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ICSEA 2021: the sixteenth international conference on software engineering advances
The Sixteenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2021), held on October 3 - 7, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain, continued a series of events covering a broad spectrum of software-related topics.
The conference covered fundamentals on designing, implementing, testing, validating and maintaining various kinds of software. The tracks treated the topics from theory to practice, in terms of methodologies, design, implementation, testing, use cases, tools, and lessons learnt. The conference topics covered classical and advanced methodologies, open source, agile software, as well as software deployment and software economics and education.
The conference had the following tracks:
Advances in fundamentals for software development
Advanced mechanisms for software development
Advanced design tools for developing software
Software engineering for service computing (SOA and Cloud)
Advanced facilities for accessing software
Software performance
Software security, privacy, safeness
Advances in software testing
Specialized software advanced applications
Web Accessibility
Open source software
Agile and Lean approaches in software engineering
Software deployment and maintenance
Software engineering techniques, metrics, and formalisms
Software economics, adoption, and education
Business technology
Improving productivity in research on software engineering
Trends and achievements
Similar to the previous edition, this event continued to be very competitive in its selection process and very well perceived by the international software engineering community. As such, it is attracting excellent contributions and active participation from all over the world. We were very pleased to receive a large amount of top quality contributions.
We take here the opportunity to warmly thank all the members of the ICSEA 2021 technical program committee as well as the numerous reviewers. The creation of such a broad and high quality conference program would not have been possible without their involvement. We also kindly thank all the authors that dedicated much of their time and efforts to contribute to the ICSEA 2021. We truly believe that thanks to all these efforts, the final conference program consists of top quality contributions.
This event could also not have been a reality without the support of many individuals, organizations and sponsors. We also gratefully thank the members of the ICSEA 2021 organizing committee for their help in handling the logistics and for their work that is making this professional meeting a success.
We hope the ICSEA 2021 was a successful international forum for the exchange of ideas and results between academia and industry and to promote further progress in software engineering research
SmartMesh IP Network and IoT System
In recent years, a great deal of research conducted in a variety of scientific areas, including physics, microelectronics, and material science, by scientific experts from different domains of expertise has resulted in the invention of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). As MEMS became very popular and widely used, the need for combining the capabilities of sensing, actuation, processing, and communication also grew, and led to further research which would result in the design and implementation of devices which could reflect all those four capabilities. These devices became knowns as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and they have been the focus of considerable research efforts in the areas of communications (routing, coding, error detection, error correction, and protocols), electronics (miniaturization and energy efficiency), and control (networked control system, theory, and applications).
SmartMesh IP is an innovative way to connect WSNs with advanced network management and comprehensive security features. It follows the IEEE 802.15.4e Timeslotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) standard. SmartMesh IP delivers reliable, scalable, and energy efficient wireless sensor connectivity. Using up to eight times less power than other solutions, SmartMesh IP has become the industry’s most energy-efficient wireless mesh sensing technology even in harsh and dynamically changing RF environments. Therefore, it is an excellent way to create a smart low-power network infrastructure.
Thus, the main objectives of this work are:
1) designing and developing a SmartMesh IP system for teaching and research purposes at St. Cloud State University,
2) developing lab procedures for two senior elective classes at St. Cloud State University. The lab procedures are for network manager and mote configuration, and operation control of the embedded system on the mote.
3) testing the performance of SmartMesh IP systems with several configurations.
To accomplish the above objectives, here are the tasks that I have completed:
1) Study of the SmartMesh IP Design: Performed extensive study of SmartMesh IP design resources including documentations and source codes.
2) Design of a SmartMesh IP Configuration software: this software has been designed and developed for configuring SmartMesh IP network managers, motes, and access points.
3) Design of a SmartMesh IP Temperature Logger software: this software has been designed and developed for monitoring the temperature data collected within a SmartMesh IP network using motes’ internal temperature sensors.
4) Design of a SmartMesh IP Network Statistics software: this software has been designed and developed for monitoring the statistics data (such as reliability, stability, and latency statistics) collected within a SmartMesh IP network.
5) Design of a SmartMesh IP Network Topology software: this software has been designed and developed for viewing the topology layout of a SmartMesh IP network.
6) Design of SmartMesh IP Temperature Plotter firmware and software: this platform has been designed and developed for monitoring the temperature data from external temperature sensors through ADC processing.
7) Design of SmartMesh IP Oscilloscope firmware and software: this platform has been designed and developed for viewing an analog signal’s digitized data.
To complete the above tasks, I relied heavily on the resources found in the dustcloud Community SmartMesh IP website:
https://dustcloud.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ALLDOC/overview
In the end, a SmartMesh IP network and IoT system was successfully designed and developed. Also, the system was tested with 100% reliability under several applications and configurations
Game Theory Meets Network Security: A Tutorial at ACM CCS
The increasingly pervasive connectivity of today's information systems brings
up new challenges to security. Traditional security has accomplished a long way
toward protecting well-defined goals such as confidentiality, integrity,
availability, and authenticity. However, with the growing sophistication of the
attacks and the complexity of the system, the protection using traditional
methods could be cost-prohibitive. A new perspective and a new theoretical
foundation are needed to understand security from a strategic and
decision-making perspective. Game theory provides a natural framework to
capture the adversarial and defensive interactions between an attacker and a
defender. It provides a quantitative assessment of security, prediction of
security outcomes, and a mechanism design tool that can enable
security-by-design and reverse the attacker's advantage. This tutorial provides
an overview of diverse methodologies from game theory that includes games of
incomplete information, dynamic games, mechanism design theory to offer a
modern theoretic underpinning of a science of cybersecurity. The tutorial will
also discuss open problems and research challenges that the CCS community can
address and contribute with an objective to build a multidisciplinary bridge
between cybersecurity, economics, game and decision theory
Security and computer forensics in web engineering education
The integration of security and forensics into Web Engineering curricula is imperative! Poor security in web-based applications is continuing to cost organizations millions and the losses are still increasing annually. Security is frequently taught as a stand-alone course, assuming that security can be 'bolted on' to a web application at some point. Security issues must be integrated into Web Engineering processes right from the beginning to create secure solutions and therefore security should be an integral part of a Web Engineering curriculum. One aspect of Computer forensics investigates failures in security. Hence, students should be aware of the issues in forensics and how to respond when security failures occur; collecting evidence is particularly difficult for Web-based applications
Remote Control and Monitoring of Smart Home Facilities via Smartphone with Wi-Fly
Due to the widespread ownership of smartphone devices, the application of mobile technologies to enhance the monitoring and control of smart home facilities has attracted much academic attention. This study indicates that tools already in the possession of the end user can be a significant part of the specific context-aware system in the smart home. The behaviour of the system in the context of existing systems will reflect the intention of the client. This model system offers a diverse architectural concept for Wireless Sensor Actuator Mobile Computing in a Smart Home (WiSAMCinSH) and consists of sensors and actuators in various communication channels, with different capacities, paradigms, costs and degree of communication reliability. This paper focuses on the utilization of end users’ smartphone applications to control home devices, and to enable monitoring of the context-aware environment in the smart home to fulfil the needs of the ageing population. It investigates the application of an iPhone to supervise smart home monitoring and control electrical devices, and through this approach, after initial setup of the mobile application, a user can control devices in the smart home from different locations and over various distances
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