Applications in Information Technology

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Applications".

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Interests: human-centric computing; cloud computing; higher education in programming and software engineering

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Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, information technology strongly influences our lives. Wide use of mobile devices generates a huge demand for new types of applications. To develop these applications, a new style of “vision” is needed from the researchers.

The main objective of the 2nd Conference on Applications in Information Technology (http://kspt.icc.spbstu.ru/conf/icait-2016/) is to encourage young scientists to participate actively in open discussions with their colleagues. This conference is to discover new names in the next generation of researchers.

Prof. Dr. Vitaly Klyuev
Prof. Dr. Alexander Vazhenin
Senior Associate Prof. Dr. Evgeny Pyshkin
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Keywords

  • Information Technology
  • Cloud Computing and Networking
  • Intelligent and Embedded Systems
  • Knowledge Engineering

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TESMA: Requirements and Design of a Tool for Educational Programs
by Nicolas Guelfi, Benjamin Jahic and Benoît Ries
Information 2017, 8(1), 37; https://doi.org/10.3390/info8010037 - 22 Mar 2017
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Defining and managing teaching programs at universities or other institutions is a complex task for which there is not much support in terms of methods and tools. This task becomes even more critical when the time comes to obtain certifications w.r.t. official standards. [...] Read more.
Defining and managing teaching programs at universities or other institutions is a complex task for which there is not much support in terms of methods and tools. This task becomes even more critical when the time comes to obtain certifications w.r.t. official standards. In this paper, we present an on-going project called TESMA, whose objective is to provide an open-source tool dedicated to the specification and management (including certification) of teaching programs. An in-depth market analysis regarding related tools and conceptual frameworks of the project is presented. This tool has been engineered using a development method called Messir for its requirements elicitation and introduces a domain-specific language dedicated to the teaching domain. This paper presents the current status of this project and the future activities planned. Full article
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Model Based Safety Analysis with smartIflow
by Philipp Hönig, Rüdiger Lunde and Florian Holzapfel
Information 2017, 8(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/info8010007 - 3 Jan 2017
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Verification of safety requirements is one important task during the development of safety critical systems. The increasing complexity of systems makes manual analysis almost impossible. This paper introduces a new methodology for formal verification of technical systems with smartIflow (State Machines for Automation [...] Read more.
Verification of safety requirements is one important task during the development of safety critical systems. The increasing complexity of systems makes manual analysis almost impossible. This paper introduces a new methodology for formal verification of technical systems with smartIflow (State Machines for Automation of Reliability-related Tasks using Information FLOWs). smartIflow is a new modeling language that has been especially designed for the purpose of automating the safety analysis process in early product life cycle stages. It builds up on experience with existing approaches. As is common practice in current approaches, components are modeled as finite state machines. However, new concepts are introduced to describe component interactions. Events play a major role for internal interactions between components as well as for external (user) interactions. Our approach to the verification of formally specified safety requirements is a two-step method. First, an exhaustive simulation creates knowledge about a great variety of possible behaviors of the system, especially including reactions on suddenly occurring (possibly intermittent) faults. In the second step, safety requirements specified in CTL (Computation Tree Logic) are verified using model checking techniques, and counterexamples are generated if these are not satisfied. The practical applicability of this approach is demonstrated based on a Java implementation using a simple Two-Tank-Pump-Consumer system. Full article
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