Kellyton dos Santos Brito

Software reuse: The Brazilian industry scenario

This paper aims at identifying some of the key factors in adopting an organization-wide software reuse program. The factors are derived from practical experience reported by industry professionals, through a survey involving 57 Brazilian small, medium and large software organizations. Some of them produce software with commonality between applications, and have mature processes, while others successfully achieved reuse through isolated, ad hoc efforts. The paper compiles the answers from the survey participants, showing which factors were more associated with reuse success. Based on this relationship, a guide is presented, pointing out which factors should be more strongly considered by small, medium and large organizations attempting to establish a reuse program.

Using parliamentary Brazilian open data to improve transparency and public participation in Brazil

Government concerns about transparency date from 1957, but current technological advances and real-time worldwide communications hold great 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.

Brazilian government open data: implementation, challenges, and potential opportunities

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.

Assessing the benefits of open government data: the case of Meu Congresso Nacional in Brazilian elections 2014

Open Government Data (OGD) and transparency has been recognized as having the potential to provide many benefits for the society at all, including governmental, scientific, commercial and political domains. However, much of the existing research discusses benefits on a high-level basis, and more empirical analysis is needed in order to analyze and assess the real impact of these initiatives. The objective of this paper is to analyze the benefits perceived by the general population of the use of applications based on OGD, especially the Meu Congresso Nacional, a website based on political OGD and broadly used by Brazilian citizens in the Brazilian elections in 2014. The analysis was based on a survey conducted with website visitors and concludes that, despite this kind of application not yet being popular, people consider them more useful than official government websites, able to help reduce corruption and even influence voting decisions.

How people care about their personal data released on social media

Content sharing services have become immensel popular on the Web. More than 1 billion people use this kind o services to communicate with friends and exchange all sorts o information. In this new context, privacy guarantees are essential guarantees about the potential release of data to unintended recipients and the use of user data by the service provider Although the general public is concerned about privacy question related to unintended audiences, data usage by service provider is still misunderstood. In order to further explore this level o misunderstanding, this work presents the results of a surve: conducted among 900 people with the aim of discovering hov people care about the use of their personal data by servic providers in terms of social media. From the results, we found that: (i) in general people do not read license terms and do no know very much about service policies, and when presented with these policies people do not agree with them; (ii) a good number of people would support alternative models such as paying for privacy or selling their personal data; and (iii) there are some differences between generations in relation to how they care about their data.

Experiences Integrating Heterogeneous Government Open Data Sources to Deliver Services and Promote Transparency in Brazil

The use of Government Open Data to deliver services and promote transparency is a current goal of many governments. In this paper, we briefly describe two contest winner applications with focus on these goals, and present a discussion about the difficulties of integrating Government Open Data to develop them.

Methods and Processes Definitions for Multiplatform Social Network Games Development with Distributed Teams

In recent decades, agile methodologies have contributed in the process of developing software as an efficient way to manage requirements. Game development for geographically distributed teams includes additional elements that also need to be managed properly. This work is an experience report of a game development by geographically distributed team, using Scrum methodology. The game runs on web and mobile platforms and has interface with social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the discussion about Scrums adaptation for game development with respect to the methods, process definition and tools used in conception, design, definition, prioritization of backlog items, monitoring requirements and quality assurance.

OntoPHC: An Ontology Applied For Primary Health Care

Abstract Today new researches create a considerable amount of knowledge and scientific expertise related to health problem. There is a need to constantly update their professional knowledge base that enable them to face the diversity and “adversity” of the health process in the daily routine. Within this wealth of information is almost impossible to less experienced health professionals store all specific knowledge of their areas, and there is still the problem of difficulty of fast and easy access to knowledge in health, because this knowledge is mainly internalized in people minds and are not explicitly organized and documented. The use of ontologies is a proposal to represent knowledge in a more rich and detailed way and is a very interesting way to share and reuse formally represented knowledge. Ontology is a representation that can be understood by humans and processed by computers; it is useful to define the common and mathematically based vocabulary in which shared knowledge is represented. This paper describes the development of an ontology to represent part of the Brazilian knowledge in the Primary Health Care and creates a semantic web system to serve as a basis for health professionals better control their routine activities and serves as an information source for health professionals.

Experiences from a Brazilian Bank Reengineering Project

The migration of legacy mainframe applications to new web technologies is a challenge faced by several organizations. Since 2005, the Pitang and C.E.S.A.R companies are involved in a large migration project for a bank institution, aiming to migrate NATURAL/ADABAS legacy mainframe source code to a web-based platform. In this paper, we briefly describe the project’s evolution and lessons learned.

LIFT Revisited: Enhancing the Understanding of NATURAL/ADABAS Legacy Systems

LIFT (Legacy Information retrieval Tool) is a tool for reverse engineering and understanding of legacy systems, in particular NATURAL/ADABAS systems. Its provides several capabilities, such as call graphs, identification and visual representation of application tiers, the presentation of flows from screen to database entities, cluster analysis and documentation generation, among others. In this paper, we present two new functionalities of LIFT tool: the reconstruction and visualization of screen layouts, and the graphical visualization and automatic migration of ADABAS database structure.