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1) Model service networks as a set of services and business entities based on a proposed meta-model.
2) Add Key Performance Objectives to services within service networks.
3) Analyze the performance of service networks.
4) Extract initial draft business process models from service network models.
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This document provides an overview of the Service Network Analysis and Prediction Tool (SNAPT). SNAPT is a prototype tool developed by the University of Crete that allows users to:
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2) Add Key Performance Objectives to services within service networks.
3) Analyze the performance of service networks.
4) Extract initial draft business process models from service network models.
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This document provides an overview of Asset Management Services (AMS) at Network Rail. AMS sets asset policies, provides assurance services, and supports customers to optimize rail infrastructure performance. It consists of several functions that provide services like route support, engineering advice, and energy/telecoms networks. AMS aims to improve efficiency through its transformation program. It outlines the visions and purposes of the different AMS functions and describes plans to reduce costs while maintaining service quality through the control period.
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This document discusses opening postal platforms to private sector participation to develop new digital services. It argues that this strategy would be less risky, more innovative, and more successful than posts developing all solutions internally. It outlines key stakeholders in a platform ecosystem and provides examples of potential new services private partners could develop, such as e-government services, e-commerce solutions, custom logistics, and advertising solutions. The document recommends posts carefully plan their strategy, define focus areas for new services, and establish performance measures to evaluate solutions.
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Christos Nikolaou
Transformation Services Lab
UoC, CSD
When innovative new services are introduced to market and society, it is usually the case that a group of service providers (frequently through the leadership of a sector dominant provider) form an alliance that implements the new service as a composition of some of their own offerings (services or goods and resources). The participating service providers set their own business objectives in order to enter the coalition, and these will have to be satisfied if the emerging service system is to be successful against the competition and sustainable in the long run. One of the many interesting questions that emerge in this context is the following: how can these business objectives be translated to appropriate constraints for the design of the necessary business processes and for resource and infrastructure services (cloud) provisioning? How can these - structure of the service system, business processes, infrastructure services - be adapted to a changing and competitive business environment so that old or new business objectives are still met?
I will present some initial research results that can provide a first handle to these problems. I argue that we need a fresh, holistic approach to deal with them. We have to gain a deeper understanding of how value is created in service systems,how people and systems contribute to this creation, and how sensitive this value creation is to our, most of the time, unsuspecting technical decisions on IT systems and infrastructures. I will also discuss a first attempt towards a unified quantitative framework that could be useful towards addressing these issues and concerns.
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For further details contact:
N.RAJASEKARAN B.E M.S 9841091117,9840103301.
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Old No 251, New No 304,
2nd Floor,
Arcot road ,
Vadapalani ,
Chennai-26.
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4. IEEE based on Image processing
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3. B.Tech IT
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5. MSc (C.S)
6. MSc (IT)
7. MCA
8. MS (IT)
9. ME(ALL)
10. BE(ECE)(EEE)(E&I)
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1. DOT NET
2. C sharp
3. ASP
4. VB
5. SQL SERVER
6. JAVA
7. J2EE
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9. ORACLE
10. VB dotNET
11. EMBEDDED
12. MAT LAB
13. LAB VIEW
14. Multi Sim
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Phone : +91 97518 00789 / +91 72999 51536
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- Dead terms, where a guarantee term's qualifying condition can never be satisfied within the specified time periods due to contradictions with other terms or constraints.
- Ludicrous terms, where a guarantee term's service level objective cannot be fulfilled even when its qualifying condition is met, again due to contradictions arising from overlapping time periods.
The approach is to detect these three types of conflicts if and only if the involved terms or constraints are defined within overlapping time
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IMPULSE TECHNOLOGIES,
Old No 251, New No 304,
2nd Floor,
Arcot road ,
Vadapalani ,
Chennai-26.
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This document provides an overview of a learning package about designing and migrating service-based applications and the impact of service-based application design on global software development. It discusses how service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, and agile service networks can help address challenges with global software development by facilitating collaboration across geographic boundaries. Specifically, it outlines how SOA can support increased modularity, clear work division, and standards adoption to help distribute development tasks.
S-CUBE LP: Techniques for design for adaptationvirtual-campus
This document describes a learning package on designing and migrating service-based applications. It discusses techniques for designing applications to enable self-adaptation. It presents three motivating scenarios involving supply chains, wine production, and mobile users that require different types of adaptation. The key aspects of adaptable service-based applications are life cycles, adaptation strategies, triggers, and the association between strategies and triggers. Guidelines are provided for modeling triggers, realizing strategies, and relating them through various design approaches like built-in, abstraction-based, and dynamic adaptation.
S-CUBE LP: Self-healing in Mixed Service-oriented Systemsvirtual-campus
This document provides an overview of self-healing in mixed service-oriented systems. It describes self-healing research from IBM on autonomic computing and self-adaptive systems. The key aspects of self-healing covered include the self-healing loop, requirements, states (normal, broken, degraded), failure classification, and policies for detection and recovery. The goal of self-healing is to maintain system health by detecting disruptions, diagnosing causes, and applying recovery strategies in a closed feedback loop.
S-CUBE LP: Analyzing and Adapting Business Processes based on Ecologically-aw...virtual-campus
The document describes a learning package on analyzing and adapting business processes based on ecologically-aware indicators. It discusses using green business process reengineering to optimize an auto finishing process to reduce its environmental impact by considering additional dimensions like water consumption and carbon emissions. A key part of green BPR is extending the traditional BPR architecture to include defining key ecological indicators, monitoring environmental impacts during process execution, and analyzing the data to identify opportunities for process adaptation and improvement.
S-CUBE LP: Preventing SLA Violations in Service Compositions Using Aspect-Bas...virtual-campus
This document discusses an approach to preventing violations of service level agreements (SLAs) in composite services using aspect-based fragment substitution. The approach defines checkpoints in the service composition and uses machine learning to generate predictions of SLA violations at checkpoints. If a violation is predicted, the service composition is adapted by substituting an alternative process fragment that is expected to prevent the predicted SLA violation. Background information is provided on related work in S-Cube on runtime prediction of SLA violations using machine learning on event logs, and on aspect-oriented programming concepts used in the fragment substitution approach.
S-CUBE LP: Analyzing Business Process Performance Using KPI Dependency Analysisvirtual-campus
This document describes a method for analyzing dependencies between Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and lower-level metrics in business processes. It involves defining KPIs and metrics, monitoring process instances, and using classification algorithms like decision trees to learn relationships between metrics and KPI classes from historical data. The approach automates dependency analysis, is efficient compared to manual methods, and produces understandable decision tree models. Potential limitations include needing historical event logs to train models and ensuring all relevant data can be monitored.
S-CUBE LP: Process Performance Monitoring in Service Compositionsvirtual-campus
This document describes process performance monitoring in service compositions. It discusses monitoring a single BPEL process using a resource event model and complex event definitions to calculate performance metrics. It also covers monitoring across partner processes by specifying a monitoring agreement based on a BPEL4Chor choreography model. Key events are correlated using identifiers. A prototype implements monitoring using an Apache ODE BPEL engine and ESPER CEP engine.
S-CUBE LP: Service Level Agreement based Service infrastructures in the conte...virtual-campus
This document describes a learning package on SLA-aware service infrastructures that aim to 1) hide differences between service infrastructures, 2) support higher layers of service-based applications through SLA-constrained autonomous decisions, and 3) allow for SLA-oriented self-adaptation and violation propagation across layers through monitoring and adaptation mechanisms. The research focuses on autonomous behavior in service infrastructures while considering constraints from SLAs agreed to at higher composition and business process layers.
S-CUBE LP: Runtime Prediction of SLA Violations Based on Service Event Logsvirtual-campus
This document describes an approach for predicting violations of service level agreements (SLAs) based on analyzing event logs from a service composition runtime. It discusses defining checkpoints during service execution to collect monitoring data on factors that influence performance. Missing or future data can be estimated. Machine learning techniques are then used to generate predictions at checkpoints based on historical monitoring data. The accuracy of predictions is evaluated by comparing predictions to actual outcomes. Prediction error is found to decrease as execution progresses, showing the potential for early warning of possible SLA violations to allow corrective actions.
This document discusses proactive service level agreement (SLA) negotiation. It defines SLA and SLA negotiation, and describes two types of negotiation: reactive and proactive. It outlines scenarios that could trigger proactive SLA negotiation, and describes a two-phase proactive negotiation process involving identification of potential providers and pre-agreement/final agreement. The document also presents an architecture and process for proactive SLA negotiation and evaluates the approach through a case study.
S-CUBE LP: A Soft-Constraint Based Approach to QoS-Aware Service Selectionvirtual-campus
The document discusses service selection and quality of service (QoS) considerations. It proposes extending the soft constraint satisfaction problem (SCSP) approach to handle penalties. Specifically, it defines a soft service level agreement (SSLA) model that includes user preferences and penalties defined in terms of QoS variables. If a selected service fails, the approach aims to automatically switch to another service that fits the agreed upon QoS levels while applying any defined penalties. The key points are mapping the SSLA definitions to the SCSP framework and extending the SCSP constraints and operations to incorporate the defined penalties.
S-CUBE LP: Variability Modeling and QoS Analysis of Web Services Orchestrationsvirtual-campus
This document summarizes research on using pairwise testing to model variability and analyze quality of service (QoS) for web service orchestrations. Feature diagrams are used to explicitly represent variability in composite services, and pairwise testing is applied to select configurations covering all pairwise feature interactions. QoS distributions are computed for these configurations to predict overall orchestration QoS in a way that accounts for variability. The approach provides more realistic service level agreements than considering only worst-case scenarios.
S-CUBE LP: Run-time Verification for Preventive Adaptationvirtual-campus
The document describes an approach called SPADE for preventive adaptation of service-based applications using runtime verification. SPADE uses monitoring data from service executions, assumptions about service response times, and formalized requirements to predict if the application will violate requirements. If a violation is predicted, SPADE identifies the need for adaptation to prevent an actual failure. SPADE was designed as part of the S-Cube project to enable service-based applications to adapt preventively based on runtime monitoring and verification.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
GlobalLogic Java Community Webinar #18 “How to Improve Web Application Perfor...GlobalLogic Ukraine
Під час доповіді відповімо на питання, навіщо потрібно підвищувати продуктивність аплікації і які є найефективніші способи для цього. А також поговоримо про те, що таке кеш, які його види бувають та, основне — як знайти performance bottleneck?
Відео та деталі заходу: https://bit.ly/45tILxj
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
AI in the Workplace Reskilling, Upskilling, and Future Work.pptxSunil Jagani
Discover how AI is transforming the workplace and learn strategies for reskilling and upskilling employees to stay ahead. This comprehensive guide covers the impact of AI on jobs, essential skills for the future, and successful case studies from industry leaders. Embrace AI-driven changes, foster continuous learning, and build a future-ready workforce.
Read More - https://bit.ly/3VKly70
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin Goedecke
S-CUBE LP: Performance Analysis and Strategic Interactions in Service Networks
1. S-Cube Learning Package
Service Network Performance Analysis:
Performance Analysis and Strategic
Interactions in Service Networks
University of Crete (UoC)
Marina Bitsaki, Mariana Karmazi, Christos Nikolaou
www.s-cube-network.eu