{"title":"A simulation approach for Arc Flow Plasma plant in energy production from organic matrix waste fluid","authors":"Paola Aveta, Giuseppe Converso, L. Santillo","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645655","url":null,"abstract":"This work is focused on some simulation tools assessment, usable for the analysis of industrial plants based on a new class of chemical reactors for energy production, obtained from the pyrolysis of organic matrix waste fluids. First of all the authors show a new Arc Flow Plasma technology. Then they analyze a simulation tool usable to understand the operation of the assessed plant to changing configuration conditions of the reactor, as well as the performance trends of the most relevant physical inputs and outputs that characterize the plant. Finally, the paper assesses the reliability of the results obtained, indicating possible future implementations, in terms of simulation model for this class of plants.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115191225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multi-level fuzzy inference system for developing DSS based on clinical guidelines","authors":"A. Minutolo, M. Esposito, G. Pietro","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645644","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) are typically based on clinical guidelines explicitly formalized in the form of rules for reproducing the physician's decisionmaking process and, also, improving the efficiency of medical practices. With the aim of building CDSSs able to represent uncertainty existing in clinical guidelines and efficiently reason on a huge number of inter-connected rules, this paper presents a multi-level fuzzy inference system offering the following set of specifically-devised functionalities: (i) fuzzy rules can be organized in one or more groups of positive evidence rules, where each group is able to interact with other ones by properly chaining their conclusions; (ii) rules inside a group are independently processed and evaluated; (iii) each group of rules can be customized by means of a peculiar configuration for the inference; (iv) a fuzzy ELSE rule can be associated to a group for assembling all the negative evidence for a specific situation. A proof of concept scenario is finally given to describe how the proposed solution can be applied.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"460 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124549887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A resilient approach to manage a supply chain network","authors":"E. Romano, D. Chiocca, L. Santillo, G. Guizzi","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645646","url":null,"abstract":"Today we depend more and more on logistic networks, which often know nothing, or worse, on which our power of control is almost zero. It is impossible to imagine a life without certain types of products or food, all of that to get us often follow long and complex network and therefore vulnerable. Let see how increase in energy costs has engulfed many small companies. Differently by rising energy costs, there are also changes that are not so easily predictable, so it is essential for the survival of a company to have “redundant” resources, able to operate strategies and proactive behavior. It's important to be flexible and adapt better to the changes that are imposed by external or even internal conditions. More than on flexibility, it is necessary to focus on the concept of Resilience, which requires the ability to remain calm, to address a crisis, but maybe leave it weakened but with the strength, the ability and the confidence to create a tomorrow of own business, adapting to change.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133388386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thai software requirements specification pattern","authors":"Kanjana Thongglin, S. Cardey, P. Greenfield","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645650","url":null,"abstract":"Although natural language has been widely accepted for writing software requirements specifications but writing skills are still needed for software engineers. Ambiguities are often encountered in requirements since software engineers do not have good writing skills or writing experience. In this study, we present a Thai software requirements specification pattern by using controlled syntax. Our pattern can help software engineers to answer the questions: “How to start writing software requirements specification?” and “What information should be gathered?”. Each component of the pattern is designed and described based on our controlled syntax.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129381492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mejri, Etienne Theodore Sadio, Khadija Arrachid, Memel Emmanuel Lathe
{"title":"Access control validation by ontologies","authors":"M. Mejri, Etienne Theodore Sadio, Khadija Arrachid, Memel Emmanuel Lathe","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645642","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to show how we can automatically extract access control information from Windows and Linux devices in order to analyze them in an automatic way by using ontologies. The extracted data related to access control are used to instantiate a defined ontology. After that, some reasoning engines are used to query the ontology in order to understand the implemented security policy or to compare it with an expected one.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115170341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Max Knemeyer, M. Nsaif, Frank Glinka, A. Ploss, S. Gorlatch
{"title":"A persistent data storage design for real-time interactive applications","authors":"Max Knemeyer, M. Nsaif, Frank Glinka, A. Ploss, S. Gorlatch","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645659","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) like multiplayer online games usually work in a persistent environment (also called virtual world) which continues to exist and evolve also while the user is offline and away from the application. This paper deals with storing persistent data of real-time interactive applications in modern relational databases. We describe a preliminary design of the Entity Persistence Module (EPM) middleware which liberates the application developer from writing and maintaining complex and error-prone, application-specific code for persistent data management.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116686890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A strategic - Operative lean integrated model for small companies","authors":"R. Carandente, M. Gallo, T. Murino, G. Naviglio","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645658","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is focused on the development of lean methodology in small companies with no previous lean knowledge. The lean integrated model proposed has the aim to link the pillars of lean thinking to an operative view.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124387975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conflict characterization and Analysis of Non Functional Requirements: An experimental approach","authors":"Dewi Mairiza, D. Zowghi, V. Gervasi","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645645","url":null,"abstract":"Prior studies reveal that conflicts among Non Functional Requirements (NFRs) are not always absolute. They can also be relative depending on the context of the system being developed. Given that existing techniques to manage the NFRs conflicts are mainly focused on cataloguing the interrelationships among various types of NFRs, hence a technique to manage the NFRs conflicts with respect to NFRs relative characteristic is needed. This paper presents a novel framework to manage the conflicts among NFRs with respect to NFRs relative characteristic. By applying an experimental approach, the quantitative evidence of NFRs conflicts will be obtained and modeled. NFRs metrics and measures will be used in the experiments as parameters to generate the quantitative evidence. This evidence can then allow developers to identify and reason about the NFRs conflicts. We also provide an example of how this framework could be applied.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130265370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CogInfoCom cues, signals and ritualization for adaptive communication","authors":"Á. Csapó, P. Baranyi","doi":"10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645666","url":null,"abstract":"The merging process occurring between humans and the ICT network surrounding them has led to the emergence of several new paradigms in computing. Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) aims to investigate how cognitive processes can co-evolve with infocommunications devices, irrespective of whether those processes are entirely natural, entirely artificial, or a combination of the two. An important question in CogInfoCom is how communication signals can emerge and evolve naturally between various natural/artificial systems. In this paper, it is argued that the development of new technologies capable of adapting in their communication with users can be informed by research on animal communication. To elaborate this view, the ethological concepts of cues, signals and ritualization are adapted to CogInfoCom. The technological interpretations of these concepts are discussed in terms of design strategies and application examples.","PeriodicalId":447065,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT)","volume":"485 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115879407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}