A Change Support Model for Distributed Collaborative Work

Distributed collaborative software development tends to make artifacts and decisions inconsistent and uncertain. We try to solve this problem by providing an information repository to reflect the state of works precisely, by managing the states of artifacts/products made through collaborative work, and the states of decisions made through communications. In this paper, we propose models and a tool to construct the artifact-related part of the information repository, and explain the way to use the repository to resolve inconsistencies caused by concurrent changes of artifacts. We first show the model and the tool to generate the dependency relationships among UML model elements as content of the information repository. Next, we present the model and the method to generate change support workflows from the information repository. These workflows give us the way to efficiently modify the change-related artifacts for each change request. Finally, we define inconsistency patterns that enable us to be aware of the possibility of inconsistency occurrences. By combining this mechanism with version control systems, we can make changes safely. Our models and tool are useful in the maintenance phase to perform changes safely and efficiently.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures, 4 table

EXEMPLAR: An Experimental Information Repository for Software Engineering Research

The number and variety of experiments carried in software engineering research is growing, leading to a increasing need of replication and review. In order to support such needs the information about experiments should be provided as lab-packs comprising of: a description of the experiment, the materials used and data generated during the conduction, and the results of the analyzes performed on such data. However, this information is often scattered, poorly structured, and even unavailable, implying a tedious process of search and gathering. EXEMPLAR is an online platform for managing experimental information, that allows the uploading and publication of experimental lab packs, and an efficient search. The platform also supports the use of formal languages for providing experimental descriptions (e.g. SEDL). In so doing, EXEMPLAR enables the automated analysis of lab-packs, in order to detect common validity threats and missing information which could hinder replicability.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TAPAS TIN2012–32273Junta de Andalucía P12–TIC–1867Junta de Andalucía THEOS TIC–590

An Intelligent Information Management Environment for Mobile Commerce

This work proposes an intelligent information management environment for mobile commerce. The environment contains four modules, namely, interface manager, information repository, information analyzer, and information collector. The interface manager provides an intelligent interface for generating and collecting business information from the mobile device. The information repository contains the user-specific information and the meta-information of information sources. The information analyzer performs the tasks of user behavior analysis, quality of information service measurement, information repository management, cost evaluation, anytime information supporting, and information filtering. Finally, the information collector dispatches different information agents for collecting business information from different information sources

dbPTM: an information repository of protein post-translational modification

dbPTM is a database that compiles information on protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as the catalytic sites, solvent accessibility of amino acid residues, protein secondary and tertiary structures, protein domains and protein variations. The database includes all of the experimentally validated PTM sites from Swiss-Prot, PhosphoELM and O-GLYCBASE. Only a small fraction of Swiss-Prot proteins are annotated with experimentally verified PTM. Although the Swiss-Prot provides rich information about the PTM, other structural properties and functional information of proteins are also essential for elucidating protein mechanisms. The dbPTM systematically identifies three major types of protein PTM (phosphorylation, glycosylation and sulfation) sites against Swiss-Prot proteins by refining our previously developed prediction tool, KinasePhos (). Solvent accessibility and secondary structure of residues are also computationally predicted and are mapped to the PTM sites. The resource is now freely available at

Sahitya Akademi Award Winning ‘Gopalla Gramam’ - An Information Repository

The purpose of this article is to explore the disappearing uniqueness in Rajanarayana's Sahitya Academy Award-winning novel Gopalla Gramam. It is said to be a novel. But there is no complete storytelling in this novel that is unique to a novel. So no specific characters were found. There is no continuous sequel in the storytelling process. However, it has acquired the unique status that a novel deserves. A lot of people exist in this. A lot of incidents do happen. The novel is considered to be a wonderful work that contains a lot of information and traces of time. The characters in this novel have every kind of relevance. The novel also explores the lifestyles and customs of different types of people, both socially and individually. It has also recorded social issues. Many colloquialisms that have been in circulation at that time are recorded. On the whole, the purpose of this article is to explore the availability of Ki Ra’s ‘Gopalla Gramam’ as an information repository

Enriching Ontologies with Multilingual Information

Multilinguality in ontologies has become an impending need for institutions worldwide that have to deal with data and linguistic resources in different natural languages. Since most ontologies are developed in one language, obtaining multilingual ontologies implies to localize or adapt them to a concrete language and culture community. As the adaptation of the ontology conceptualization demands considerable efforts, we propose to modify the ontology terminological layer by associating an external repository of linguistic data to the ontology. With this aim we provide a model called Linguistic Information Repository (LIR) that associated to the ontology meta-model allows terminological layer localization

Process plant safety information repository and support for safety applications

The consideration of safety of processing plants from design to operation involves many tasks. Different techniques and tools have been developed to assist in carry out those tasks. With the advances in computing technologies, both in hardware and software, there is the opportunity to bring together the vast amount of engineering, hazard and risk data and handle them in an efficient way to manage and improve safety throughout the life time of a plant. This paper proposes keeping such data in a process plant safety information repository which can be easily accessed by different safety-related tools to enhance the efficiency of safety identification and analysis tasks

The World Wide Web is More Than An Information Repository

It is tempting to think of the World-Wide Web (WWW) as a place where individuals and organizations post information. Although web sites are repositories, that view limits our ability to understand the different uses that individuals and organizations have found for the WWW. Many different kinds of collectives are using the WWW to support their needs. Identifying these different kinds of collaboration helps us to understand how new technologies shape social practices while simultaneously the technology is being shaped by those practice