Balanced Objective-Quantifiers Method (BOQM) For Software Intensive Organizations Strategies

Spanish university facilitates a method to link the strategic management with Software and Process improvement based on measurement. The method uses the process philosophy to build measurable information in Indicators templates (Based on ISO/IEC 15939) and a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) template, the process is followed by the participation of SIO’s roles such as the CEO, TI director, CPO, and others measurement roles such as measurement analyst, measurement librarian, and the measurement user

Método Objetivo-Cuantificadores Balanceado (MOCB) para estrategias en organizaciones intensivas de software

Universidad española facilita un método para unir la gestión estratégica con la mejora del proceso software basado en la medición. El método usa la filosofía de procesos para construir información medible en plantillas indicadores (ISO 15939) y una plantilla del CMI, el proceso es seguido por la participación de roles de la SIO tales como el CEO, Director TI, Dirección de proyectos, y otros roles de medición como el analista de medición, el bibliotecario de medición, y el usuario de medición

Developments in Aerospace Software Engineering practices for VSEs: An overview of the process requirements and practicesof integrated Maturity models and Standards

As part of the evolution of the Space market in the last years – globally referred to as Space 2.0 - small companies are playing an increasingly relevant role in different aerospace projects. Business incubators established by European Space Agency (ESA) and similar entities are evidence of the need of moving initiatives to small companies characterized by greater flexibility to develop specific activities. Software is a key component in most aerospace projects, and the success of the initiatives and projects usually depends on the capability of developing reliable software following well-defined standards. But small entities face some difficulties when adopting software development standards that have been conceived thinking on larger organizations and big programs. The need of defining software development standards tailored to small companies and groups is a permanent subject of discussion not only in the aerospace field, and has led in recent years to the publication of the ISO/IEC 29110 series of systems and software engineering standards and guides, aimed to solve the issues that Very Small Entities (VSEs) () – settings having up to twenty-five people -, found with other standards like CMMI or SPICE. This paper discusses the tailoring defined by different aerospace organizations for VSEs in the aerospace industry, and presents a conceptual arrangement of the standard based on meta-modeling languages that allow the extension and full customization with the incorporation of specific software engineering requirements and practices from ECSS (European Cooperation for Space Standardization)

Planificación estratégica de sistemas de información

La asignatura de planificación estratégica de sistemas de información se engloba dentro del ultimo nivel de docencia en ingeniería del software. La experiencia adquirida mediante la docencia de la asignatura a través de tres cursos académicos, así como en diversos cursos de especialización, han llevado a depurar la asignatura, tanto en sus contenidos como en la metodología empleada. La utilización de un modelo mixto de docencia basado en el método del caso y lección magistral ha proporcionado muy buenos resultados permitiendo cumplir todos los objetivos planteados. La adecuación del profesorado al tipo de materia y modelo pedagógico utilizado también ha sido evaluado para concretar e instrumentar posibles mejoras en la enseñanza

Desarrollo de competencias mediante la creación de una herramienta de soporte al PSP

El Proceso de Software Personal (PSP) fue diseñado a partir de prácticas y principios de calidad aplicados al trabajo individual del ingeniero de software. Inicialmente, tanto profesionales como estudiantes de primeros cursos de la titulación informática fueron instruidos en el proceso. Este artículo describe la enseñanza de PSP en un curso de segundo ciclo de Ingeniería Informática, y cómo, la construcción de una herramienta de apoyo al proceso, además de ser la base para el desarrollo de competencias consideradas clave para el trabajo del ingeniero de software, soporta, simplifica y aumenta la efectividad en la docencia de este tipo de mejoras del proceso software

Smart occupational health and safety for a digital era and its place in smart and sustainable cities

As innovative technologies emerge, there is a need to evolve the environments in which these technologies are used. The trend has shifted from considering technology as a support service towards making it the means for transforming all complex systems. Smart cities focus their development on the use of technology to transform every aspect of society and embrace the complexity of these transformations towards something leading to the well-being and safety of people inhabiting these cities. Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is an essential aspect to be considered in the design of a smart city and its digital ecosystems, however, it remains unconsidered in most smart city's frameworks, despite the need for a specific space for smart OHS. This paper summarizes a 9-month process of generation of a value proposition for evolving the sector of OHS based on a value-map in whose creation several stakeholders have participated. They focused on identifying the products, the methods, the organizational structures and the technologies required to develop an updated, dynamic and robust prevention model focused on workers in smart and complex contexts, and to improve the organizations' capability to guarantee safety even in the most changing, digital and disruptive settings. To assess the relevance and validity of this value-map, a study was carried out to match the set of its elements and its specific and conceptual products discovered, considering also the definition of the past needs and future trends of the sector that a set of renowned stakeholders and key opinion leaders (with mastery in OHS from several companies and industries) have recently defined for the decade of 2020. A prospective analysis of this match is presented, revealing that there is still an existing gap to be covered in the context of smart cities design: the explicit guarantee of safety for workers.This work has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid-Spain) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M in the line of Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M17), and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation)

A Survey on Energy Efficiency in Smart Homes and Smart Grids

Empowered by the emergence of novel information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as sensors and high-performance digital communication systems, Europe has adapted its electricity distribution network into a modern infrastructure known as a smart grid (SG). The benefits of this new infrastructure include precise and real-time capacity for measuring and monitoring the different energy-relevant parameters on the various points of the grid and for the remote operation and optimization of distribution. Furthermore, a new user profile is derived from this novel infrastructure, known as a prosumer (a user that can produce and consume energy to/from the grid), who can benefit from the features derived from applying advanced analytics and semantic technologies in the rich amount of big data generated by the different subsystems. However, this novel, highly interconnected infrastructure also presents some significant drawbacks, like those related to information security (IS). We provide a systematic literature survey of the ICT-empowered environments that comprise SGs and homes, and the application of modern artificial intelligence (AI) related technologies with sensor fusion systems and actuators, ensuring energy efficiency in such systems. Furthermore, we outline the current challenges and outlook for this field. These address new developments on microgrids, and data-driven energy efficiency that leads to better knowledge representation and decision-making for smart homes and SGsThis research was co-funded by Interreg Österreich-Bayern 2014–2020 programme project KI-Net: Bausteine für KI-basierte Optimierungen in der industriellen Fertigung (AB 292). This work is also supported by the ITEA3 OPTIMUM project and ITEA3 SCRATCH project, all of them funded by the Centro Tecnológico de Desarrollo Industrial (CDTI), Spain

La UC3M lanza cuatro nuevos MOOCs en edX

La Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ofrecerá a partir del mes de febrero cuatro nuevos MOOCs en la plataforma edX.Contiene: Entrevista a Alfonso Durán Heras (pp. 4-5). -- Entrevista a Arturo de la Escalera Hueso (pp. 6-7). -- Entrevista a Antonio de Amescua Seco (pp. 8-9). -- Entrevista a Manuel Sanjurjo Rivó y Mario Merino Martínez (pp. 10-11)

Using system dynamics to teach about dependencies, correlation and systemic thinking on the software process workflows

It is important to count on tools to help software professionals to evaluate the software process and how it may be affected by factors related to its deployment. Simulation models are a valuable means to illustrate the behaviour of such a process since scenario generation supports the prediction of potential outcomes and the prevention of undesired scenarios which are harmful to the process and the company in charge of the project to be developed. This work explores the effectiveness of introducing system dynamics (SD) models in the software engineers' process of understanding, from a management perspective, the software process dynamics. The used SD simulation model of the software process emphasises the representation of an iterative process. The COCOMO II model drivers and their main attributes were used, providing a set of reference factors that affect the software process, the estimation of project cost and the effort required. A set of 59 junior software professionals with no previous knowledge about SD participated in a validation study. For simple predictive scenarios, there was no important improvement effect, while for more complex predictive scenarios SD helped them to guess better and provide a rationale for the expected behaviour of the software process performance.This work has beensupportedby the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid‐Spain) under the Multiannual Agree-ment with UC3M in the line of Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M17) and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation

Simulación del proceso de desarrollo de software: una aproximación con Dinámica de Sistemas y el Método de Larman

The implementation of any software development process involves the consumption of critical resources. Software engineers cannot experiment with different development processes before starting them in real projects, due to the time that would entail and the amount of elements that are involved, so it is vital to have tools that allow the pre-visualization of the results of executing the software development process and how the environmental variables affect it, thus being able to anticipate under what conditions the software development process will be deployed. This paper presents the modelling and simulation of a software development process using System Dynamics (SD), which allows the graphical representation of the elements intervening in the software process, and the incorporation of as many relevant elements as possible. As a software costs estimation reference, the COCOMO estimation model was used; which beyond being reliable has a theoretical-practical foundation. As an ideal, and real, software process system, the Craig Larman Software Process model was chosen, also known as the Larman Method. The simulation model developed here, allows one to make some initial estimation of the software process and its elements’ behavior in the course of the simulation time. This is possible thanks to the observation and study of the system’s state variables, empowering one to discern about the effect of changes in the parameters on the general process, hence, carrying out relevant and interesting scenario studies. This model becomes a tool for supporting Software Project Management teams and enterprises whose business care on Technological Projects Management.Poner en marcha cualquier proyecto de software involucra el consumo de recursos críticos. El ingeniero de software no puede experimentar con procesos de desarrollo sin ponerlos en marcha en proyectos reales, debido al tiempo que ello conlleva y a los elementos implicados, de modo que es importante contar con herramientas para pre-visualizar el resultado de la ejecución del proceso y cómo las variables de entorno le afectan, buscando anticipar en qué condiciones se va a desplegar el proceso. Este artículo presenta el modelado y simulación de un proceso de desarrollo de software por medio del enfoque de la Dinámica de Sistemas (DS), que permite representar gráficamente los elementos intervinientes en el proceso e incorporar la cantidad relevante de parámetros involucrados. Se tomó como referencia el modelo de estimación de costes COCOMO, que cuenta con una fundamentación teórico-práctica que avala su fiabilidad. Para la construcción del modelo, la referencia de sistema real fue el proceso software de Craig Larman (Método de Larman). El modelo de simulación presentado permite hacer estimaciones iniciales del comportamiento del proceso software, y de los elementos que lo conforman, durante el transcurso de un tiempo de simulación configurable. Se analizan variables de estado del sistema, que permiten concluir sobre efectos de los parámetros en el comportamiento del sistema en general, y se lleva a cabo un estudio de escenarios. El modelo deriva en una herramienta de soporte a los equipos de gestión, y a las empresas que hacen de la Gestión de Proyectos Tecnológicos su negocio principal