainability takes a Village. International funders workshop, The Future of Research Software, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7304596
Sustainability - The Software PerspectivePatricia Lago
This is a guest lecture for the course Software Architectures at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. It provides 3 takeaways:
(1) software can help or hinder sustainability
(2) software architecture may provide the right "big picture"
(3) decision making must be informed
Presentation of the paper Creating a distributed mobile networking testbed environment - through the Living Labs approach, Proceedings of 2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom), Barcelona, Spain, March, 2006.
Designing Software with a Sustainability Intent - The Software Sustainability...Patricia Lago
This talk explains the SoSA method and how it can scope the complexity of the problem of designing for software solutions to realize sustainability goals.
Panel presentation at Software Institutes for Sustained Innovation (SI2) BoF at SuperComputing11 in Seattle.
Experiences and challenges identified from 7 years of working to build more maintainable software in research environments.
Green Software: Architecture Decision-making for SustainabilityPatricia Lago
Sustainability is one of the most obvious ethical quality attributes for IT systems.
Patricia Lago is a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and leads the Software and Services research group, with a special focus on sustainability and green IT. In this talk at the LAC 2018 (https://www.laccongres.nl), she will explain the notion of sustainability and the choices that architects can make to increase the sustainability of their design.
Lloyd Green (IEEE): Standardization Needs and Efforts in VR/ARAugmentedWorldExpo
A talk from the Develop Track at AWE USA 2017 - the largest conference for AR+VR in Santa Clara, California May 31- June 2, 2017.
Lloyd Green (IEEE): Standardization Needs and Efforts in VR/AR
Standardization is a key to growing markets and healthy ecosystems in many industries (if not all of them). What needs to be standardized or is being standardized in today's Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) industry? What outcome can be expected from these standards activities? How can they change the industry? In this session, VR/AR standards developers will give you the latest update.
http://AugmentedWorldExpo.com
Software Sustainability: The Challenges and Opportunities for Enterprises and...Patricia Lago
This is the opening keynote presentation to the 14th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM) 2021. See at https://poem2021.rtu.lv/program
TSSG Innovation Breakfast Seminar, Dublin - June 4thWalton Institute
TSSG's Research Unit 3MT held a Innovation Breakfast Seminar on June 4th in Dublin.
It included information on Innovation Vouchers, Innovation Partnerships and a testimonial from Iricent.
Software is being developed since decades without taking sustainability into consideration. This holds for its energy efficiency, that is the amount of energy software consumes while ensuring other system qualities like security, performance, reliability, etc. etc. Software un-sustainability, however, is becoming increasingly evident with the growing interest worldwide. Finally IT specialists are becoming aware that software solutions can, and should, be designed with sustainability concerns in mind. In doing so, they can create solutions that are technically more stable (hence requiring less modifications over time), target societal goals with a higher certainty, or help sustaining the business goals of both developing and consuming organizations. Everything sounds great. The real question is: how? How can we redirect software engineering practices toward sustainable software solutions? And how can we turn sustainability into a business so that companies will finally invest in it? This talk explores results and challenges in engineering software with a sustainability intent.
Adopting sustainability in ICT industry: from the trenchesPatricia Lago
This presentation was given at the 2017 National Sustainability Day in Higher Education, in collaboration with GreenIT Amsterdam.
It presented preliminary results of the GreenServe project, where we measured the sustainability impact of software-intensive systems of IT and software companies and built decision maps to help informed decision making.
All rights reserved (c) Patricia Lago.
Differing Approaches to Industry-University Engagementegiegerich
Differing Approaches to Industry-University Engagement -- A Panel Introduction and Presentation at the University Industry Demonstration Partnership meeting, December 2-4, 2008, at National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
From values to value creation in the French F/OSS industry, Paris Open Source...OW2
How to Drive Ecosystem Growth with Shared Values and Ethical Guidelines?, presentation by Stéphane Fermigier, Co-president CNLL, at the Open Source Community Summit, December 2018.
When the deal flow from the laboratories to the technology transfer office (TTO) is optimal, technology transfer officers are susceptible to receive many inventions with commercial interest. A lot of early-stage inventions require substantial human and financial resources to be developed into marketable products. In order to establish whether or not the resources of the TTO should be spent to seek a commercial exploitation, a first-stage evaluation is often performed shortly after an invention has been identified. The complex decision process that technology transfer officers go through in this regard is introduced below.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
Research Software Sustainability takes a VillageCarole Goble
The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Netherlands eScience Center hosted a two-day international workshop to set the future agenda for national and international funders to support sustainable research software.
As the importance of software in research has become increasingly apparent, so has the urgent need to sustain it. Funders can play a crucial role in this respect by ensuring structural support. Over the past few years, a variety of methods for sustaining research software have been explored, including improving and extending funding policies and instruments. During the workshop, funding organizations joined forces to explore how they can effectively contribute to making research software sustainable.
This keynote helped frame the discussion from the perspective of community involvement in research software sustainability.
https://future-of-research-software.org/
this talk is available at Goble, Carole. (2022, November 8). Research Software Sustainability takes a Village. International funders workshop, The Future of Research Software, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7304596
Presentation by Steve Crouch, Software Architect at the Software Sustainability Institute.
Presented at the Digital Social Research: Sustainability Training Workshop at OeRC, Oxford on 12 December 2011.
The IoT Methodology aims to provide a loosely structured ecosystem of mutual value for all who participate, driven by sharing, collaboration, community and learning. An ecosystem made up of tools, design patterns, architecture references and guidelines to build IoT solutions.
In the spirit of the World Wide Web and Open Source communities across the globe, a new collaborative effort must be taken to make the Internet of Things a reality.
It’s alive, it grows, it expands, it has no end date or budget restriction.
DrupalDay 2014 - Ecology of value and DRUPAL@Engineering: the experience of a...SpagoWorld
The presentation supported the speech given by Gabriele Ruffatti -Head of Engineering Group’s Open Source Competency Center- at DrupalDay, taking place in Milan (Italy) on 14th and 15th November 2014. www.spagoworld.org
Introduction to the Software Sustainability Institute and a record of the discussion held at the JISC RI Software Sustainability Workshop on the 12th May 2010.
UK e-Infrastructure: Widening Access, Increasing ParticipationNeil Chue Hong
A talk given at the ICHEC Annual Seminar by Neil Chue Hong, reflecting on the rise of Grid and Web 2.0, and how this might enable increased participation and use of computing infrastructure for e-Science and research.
Six Principles of Software Design to Empower ScientistsDavid De Roure
Keynote talk for Workshop on Managing for Usability:
Challenges and Opportunities for E-Science Project Management, 10-11 April 2008,
OeRC, University of Oxford, UK
Open Source and Standards Communities Coming Together to Solve Real World Pro...All Things Open
Presented by: Adam Newman
Presented at the All Things Open 2021
Raleigh, NC, USA
Raleigh Convention Center
Abstract: This talk will examine the intersection of technology development for the benefit of humanity via standards development communities’ intersection with open source communities to develop solutions that improve lives using the SA OPEN Platform with IEEE ISTO.
Why developing research software is like a startup (and why this matters)Neil Chue Hong
When we think about the software used in research and science, we might think of the commercial packages with thousands of users, or the millions of lines of code that support experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider, or indeed the millions of scripts written every day by researchers across the world to undertake simple tasks. What is clear is that modern research relies on software: a recent survey of UK researchers conducted by the Software Sustainability Institute reported that 92% of researchers used software, and 69% could not conduct their work without it. Millions of dollars are invested each year in supporting a quasi-industry of software production, with the equivalent of the full-spectrum from large multinationals and tiny cottage industries, but little is known about whether this is efficient or indeed appropriate. This talk will examine the similarities between the development of software in the research environment and the lifecycle of technology startup companies. It will also consider the driving factors behind adoption of software and the impact of software sustainability on the ability to conduct research.
Talk given at ICERM Workshop on Reproducibility in Computational and Experimental Mathematics summarising various work that the Software Sustainability Institute has done in the areas (Skills and Capability, Recognition and Reward, Careers) that we believe underpin reusable, reproducible research.
UK Funder Policy - the results of the Academic Spring?Neil Chue Hong
Brief summary of recent policy documents and guidelines from UK research funders which may impact reproducible research. Assembled for panel at ICERM Workshop on Reproducibility of Computational and Experimental Mathematics.
Doing Science Properly in the Digital Age: Software Skills for Free-Range Res...Neil Chue Hong
Keynote given at Digital Research 2012, Oxford, on the current challenges and opportunities for changing the way that software development is taught to researchers. Can we get to the point where the "why" of programming is as important as the "how"?
Where does it go from here? The role of software in digital repositoriesNeil Chue Hong
The open repositories community has made great strides in recent years in addressing interoperability, policy and providing the arguments for open access and sharing. One aspect of open research which has come to prominence is the importance of software as a fundamental part of reproducible research, which in turn raises issues around the preservation of software.
In this short presentation, I will describe some of the work that the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) has been doing to address the structural and policy issues which currently present a barrier to the deposit and use of software in open repositories.
Software Sustainability: preserving the future of research softwareNeil Chue Hong
Talk given at the National Science Foundation on the UK e-Science programme, the UK Software Sustainability Institute, and some of the challenges faced in ensuring long term development and maintenance of scientific software
Presentation given at Supercomputing 2007 on the progress of data sharing models, specifically highlighting the collision of data grid / data service and Web 2.0 worlds.
Cat Herding and Community Gardens: Practical e-Science Project ManagementNeil Chue Hong
A talk given by Neil Chue Hong at the e-Science Project Management Symposium looking at issues and models of managing projects which are cross-organisation, cross-discipline and cross-usertype, based on experience of managing several e-Science projects.
Why Good Software Sometimes Dies... and how to save itNeil Chue Hong
A talk given by Neil Chue Hong at the JISC Innovation Forum 08 on software sustainability and the issues, challenges and potential solutions to improve the longevity and uptake of your research software.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*
Cultivating Sustainable Software For Research
1. Cultivating Sustainable Software for Research the Perspective from OMII-UK Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop 26-27 March 2009 Neil Chue Hong Director, OMII-UK
11. Technical support and advice In-house core development activity Commissioning software Integration & customization of existing external & internal software Evaluation of existing external software, dissemination of best practice Evaluation of standards, dissemination of best practice Development & implementation of standards Improving ease of use Improving ease of installation Software hardening, reliability, scalability Business intelligence for research Community development and consultancy Information dissemination : website, keynotes, tutorials, other training Project specific technical and managerial consultancy Software Repository Community Building Foundation Services Responsive Development
12. OMII-UK: Software Development Taverna: effortless workflows for scientists OGSA-DAI: data integration for service providers PAG: AG videoconferencing for anyone Campus Grid Toolkit: easy to install grid for job submission
19. Software development comes in stages An idea to solve a problem Scaling to work for others Understand the functionality Allow others to participate Idea Prototype Research Idea Prototype Idea Idea Prototype Research Supported Product Idea Prototype Research Supported
48. “ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for life.” "Teach a man to fish, and you introduce another competitor into the overcrowded fishing industry. Give a man a fish, and you stimulate demand for your product" Sustainable communities demonstrate 4 key factors: - cohesion and identity - tolerance of diversity - efficient use of resources - adaptability to change