George A. Sielis

ArchReco: a software tool to assist software design based on context aware recommendations of design patterns

This work describes the design, development and evaluation of a software Prototype, named ArchReco, an educational tool that employs two types of Context-aware Recommendations of Design Patterns, to support users (CS students or professionals) who want to improve their design skills when it comes to training for High Level Software models. The tool’s underlying algorithms take advantage of Semantic Web technologies, and the usage of Content based analysis for the computation of non-personalized recommendations for Design Patterns. The recommendations’ objective is to support users in functions such as finding the most suitable Design Pattern to use according to the working context, learn the meaning, objectives and usages of each Design Pattern. The current work presents the Semantic Modeling of the Software Design process through the definition of the context that defines the Software Design process and in particular the representation of the Design Patterns as Ontology model, the implemented Context Aware Recommendation Algorithms and the evaluation results extracted from a user based testing for the ArchReco prototype.

Design of a multi-interface creativity support tool for the enhancement of the creativity process

This work examines the influence of the different working environments during the execution of a creativity process. The selection factor used for the decision is each users learning style. For the examination of how this is perceived by the users and to test how this influences the creativity process within a Creativity Support Tool a prototype has been developed. The paper describes the prototype as well as its pilot testing by a group of users.

A Social Creativity Support Tool Enhanced by Recommendation Algorithms: The Case of Software Architecture Design

Reusability of existing knowledge for the design and development of new ideas is a key principle of the definition of creativity as a process. Professionals to create the Architecture design of innovative software tools use software Architecture Design as such process. This work proposes a framework/tool by which the design of SAD can be directed based on several types of recommendations and in particular of well-known design patterns [1]. This work approaches the recommendations the use of contextual factors in combination with recommendation methods and known recommendation algorithms.

ArchReco: Software Architecture Design Tool Enhanced by Context Aware Recommendations for Design Patterns

This work presents ArchReco, a tool that supports Context Aware Recommendations for Design Patterns while a designer performs a Software Architecture Design. The prototype tool presented in this work takes into consideration the contextual elements that characterize a Software Architecture model and use them for the computation of the most suitable Design Patterns that can be applied during the process of Software Architecture diagram design. The tool currently supports three Context Aware Recommendation methods for the computation of recommendations for the most suitable Design Patterns.

Enterprise COllaboration and INteroperability (COIN) platform: two case studies in the marine shipping domain

Enterprise Collaboration and Enterprise Interoperability are two key aspects of networked enterprises, which proceed along parallel tracks with rare opportunities to convene, support and influence each other. To resolve this issue we propose the use of the COIN platform, which allows exposure, combination and integration of Web Services to support these aspects in different business sectors. Suitable COIN collaboration and interoperability services were selected based on the requirements analysis performed with Donnelly Tanker Management, our industrial partner in Cyprus. These services adhere to requirements of the shipping sector, such as negotiation of voyage terms, trusted information sharing, document management and user management. Using COIN, a web-based enterprise system was created that supported two case studies. Useful results were obtained by marine experts, which revealed the positive impact of the platform in managing and reducing the time to execute these processes.