INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES at International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2014)

Two papers from ASSERT Members have been accepted for the International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2014) to be held in Aguascalientes City, Mexico, on June 2014. Kellyton Brito, author of both papers, will attend the conference and present both papers. The first paper is entitled “Brazilian Government Open Data: Implementation, Challenges, and Potential Opportunities” by Kellyton Brito, Marcos Costa, Vinicius Cardoso Garcia and Silvio Meira.

A brief summary of the paper is following: “Technological advances and real-time worldwide communications hold great promise for transforming the efficiency and effectiveness of public services through the ease of publishing and access to government public information or through the offer of new kinds of services. In this paper, we describe two initiatives, Rio Inteligente (Smart Rio) and Cidadão Recifense (Recife Citizen), which are based on Brazilian open-data repositories from the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Recife and deliver services for citizens and tourists, mainly (i) a health-unit finder based on user location and (ii) an online vaccination card. Based on the development experience of these two similar applications that use completely independent open-data repositories, this paper discusses the current state of Brazilian open-data initiatives, their challenges and difficulties, and draws some considerations towards a framework to build applications based on government data.”

The second one is entitled “Using Parliament Brazilian Open Data to Improve Transparency and Public Participation in Brazil” by Kellyton Brito, Misael Santos Neto, Marcos Costa, Vinicius Garcia and Silvio Meira. The paper abstract is following: “Government concerns about transparency date from 1957, but current technological advances and real-time worldwide communications hold promise to transform accountability, transparency, citizen participation and collaboration, in addition to offering better public services, by increasing efficiency and effectiveness and decreasing corruption in government. With these goals in mind, this paper describes Meu Congresso Nacional (My National Congress), a first prize winner application developed during the First Brazilian Parliament Hackathon focused on parliamentarians transparency by obtaining and analyzing data from several sources and displaying them on a user-friendly website. In addition, based on this development experience, this paper discusses the difficulties and challenges of developing applications based on Brazilian government data.”

This activity is part of the project “Social Machines and Research Team – SMaRT” and is one of the results of the research being done by ASSERT Lab.

These papers will be soon available on ACM Digital Library. A new post will be done after the conference, presenting our impressions of the event and the feedback from research community about the work.

INES at CISIS 2014

INES will be present at the 8th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2014), to be held in Birmingham, UK, 2-4 June 2014. Research members from the “Definição de um Testbed para o Desenvolvimento de Software” project had the following paper accepted on this conference:

Title:.A proxy-based solution for interoperability of smarthome protocols
Authors: Héldon José Oliveira Albuquerque (UFRN) and  Gibeon Soares de Aquino Júnior (UFRN)

INES Researchers will attend Dagstuhl Seminar

INES researchers Gustavo Soares, Leopoldo Teixeira, Márcio Cornélio and Rohit Gheyi will attend to the Dagstuhl Schloss Seminar 2014: The Future of Refactoring, in Dagstuhl, Germany, taking place from May, 18th to May, 23rd. The invitation-only Dagstuhl seminars bring together the world’s leading researchers, practitioners, and young talents to discuss their ideas.

INES at WP2P+ (SBRC’2014)

INES will be present at the Workshop on P2P Networks, Dynamics, and Social Content-Oriented (WP2P+) in conjunction with the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC’2014) to be held in Florianópolis (Santa Catarina) 5-9 May 2014. This activity is part of the project “Social Machines and Research Team – SMaRT” and is one of the results of the research being done by ASSERT Lab.

The paper is entitled “Cloud Disk Drive – Uma abordagem para a criação de discos virtuais de baixo custo utilizando redes p2p” by Anderson Fonseca e Silva, Frederico Araújo Durão, Vinicius Cardoso Garcia and Rodrigo Elia Assad. A brief summary of the paper is following:

Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta para a disponibilização de unidades virtuais para armazenamento de dados em nuvem, através da associação de tecnologias e conceitos, tais como: ISCSI e redes P2P. Desta forma, os arquivos podem ser distribuídos em nós conectados a rede,permitindo a oferta de armazenamento em disco de maneira compartilhada e a redução de custos pelo ofertante do serviço.

Furniture Service for INES Lab

The project “Making Program Evolution Safer” hired a furniture service to fix some chairs of a INES lab.

INES at ENASE 2014

INES will be present at the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2014), to be held in Lisboa (Portugal) 28-30 April 2014. Research members from the “Definição de um Testbed para o Desenvolvimento de Software” project had the following paper accepted on this conference:

Title: The Applicability of Present Estimation Models to the Context of Mobile Applications

Authors: Laudson Silva de Souza (UFRN) and  Gibeon Soares de Aquino Júnior (UFRN)

This activity is part of the project “Definição de um Testbed para o Desenvolvimento de Software”.

Project hires a new researcher

The Project “Investigating Algorithms, Techniques and Tools for Search Based Software Engineering” hires a new Master degree student to work on service oriented architecture.