Automatic Status Updates in Exacts Global Development Process

Due to a competitive business environment and demanding customers, many companies turn to globally distributed software development and agile methodologies. Globally distributed software engineering can bring great advantages in reducing costs, reducing time to market, and give access to a larger pool of skilled resources. Agile methodologies...

BTI in SRAM: Mitigation for BTI ageing in SRAM memories

The aggressive downscaling of the transistor has led to gigantic improvements in the performance and func- tionality of electronics. As a result, electronics have become a significant part in our daily lives whose absence would be difficult to imagine. Our cars, for example, now consist of many sensors and small computers each controlling...

Vulnerability prealerting by monitoring the online repositories of open source projects

Software security plays a crucial role in the modern world governed by software. And while closed source projects can enjoy a sense of confidentiality when addressing security issues, open source projects undertake them publicly even though just as many projects rely on them. In 50% of documented cases, the vulnerabilities could have been...

Green AI: An empirical study

In this work, we look at the intersection of Sustainable Software Engineering and AI engineering known as Green AI. AI computing is rapidly becoming more expensive, calling for a change in design philosophy. We consider both training and inference of neural networks used for image vision; to reveal energy-efficient practices in an exploratory...

Collaborative Knowledge Based Engineering

Present Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) applications do not facilitate collaborative processes due to lack of process formalization and orchestration capabilities, leading to ad-hoc solutions. This increases application development time, reduces re-usability, and increases the cognitive burden of users leading to decreased design efficiency....

Implementation of the Cityfix receiver concept

Cityfix is an integrated navigation system, which combines Differential GNSS and MW-radio transmissions. During outages or poor performance of the DGNSS the Cityfix system measures the carrier wave phases of the MW-radio transmitters to determine a displacement from the last accurate DGNSS position. This paper describes the implementation of the...

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...

Over de ontwikkeling van telecommunicatiesoftware

De problemen die optreden bij de ontwikkeling van telecommunicatiesoftware, bijvoorbeeld voor een X.400 - elektronisch berichtensysteem, worden tegenwoordig bestreden met onder andere nieuwe ontwikkelmethoden en specificatietalen. Dit verslag geeft een inleiding op het probleemgebied en een overzicht van de huidige stand van zaken.