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A Model based Realisation of Actor Model to Conceptualise an Aid for Complex Dynamic Decision-making

Authors: Souvik Barat 1 , Vinay Kulkarni 1 , Tony Clark 2 and Balbir Barn 3

Affiliations: 1 Tata Consultancy Service Research, India , 2 Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom , 3 Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0006216306050616

Proceedings of IndTrackMODELSWARD 2017/MODELSWARD, ISBN: 978-989-758-210-3

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Effective decision-making of modern organisation requires deep understanding of various aspects of organisation such as its goals, structure, business-as-usual operational processes etc. The large size and complex structure of organisations, socio-technical characteristics, and fast business dynamics make this decision-making a challenging endeavour. The state-of-practice of decision-making that relies heavily on human experts is often reported as ineffective, imprecise and lacking in agility. This paper evaluates a set of candidate technologies and makes a case for using actor based simulation techniques as an aid for complex dynamic decision-making. The approach is justified by enumeration of basic requirements of complex dynamic decision-making and the conducting a suitability of analysis of state-of-the-art enterprise modelling techniques. The research contributes a conceptual meta-model that represents necessary aspects of organisation for complex dynamic decision-making together with a realisation in terms of a meta model that extends Actor model of computation. The proposed approach is illustrated using a real life case study from business process outsourcing industry.

UAVs Team and Its Application in Agriculture: A Simulation Environment

Topics: Collaborative Systems; Virtual Reality and Graphical Simulations; Telecommunication Systems and Networks; Domain-Specific Tools; Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics

Authors: Floriano De Rango , Nunzia Palmieri , Mauro Tropea and Giuseppe Potrino

Affiliation: University of Calabria, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0006466303740379

Proceedings of SIMULTECH 2017, ISBN: 978-989-758-265-3

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The work proposes a simulation environment for UAVs management in the agriculture domain. In these last years, new technologies can effectively support farmer to face issues and threats such as parasites and sudden climatic changes that can severely degrade the crop or the quality of the cultivated products. However, to properly manage a UAVs team, equipped with multiple sensors and actuators, it is necessary to test these technologies in order to plan specific strategies and coordination techniques able to efficiently support farmers and achieve the targets. At this purpose, this contribution proposes a simulator suitable for the agriculture domain, where it is possible to set many parameters of this domain of interest.
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Application Domains

Domain-Specific Tools

Simulation and Modeling

Collaboration and e-Services

e-Business

Simulation Tools and Platforms

Collaborative Systems

Enterprise Information Systems

Telecommunication Systems and Networks

Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation

Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics

Virtual Reality and Graphical Simulations

A Simulation-based Aid for Organisational Decision-making

Topics: Domain-Specific Languages; Metamodeling

Authors: Souvik Barat 1 , Vinay Kulkarni 1 , Tony Clark 2 and Balbir Barn 3

Affiliations: 1 Tata Consultancy Services Research, India , 2 Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom , 3 Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005992401090116

Proceedings of ICSOFT-PT 2016/ICSOFT, ISBN: 978-989-758-194-6

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Effective decision-making of modern organisation often requires deep understanding of various aspects of organisation such as organisational goals, organisational structure, business-as-usual operational processes. The large size of the organisation, its socio-technical characteristics, and fast business dynamics make this endeavor challenging. Industry practice relies on human experts for comprehending various aspects of organisation thus making organisational decision-making a time-, effort- and intellectually-intensive endeavor. This paper proposes a model-based simulation approach to organisational decision-making. We illustrate how this is applied to a real life problem from software service industry.
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Domain-Specific Languages

Models

Software Engineering
MetaModeling

Paradigm Trends

A Formally Verified Access Control Mechanism for Information Centric Networks

Topics: Security in Distributed Systems; Access Control; Network Security

Authors: Mahdi Aiash and Jonathan Loo

Affiliation: Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005566303770383

Proceedings of SECRYPT 2015/ICETE, ISBN: 978-989-758-117-5

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Communications in Information-Centric Networking place more attention on WHAT data are being exchanged rather than WHO are exchanging them. A well-established approach of information centric networks is the Network of Information (NetInf) architecture, developed as part of the EU FP7 project SAIL. The security of NetInf has been fairly analysed in the literature. In particular, research efforts have been focusing on achieving data integrity and confidentially, source or publisher authenticity and authorization. This paper analyses some work in the literature to enforce authorized access to data in NetInf, highlights a potential security threat and proposes an enhancement to address the discovered threat. The new enhancement has been formally verified using formal method approach based on the Casper/FDR tool.
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Access Control

Information and Systems Security

Security in Distributed Systems

Data Engineering

Internet Technology

Web Information Systems and Technologies

Databases and Data Security

Network Security

Wireless Network Security

A Review of Hough Transform and Line Segment Detection Approaches

Topics: Shape Representation and Matching; Features Extraction; Object and Face Recognition; Object Detection and Localization

Authors: Payam S. Rahmdel 1 , Richard Comley 2 , Daming Shi 2 and Siobhan McElduff 1

Affiliations: 1 University of British Columbia, Canada , 2 Middlesex University London, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005268904110418

Proceedings of VISAPP 2015/VISIGRAPP, ISBN: 978-989-758-089-5

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In a wide range of image processing and computer vision problems, line segment detection is one of the most critical challenges. For more than three decades researchers have contributed to build more robust and accurate algorithms with faster performance. In this paper we review the main approaches and in particular the Hough transform and its extensions, which are among the most well-known techniques for the detection of straight lines in a digital image. This paper is based on extensive practical research and is organised into two main parts. In the first part, the HT and its major research directions and limitations are discussed. In the second part of the paper, state-of-the-art line segmentation techniques are reviewed and categorized into three main groups with fundamentally distinctive characteristics. Their relative advantages and disadvantages are compared and summarised in a table.
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Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics

Image and Video Analysis

Shape Representation and Matching
Features Extraction

Multi-Robot Cooperative Tasks using Combined Nature-Inspired Techniques

Topics: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization; Evolutionary Robotics and Intelligent Agents; Swarm/Collective Intelligence

Authors: Nunzia Palmieri 1 , Floriano de Rango 2 , Xin She Yang 3 and Salvatore Marano 2

Affiliations: 1 University of Calabria and Middlesex University, Italy , 2 University of Calabria, Italy , 3 Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005596200740082

Proceedings of ECTA 2015, ISBN: 978-989-758-157-1

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In this paper, two metaheuristics are presented for exploration and mine disarming tasks performed by a swarm of robots. The objective is to explore autonomously an unknown area in order to discover the mines, disseminated in the area, and disarm them in cooperative manner since a mine needs multiple robots to disarm. The problem is bi-objective: distributing in different regions the robots in order to explore the area in a minimum amount of time and recruiting the robots in the same location to disarm the mines. While autonomous exploration has been investigated in the past, we specifically focus on the issue of how the swarm can inform its members about the detected mines, and guide robots to the locations. We propose two bio-inspired strategies to coordinate the swarm: the first is based on the Ant Colony Optimization (ATS-RR) and the other is based on the Firefly Algorithm (FTS-RR). Our experiments were conducted by simulations evaluating the performance in terms of exploring and disarming time and the number of accesses in the operative grid area applying both strategies in comparison with the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The results show that FTS-RR strategy performs better especially when the complexity of the tasks increases.
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Artificial Intelligence

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Soft Computing

Computational Intelligence

Evolutionary Robotics and Intelligent Agents

Swarm/Collective Intelligence
Evolutionary Computing

Placeless Store or Ubiquitous Stores? - New Technological Frontiers in Retailing

Topic: Ubiquity

Authors: Eleonora Pantano 1 and Saverino Verteramo 2

Affiliations: 1 Middlesex University London, United Kingdom , 2 University of Calabria, Italy

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005531301730178

Proceedings of ICE-B 2015/ICETE, ISBN: 978-989-758-113-7

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Retailing is subject to a continuous innovation triggered by the constant progresses in technology. The new technologies are dramatically changing the way for searching, comparing, choosing and buying products, by providing new exciting and more effective shopping experience. Among the available technology-based innovations for retailing, especially advancements in networking systems and ubiquitous computing provide a totally new scenario where competing. In particular, these ones develop new shopping environment not limited to the traditional physical points of sale, by becoming a promising area for research. This paper aims at investigating the new competitive scenario, by emphasizing the shift from e- to m- to u-store, and outlining possible future directions in a placeless shopping scenario.
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Collaboration and e-Services

Enterprise Information Systems

Ubiquity
e-Business

A Component Abstraction for Localized, Composable, Machine Manipulable Enterprise Specification

Authors: Vinay Kulkarni 1 , Tony Clark 2 and Balbir Barn 2

Affiliations: 1 Tata Consultancy Services, India , 2 Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005425801800185

Proceedings of BMSD 2014, ISBN: 978-989-758-032-1

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Enterprise modelling aims to specify an enterprise in terms of high-level models that address key problems such as business-IT alignment, enterprise transformation and optimal operation. No two situations in real world enterprises are exactly alike but there may be significant overlap. Relative ignorance of such overlaps forces essentially the same problem, albeit in a different context, to be repeatedly solved from scratch. This is a time-, effort- and cost-intensive endeavour. To overcome this problem and facilitate reuse, we propose a model-centric component abstraction that enables specification of the what, the how and the why concerns of enterprise in a localized, composable and machine manipulable manner. We present a meta-model, describe concrete syntax for its textual representation, and discuss the required model processing machinery.

Next Generation Enterprise Modelling - The Role of Organizational Theory and Multi-Agent Systems

Topics: Model-Driven Engineering; Distributed Architectures; Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems; Agile Methodologies

Authors: Balbir Barn 1 , Tony Clark 1 and Vinay Kulkarni 2

Affiliations: 1 Middlesex University, United Kingdom , 2 Tata Consultancy Services, India

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0005097404820487

Proceedings of ICSOFT-EA 2014/ICSOFT, ISBN: 978-989-758-036-9

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This position paper proposes that the current enterprise modeling approaches are overly reliant on the know how or tacit knowledge of enterprise architects for addressing organizational challenges such as business-IT alignment. Furthermore, current modeling languages only encourage linear thinking. By drawing upon existing research on (computational) organization theory and multi-agent systems, we propose implementation requirements for a next generation enterprise modeling language that supports agent based simulation.
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Agents

Distributed Architectures

Multi-Agent Systems

Agile Methodologies

Enterprise Information Systems

Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence

Information Systems Analysis and Specification

Software Engineering Methods and Techniques

Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems

Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

Software Project Management

Cross-Feeding between Data and Software Engineering

Knowledge-Based Systems

Symbolic Systems
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems

Model-Driven Engineering

Slrtool: A Tool to Support Collaborative Systematic Literature Reviews

Topics: Software Engineering; Requirements Analysis And Management; Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development; Organisational Learning

Authors: Balbir S. Barn , Franco Raimondi , Lalith Athappian and Tony Clark

Affiliation: Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Digital Object Identifier: 10.5220/0004972204400447

Proceedings of ICEIS 2014, ISBN: 978-989-758-028-4

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Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) are used in a number of fields to produce unbiased accounts of specific research topics. SLRs and meta-analysis techniques are increasingly being used in other fields as well, from Social Sciences to Software Engineering. This paper presents the SLRTool tool - an open source, web based, multi-user tool that supports the SLR process for a range of research areas. The tool is available at http://www.slrtool.org and is developed using a model-driven approach to enable its adaptation to different disciplines. The functionality of the tool is presented in the context of support for various phases of the SLR process. The use of the tool is illustrated by means of a simulated SLR aiming to map out existing research in the domain of Enterprise Architecture (EA). Commentary on the use of the tool and potential additional benefits are discussed, for example, the role of the tool in non-medical meta-studies.The SLRTool tool supports all phases of the SLR process and lends itself to creating and supporting research communities geared to SLR oriented activities. In particular, the tool could be suitable for the novice researcher community.
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Enterprise Information Systems

Organisational Learning

Software Engineering

Information Systems Analysis and Specification

Requirements Analysis And Management

Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development

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