A secured e-tendering model based on rational unified process (RUP) approach: inception and elaboration phases

Due to the rapid rise in the e-Tendering transaction over the internet and the increasing use of e-Tendering solution by large organizations, there is a need to construct a secured e-Tendering model to ensure some security mechanisms such as confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the document are embedded in the e-tendering model.This to ensure the e-tendering transaction is secured and the most important is to gain trust from the e-Tendering stakeholder. Therefore, there is a need to develop a secured e-Tendering model as a guideline to e-tendering developers in developing the system. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is the most appropriate system development methodology that can guide researchers in generating secured artifact. The RUP has been used by many researchers to construct a secured application model in various researches and projects. This due to the ability of the RUP in guiding researchers to deliver secured artifacts through Inception and elaboration phases.Therefore, this study aims to construct a secured e-tendering artifacts based on RUP. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used to generate the secured e-tendering artifacts. This paper discusses the generation of use case, misuse case and class diagrams based on security mechanism that need to be embedded in the e-Tendering model.This study also found that, the RUP is one of the best system development methodology that can be used as one of the research methodology in the Software Engineering domain, especially related to secured design of any observed application.This methodology has been tested in various studies, such as in Simulation-based Decision Support, Security Requirement Engineering, Business Modeling and Secure System Requirement, and so forth.This study may contribute to the software industries in developing a secured system application in the future, and also to the secured system modeling domain

Conceptual Model of Smart Tailor Architecture for Garment Industry

Smart Tailor is an architecture that integrates various stakeholders such as tailors, designers, and customers in a garment industry. The architecture provides the ability to promote, manage and fulfill supply and demands of their product via electronic ways. Currently, the implementation of the related transaction processes is done manually which may cause time consuming and inefficiency in fulfilling the supply and demands of the garment products. Therefore, this paper aims to construct a conceptual model of Smart Tailor Architecture. This study adopted the first phase of the Rational Unified Process approach, Inception, by identifying the goal of the conceptual model and the verified requirements of the Smart Tailor architecture. Then, the verified requirements were transformed into the Smart Tailor components using the Unified Modeling Language approach. Finally, the verified components by experts become a conceptual model of the Smart Tailor Architecture. The model may contribute to the garment industry stakeholders as well as researchers, decision makers, and software developers

A Framework for the Automatic Physical Configuration and Tuning of a Mysql Community Server

Manual physical configuration and tuning of database servers, is a complicated task requiring a high level of expertise. Database administrators must consider numerous possibilities, to determine a candidate configuration for implementation. In recent times database vendors have responded to this problem, providing solutions which can automatically configure and tune their products. Poor configuration choices, resulting in performance degradation commonplace in manual configurations, have been significantly reduced in these solutions. However, no such solution exists for MySQL Community Server. This thesis, proposes a novel framework for automatically tuning a MySQL Community Server. A first iteration of the framework has been built and is presented in this paper together with its performance measurements