Sep 2023· 2023 IEEE 31st International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)· pp. 365-366· 1 citation· 1 references
Computer Science
TL;DR
The Second International Workshop on Requirement Engineering for Software startups and Emerging Technologies (RESET) brought together requirements engineering researchers and practitioners to discuss the need for adapting conventional requirement engineering artifacts in developing and operating emerging technologies.
Abstract
The Second International Workshop on Requirement Engineering for Software startups and Emerging Technologies (RESET) is a part of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2023, held on 4 September 2023. The workshop brought together requirements engineering researchers and practitioners to discuss the need for adapting conventional requirement engineering artifacts (i.e., requirement definition, metrics), processes and practices in developing and operating emerging technologies, including Software Startups, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and Quantum Computing. Participants gained insights into the RE practices, tools, techniques, and frameworks that can help them build scalable, robust, and innovative software-intensive systems. The workshop included a keynote presentation and four paper presentations.
This paper presents a realistic case study showing how the implementation of DevOps principles in cross-functional teams, with the help of the standardized pipelines and integrated automation, facilitates cooperation, reduces cycle times, enhances quality assurance and accelerates delivery outcomes.
Karthik Allam· International Journal of Eme...· 0 citations
Vehicle development projects are increasingly exigent in a highly competitive automotive world. The profitability of those projects can only be assured by seeking optimisations in the way they are performed. Project managers and their teams require support from tools and technologies that can deliver better results. In this context, blockchain technology is proposed to play a key role in vehicle projects, particularly in applications such as parts and prototype management. It will ensure the traceability, immutability, and decentralisation of the information, and it will also lead to shorter negotiations, which will contribute to keeping the project milestones on time. This research presents the details of a real case for a prototype management request in a vehicle project. It proposes how blockchain technology can be applied to improve the traditional approach to handling this type of request, yielding several benefits that will be highlighted.
Manuel Sobrino, J. Pajares, J. Adiego et al.· International Journal of Pro...· 0 citations
Blockchain technology has introduced a rapidly expanding range of consensus mechanisms, each designed to satisfy different operational requirements related to security, scalability, decentralization, transaction throughput, and energy efficiency. Selecting an appropriate consensus mechanism has consequently become a complex multi-criteria decision problem, particularly for developers and organizations without extensive expertise in distributed systems and blockchain architectures. Existing tools primarily address protocol benchmarking and static documentation, leaving the decision-support dimension largely unaddressed. This paper presents a web-based expert system designed to support the selection of blockchain consensus mechanisms according to specific user-defined operational requirements. The proposed solution was implemented using the MERN technology stack, consisting of MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js, enabling a modular and scalable architecture suitable for future expansion and maintenance. The recommendation process is based on a two-phase filtering and scoring algorithm. In the first phase, mechanisms incompatible with mandatory user-defined constraints, including network type and key resource type, are systematically eliminated. In the second phase, the remaining mechanisms are ranked using attribute matching across criteria encompassing energy efficiency, scalability, security, decentralization, and transaction speed. The system returns the three most suitable consensus mechanisms for the given operational scenario together with their key characteristics. In addition to recommendation functionality, the application supports user authentication, recommendation history management, and administrative maintenance of the consensus mechanism database, which currently contains 38 distinct blockchain consensus protocols. Experimental evaluation through twelve representative usage scenarios demonstrated that the system consistently produces contextually relevant recommendations aligned with user-specified requirements. A comparative analysis with existing tools confirms that the proposed system occupies a distinct decision-support role currently absent from the available tooling landscape. A comparative analysis against four representative existing tools indicates that the proposed system combines a set of decision-support capabilities not jointly offered by any one of them. The presented approach contributes a transparent and extensible decision-support framework intended to simplify architectural planning and management of blockchain-based distributed systems.
Ivica Lukić, Nikola Ramčić, Iván Ivkovic et al.· Network· 0 citations
This paper analyzes the two software architectural approaches namely Monolithic Architecture vs Microservices Architecture when considering scalable software development, and puts the following into consideration: empirical trade-offs, scalability consideration, organizational implications, and development complexity.
Theophilus Bamise Ajala, A. Oduroye, I. Ayoade et al.· Asian journal of applied sci...· 0 citations
Smart contracts in blockchains often implement critical functionality; consequently, their development-time software fault detection, removal, and avoidance have been the target of intensive research. However, the applicability of runtime dependability mechanisms to smart contracts has not been explored systematically, mainly due to the transaction pricing models of public blockchains. In this paper, we propose a novel and practical runtime verification approach for Hyperledger Fabric, the leading cross-organizational blockchain platform, as an error detection facility for fault tolerance mechanisms; building on the proposition that, in contrast to the public setting, cross-organizational blockchains have ample computational headroom for their systematic use. We introduce a smart contract entity framework architecture with reusable domain models and encapsulated runtime verification. We demonstrate and evaluate the approach on a Fabric implementation of the TPC-C benchmark.
Damaris Jepkurui Kangogo, Bertalan Zoltan Peter, Attila Klenik et al.· IEEE Access· 0 citations
Global transition toward circular economy (CE) has fundamentally changed the operation requirements of Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems and the architecture requirements to enable such transition are still largely under-explored. The traditional SCM structure is fundamentally unsuitable to deal with the bidirectional logistics, multi-lifecycles use of resources, and multi-stakeholder collaboration that circular logistics require. Although there are a number of studies that have focused on a single enabling technology like Blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), Building Information Modelling (BIM), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), a comprehensive integrated architectural framework that covers the technical, organizational and governance aspects have not yet been developed. The purpose of this study is thus to identify and validate the fundamental architectural needs for SCM systems to fulfill the principles of the circular economy. By applying a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodology, the research consolidates 102 peer-reviewed papers found in Scopus, IEEE Xplore, SpringerLink and ScienceDirect that were relevant to Industry 4.0, digital construction and sustainable logistics between 2016 and 2025. Each requirement identified is confirmed through structured requirement, structured block definition, and structured activity diagrams through mapping to the literature that has been used as a source for the requirement and to the architectural components that support it. These core, interdependent needs traceability and provenance, lifecycle visibility and resource reuse, interoperability and standards, and security and trust are identified in the analysis and integrated solutions, as opposed to individual solutions, are required to achieve operational benefits. The study moves away from the focus on individual technologies and offers a conceptual blueprint for designing resilient, transparent, and sustainable circular supply chain systems; it recognizes that the framework is conceptually rather than empirically validated.
Xiao-Jia Chong, Jia-Xin Lim, Xin-Qian Chai et al.· International journal of res...· 0 citations
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