Effective runtime monitoring of distributed event-based enterprise systems with ASIA

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), interconnected smart devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) and other data sources are increasingly bridging the gap between the physical and digital world by providing fine-grained data about real-world events. Enterprise software systems are adopting the paradigm of event-based systems (EBS) to enable them to react to meaningful events in a timely manner. Smart supply chains fusing dynamic sensor data with information provided by backend-systems are one such example of event-based enterprise systems. Monitoring their global state in an effective way for runtime governance remains an open research challenge: providing the required type of information while trading off precision for costs. We previously introduced application-specific integrated aggregation (ASIA) as a means for collecting metadata in distributed event-based systems. In this paper, we show how ASIA can support IT Service Management in monitoring and governing decentralized event-based enterprise systems at runtime. We present a dashboard based on industry-strength technology as proof of concept and discuss how to integrate usage statistics provided on-the-fly by ASIA into metrics for runtime governance. We evaluate our monitoring approach in terms of performance, scalability and precision

C.: Emergence as Competitive Advantage - Engineering Tomorrow’s Enterprise Software Systems

Companies rely heavily on complex software systems and tightly integrated supply-chains to serve their customers in increasingly fast changing markets. To gain competitive advantage in such a setting, companies must adapt their processes, products and inter-organizational relationships quickly to changing environments. In the future, enterprise software systems must be explicitly designed for flexibly switching intensive interorganizational relationships and for rapidly implementing changes in requirements or context while retaining existing functionality and user acceptance. In this position paper we introduce the notion of emergence in enterprise software systems as a guiding principle. Emergent Enterprise Software Systems (EESS) will be capable of reacting to changes in the environment by adapting their behavior and exposing new functionality. The consequent challenges we face when designing, building and operating EESS are discussed

Flexible Entwurfsdatenverwaltung für CAD-Frameworks : Konzept, Realisierung und Bewertung

Eine der Hauptzielrichtungen von CAD-Frameworks ist die Integration von einzelnen, eigenständigen CAD-Werkzeugen mittels einer zentralen Datenverwaltung. Wesentliche Aufgaben hierbei sind die Verwaltung aller entwurfsrelevanten Daten sowie die effiziente Bereitstellung werkzeugrelevanter Daten für den werkzeugspezifischen Entwurfsschritt. Hierzu sind die vom jeweiligen Werkzeug zu bearbeitenden Entwurfsdaten bzw. Entwurfsobjekte zu selektieren und in der jeweils benötigten Form bereitzustellen. Nach Beendigung des Entwufsschrittes sind die geänderten Daten in den aktuellen Datenbestand zu integrieren. Um diese schwierige Aufgabe meistern zu können, ist es nötig, die vorherrschenden Objekt- und Entwurfsstrukturen entsprechend zu berücksichtigen. Das hier vorgestellte Objekt-Versions-Modell OVM soll diesen hohen Anforderungen entsprechen. Mit OVM werden (versionierte) Objekte aus Elementarobjekten zusammengesetzt; zwischen diesen Objekten können Objekt-, Versions-, und Konfigurationsbeziehungen in flexibler Art und Weise aufgebaut werden. Die zugehörige Manipulationssprache OML erlaubt ein adäquates Arbeiten mit den so strukturierten Objekten. OVM bietet eine hohe Abstraktion von der zugrundeliegenden Datenrepräsentation, so daß eine OVM-Realisierung im Prinzip mit unterschiedlichen DBS durchgeführt werden kann. Unsere OVM-Realisierung mittels des PRIMA-Systems wird vorgestellt, die gewonnenen Erfahrungen berichtet und eine vergleichende Bewertung zu Realisierungsalternativen gegeben

Patient-related predictors of treatment satisfaction of patients with fibromyalgia syndrome: Results of a cross-sectional survey

Objectives. This study aimed to determine patient-related predictors of treatment satisfaction in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS)-patients. Methods. In a cross-sectional survey, participants with self-reported diagnosis of FMS were recruited by FMS-self help organisations and clinical institutions. The patients answered demographic and medical questionnaires, the Fibromyalgia Survey Questionnaire (FSQ) including the Somatic Severity Score (SSS) and Widespread Pain Index (WPI), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4), and rated their treatment satisfaction on an 11-point Likert scale. The impact of patient-related variables (age, gender, partnership, educational level, time since onset of pain, time since FMS-diagnosis, health status since diagnosis, membership in FMS self-help organisations, polysymptomatic distress, anxiety and depression) and types of treatment on treatment satisfaction were tested by a multiple regression analysis. Results. The study sample (n=1651 patients) was composed mainly of middle-aged women with a long disease history, and 83.9% fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology diagnostic criteria of 2010. There was considerate variety regarding treatment satisfaction in FMS-patients, 14.8% reported no, 31.7% low, 40.8% moderate and 12.7% high satisfaction. Higher satisfaction was predicted by longer time since FMS diagnosis (p=0.03), improved health status since FMS-diagnosis (p<0.0001), lower depression score (p=0.005) and higher amount of active therapies (p<0.0001). Other sociodemographic (age, gender etc.) and disease-related variables (polysymptomatic distress intensity) did not influence treatment satisfaction. Conclusion. The results of the study illustrate the influence of patient-related factors on treatment satisfaction. Treating comorbid depression and enabling patients to actively cope with the disease might prove successful in improving treatment satisfaction of FMS-patients. © Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 2013

Using PRIMA-DBMS as a testbed for parallel complex-object processing

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