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    • A control and management architecture supporting autonomic NFV services 

      Velasco Esteban, Luis Domingo; Casellas Regi, Ramón; Llana, Sergio; Gifre Renom, Lluís; Martínez Rivera, Ricardo Victor; Vilata, Ricard; Muñoz González, Raül; Ruiz, Marc (2019-02)
      Article
      Open Access
      The proposed control, orchestration and management (COM) architecture is presented from a high-level point of view; it enables the dynamic provisioning of services such as network data connectivity or generic network slicing ...
    • A framework for software reference architecture analysis and review 

      Martínez Fernández, Silverio Juan; Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Martins Marques, Helena; Ameller, David (Universidad ORT Uruguay, 2013)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Tight time-to-market needs pushes software companies and IT consulting firms to continuously look for techniques to improve their IT services in general, and the design of software architectures in particular. The use of ...
    • A goal-oriented approach for the generation and evaluation of alternative architectures 

      Grau Colom, Gemma; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (Springer, 2007)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      There is a recognized gap between requirements and architectures. There is also evidence that architecture evaluation, when done at the early phases of the development lifecycle, is an effective way to ensure the quality ...
    • A module concept within the initial behaviour framework 

      Nivela Alós, M. Pilar Brígida; Orejas Valdés, Fernando (1988)
      Research report
      Open Access
      A module concept is defined which anables the description of the whole design of software systems, that is, not only the specifications of problem requirements but also the specification of the process of implementation ...
    • A NetFlow/IPFIX implementation with OpenFlow 

      Suárez-Varela Maciá, José Rafael; Barlet Ros, Pere; Carela Español, Valentín (2017)
      Conference report
      Open Access
    • A novel path computing framework under QoX constraints based on N&PV functions embedding 

      Hesselbach Serra, Xavier; Botero Vega, Juan Felipe; Amazonas, Jose Roberto (2015)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      Network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) represent new paradigms in networking. In this paper, we extend the concept of NFV to include the functions associated to the physical objects of ...
    • A pure virtual approach for managing platform portability on hybrid supercomputers 

      Álvarez Farré, Xavier; Gorobets, Andrei; Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel; Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier (2019)
      Conference report
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      Commonly, the development of scientific computing software follows a stencilbased approach: the numerical methods and algorithms are introduced into computing systems through stencil data structures and sweeps (i.e. ...
    • A reuse-based economic model for software reference architectures 

      Martínez Fernández, Silverio Juan; Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (2012-11-13)
      Research report
      Open Access
      The growing size and complexity of software systems, together with critical time-to-market needs, demand new software engineering approaches for software development. To remain competitive, organizations are challenged to ...
    • Achieving high memory performance from heterogeneous architectures with the SARC programming model 

      Ferrer, Roger; Beltran Querol, Vicenç; González Tallada, Marc; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (ACM, 2009)
      Conference lecture
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      Current heterogeneous multicore architectures, including the Cell/B.E., GPUs, and future developments, like Larrabee, require enormous programming efforts to efficiently run current parallel applications, achieving high ...
    • Adaptació del software d'Ineltec per al seu ús des d'aplicacions mòbils 

      Pascual García, Sergio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-06-22)
      Bachelor thesis
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      Covenantee:   ineltec
    • Aggregating empirical evidence about the benefits and drawbacks of software reference architectures 

      Martínez Fernández, Silverio Juan; Medeiros dos Santos, Paulo Sérgio; Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Travassos, Guilherme H. (IEEE, 2015)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Context: Several empirical studies investigated the benefits and drawbacks of acquiring a Software Reference Architecture (SRA) to construct a family of software systems with similar architectural needs. However, these ...
    • AI on software engineering processes 

      Miralles Pena, Carles (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-01)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Universitat de Barcelona / Universitat Rovira i Virgili
      Due to the large quantity of available information as well as the huge computational power achieved today, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in computer programs has become, now more than ever, much popular. ...
    • Ambiences: on-the-fly usage of available resources through personal devices 

      Otero Calviño, Beatriz; Gil, Marisa (2013-10)
      Article
      Open Access
      In smart spaces such as smart homes, computation is embedded everywhere: in toys, appliances, or the home’s infrastructure. Most of these devices provide a pool of available resources which the user can take advantage, ...
    • An architecture for model-based and intelligent automation in DevOps 

      Eramo, Romina; Said, Bilal; Oriol Hilari, Marc; Brunelière, Hugo; Morales, Sergio (2024-11)
      Article
      Open Access
      The increasing complexity of modern systems poses numerous challenges at all stages of system development and operation. Continuous software and system engineering processes, e.g., DevOps, are increasingly adopted and ...
    • An elastic software architecture for extreme-scale big data analytics 

      Serrano Garcia, Maria Aston; Marín, César A.; Queralt Calafat, Anna; Cordeiro, Cristovao; González Hierro, Marco; Pinho, Luis Miguel; Quiñones Moreno, Eduardo (Springer, 2022)
      Part of book or chapter of book
      Open Access
      This chapter describes a software architecture for processing big-data analytics considering the complete compute continuum, from the edge to the cloud. The new generation of smart systems requires processing a vast amount ...
    • An integrated software architecture for the pollution-based real-time control of urban drainage systems 

      Romero Ben, Luis; Joseph Duran, Bernat; Sun, Congcong; Meseguer Amela, Jordi; Cembrano Gennari, Gabriela; Guasch Palma, Ramon; Martínez Puentes, Montse; Arroyo Muñoz, Eduardo; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç (2021-05-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      This paper presents a complete methodology for the development of an integrated software architecture, which can achieve a closed-loop application between the integrated real-time control (RTC) and a virtual reality ...
    • Análisis de desajustes con respecto a los requisitos en la selección de componentes OTS 

      Carvallo Vega, Juan Pablo; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (2009)
      Conference report
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      Debido a su complejidad, la mayoría de los sistemas de software modernos se construyen integrando componentes de diversa naturaleza para formar arquitecturas híbridas. La construcción de este tipo de sistemas se caracteriza ...
    • Approaches for describing reference architectures: A systematic mapping study 

      Dias Valle, Pedro Henrique; Garcés, Lina; Guessi, Milena; Martínez Fernández, Silverio Juan; Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi (CIbSE, 2020)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Reference architectures have emerged as an important arti-fact of software engineering, since they provide knowledge and experi-ence about how to design architectures of software systems in a specificdomain, favoring their ...
    • ArchiTech: tool support for NFR-guided architectural decision-making 

      Ameller, David; Collell Martín, Oriol; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (IEEE, 2012)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Researchers from requirements engineering and software architecture had emphasized the importance of NonFunctional Requirements and their influence in the architectural design process. To improve this process we have ...
    • Architectural decisions in AI-based systems: an ontological view 

      Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Martínez Fernández, Silverio Juan; Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia; Gómez Seoane, Cristina (Springer, 2022)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Architecting AI-based systems entails making some decisions that are particular to this type of systems. Therefore, it becomes necessary to gather all necessary knowledge to inform such decisions, and to articulate this ...