A quick summary of empirical software engineering, followed by early results from a survey of how over 1900 scientists use computers in their research.
The document summarizes research in software engineering and development practices. It discusses several studies that have provided evidence for practices like rigorous inspections reducing errors, Conway's Law relating organizational structure to system structure, and physical distance not affecting post-release fault rates as much as distance in the organizational chart. The document advocates building development practices around these empirical facts and calls for continued work to systematically synthesize research evidence and practices.
Since 2008, over 100 students from 16 universities have worked in distributed teams on open source projects for course credit. Using Basie (http://basieproject.org) as an example, this talk explains how we have made that work. This talk was given at PyCon 2010 in Atlanta on February 20, 2010.
Dark Matter, Public Health, and Scientific ComputingGreg Wilson
This document discusses the lack of computational skills among many scientists and proposes ways to improve this situation. It notes that most scientists focus on their research and do not engage with new technologies. Short, practical training courses targeting graduate students can help more scientists learn basic skills like shell scripting, version control, and testing. These skills allow scientists to be more productive and make new technologies more accessible, even if the skills are not publishable. The document advocates teaching a bit of computing in every course, hosting workshops, and changing incentives to better support computational reproducibility and open science.
This document summarizes Greg Wilson's presentation titled "Two Solitudes". The presentation discusses the divide between academic computer science research and practical software development work. Academics do not respect practitioners' timelines and priorities, and their work is often inaccessible to practitioners. Practitioners do not understand that research is not focused on building software products. The presentation explores how other fields like medicine have addressed similar divides between theory and practice over long periods of time.
How to get what you really want from Testing' with Michael BoltonTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Conferences, with the support of ISA Software Skillnet, Irish Software Innovation Network and SoftTest, were delighted to bring you a half-day software testing masterclass with Michael Bolton
In this session, Michael Bolton (who has extensive experience as a tester, as a programmer, and as a project manager) explained the role of skilled software testers, and why you might not want to think of testing as "quality assurance".
He present ideas about the relationship between management and testers, and about the service that testers really provide: making quality assurance possible by lighting the way of the project. For those of you who who attended this event, we really hope it was of use to you in your testing careers.
www.eurostarconferences.com
This document discusses psychology and engineering in testing. It describes the structure of European product development teams and how testers work embedded in agile teams. It advocates for automating some tests but also focusing on social aspects of testing. The document outlines how the authors' company transitioned from having testers separate from developers to integrated into teams. It provides their agile testing manifesto and emphasizes collaboration, learning, and using a combination of automated and manual testing. Finally, it provides advice for how others can implement a similar approach and encourages contacting the authors for hiring or sharing experiences.
Impactful SE Research: Some Do's and More Don'tsGail Murphy
The document discusses ways for software engineering research to have impact. It recommends focusing on real-world problems, being open to opportunities, collaborating, adapting, and being generous with one's work. The document cautions against only focusing on "home runs", putting research above people, thinking innovation only happens in academia, ignoring issues of scale, relying only on open source, and neglecting the importance of messaging. It then describes Gail Murphy's career which exemplifies these principles through her academic works on Reflexion Models and Hipikat and her role in founding Tasktop to commercialize the Mylar technology, demonstrating impacts across multiple domains.
The document summarizes research in software engineering and development practices. It discusses several studies that have provided evidence for practices like rigorous inspections reducing errors, Conway's Law relating organizational structure to system structure, and physical distance not affecting post-release fault rates as much as distance in the organizational chart. The document advocates building development practices around these empirical facts and calls for continued work to systematically synthesize research evidence and practices.
Since 2008, over 100 students from 16 universities have worked in distributed teams on open source projects for course credit. Using Basie (http://basieproject.org) as an example, this talk explains how we have made that work. This talk was given at PyCon 2010 in Atlanta on February 20, 2010.
Dark Matter, Public Health, and Scientific ComputingGreg Wilson
This document discusses the lack of computational skills among many scientists and proposes ways to improve this situation. It notes that most scientists focus on their research and do not engage with new technologies. Short, practical training courses targeting graduate students can help more scientists learn basic skills like shell scripting, version control, and testing. These skills allow scientists to be more productive and make new technologies more accessible, even if the skills are not publishable. The document advocates teaching a bit of computing in every course, hosting workshops, and changing incentives to better support computational reproducibility and open science.
This document summarizes Greg Wilson's presentation titled "Two Solitudes". The presentation discusses the divide between academic computer science research and practical software development work. Academics do not respect practitioners' timelines and priorities, and their work is often inaccessible to practitioners. Practitioners do not understand that research is not focused on building software products. The presentation explores how other fields like medicine have addressed similar divides between theory and practice over long periods of time.
How to get what you really want from Testing' with Michael BoltonTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Conferences, with the support of ISA Software Skillnet, Irish Software Innovation Network and SoftTest, were delighted to bring you a half-day software testing masterclass with Michael Bolton
In this session, Michael Bolton (who has extensive experience as a tester, as a programmer, and as a project manager) explained the role of skilled software testers, and why you might not want to think of testing as "quality assurance".
He present ideas about the relationship between management and testers, and about the service that testers really provide: making quality assurance possible by lighting the way of the project. For those of you who who attended this event, we really hope it was of use to you in your testing careers.
www.eurostarconferences.com
This document discusses psychology and engineering in testing. It describes the structure of European product development teams and how testers work embedded in agile teams. It advocates for automating some tests but also focusing on social aspects of testing. The document outlines how the authors' company transitioned from having testers separate from developers to integrated into teams. It provides their agile testing manifesto and emphasizes collaboration, learning, and using a combination of automated and manual testing. Finally, it provides advice for how others can implement a similar approach and encourages contacting the authors for hiring or sharing experiences.
Impactful SE Research: Some Do's and More Don'tsGail Murphy
The document discusses ways for software engineering research to have impact. It recommends focusing on real-world problems, being open to opportunities, collaborating, adapting, and being generous with one's work. The document cautions against only focusing on "home runs", putting research above people, thinking innovation only happens in academia, ignoring issues of scale, relying only on open source, and neglecting the importance of messaging. It then describes Gail Murphy's career which exemplifies these principles through her academic works on Reflexion Models and Hipikat and her role in founding Tasktop to commercialize the Mylar technology, demonstrating impacts across multiple domains.
- IT is an adaptive world that aims to fit business needs and create new opportunities.
- Programming requires making things work first before optimizing for speed.
- Software development is an iterative process where the initial solution is rarely the final solution.
The document provides 12 tips for preparing a successful grant proposal for the European Research Council (ERC). The tips include understanding the ERC process and guidelines; starting the proposal process many months before the deadline; reserving several weeks solely for writing; getting feedback from multiple reviewers outside your specialty; leveraging local expertise in EU funding; emphasizing your unique achievements and qualifications; proposing a high-risk, high-reward project with a clear title and structure; getting straight to the point without jargon; polishing the proposal extensively; and recognizing that following the tips does not guarantee success but prevents misunderstandings. The overall aim is to craft a proposal that clearly communicates your message to reviewers in a manner that stands out against competing
This pdf file contains the slide from the first webinar in a "A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization’s Work…Part 1". This is the first in a series of webinars on lab informatics
Daniel Cerecedo | From legacy to cloud... and beyond | Codemotion Madrid 2018 Codemotion
A case study of how a medium sized company moved a legacy java code base to the cloud. Considerations around microservices architecture, containerization, tooling, quality management, git flows and more. Understand the challenges faced, decisions made along the way and the impact of each one.
Find out more presentations at https://madrid2018.codemotionworld.com/speakers/
This document summarizes a workshop on reproducible research given by Ian Gent at the SICSA PhD Conference on June 27, 2016. The workshop consisted of two parts: an overview of reproducibility in science and computer science specifically, and a group activity where attendees discussed issues of reproducibility for assigned research papers. Gent highlighted how computer science is well-suited for reproducibility as experiments are often software-based and can be rerun easily. However, he noted reproducibility is also important for researchers themselves to validate and build upon their own work. For the group activity, attendees discussed papers from different computing fields in terms of accurately reproducing results, challenges, costs, and legal/ethical concerns relating to reproducibility.
Is Continuous Adoption in Software Engineering Achievable and Desirable? Gail Murphy
ICSE 2016 Software Engineering in Practice keynote.
Continuity in software development is all about shortening cycle times. For example, continuous integration shortens the time to integrating changes from multiple developers and continuous delivery shortens the time to get those integrated changes into the hands of users. Although it is now possible to get multiple new versions of complex software systems released per day, it still often takes years, if ever, to get software engineering research results into use by software development teams. What would software engineering research and software engineering development look like if we could shorten the cycle time from taking a research result into practice? What can we learn from how continuity in development is performed to make it possible to achieve continuous adoption of research results? Do we even want to achieve continuous adoption? In this talk, I will explore these questions, drawing from experiences I have gained in helping to take a research idea to market and from insights learned from interviewing industry leaders.
The Curious Case of Fuzzing for Automated Software Testingmboehme
Presented @ RUB - 2. Tag der Informatik to a General Audience
Abstract: Fuzzing is an automated software testing technique and has become the first line of defense against exploitable software vulnerabilities. When you run a fuzzer on your program, hopefully it does not find any bugs. But what does it really say? Is your program perfectly correct and free of bugs? Probably not. Is your fuzzer effective at finding bugs? How do we even measure the effectiveness of a fuzzer in the absence of bugs? In this talk, we’ll go through some interesting and counter-intuitive recent results in fuzzing, and uncover fundamental limitations of existing approaches.
Jim McHale presented on the relationship between Agile and CMMI. While they have different origins, focusing on manufacturing versus knowledge work, they also have similarities in emphasizing iterative processes. Both aim to build processes tailored to people rather than having people follow rigid processes. McHale discussed how early testing through inspection can find most defects, saving more time than other testing methods. He encouraged QA professionals to provide data-driven process improvement through measurement and disciplined changes based on feedback.
This document provides guidance on common technical writing issues. It discusses topics such as using a top-down writing style to guide readers, avoiding ambiguous words, strong words, informal or offensive words, complicated words, and passive voice. It also provides examples of these issues and recommends alternatives. Guidelines are given for punctuation, citations, abbreviations, figures/tables and more. Examples of poor phrasing are identified and rewrites are suggested to improve clarity, precision and readability.
An introduction to engineering for K-12 counselors and educators. Strategies are introduced for introducing students to engineering. This presentation was designed for the educators who participate in the T-STEM Gender Equity workshops hosted by WTIF-HTHH. This specific workshop was presented on Dec 1, 2010 by Meagan Ross (mail@meaganross.com).
Usability Testing for Technical WritersDimiter Simov
Slides from a talk delivered at tcworld 2020 - definition of usability and usability testing, tips for doing usability testing, examples from testing documentation with users
Enterprise Search: How do we get there from here?Daniel Tunkelang
Enterprise Search: How Do We Get There From Here?
by Daniel Tunkelang (Head of Query Understanding, LinkedIn)
Keynote at 2013 Enterprise Search Summit
We've been tackling the challenges of enterprise and site search for at least 3 decades. We've succeeded to the point that search is the gateway to many of our information repositories. Nonetheless, users of enterprise search systems are frustrated with these systems' shortcomings. We see this frustration in surveys, but, more importantly, most of us experience it personally in our daily work life. We all dream of a world where searching any information repository is as effective as searching the web—perhaps even more so. A world where we find what we're looking for, or quickly determine that it doesn't exist. Is this Utopia possible? If so, how do we get there from here? Or at least somewhere close? In this talk, Tunkelang reviews the track record of enterprise search. He talks about what's worked and what hasn't, especially as compared to web search. Finally, he proposes some paths to bring us closer to our dream.
--
Daniel Tunkelang is Head of Query Understanding at LinkedIn. Educated at MIT and CMU, he has his career working on big data, addressing key challenges in search, data mining, user interfaces, and network analysis. He co-founded enterprise search and business intelligence pioneer Endeca, where he spent a decade as its Chief Scientist. In 2011, Endeca was acquired by Oracle for over $1B. Previous to LinkedIn, he led a team at Google working on local search quality. Daniel has authored fifteen patents, written a textbook on faceted search, and created the annual symposium on human-computer interaction and information retrieval.
Search as Communication: Lessons from a Personal JourneyDaniel Tunkelang
The document discusses lessons learned from the author's personal journey in search engineering. It covers insights from library science about treating search as an information-seeking context and communicating with users. It also discusses the importance of entity detection and how to leverage corpus features to improve extraction. The author realized that queries vary in difficulty and systems need to recognize this and adapt accordingly. The key takeaway is that search should be treated as a communication problem rather than just a ranking task.
The document discusses fuzzing, which is a technique for finding bugs in software by automatically feeding unexpected or random inputs to programs. It focuses on improving the scalability, efficiency, and effectiveness of fuzzing to discover more bugs. The author is an expert in software security and fuzzing who is interested in addressing fundamental limitations like the exponential cost of fuzzing and providing stronger assurances about software security through approaches from multiple disciplines.
This is the presentation we gave to demonstrate the Robotics Database. There were two screens: one displayed these slides and the other displayed the database.
A Technological Revolution in Automated Software DevelopmentGraham Kendall
This presentation argues that sofrware development has lagged behind other engineering disciplines (such as 3D printing) and that there is a need for a significant breakthrough so that software development can be done by a home user who does not posses a high level of technical programming knowledge
The Rationale for Continuous Delivery by Dave FarleyBosnia Agile
The production of software is a complex, collaborative process that stretches our ability as human beings to cope with its demands.
Many people working in software development spend their careers without seeing what good really looks like.
Our history is littered with inefficient processes creating poor quality output, too late to capitalise on the expected business value. How have we got into this state? How do we get past it? What does good really look like?
Continuous Delivery changes the economics of software development for some of the biggest companies in the world, whatever the nature of their software development, find out how and why.
- Software engineering is extremely complex and expensive work, with large software systems costing more than buildings and often having high failure rates.
- The two main factors that cause "runaway" software projects that exceed budgets and schedules are poor estimation done too early and unstable requirements that change frequently.
- Programmers are often given impossible tasks with too much work and not enough time, leading them to produce workarounds and quick fixes rather than well-designed solutions.
This document provides an overview of object-oriented programming concepts including classes, objects, encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. It discusses different programming languages like Java and C++ that use the object-oriented paradigm. Specific concepts covered include defining classes with attributes and methods, creating object instances of classes, encapsulating data within classes, and abstract data types. Examples are provided to illustrate classes like Account and Circle and their corresponding objects.
- IT is an adaptive world that aims to fit business needs and create new opportunities.
- Programming requires making things work first before optimizing for speed.
- Software development is an iterative process where the initial solution is rarely the final solution.
The document provides 12 tips for preparing a successful grant proposal for the European Research Council (ERC). The tips include understanding the ERC process and guidelines; starting the proposal process many months before the deadline; reserving several weeks solely for writing; getting feedback from multiple reviewers outside your specialty; leveraging local expertise in EU funding; emphasizing your unique achievements and qualifications; proposing a high-risk, high-reward project with a clear title and structure; getting straight to the point without jargon; polishing the proposal extensively; and recognizing that following the tips does not guarantee success but prevents misunderstandings. The overall aim is to craft a proposal that clearly communicates your message to reviewers in a manner that stands out against competing
This pdf file contains the slide from the first webinar in a "A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization’s Work…Part 1". This is the first in a series of webinars on lab informatics
Daniel Cerecedo | From legacy to cloud... and beyond | Codemotion Madrid 2018 Codemotion
A case study of how a medium sized company moved a legacy java code base to the cloud. Considerations around microservices architecture, containerization, tooling, quality management, git flows and more. Understand the challenges faced, decisions made along the way and the impact of each one.
Find out more presentations at https://madrid2018.codemotionworld.com/speakers/
This document summarizes a workshop on reproducible research given by Ian Gent at the SICSA PhD Conference on June 27, 2016. The workshop consisted of two parts: an overview of reproducibility in science and computer science specifically, and a group activity where attendees discussed issues of reproducibility for assigned research papers. Gent highlighted how computer science is well-suited for reproducibility as experiments are often software-based and can be rerun easily. However, he noted reproducibility is also important for researchers themselves to validate and build upon their own work. For the group activity, attendees discussed papers from different computing fields in terms of accurately reproducing results, challenges, costs, and legal/ethical concerns relating to reproducibility.
Is Continuous Adoption in Software Engineering Achievable and Desirable? Gail Murphy
ICSE 2016 Software Engineering in Practice keynote.
Continuity in software development is all about shortening cycle times. For example, continuous integration shortens the time to integrating changes from multiple developers and continuous delivery shortens the time to get those integrated changes into the hands of users. Although it is now possible to get multiple new versions of complex software systems released per day, it still often takes years, if ever, to get software engineering research results into use by software development teams. What would software engineering research and software engineering development look like if we could shorten the cycle time from taking a research result into practice? What can we learn from how continuity in development is performed to make it possible to achieve continuous adoption of research results? Do we even want to achieve continuous adoption? In this talk, I will explore these questions, drawing from experiences I have gained in helping to take a research idea to market and from insights learned from interviewing industry leaders.
The Curious Case of Fuzzing for Automated Software Testingmboehme
Presented @ RUB - 2. Tag der Informatik to a General Audience
Abstract: Fuzzing is an automated software testing technique and has become the first line of defense against exploitable software vulnerabilities. When you run a fuzzer on your program, hopefully it does not find any bugs. But what does it really say? Is your program perfectly correct and free of bugs? Probably not. Is your fuzzer effective at finding bugs? How do we even measure the effectiveness of a fuzzer in the absence of bugs? In this talk, we’ll go through some interesting and counter-intuitive recent results in fuzzing, and uncover fundamental limitations of existing approaches.
Jim McHale presented on the relationship between Agile and CMMI. While they have different origins, focusing on manufacturing versus knowledge work, they also have similarities in emphasizing iterative processes. Both aim to build processes tailored to people rather than having people follow rigid processes. McHale discussed how early testing through inspection can find most defects, saving more time than other testing methods. He encouraged QA professionals to provide data-driven process improvement through measurement and disciplined changes based on feedback.
This document provides guidance on common technical writing issues. It discusses topics such as using a top-down writing style to guide readers, avoiding ambiguous words, strong words, informal or offensive words, complicated words, and passive voice. It also provides examples of these issues and recommends alternatives. Guidelines are given for punctuation, citations, abbreviations, figures/tables and more. Examples of poor phrasing are identified and rewrites are suggested to improve clarity, precision and readability.
An introduction to engineering for K-12 counselors and educators. Strategies are introduced for introducing students to engineering. This presentation was designed for the educators who participate in the T-STEM Gender Equity workshops hosted by WTIF-HTHH. This specific workshop was presented on Dec 1, 2010 by Meagan Ross (mail@meaganross.com).
Usability Testing for Technical WritersDimiter Simov
Slides from a talk delivered at tcworld 2020 - definition of usability and usability testing, tips for doing usability testing, examples from testing documentation with users
Enterprise Search: How do we get there from here?Daniel Tunkelang
Enterprise Search: How Do We Get There From Here?
by Daniel Tunkelang (Head of Query Understanding, LinkedIn)
Keynote at 2013 Enterprise Search Summit
We've been tackling the challenges of enterprise and site search for at least 3 decades. We've succeeded to the point that search is the gateway to many of our information repositories. Nonetheless, users of enterprise search systems are frustrated with these systems' shortcomings. We see this frustration in surveys, but, more importantly, most of us experience it personally in our daily work life. We all dream of a world where searching any information repository is as effective as searching the web—perhaps even more so. A world where we find what we're looking for, or quickly determine that it doesn't exist. Is this Utopia possible? If so, how do we get there from here? Or at least somewhere close? In this talk, Tunkelang reviews the track record of enterprise search. He talks about what's worked and what hasn't, especially as compared to web search. Finally, he proposes some paths to bring us closer to our dream.
--
Daniel Tunkelang is Head of Query Understanding at LinkedIn. Educated at MIT and CMU, he has his career working on big data, addressing key challenges in search, data mining, user interfaces, and network analysis. He co-founded enterprise search and business intelligence pioneer Endeca, where he spent a decade as its Chief Scientist. In 2011, Endeca was acquired by Oracle for over $1B. Previous to LinkedIn, he led a team at Google working on local search quality. Daniel has authored fifteen patents, written a textbook on faceted search, and created the annual symposium on human-computer interaction and information retrieval.
Search as Communication: Lessons from a Personal JourneyDaniel Tunkelang
The document discusses lessons learned from the author's personal journey in search engineering. It covers insights from library science about treating search as an information-seeking context and communicating with users. It also discusses the importance of entity detection and how to leverage corpus features to improve extraction. The author realized that queries vary in difficulty and systems need to recognize this and adapt accordingly. The key takeaway is that search should be treated as a communication problem rather than just a ranking task.
The document discusses fuzzing, which is a technique for finding bugs in software by automatically feeding unexpected or random inputs to programs. It focuses on improving the scalability, efficiency, and effectiveness of fuzzing to discover more bugs. The author is an expert in software security and fuzzing who is interested in addressing fundamental limitations like the exponential cost of fuzzing and providing stronger assurances about software security through approaches from multiple disciplines.
This is the presentation we gave to demonstrate the Robotics Database. There were two screens: one displayed these slides and the other displayed the database.
A Technological Revolution in Automated Software DevelopmentGraham Kendall
This presentation argues that sofrware development has lagged behind other engineering disciplines (such as 3D printing) and that there is a need for a significant breakthrough so that software development can be done by a home user who does not posses a high level of technical programming knowledge
The Rationale for Continuous Delivery by Dave FarleyBosnia Agile
The production of software is a complex, collaborative process that stretches our ability as human beings to cope with its demands.
Many people working in software development spend their careers without seeing what good really looks like.
Our history is littered with inefficient processes creating poor quality output, too late to capitalise on the expected business value. How have we got into this state? How do we get past it? What does good really look like?
Continuous Delivery changes the economics of software development for some of the biggest companies in the world, whatever the nature of their software development, find out how and why.
- Software engineering is extremely complex and expensive work, with large software systems costing more than buildings and often having high failure rates.
- The two main factors that cause "runaway" software projects that exceed budgets and schedules are poor estimation done too early and unstable requirements that change frequently.
- Programmers are often given impossible tasks with too much work and not enough time, leading them to produce workarounds and quick fixes rather than well-designed solutions.
This document provides an overview of object-oriented programming concepts including classes, objects, encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. It discusses different programming languages like Java and C++ that use the object-oriented paradigm. Specific concepts covered include defining classes with attributes and methods, creating object instances of classes, encapsulating data within classes, and abstract data types. Examples are provided to illustrate classes like Account and Circle and their corresponding objects.
Research-Based Innovation with Industry: Project Experience and Lessons LearnedLionel Briand
The document discusses lessons learned from research projects conducted in collaboration with industry partners, focusing on defining problems, understanding context factors, developing domain models, and verifying requirements. It provides examples of projects in various domains like subsea systems, automotive, and satellite systems. The goal is to share success criteria and practical guidelines for performing industry-relevant engineering research.
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 47 (2014) 28–45Cont.docxedgar6wallace88877
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 47 (2014) 28–45
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / s i m p a t
Insight Maker: A general-purpose tool for web-based modeling
& simulation
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2014.03.013
1569-190X/� 2014 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
E-mail address: [email protected]
1 The exact search query used was ‘’’modeling tool’’ OR ‘‘simulation tool’’’ in the Topic field.
Scott Fortmann-Roe
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, United States
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received 29 April 2013
Received in revised form 23 March 2014
Accepted 26 March 2014
Available online 14 June 2014
Keywords:
Modeling
Simulation
Web-based technologies
System Dynamics
Agent-Based Modeling
A web-based, general-purpose simulation and modeling tool is presented in this paper. The
tool, Insight Maker, has been designed to make modeling and simulation accessible to a
wider audience of users. Insight Maker integrates three general modeling approaches –
System Dynamics, Agent-Based Modeling, and imperative programming – in a unified
modeling framework. The environment provides a graphical model construction interface
that is implemented purely in client-side code that runs on users’ machines. Advanced fea-
tures, such as model scripting and an optimization tool, are also described. Insight Maker,
under development for several years, has gained significant adoption with currently more
than 20,000 registered users. In addition to detailing the tool and its guiding philosophy,
this first paper on Insight Maker describes lessons learned from the development of a com-
plex web-based simulation and modeling tool.
� 2014 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
1. Introduction
The field of modeling and simulation tools is diverse and emergent. General-purpose modeling tools (e.g. MATLAB’s
Simulink or the Modelica language [1]) sit beside highly focused and domain-specific applications (e.g. [2] for modeling
network control systems, [3] for simulating the behavior of wireless network routing protocols, or [4] for the simulation
and control of turbines). Interest in and published works on such tools has grown over time. The ISI Web of Knowledge
reports a substantial growth in papers published on modeling or simulation tools with 299 such papers published in the span
of 1985–1989, 1482 published from 1995 to 1999, and 3727 published from 2005 to 2009.1
For end-users, simulation and modeling tools are generally designed as executables to be run on a consumer operating
system such as W.
The document discusses the origins of software engineering as a discipline. It summarizes discussions from a conference in 1968 where the term "software engineering" was first used. Key points discussed included that testing is best done iteratively during design rather than after, that small groups tend to be more successful than large groups on software projects, and that an organizational structure is needed for communication and decision making in large groups. The document also discusses criticisms of the "waterfall" development model and advocates for an iterative approach.
Introduction to Systems Analysis and DesignNikRHassan1
The document is a PowerPoint presentation on systems analysis and design. It covers several topics:
- The definition and goals of systems analysis and design. Common reasons for project failures.
- An overview of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) process, including the planning, analysis, design, and implementation phases. Traditional and agile methodologies are discussed.
- Specific methodologies like waterfall, prototyping, scrum, and extreme programming (XP) are explained. Factors to consider when choosing a methodology are presented.
- Key principles of agile development are outlined, including an emphasis on valuing individuals, collaboration, and customer satisfaction over rigid adherence to plans.
This document discusses the benefits of using graphical modeling over traditional software development techniques for developing wireless system simulation models. Graphical modeling involves representing models visually using blocks that can be connected to represent data and control flow. This approach clearly separates the simulation infrastructure from the system being modeled, allowing developers to focus on modeling algorithms rather than infrastructure. It also enables flexible design changes and reuse of third-party block libraries, reducing development time and costs compared to traditional techniques. While graphical modeling requires new skills and concepts, its benefits are argued to outweigh any costs or performance limitations for wireless system modeling.
The document summarizes a business visit report from Honeywell, a global aerospace company. It describes the different types of engineers used at Honeywell, including systems, software, and hardware engineers. It also discusses the skills and tools required for each engineering role. The document compares the skills taught in school to those needed for engineering careers and identifies gaps between the curriculum and industry needs.
The document provides an overview of a course on software engineering. It discusses key concepts like structured programming, object-oriented programming, design principles of abstraction and modularity. It also covers programming in languages like C and Matlab. The goals of the course are to understand basic program design techniques, produce well-structured programs, and have a basic understanding of object-oriented design.
The document describes a course on software engineering that covers basic design principles and techniques like structured programming, object-oriented programming, and data structures. It aims to give students an understanding of how to produce well-structured, maintainable code. Examples will be shown in MATLAB and C/C++. Key concepts covered include abstraction, modularity, procedural and object-oriented programming, functions, classes, and arrays.
The document discusses object-oriented software engineering and modeling complex systems. It introduces three techniques for dealing with complexity: abstraction, decomposition, and hierarchy. It argues that object-oriented decomposition is generally a good methodology for breaking a system into classes, but notes there may be other valid decompositions depending on the system's purpose. The document reflects on the current state of modeling and suggests starting with use case functionality before proceeding to the object model, in line with the software development lifecycle.
Impact-Driven Research on Software Engineering ToolingTao Xie
This document discusses impact-driven research on software engineering tooling. It provides examples of research that had impact on practice through commercial tools adopting the research results or startups being formed. It also discusses releasing open source tools and data to engage communities. The document advocates for access to real-world data and cooperation with industry to achieve research impact and leadership. It provides examples of the author's impactful research publications and outlines future directions like starting a startup or collaborating more closely with industry.
Accelerating the Pace of Engineering Education with Simulation, Hardware and ...Joachim Schlosser
Presentation for MathWorks (www.mathworks.com) at World Engineering Education Forum 2014, Dubai.
Education is challenging. It always was challenging, and it always will be challenging, but every generation of educators and society has to find answers specific to their era. This talk addresses some of the challenges in engineering education in the 21st century.
Industry complains about the skills gap they face with graduates in engineering, for lack of project awareness, problem solving skills, applicable tool skills or applied science skills. Academia complains about students not bringing the necessary basic skills as engineering freshmen. Teachers complain about a lack of student engagement. Students complain about classes not engaging them and seeming irrelevant.
When putting this chain of challenges – industry, academia, school, students – on its head and starting with the student engagement, one method getting attention is Project-Based Learning. Students educate themselves on concepts they need, with the teacher facilitating the learning experience. Applying theory in practical ways with tools that are used in industry gives students first-hand experience on industry relevant methods as well as the why behind theory. The talk shows examples of programming, modeling and simulation to gain insight into theory and application.
Too often students and educators feel that topics throughout their education are not connected. Early on they lack understanding of the why they are learning something. Later they no longer see the connection of advanced theory to fundamental concepts. Reusing learning artifacts, skills and methods helps mapping out the story. Demonstrations illustrate how educators implement this re-use throughout teaching.
Consequent reuse leads to Integrated Curriculum, where methods and skills in each year build on previous ones. Evaluations in integrated curriculum enabled programs show a higher retention of know-how.
We all can make math, physics and engineering able to experience using simulation and hardware experiments. The tools and resources are there. Let's address our generation's engineering education challenges.
This document discusses an introduction to software engineering. It begins by defining what a computer program and software are, noting that software includes computer programs, configuration files, user documentation, support services, and system documentation. The document then discusses some key attributes of software like maintainability, dependability, efficiency, and usability. It notes that software engineering is needed for medium to large projects involving teams to deal with complexity and change. The document discusses why software development is difficult due to changes in requirements and technology, complex problem and solution domains, and difficult management of development processes. It describes how abstraction, decomposition, and hierarchy can be used to deal with complexity. Finally, it discusses different models used in software engineering like object, functional, dynamic
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This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
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Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
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Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
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SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
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Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!