Annual Report 2015-2016

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An Autonomous Engine for Services Configuration and Deployment.

The runtime management of the infrastructure providing service-based systems is a complex task, up to the point where manual operation struggles to be cost effective. As the functionality is provided by a set of dynamically composed distributed services, in order to achieve a management objective multiple operations have to be applied over the distributed elements of the managed infrastructure. Moreover, the manager must cope with the highly heterogeneous characteristics and management interfaces of the runtime resources. With this in mind, this paper proposes to support the configuration and deployment of services with an automated closed control loop. The automation is enabled by the definition of a generic information model, which captures all the information relevant to the management of the services with the same abstractions, describing the runtime elements, service dependencies, and business objectives. On top of that, a technique based on satisfiability is described which automatically diagnoses the state of the managed environment and obtains the required changes for correcting it (e.g., installation, service binding, update, or configuration). The results from a set of case studies extracted from the banking domain are provided to validate the feasibility of this propos

Home care and digital platforms in Spain

The introduction of the Ley de Promoción de la Autonomía Personal y Atención a las Personas en Situación de Dependencia, LAPAD (Promotion of the Autonomy and Care of People in a Situation of Dependency Law, LAPAD) in 2006 represented a major step forward with its universal recognition of the right to care. However, cuts in funding in subsequent years have severely limited the law's potential, and the gap between demand and services offered continues to widen. This means today, the care of the elderly and dependent continues to be a responsibility largely borne by women in the family. They either have to employ someone else (another woman, often foreign) to do the job or do it themselves

Vertical and horizontal elasticity for dynamic virtual machine reconfiguration

Today, cloud computing applications are rapidly constructed by services belonging to different cloud providers and service owners. This work presents the inter-cloud elasticity framework, which focuses on cloud load balancing based on dynamic virtual machine reconfiguration when variations on load or on user requests volume are observed. We design a dynamic reconfiguration system, called inter-cloud load balancer (ICLB), that allows scaling up or down the virtual resources (thus providing automatized elasticity), by eliminating service downtimes and communication failures. It includes an inter-cloud load balancer for distributing incoming user HTTP traffic across multiple instances of inter-cloud applications and services and we perform dynamic reconfiguration of resources according to the real time requirements. The experimental analysis includes different topologies by showing how real-time traffic variation (using real world workloads) affects resource utilization and by achieving better resource usage in inter-cloud

Automating Society : Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU

This is the first comprehensive study regarding the state of automated decision-making in Europe. Experts have looked at the situation at the EU level but also in 12 Member States: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK. They assessed not only the political discussions and initiatives in these countries but also present a section "ADM in Action" for all states, listing examples of automated decision-making already in use

Automating Society: Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU. BertelsmannStiftung Studies 2019

Imagine you’re looking for a job. The company you are applying to says you can have a much easier application process if you provide them with your username and password for your personal email account. They can then just scan all your emails and develop a personality profile based on the result. No need to waste time filling out a boring questionnaire and, because it’s much harder to manipulate all your past emails than to try to give the ‘correct’ answers to a questionnaire, the results of the email scan will be much more accurate and truthful than any conventional personality profiling. Wouldn’t that be great? Everyone wins—the company looking for new personnel, because they can recruit people on the basis of more accurate profiles, you, because you save time and effort and don’t end up in a job you don’t like, and the company offering the profiling service because they have a cool new business model

MONEY LAUNDERING USING FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY THROUGH E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS

The rapid development of technology today makes all activities in human life can be carried out easily. One of them is to make payments through an application in a smartphone. Payment with these technological innovations or in other words, technology-based financial services are commonly referred to as fintech. Fintech is here to facilitate the  process of financial transactions but also has a bad impact on the economic sector, one of which is money laundering. Money laundering activities can currently be carried out through fintech. The illegal act of money laundering through fintech is increasingly difficult to know who is behind the scenes. The purpose of this study is to make an improvement in legislation in the field of financial technology, which until now is still nil. This research is carried out through a normative approach using a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. The result of this study is to provide a new policy on financial technology, especially in money laundering activities carried out on the use of e-ecommerce transactions where currently there is none

MONEY LAUNDERING USING FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY THROUGH ECOMMERCE TRANSACTION

The rapid development of technology today makes all activities in human life can be carried out easily. One of them is to make payments through an application in a smartphone. Payment with these technological innovations or in other words, technology-based financial services are commonly referred to as fintech. Fintech is here to facilitate the process of financial transactions but also has a bad impact on the economic sector, one of which is money laundering. Money laundering activities can currently be carried out through fintech. The illegal act of money laundering through fintech is increasingly difficult to know who is behind the scenes. The purpose of this study is to make an improvement in legislation in the field of financial technology, which until now is still nil. This research is carried out through a normative approach using a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. The result of this study is to provide a new policy on financial technology, especially in money laundering activities carried out on the use of e-ecommerce transactions where currently there is none