Quality-aware architectural model transformations in adaptive mashups user interfaces

The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FI-2016-0000Mashup user interfaces provides their functionality through the combination of different services. The integration of such services can be solved by using reusable and third-party components. Furthermore, these interfaces must be adapted to user preferences, context changes, user interactions and component availability. Model transformation is a useful mechanism to address this adaptation but normally these operations only focus on the functional requirements. In this sense, quality attributes should be included in the adaptation process to obtain the best adapted mashup user interface. This paper proposes a generic quality-aware transformation process to support the adaptation of software architectures. The transformation process has been applied in ENIA, a geographic information system, by constructing a specific quality model for the adaptation of mashup user interfaces. This model is taken into account for evaluating the different transformation alternatives and choosing the one that maximizes the quality assessments. The approach has been validated by a set of adaptation scenarios that are intended to maximize different quality factors and therefore apply distinct combinations of metrics.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Measuring the quality of transformation alternatives in software architectures evolution

Many today’s software systems need to be self-adapted at run-time. Model transformation is a good approach to adapt the component-based architecture of such software systems. However, existing model transformation processes focus on the functionalities of systems, giving less importance to the quality attributes. The goal of this study is to improve model transformation processes by also considering quality attributes in the generation and adaptation of component-based architectures (i.e., driving the selection among many alternative model transformations by software architecture metrics). Such metrics evaluate the qualities of an architecture, such as flexibility and modifiability. This paper provides some measures of quality for different transformation alternatives and an example in the ENIA software

The urban project. The end of degree project

Ésta es una publicación que explica nuestra experien¬cia docente en la invención de estrategias para el territorio urbano, basadas en el proyecto como instrumento de in¬tervención; un método que presenta características de los planes a la vez que de los proyectos arquitectónicos, con ideas que van más allá del artefacto que proponen y del lugar estricto en que se implantan. Comoquiera que este libro se dedica a presentar los pro¬yectos fin de carrera de los estudiantes de Arquitectura que han elegido elaborar propuestas que siguen esta línea arquitectónico-urbanística. Desde nuestra joven Escuela de Arquitectura de Granada, quisiéramos ver arraigar y desarrollar algunos de los atributos que se presentanen el prólogo de Joan Busquets, destacado urbanista y pro¬fesor. Obviamente, la generosa autoriza-ción para publicar este texto, quiere significar para noso¬tros, y así lo sugerimos a nuestros alumnos y lectores, una referencia de calidad para seguir profundizando y mejoran¬do en el camino emprendido. Que no es otro que el empeño de contribuir al bienestar más igualitario de los ciudadanos en los territorios en que transcurren sus vidas. The implication of the University in the problems of the so¬ciety and the territory of its environment and of its time, constitutes a major exigency more the university institution spreads toal most all the cities of our country, all more cons¬cience is of that the knowledge is an essential vector of our time and major they are the requirements of innovation to face the emergent problems of extensive urbanization and environmental deterioration. Thisuniversitycommitmentwithitsenviromentissufficientlyrecognizedwhenonespeaksaboutinvestigation but is re comforting also to recognize it in educational efforts like that here we preface. The teaching is formation of human resources and frame of possible confluence of universal concepts with the local conditions. To the margin of this confrontation of generic values with a few historical - social precise and local needs, those resources would not conform as share capital, as so¬lidary with a collective project. In these publications of the a Area of Urban development and Land management of one of its years in the Technical Top School of Architecture, it is necessary to admit this effort of commitment between the global thing and the lo¬cal thing, between the knowledge and the practice, between culture and society. It is necessary to recognize, to support its continuity and contagious diffusion it and it be grateful to all by those, teachers and pupils, who have collaborated both in the curses and in the publications.Junta de Andalucía y Universidad de Granad

Exploring quality-aware architectural transformations at run-time : the ENIA case

The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45547-1_23Adapting software systems at run-time is a key issue, especially when these systems consist of components used as intermediary for human-computer interaction. In this sense, model transformation techniques have a widespread acceptance as a mechanism for adapting and evolving the software architecture of such systems. However, existing model transformations often focus on functional requirements, and quality attributes are only manually considered after the transformations are done. This paper aims to improve the quality of adaptations and evolutions in component-based software systems by taking into account quality attributes within the model transformation process. To this end, we present a quality-aware transformation process using software architecture metrics to select among many alternative model transformations. Such metrics evaluate the quality attributes of an architecture. We validate the presented quality-aware transformation process in ENIA, a geographic information system whose user interfaces are based on coarsegrained components and need to be adapted at run-time.Peer Reviewe

Quality-aware architectural model transformations in adaptive mashups user interfaces

The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FI-2016-0000Mashup user interfaces provides their functionality through the combination of different services. The integration of such services can be solved by using reusable and third-party components. Furthermore, these interfaces must be adapted to user preferences, context changes, user interactions and component availability. Model transformation is a useful mechanism to address this adaptation but normally these operations only focus on the functional requirements. In this sense, quality attributes should be included in the adaptation process to obtain the best adapted mashup user interface. This paper proposes a generic quality-aware transformation process to support the adaptation of software architectures. The transformation process has been applied in ENIA, a geographic information system, by constructing a specific quality model for the adaptation of mashup user interfaces. This model is taken into account for evaluating the different transformation alternatives and choosing the one that maximizes the quality assessments. The approach has been validated by a set of adaptation scenarios that are intended to maximize different quality factors and therefore apply distinct combinations of metrics.Peer Reviewe

5 Propuestas para el dossier de pre-selección de la Candidatura de Córdoba 2016

Recopilación de las cinco propuestas que el Laboratorio de Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio de la Universidadd e Granada presentó al Concurso de preselección de propuestas para su incorporación al dossier de preselección de la candidatura Córdoba 2016 para ser Capital Cultural Europea. Se presentaron las siguientes propuestas:"Tres INTINERARIOS metroPOLITANOS y un PARQUE del GuadalQUIVIR", "Córdoba en Río", "Córdoba en proceso", "Marca-Ciudad", "Interferencias2016. A través del espejo", siendo "Córdoba en Río" seleccionada para su incorporación en el citado dossier

Infancia y Ciudad. Aproximaciones para una lectura pedagógica de la ciudad

La infancia es un capital inductor de relaciones y conformador de conductas. Una bomba de tiempo, algo seminal. El futuro de nuestras próximas ideas, descubrimientos, conflictos; o las formas, objetos y ciudades que viviremos,están codificándose continuamente en pequeños estuches que se van e irán abriendo constantemente. Entretanto día a día, condicionan la vida social adulta, parte de su capital social y los tiempos, dibujándose sobre planos de trazas sin alma, donde a pesar de todo, muchos, como se verá aquí, son capaces de dibujar con colores. Este libro es apenas solo un pequeño puñado de arena en la punta de una gigantesca montaña, el de un inmenso amor, que bajo la superficie, y sin tanta visibilidad, muchos practican cada día. La dimensión urbana de la infancia es lo que acaricia a presentar,con mucha pasión, sencillez y modestia al mismo tiempo, esta breve colección de relatos, pero mostrando con toda la ambición de los enamorados, el deseo de ensanchar de afectos, de nuevos relatos, un futuro comprometido a emerger este capital silencioso que tanto ruido hace.- Infancia y ciudad / Silverio Martínez Iribarne- La mala educación / Rafael Reinoso Bellido- Yo aprendo mi ciudad: la ciudad como entorno social para el aprendizaje / David Cabrera Manzano- Educación y sensibilización sobre el patrimonio: lagunas, oportunidades y desafíos / Celia Martínez Yáñez- ArxiuAlicia: infancia, experiencia y espacio público / María Muñoz Duyos- Stickers en el metro, estudiantes en el suelo: movilidad, agencia y el espacio de los niños / Susana Cortés Morales- Diseño urbano universla e infancia / Mari Cruz Blanco Velasco- De la calle a la escuela: primeros pasos para leer la ciudad / Pablo Amor; Cristina Llorente- Infancia y ciudad en la coyuntura mundial de "lo nuevo" / César Muñoz JiménezUniversidad de Granada. Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del TerritorioPromotora Cultural Malagueña (España)Ediciones del GenalLibrerias Proteo y Promete

Guadalmedina Strategy for Malaga_EGM 2035

Esta publicación presenta la propuesta para el “concurso de ideas sobre la integración urbana del río Guadalmedina” elaborado desde el Laboratorio de Urbanismo de la Universidad de Granada en Febrero de 2012, con el que se ganó el premio tercer accesit. Son un conjunto de acciones a corto, medio y largo plazo que se orientan a un objetivo común: la mejora urbanística y ambientaldel cauce del Guadalmedina y su entorno, desde los montes al mar. El diseño del cauce fluvial es solamente una parte muy reducida de lo que se propone: un cambio fundamental en la gestión, en la participación pública, en la integración de políticas de rehabilitación y de reurbanización de las barriadas y en la mejora de una movilidad más eficiente, igualitaria y respetuosa de los valores ambientales, más transporte público y menos coche. Se usará el cauce sin temor, como lugar de cohesión de todos los barrios de su entorno.This is a publication that presents the proposal to the "contest of ideas about urban integration Guadalmedina River" drawn from the Urban Laboratory, University of Granada, February 2012, . They are a set of short, medium and long term that focus on a common goal: improving urban and environmental riverbed of Guadalmedina and its surroundings, from the mountains to the sea. The design of the river channel is only a very small part of what is proposed: a fundamental change in management, public participation, policy integration in rehabilitation and redevelopment of slums and improving mobility more efficient, equitable and respectful of environmental values, more public transit and less car. Will use the riverbed without fear, as a place of unity of all neighborhoods of their environment