Conceptual modeling is an important part of information systems development and use that
involves identifying and representing relevant aspects of reality. Although the past decades …

In the context of software development, models provide an abstract representation of a
software system or a part of it. In the software development process, they are primarily used …

Secure and reliable management of identities has become one of the greatest challenges
facing cloud computing today, mainly due to the huge number of new cloud-based …

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) applications are largely built through end-user
programming in the form of event-action rules. Although end-user tools help simplify the …

Certifying security controls is required for information systems that are either federally
maintained or maintained by a US government contractor. As described in the NIST SP800 …

This thesis presents a proposal of a reference model for emotion in artificial systems. The
main argument is to provide a computational model of emotion appropriate for the particular …

A major challenge in the engineering of complex and critical systems is the management of
change, both in the system and in its operational environment. Due to the growing of …

Business competency emerges in flexibility and reliability of services that an enterprise
provides. To reach that, executing business processes on a context-aware business process …

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) constitutes a new paradigm of interaction among humans, smart
objects and devices. AmI systems are expected to support humans in their every day tasks …

In this thesis we proposed a proactive self-adaptation by integrating predictive analysis into
two phases of the software process. At design time, we propose a predictive modeling …