Zero-serialization, Zero-copy memory pooling in compute clusters: Disaggregated memory made accessible

With the rise of the new interconnect standards CXL and previously OpenCAPI, has come a great deal of possibilities to step away from the classical approach where CPUs are in charge of moving data between external devices and local memory. Specifically, OpenCAPI allows for attached devices to directly interface with the host memory bus in a near...

The Impact of Test Case Clustering on Comprehending Automatically Generated Test Suites

Software testing, a critical phase in the software development lifecycle, is often hindered by the time-intensive and costly manual creation of test cases. While automating test case generation could mitigate these challenges, its adoption in the industry has been limited due to difficulties in comprehending the generated test cases. To address...

Development of a Software Architecture for a Reconfigurable Aircraft Design System

Aircraft design systems are frequently used to synthesize aircraft designs. However, it is inherently difficult to reconfigure these software systems to facilitate a broader range of design studies (e.g. optimization or sensitivity studies) and to address follow-up questions about the synthesized aircraft designs. This report presents an...

Development of Telemetry Ranging for Small Satellites: A Ranging technique for Delfi-PQ

Small satellite systems such as CubeSats and PocketQubes have strict requirements in terms of size, weight, and power available onboard. In light of these constraints, small satellite systems typically omit the inclusion of a ranging system due to its power and specialized hardware requirements. However, new research in satellite ranging...

Exploring the Developer Drive: A Case Study on the Motivation of Individual Developers in Diverse Actors to Start and Continue Participation in a PaaS SECO Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory

This thesis explores the motivation of developers to initiate and sustain participation in a Platform-as-a-Service Software Ecosystem (PaaS SECO). PaaS, integral to SECOs, is gaining prominence for its cost advantages and scalability. The study focuses on understanding what drives developers in diverse roles to engage with PaaS SECOs and...

Finding your digital sibling: Grouping GitHub projects that share certain attributes based on interactions and activities

This study explores the feasibility of categorizing GitHub projects based on their interactions and activities, aiming to assist both researchers and practitioners in navigating the vast landscape of open-source software. Through experiments and analysis, key attributes contributing to project categorization are identified, paving the way for...

Effects of Artifact Age on Maven Dependency Resolution

This study conducts an investigation of the challenges faced by aging projects in Maven Central, focusing on the issue of missing dependencies. Using the Maven Explorer indexer, we systematically examine the correlation between the age of a project and the frequency of dependency resolution failures. Our analysis reveals a notable trend: older...

Condition monitoring of railway transition zones through axle box accelerations using multi body simulation software

Transition zones in railway tracks are locations with an abrupt change in stiffness in the vertical rail supporting structure. These locations are typically located as approaches near engineering structures where there is a sudden change in track substructure. Due to these abrupt changes the dynamic forces of the wheel-rail interaction on the...

Startup-student collaboration in software engineering student projects:: The introduction of a design thinking workshop

Projects in a software engineering (SE) curriculum have many advantages for students. For example, students gain teamwork and project management skills. Involving an external stakeholder can enhance the learning experience further. For instance, students have the opportunity to practice stakeholder management. Moreover, working on a project with...

Measuring up to Stability: Guidelines towards accurate energy consumption measurement results of Rust benchmarks

In Sustainable Software Engineering there is a need for tooling and guidelines for developers. In this research we aim to provide such guidelines. We find that for our experimental setup and set of benchmarks 500 samples gives results that are likely stable at a 1% threshold in their Relative Confidence Interval Width. Running benchmarks with a...

Sustainability of Edge AI at Scale: An empirical study on the sustainability of Edge AI in terms of energy consumption

Edge AI is an architectural deployment tactic that brings AI models closer to the user and data, relieving internet bandwidth usage and providing low latency and privacy. It remains unclear how this tactic performs at scale, since the distribution overhead could impact the total energy consumption. We identify four architectural scalability...