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Stream Processing Environmental Applications in Jordan ValleyCSCJournals
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PhD subject of Jie Sun. Simulation tool based on JADE , jess rule engine and ontology. The goal is to prove that a sensor that can adapt its behaviour based on observed phenomenon state will libve longer
Stream Processing Environmental Applications in Jordan ValleyCSCJournals
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Database system architectures have been gone through innovative changes, specially the unifications of algorithms and data via the integration of programming languages with the database system. Such an innovative changes is needed in Stream-based applications since they have different requirements for the principal of stream data processing system. For example, the monitoring component requires query processing system to detect user-defined events in a timely manner as in real time monitoring system. Furthermore, stream processing fits a large class of new applications for which conventional DBMSs fall short since many stream-oriented systems are inherently geographically distributed and the distribution offers a scalable load management and higher availability. This paper presents statistical information about metrological data such as the weather, soil and evapotranspiration as collected by the weather stations distributed in different locations in Jordan Valley. In addition, it shows the importance of Stream Processing in some real life applications, and shows how the database systems can help researcher in building prototypes that can be implemented and used in a continuous monitoring system.
Lately, the Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) have moved to the concept of the hybrids networks in order to get universal platforms in various types of monitoring and information collecting applications. The work presented in this paper aims in designing a hybrid remote monitoring architecture, largely secured by a high availability and resilience WSN. The modeling approach intends to describe the main operation of polling and dispatching between the communications channels with the purpose of ensuring the information availability and reducing the resilience time. To achieve our goal, we have realized an experimental platform of measuring, processing and routing data through hybrid communications technologies. We have illustrated, via curves, the routing of the data measured by a WSN (ZigBee Technology) to a final user through several communication technologies (HTTPS, SMS, ...).
Phil Day [Configured Things] | Policy-Driven Real-Time Data Filtering from Io...InfluxData
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Policy-Driven Real-Time Data Filtering from IoT Sensors with Flux
Data is central to any smart city, and valuable to a range of different consumers. However, access to the data has to be balanced against privacy concerns to ensure that each recipient only receives the set and quality of data they are authorized to access. This talk describes a solution developed around InfluxDB and Flux which filters data in real time according to a declarative policy model and delivers it securely via web-socket data streams
Challenges in a Microservices Age: Monitoring, Logging and Tracing on Red Hat...Martin Etmajer
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Until recently, applications ran on a handful of carefully curated technologies for years to come, deployments were static and teams siloed. In the microservices age, teams are cross-functional, pick the technologies they consider to work best for them, and are held accountable for what they produce. Application deployments are fine-grained, frequent, scalable and fully automated. What a shift and what a challenge for monitoring such environments! In this presentation, you'll learn how to obtain insights from your OpenShift environment by exploring various open-source monitoring, logging, and tracing technologies, including Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Hawkular, Heapster, Jolokia, Kibana, OpenTracing, Prometheus and ZipKin.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
A survey on context aware system & intelligent Middleware’sIOSR Journals
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Abstract: Context aware system or Sentient system is the most profound concept in the ubiquitous computing.
In the cloud system or in distributed computing building a context aware system is difficult task and
programmer should use more generic programming framework. On the basis of layered conceptual design, we
introduce Context aware systems with Context aware middleware’s. On the basis of presented system we will
analyze different approaches of context aware computing. There are many components in the distributed system
and these components should interact with each other because it is the need of many applications. Plenty
Context middleware’s have been made but they are giving partial solutions. In this paper we are giving analysis
of different middleware’s and comprehensive application of it in context caching.
Keywords: Context aware system, Context aware Middleware’s, Context Cache
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
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I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Phil Day [Configured Things] | Policy-Driven Real-Time Data Filtering from Io...InfluxData
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Policy-Driven Real-Time Data Filtering from IoT Sensors with Flux
Data is central to any smart city, and valuable to a range of different consumers. However, access to the data has to be balanced against privacy concerns to ensure that each recipient only receives the set and quality of data they are authorized to access. This talk describes a solution developed around InfluxDB and Flux which filters data in real time according to a declarative policy model and delivers it securely via web-socket data streams
Challenges in a Microservices Age: Monitoring, Logging and Tracing on Red Hat...Martin Etmajer
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Until recently, applications ran on a handful of carefully curated technologies for years to come, deployments were static and teams siloed. In the microservices age, teams are cross-functional, pick the technologies they consider to work best for them, and are held accountable for what they produce. Application deployments are fine-grained, frequent, scalable and fully automated. What a shift and what a challenge for monitoring such environments! In this presentation, you'll learn how to obtain insights from your OpenShift environment by exploring various open-source monitoring, logging, and tracing technologies, including Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Hawkular, Heapster, Jolokia, Kibana, OpenTracing, Prometheus and ZipKin.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
A survey on context aware system & intelligent Middleware’sIOSR Journals
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Abstract: Context aware system or Sentient system is the most profound concept in the ubiquitous computing.
In the cloud system or in distributed computing building a context aware system is difficult task and
programmer should use more generic programming framework. On the basis of layered conceptual design, we
introduce Context aware systems with Context aware middleware’s. On the basis of presented system we will
analyze different approaches of context aware computing. There are many components in the distributed system
and these components should interact with each other because it is the need of many applications. Plenty
Context middleware’s have been made but they are giving partial solutions. In this paper we are giving analysis
of different middleware’s and comprehensive application of it in context caching.
Keywords: Context aware system, Context aware Middleware’s, Context Cache
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
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I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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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/
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All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
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The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
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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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
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In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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SenSocial
1. SenSocial: A Middleware for Integrating
Online Social Networks and Mobile Sensing
Data Streams
Abhinav Mehrotra, Veljko Pejovic, Mirco Musolesi
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
3. Context-aware Systems
Richer
Contextual
Information
App 1
Real Time
Integration
How to integrate?
Integration
App 2
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4. Application Scenarios
Sensor Data
Social Links
Sensor Data
Notification
Online Social
Network
Internet
Server
Notification
Notice of
friend’s arrival
to Paris
Sensor Data
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5. Application Scenarios
Facebook’s emotional contagion
experiment, Kramer et al. (2014)
EmotionSense, Rachuri et al.
(2010)
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How these can be improved ?
9. Publish-Subscribe
Interaction Paradigm
Subscription Types
- Topic-based (e.g., get user’s
location).
- Content-based (e.g., get
user’s location when the user
posts about football on his/her
Facebook wall).
Application
onDataSensed()
Subscribe
subscribe()
Context
Data
SenSocial
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10. Streams
Types of Stream
• Continuous (e.g., get user’s location when the user is not
moving).
• Social event-based (e.g., get user’s location when the user
performs an action on Facebook).
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11. Stream Filters
Data Streams
Conditions
A condition comprises of a modality, a comparison operator, and a
value.
Example: get location only when a user is not moving.
Condition c = new Condition(ModalityType.physical_activity,
Operator.equals, ModalityValue.still);
Refined Information
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12. Stream Aggregator
• It wraps multiple streams received by the server into a single
aggregated stream.
• Data from individual streams is multiplexed to the same join stream.
• It works similarly to a normal stream.
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13. Multicast Stream
Multicast
• It creates duplicate streams on multiple clients.
• Clients are selected based on the OSN connectivity and geographic
location of the users.
OSN Connectivity Geographic Location 13
14. Other Features
Remote Stream Management
Streams can be created, modified, or destroyed remotely on the
mobile clients.
Privacy Control
By specifying the allowed data type (context modality) and the level
of granularity (raw or classified).
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16. Evaluation
CPU consumption with varying number streams
Average battery consumption with varying number of OSN actions
OSN actions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Charge consumed [μAH] 51.7 97.1 142.5 187.8 233.2 278.5 324.3
Note: the above OSN actions occurred within 20 minute time period and
each triggered remote sampling of all five supported sensor modalities.
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19. Facebook Sensor Map: Code Snippet
/*----------- Create streams----------------*/
SenSocialManager manager = SenSocialManager.getSenSocialManager(getApplicationContext());
String uid = manager.getUserId();
User user = manager.getUser(uid);
Stream s1 = user.getDevice().getStream(SensorUtils.Sensor_Type_Accelerometer, "classified");
Stream s2 = user.getDevice().getStream(SensorUtils.Sensor_Type_Microphone, "classified");
Stream s3 = user.getDevice().getStream(SensorUtils.Sensor_Type_Location, "raw");
/*----------- Create list of filter condition(s) ----------------*/
ArrayList<Condition> conditions = new ArrayList<Condition>();
Condition c = new Condition(ModalityType.facebook_activity, Operator.equals, ModalityValue.active);
conditions.add(c);
/*----------- Add condition list to the filter -----------*/
Filter filter = new Filter(conditions);
/*----------- Set filter to the streams -----------*/
s1 = s1.setFilter(filter);
s2 = s2.setFilter(filter);
s3 = s3.setFilter(filter);
/*----------- Register streams -----------*/
manager.registerListener(this, stream1.getId());
manager.registerListener(this, stream2.getId());
manager.registerListener(this, stream3.getId());
/*----------- Start streams -----------*/
stream1.start();
stream2.start();
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20. Programming Effort Evaluation
Facebook Sensor Map : lines of code reduced by nine times (from 3423
to 316).
ConWeb : lines of code reduced by twenty four times (from 3223 to 130).
Application Name Number of files Lines of code
Facebook Sensor Map (M) (with SenSocial) 8 103
Facebook Sensor Map (S) (with SenSocial) 2 213
Facebook Sensor Map (M) (without SenSocial) 68 2419
Facebook Sensor Map (S) (without SenSocial) 42 1004
ConWeb (M) (with SenSocial) 3 23
ConWeb (S) (with SenSocial) 1 107
ConWeb (M) (without SenSocial) 61 2278
ConWeb (S) (without SenSocial) 38 945
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21. Summary
• We argue that the integration of OSNs and mobile sensor data
streams can benefit in obtaining richer contextual information.
• We propose SenSocial to simplify the implementation of such
ubiquitous computing applications.
• SenSocial is released as an open-source project.
Available at: https://github.com/AbhinavMehrotra/SenSocial-Library
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