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Organizing for openness: six models for developer involvement in hybrid OSS projects

This article examines organization and governance of commercially influenced Open Source Software development communities by presenting a multiple-case study of six contemporary, hybrid OSS projects. The findi...

Authors: Hanna Mäenpää, Simo Mäkinen, Terhi Kilamo, Tommi Mikkonen, Tomi Männistö and Paavo Ritala

B-space: dynamic management and assurance of open systems of systems

Connected cars, freely configurable operating rooms, or autonomous harvesting fleets: dynamically emerging open systems of systems will shape a new generation of systems opening up a vast potential for new kin...

Authors: Daniel Schneider and Mario Trapp

Fog orchestration for the Internet of Everything: state-of-the-art and research challenges

Recent developments in telecommunications have allowed drawing new paradigms, including the Internet of Everything, to provide services by the interconnection of different physical devices enabling the exchang...

Authors: Karima Velasquez, David Perez Abreu, Marcio R. M. Assis, Carlos Senna, Diego F. Aranha, Luiz F. Bittencourt, Nuno Laranjeiro, Marilia Curado, Marco Vieira, Edmundo Monteiro and Edmundo Madeira

Conflict-free rerouting scheme through flow splitting for virtual networks using switches

The weaknesses of the Internet led to the creation of a new network paradigm – network virtualization. Virtualization is a very successful technique for sharing and reusing resources, which results in higher e...

Authors: Vianney Kengne Tchendji, Yannick Florian Yankam and Jean Frédéric Myoupo

A comprehensive survey on machine learning for networking: evolution, applications and research opportunities

Machine Learning (ML) has been enjoying an unprecedented surge in applications that solve problems and enable automation in diverse domains. Primarily, this is due to the explosion in the availability of data,...

Authors: Raouf Boutaba, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Noura Limam, Sara Ayoubi, Nashid Shahriar, Felipe Estrada-Solano and Oscar M. Caicedo

A new approach to deploy a self-adaptive distributed firewall

Distributed firewall systems emerged with the proposal of protecting individual hosts against attacks originating from inside the network. In these systems, firewall rules are centrally created, then distribut...

Authors: Edmilson P. da Costa Júnior, Carlos Eduardo da Silva, Marcos Pinheiro and Silvio Sampaio

Insights on the large-scale deployment of a curated Web-of-Trust: the Debian project’s cryptographic keyring

The Debian project is one of the largest free software undertakings worldwide. It is geographically distributed, and participation in the project is done on a voluntary basis, without a single formal employee ...

Authors: Gunnar Wolf and Víctor González Quiroga

Recovering user-interactions of Rich Internet Applications through replaying of HTTP traces

In this paper, we study the “Session Reconstruction” problem which is the reconstruction of user interactions from recorded request/response logs of a session. The reconstruction is especially useful when the ...

Authors: Salman Hooshmand, Gregor V. Bochmann, Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Russell Couturier and Iosif-Viorel Onut

Thematic series on Verification and Composition for the Internet of Services and Things

The Internet of Services and Things is characterized as a distributed computing environment that will be populated by a large number of software services and things. Within this context, software systems will ...

Authors: Marco Autili, Dimitra Giannakopoulou and Massimo Tivoli

Security and privacy aware data aggregation on cloud computing

The use of cloud computing has become common due to advantages such as low cost and sizing of computing resources according to demand. However, it also raises security and privacy concerns, because critical da...

Authors: Leandro V. Silva, Pedro Barbosa, Rodolfo Marinho and Andrey Brito

EZ-AG: structure-free data aggregation in MANETs using push-assisted self-repelling random walks

This paper describes EZ-AG, a structure-free protocol for duplicate insensitive data aggregation in MANETs. The key idea in EZ-AG is to introduce a token that performs a self-repelling random walk in the netwo...

Authors: V. Kulathumani, M. Nakagawa and A. Arora

BROAD-RSI – educational recommender system using social networks interactions and linked data

There are several educational resources distributed in different repositories that address to a wide range of subjects and different educational goals. The proper choice of these educational resources is a cha...

Authors: Crystiam Kelle Pereira, Fernanda Campos, Victor Ströele, José Maria N. David and Regina Braga

Support mechanisms provided by FLOSS foundations and other entities

Foundations function as a vital institutional support infrastructure for many of the most successful open-source projects, but the different roles played by these support entities are understudied in Free/Libr...

Authors: Juho Lindman and Imed Hammouda

High-performance IP lookup using Intel Xeon Phi: a Bloom filters based approach

IP lookup is a core operation in packet forwarding, which is implemented using a Longest Prefix Matching (LPM) algorithm to find the next hop for an input address. This work proposes and evaluates the use of p...

Authors: Alexandre Lucchesi, André C. Drummond and George Teodoro

A controller design for mitigation of passive system identification attacks in networked control systems

The literature regarding attacks in Networked Control Systems (NCS) indicates that covert and accurate attacks must be designed based on an accurate knowledge about the model of the attacked system. In this co...

Authors: Alan O. de Sá, Luiz F. R. da Costa Carmo and Raphael C. S. Machado

Environment for integration of distributed heterogeneous computing systems

Connecting multiple and heterogeneous hardware devices to solve problems raises some challenges, especially in terms of interoperability and communications management. A distributed solution may offer many adv...

Authors: Thiago W. B. Silva, Daniel C. Morais, Halamo G. R. Andrade, Antonio M. N. Lima, Elmar U. K. Melcher and Alisson V. Brito

A framework for searching encrypted databases

Cloud computing is a ubiquitous paradigm responsible for a fundamental change in the way distributed computing is performed. The possibility to outsource the installation, maintenance and scalability of server...

Authors: Pedro G. M. R. Alves and Diego F. Aranha

Providing privacy on the tuple space model

Conceptually, tuple spaces are shared memory objects that provide operations to store and retrieve ordered sets of data, called tuples. Tuples stored in a tuple space are accessed by the contents of their fiel...

Authors: Edson Floriano, Eduardo Alchieri, Diego F. Aranha and Priscila Solis

Free and open source software development: the end of the teenage years

Authors: Igor Steinmacher, Gregorio Robles, Brian Fitzgerald and Anthony Wasserman

Design considerations for software-defined wireless networking in heterogeneous cloud radio access networks

The fifth generation (5G) cellular infrastructure is envisaged as a dense and heterogeneous deployment of small cells overlapping with existing macrocells in the Radio Access Network (RAN). Densification and h...

Authors: Marcelo A. Marotta, Maicon Kist, Juliano A. Wickboldt, Lisandro Z. Granville, Juergen Rochol and Cristiano B. Both

Design framework for reliable and environment aware management of smart environment devices

A smart environment is equipped with numerous devices (i.e., sensors, actuators) that are possibly distributed over different locations (e.g., rooms of a smart building). These devices are automatically contro...

Authors: Adja Ndeye Sylla, Maxime Louvel and Eric Rutten

Generative models of online discussion threads: state of the art and research challenges

Online discussion in form of written comments is a core component of many social media platforms. It has attracted increasing attention from academia, mainly because theories from social sciences can be explor...

Authors: Pablo Aragón, Vicenç Gómez, David García and Andreas Kaltenbrunner

Model-driven development of user interfaces for IoT systems via domain-specific components and patterns

Internet of Things technologies and applications are evolving and continuously gaining traction in all fields and environments, including homes, cities, services, industry and commercial enterprises. However, ...

Authors: Marco Brambilla, Eric Umuhoza and Roberto Acerbis

Smartphone-based outlier detection: a complex event processing approach for driving behavior detection

The majority of fatal car crashes are caused by reckless driving. With the sophistication of vehicle instrumentation, reckless maneuvers, such as abrupt turns, acceleration, and deceleration, can now be accura...

Authors: Igor Vasconcelos, Rafael Oliveira Vasconcelos, Bruno Olivieri, Marcos Roriz, Markus Endler and Methanias Colaço Junior

Herding cats in a FOSS ecosystem: a tale of communication and coordination for release management

Release management in large-scale software development projects requires significant communication and coordination. It is particularly challenging in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystems, in which ...

Authors: Germán Poo-Caamaño, Eric Knauss, Leif Singer and Daniel M. German

Changes in free and open source software licenses: managerial interventions and variations on project attractiveness

The license adopted by an open source software is associated with its success in terms of attractiveness and maintenance of an active ecosystem of users, bug reporters, developers, and sponsors because what ca...

Authors: Carlos Denner dos Santos Jr

Greening emerging IT technologies: techniques and practices

The tremendous increase in global industrial activity has resulted in high utilization of natural energy resources and increase in global warming over the last few decades. Meanwhile, computing has become a po...

Authors: Junaid Shuja, Raja Wasim Ahmad, Abdullah Gani, Abdelmuttlib Ibrahim Abdalla Ahmed, Aisha Siddiqa, Kashif Nisar, Samee U. Khan and Albert Y. Zomaya

Core-periphery communication and the success of free/libre open source software projects

We examine the relationship between communications by core and peripheral members and Free/Libre Open Source Software project success. The study uses data from 74 projects in the Apache Software Foundation Inc...

Authors: Kevin Crowston and Ivan Shamshurin

Mapping the coverage of security controls in cyber insurance proposal forms

Policy discussions often assume that wider adoption of cyber insurance will promote information security best practice. However, this depends on the process that applicants need to go through to apply for cybe...

Authors: Daniel Woods, Ioannis Agrafiotis, Jason R. C. Nurse and Sadie Creese

Can FOSS projects benefit from integrating Kanban: a case study

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Agile Software Development (ASD) have both been recognized as important software development methods; they have many success stories and share some similarities. Howeve...

Authors: Annemarie Harzl

A context-aware framework for dynamic composition of process fragments in the internet of services

In the last decade, many approaches to automated service composition have been proposed. However, most of them do not fully exploit the opportunities offered by the Internet of Services (IoS). In this article,...

Authors: Antonio Bucchiarone, Annapaola Marconi, Marco Pistore and Heorhi Raik

On organisational involvement and collaboration in W3C standards through editorship

Over time, a number of open standards have been developed and implemented in software for addressing a number of challenges, such as lock-in, interoperability and longevity of software systems and associated d...

Authors: Jonas Gamalielsson and Björn Lundell

Concurrency bugs in open source software: a case study

Concurrent programming puts demands on software debugging and testing, as concurrent software may exhibit problems not present in sequential software, e.g., deadlocks and race conditions. In aiming to increase...

Authors: Sara Abbaspour Asadollah, Daniel Sundmark, Sigrid Eldh and Hans Hansson

Structured I/O streams in Clive: a toolbox approach for wide area network computing

Most distributed applications and tools used in wide area networks and Cloud computing environments use the UNIX I/O framework. In this framework, processes use file descriptors for standard I/O and file acces...

Authors: Francisco J. Ballesteros

A framework for identifying the linkability between Web servers for enhanced internet computing and E-commerce

Existing Web session tracking techniques mainly work on huge web server log files, which limit their dynamicity and capability. We present a collaborative method for session tracking to identify direct and ind...

Authors: Hassan Artail, Ammar El Halabi, Ali Hachem and Louay Al-Akhrass

Object-NoSQL Database Mappers: a benchmark study on the performance overhead

In recent years, the hegemony of traditional relational database management systems (RDBMSs) has declined in favour of non-relational databases (NoSQL). These database technologies are better adapted to meet t...

Authors: Vincent Reniers, Ansar Rafique, Dimitri Van Landuyt and Wouter Joosen

A QoS-configurable failure detection service for internet applications

Unreliable failure detectors are a basic building block of reliable distributed systems. Failure detectors are used to monitor processes of any application and provide process state information. This work pres...

Authors: Rogério C. Turchetti, Elias P. Duarte Jr., Luciana Arantes and Pierre Sens

Dynamic and coordinated software reconfiguration in distributed data stream systems

While many systems have to provide 24 × 7 services with no acceptable downtime, they have to be able to cope with changes in their execution environment and in the requirements that they must comply, in which ...

Authors: Rafael Oliveira Vasconcelos, Igor Vasconcelos and Markus Endler

Incorporating change detection in the monitoring phase of adaptive query processing

Recent Big Data research typically emphasizes on the need to address the challenges stemming from the volume, velocity, variety and veracity aspects. However, another cross-cutting property of Big Data is vola...

Authors: Efthymia Tsamoura, Anastasios Gounaris and Yannis Manolopoulos

Smart cities – enabling services and applications

Authors: Edward Curry, Schahram Dustdar, Quan Z. Sheng and Amit Sheth

A survey of compliance issues in cloud computing

Features such as elasticity, scalability, universal access, low entry cost, and flexible billing motivate consumers to migrate their core businesses to the cloud. However, in doing so there are challenges abou...

Authors: Dereje Yimam and Eduardo B. Fernandez

Hitch Hiker 2.0: a binding model with flexible data aggregation for the Internet-of-Things

Wireless communication plays a critical role in determining the lifetime of Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. Data aggregation approaches have been widely used to enhance the performance of IoT applications. S...

Authors: Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, José Proença, Wilfried Daniels, Mario Pickavet, Dimitri Staessens, Christophe Huygens, Wouter Joosen and Danny Hughes

Thematic series on service composition for the future internet

During the last few years, there has been a growing interest around the development of new ideas envisioning the opportunities of combining Internet and Services. The “Future Internet” (FI) concept has been in...

Authors: Marco Autili, Massimo Tivoli and Alfredo Goldman

SimAttack: private web search under fire

Web Search engines have become an indispensable online service to retrieve content on the Internet. However, using search engines raises serious privacy issues as the latter gather large amounts of data about ...

Authors: Albin Petit, Thomas Cerqueus, Antoine Boutet, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, David Coquil, Lionel Brunie and Harald Kosch

Automatic belief network modeling via policy inference for SDN fault localization

Fault localization for SDN becomes one of the most critical but difficult tasks. Existing tools typically only address a specific part of the problem (e.g., control plane verification, flow checker). In this p...

Authors: Yongning Tang, Guang Cheng, Zhiwei Xu, Feng Chen, Khalid Elmansor and Yangxuan Wu

Smart crowds in smart cities: real life, city scale deployments of a smartphone based participatory crowd management platform

We describe a platform for smart, city-wide crowd management based on participatory mobile phone sensing and location/situation specific information delivery. The platform supports quick and flexible deploymen...

Authors: Tobias Franke, Paul Lukowicz and Ulf Blanke

PuLSaR: preference-based cloud service selection for cloud service brokers

Over the last few years, the vast increase of cloud service offerings that are available from heterogeneous cloud vendors, has made the evaluation and selection of desired cloud services, a cumbersome task for...

Authors: Ioannis Patiniotakis, Yiannis Verginadis and Gregoris Mentzas

Applications of big data to smart cities

Many governments are considering adopting the smart city concept in their cities and implementing big data applications that support smart city components to reach the required level of sustainability and impr...

Authors: Eiman Al Nuaimi, Hind Al Neyadi, Nader Mohamed and Jameela Al-Jaroodi

CitySDK Tourism API - building value around open data

Tourism is a major social and cultural activity with relevant economic impact. In an effort to promote their attractions with tourists, some cities have adopted the open-data model, publishing touristic data f...

Authors: Ricardo Lopes Pereira, Pedro Cruz Sousa, Ricardo Barata, André Oliveira and Geert Monsieur

Editorial: Thematic series on software engineering from a social network perspective

In the Internet age, the concept of social network is emerging as both a useful means for understanding software development activities and a concept for designing software tools to support these activities. E...

Authors: Marco Aurelio Gerosa, David Redmiles, Pernille Bjørn and Anita Sarma