Flexible and reliable software architecture for industrial user interfaces

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Beer ◽  
Bernhard Dorninger ◽  
Mario Winterer
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Reliable Software

scholarly journals User Interface Stereotypes: A Model-Based Approach for Information Systems User Interfaces

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Larissa Da Costa ◽  
Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto ◽  
Juliano Lopes De Oliveira ◽  
Bruno dos Reis Calçado
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Behavioral Aspects ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Behavior

This paper presents a model-based approach to build Information Systems User Interfaces (ISUI). In this approach, UI presentation and behavioral aspects are modeled as UI Stereotypes, which are high level abstractions of UI appearance and interaction features. A taxonomy of ISUI elements is proposed as the basis for definition of UI stereotypes. These elements are orchestrated on a software architecture which manages model-based UI building and integration with the IS applications. The proposed approach reduces software development efforts and costs, facilitating maintenance and evolution of ISUI. Moreover, UI stereotypes improve usability, consistency, reuse and standardization of both presentation and behavior of ISUI.

scholarly journals Ten years of software sustainability at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center

2011 ◽  
Vol 369 (1949) ◽  
pp. 3384-3397 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Bruce Berriman ◽  
John Good ◽  
Ewa Deelman ◽  
Anastasia Alexov
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Image Mosaic ◽  
Analysis Center ◽  
Software Services ◽  
Careful Assessment ◽  
Over Time

This paper presents a case study of an approach to sustainable software architecture that has been successfully applied over a period of 10 years to astronomy software services at the NASA Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Caltech ( http://www.ipac.caltech.edu ). The approach was developed in response to the need to build and maintain the NASA Infrared Science Archive ( http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu ), NASA's archive node for infrared astronomy datasets. When the archive opened for business in 1999 serving only two datasets, it was understood that the holdings would grow rapidly in size and diversity, and consequently in the number of queries and volume of data download. It was also understood that platforms and browsers would be modernized, that user interfaces would need to be replaced and that new functionality outside of the scope of the original specifications would be needed. The changes in scientific functionality over time are largely driven by the archive user community, whose interests are represented by a formal user panel. The approach has been extended to support four more major astronomy archives, which today host data from more than 40 missions and projects, to support a complete modernization of a powerful and unique legacy astronomy application for co-adding survey data, and to support deployment of M ontage , a powerful image mosaic engine for astronomy. The approach involves using a component-based architecture, designed from the outset to support sustainability, extensibility and portability. Although successful, the approach demands careful assessment of new and emerging technologies before adopting them, and attention to a disciplined approach to software engineering and maintenance. The paper concludes with a list of best practices for software sustainability that are based on 10 years of experience at IPAC.

scholarly journals Software Architecture Solution Based on SDN for an Industrial IoT Scenario

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. Romero-Gázquez ◽  
M. Victoria Bueno-Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Open Source ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Smart Factory ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Industrial Iot ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Sdn Controller

The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) adoption comprises the change of traditional factories intosmartusing the ICTs. The goal is to monitor processes, objects, machinery, and workers in order to have real-time knowledge about what is going on in the factory and for achieving an efficient data collection, management, and decision-making that help improve the businesses in terms of product quality, productivity, and efficiency. Internet of Things (IoT) will have an important role in the I4.0 adoption because future smart factories are expected to rely on IoT infrastructures composed of constellations of hundreds or thousands of sensor devices spread all over the industrial facilities. However, some problems could arise in the massive IoT deployment in a medium-high factory: thousands of IoT devices to cope from different technologies and vendors could mean dozens of vendor tools and user interfaces to manage them. Moreover, the heterogeneity of IoT devices could entail different communication protocols, languages, and data formats, which can result in lack of interoperability. On the other hand, conventional IT networks and industrial machinery are expected to be managed together with the IoT infrastructure, maybe using a tool or a set of tools, fororchestratingthe whole smart factory. This work meets these challenges presenting an open-source software architecture solution based on OpenDaylight (ODL), a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller, for orchestrating an industrial IoT scenario. This work is addressed by shedding light on critical aspects from the SDN controller architectural choices, to specific IoT interfaces and the difficulties for covering the wide range of communication protocols, popular in industrial contexts. Such a global view of the process gives light to practical difficulties appearing in introducing SDN in industrial contexts, providing an open-source architecture solution that guarantees devices and networks interoperability and scalability, breaking the vendor lock-in barriers and providing a vendor-agnostic solution for orchestrating all actor of an I4.0 smart factory.

UiLab, a Workbench for Conducting and Reproducing Experiments in GUI Visual Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (EICS) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Nicolas Burny ◽  
Jean Vanderdonckt
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Potential Benefits

With the continuously increasing number and variety of devices, the study of visual design of their Graphical User Interfaces grows in importance and scope, particularly for new devices, including smartphones, tablets, and large screens. Conducting a visual design experiment typically requires defining and building a GUI dataset with different resolutions for different devices, computing visual design measures for the various configurations, and analyzing their results. This workflow is very time- and resource-consuming, therefore limiting its reproducibility. To address this problem, we present UiLab, a cloud-based workbench that parameterizes the settings for conducting an experiment on visual design of Graphical User Interfaces, for facilitating the design of such experiments by automating some workflow stages, and for fostering their reproduction by automating their deployment. Based on requirements elicited for UiLab, we define its conceptual model to delineate the borders of services of the software architecture to support the new workflow. We exemplify it by demonstrating a system walkthrough and we assess its impact on experiment reproducibility in terms of design and development time saved with respect to a classical workflow. Finally, we discuss potential benefits brought by this workbench with respect to reproducing experiments in GUI visual design and existing shortcomings to initiate future avenues. We publicly release UiLab source code on a GitHub repository.

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