Rogério Patrício Chagas do Nascimento

Content's Personalized Recommendation for Implementing Ubiquitous Learning in Health 2.0

This paper proposes a content recommendation mechanism as part of a model for implementing ubiquitous learning for supporting people with chronic diseases who are treated at home, so that they can learn more about treatments for their disease. The proposed approach is supported by the Situated Learning Theory, in which learning takes place based on day-to-day activities and real situations. In this case, the model supports the development of tools that can learn about the users context, based on data obtained via sensors installed on users or in their home, as well as data supplied directly by the user interface of their mobile devices, and data provided by the healthcare team, and, after that, recommend contents about their diseases.

An approach for recommending personalized contents for homecare users in the context of health 2.0

This paper proposes a content recommendation mechanism as part of a model for implementing ubiquitous learning for supporting people with chronic diseases who are treated at home, so that they can learn more about treatments for their disease. In the proposed approach, the learning takes place based on day-to-day activities and real situations. In this case, the model supports the development of tools that can learn about the users context, based on data obtained via sensors installed on users or in their home, as well as data supplied directly by the user interface of their mobile devices, and data provided by the healthcare team, and, after that, recommend contents about their diseases.

Public ICT Governance: A Quasi-systematic Review.

This work performs a quasi-systematic review in a structured way to identify, characterize and summarize the main evidence on Public ICT Governance in order to analyse the methods, techniques, models, framework, guides and / or Public ICT Governance good practice to describe its application in an IT environment, helping ICT managers through a secondary study. A research question was raised and an initial study of 4870 works was adopted. Among these, 21 were selected for the construction of this study through a characterization of three components (Leadership, Strategy and Control) which encompasses the dimensions that define the level of maturity of a public organization (iGovTI). In this analysis and characterization, it was identified that the methods techniques, models, framework, guides and/or good practice found were the most mentioned at the Academy, as COBIT, ITIL and CMMI, as also others who are not known.

An Experience of using SoaML for Modeling a Service-Oriented Architecture for Health Information Systems

Service-oriented applications have been modeled with different modeling languages and diagrams, which suggests a lack of standardization. Although UML concepts for modeling SOA can be regarded as a good starting point, it is not an entirely feasible approach, as UML has not been proposed with the purpose of modeling services and SOA applications. Besides, the proper concept of service is absent in UML. SoaML is a UML profile for the specification and design of services within a service-oriented architecture. One of the advantages of using SoaML to model interoperability between systems in health care is that it is possible to model the consumers and service providers. This would be quite difficult to achieve using UML only. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is to manipulate a relatively new modeling language to real operational problems related to the integration of health systems.

ModelER: Abordagem baseada em modelos aplicada ao processo de elicitação de requisitos

Uma das principais atividades da Engenharia de Requisitos (ER) é a Elicitação de Requisitos, que compreende o reconhecimento e a descrição das necessidades dos clientes, de forma a refletir o negócio de forma precisa e coerente. Além disso, a maior parte dos problemas que ocorrem durante o processo de desenvolvimento de software geralmente é causada por falhas nas fases iniciais. Diante disso, tecnologias que busquem compreender e descrever os processos de negócio e que permitam uma visão mais próxima do domínio, com alto grau de abstração, como o Desenvolvimento Orientado por Modelos (<i>Model-Driven Developement</i> -- MDD) e a Modelagem de Processos de Negócio (<i>Business Process Modeling</i> -- BPM) podem contribuir para uma melhoria da qualidade da elicitação e especificação de requisitos de software, sobretudo quando apoiadas por ferramentas que ofereçam meios para automatização do processo. Este artigo apresenta uma proposta de abordagem baseada em MDD e BPM voltada para o processo de Elicitação de Requisitos.

A Survey on Adoption Good Practices for ICT Governance at Enhanced Organizations

Governance in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a relevant area of research and practice. The Audit Court of the Union (ACU) periodically evaluates all Brazilian Federal Public Organizations in order to disseminate the importance of implementing good governance system and raising awareness of positive contribution of adopting Good Practices. As a result of these evaluations, it is clear that evolution of ICT Governance in Federal Public Administration (FPA) in Brazil is growing slowly. The number of organizations that effectively adopt good governance practices is low when compared to all other FPAs. This article presents results of a survey conducted at Public Organizations that have improved capability (iGovTI) stages according to the ACU. The iGovTI is the index of governance in which the organization is inserted, it can be (initial, basic, intermediate and enhanced). Knowing this, this survey collected used practices and identifies the profiles of organizations and their interviewees. As main results, we recognize that the Good Practices used in Enhanced Organizations are the same known in academia as well as in industry (for instance, COBIT, ITIL, CMMI, MPS.Br, PMBOK). Another relevant result is the evidence that even Enhanced Organizations do not adopt practices in topics considered relevant, including project management, information security and risk management.

ICT Governance, Risks and Compliance - A Systematic Quasi-review

The present study aims to conduct a quasi-systematic review in a structured way to identify, evaluate and summarize the main evidence on Governance, Risk Management and Compliance in the area of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) of companies. The objective is to analyze the existing methods and / or techniques, characterizing their application in an ICT environment so as to enable the reader to be assisted through a secondary study. Thus, a research question was adopted to guide the quasi-systematic review that conducted an initial study of 47 articles, among which 18 were selected for the construction of this work through a selection that included ICT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance.

Relationship between Personality Traits and Software Quality - Big Five Model vs. Object-oriented Software Metrics.

The activity of analyzing personality of software developers has been a topic discussed by many researchers over the past few years. However, their relation to software metrics has hardly been mentioned in the literature. This work aims to identify the influence of human personality on quality of software products. At first, a psychological test was performed using the Big Five model for a set of developers working in industry and, subsequently, object-oriented software metrics were applied to individual software developed by members of the same group. As a result, it was evidenced, through statistical analysis, that the factors Consciousness, Neuroticism and Openness to Experience have a significant relationship with the Cyclomatic Complexity metric. In addition, factors Extroversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism have significant relation with metric Coupling between Objects. In another analysis, taking into account ideal average values for each software metric, it was evidenced that Extroversion and Neuroticism factors have a significant relationship with metric Depth of Inheritance Tree. Extroversion and neuroticism were the only factors that obtained a significant relation with software metrics in the two proposed analyzes. Therefore, additional studies are needed to determine any deeper connection between personality and software quality.

Influence of Human Personality in Software Engineering - A Systematic Literature Review.

Personality of software engineering professionals has been a continuous element of interest in academic research. Researchers have applied different models of personality analysis in various software engineering areas to identify improvement points, to promote job satisfaction and to better organize teams. This paper aims to conduct a study, by means of a systematic literature review (SLR), to evaluate personality models applied in software engineering and to understand how human personality influences professional’s work. Three main models, most frequently used, were identified (MBTI, BIG 5 and FFM) to evaluate software engineering professionals. There is evidence of the influence of personality on the activities performed. However, some results have suggested that the study of personality is not an easy task to be performed, because there are contradictions in findings that challenges the validity of studies.

TAXOPETIC Process Design - A Taxonomy to Support the PETIC Methodology (Strategic Planning of ICT).

Innovations in organizations require better solutions for technology improvement, quality assurance and customers’ business satisfaction. On the other hand, Strategic Planning (SP) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) need to be integrated and coherent, to ensure the survival of organizations. In this context, the Strategic Planning of ICT Methodology (PETIC) is a SP that carefully helps managers to identify the maturity of ICT processes required for company management. The increasing number of PETIC methodology applications in organizations has made it difficult to locate and classify the PETIC artifacts produced. Moreover, the use of taxonomies has been successfully applied for classification and information retrieval. This paper aims on proposing TAXOPETIC, the taxonomy to support the PETIC Methodology. It will also be used to implement a software called TAXOPETICWeb that will allow storage and classification of PETIC artifacts, as well as facilitate the process of searching these artifacts.