Rebeca Campos Motta

Rebeca Motta, Káthia Oliveira, Guilherme Travassos

The Roadmap is performed in the context of a Ph.D. research in collaboration between the Experimental Software Engineering Group, from the Systems Engineering and Computing Program of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) and the Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical engineering and Computer Science (LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201) in the Universitè Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF). The Roadmap resulted from an investigation on the particularities of IoT applications. It is the concrete organization of the concepts and evidence gathered from different experimental studies. It comes to support the definition of IoT software systems, with specific items for the project team to discuss and define the essential aspects related to the specifying, designing, and implementing an IoT application.

Rebeca Motta, Káthia de Oliveira, Guilherme Travassos

We conducted a set of Rapid Reviews to characterize Internet of Things facets. We formatted a generic meta-protocol that was instantiated for each of the six facets presented (Connectivity, Things, Behavior, Smartness, Interactivity, and Environment)and considering the issue of Security, one of the most important and frequent challenges in the context of IoT. The meta-protocol is detailed and the results of each review are presented.

Rebeca C. Motta

Contemporary software systems, such as the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and Intelligent Cities, present challenges for their engineering, since they question our traditional form of software development. They represent a promising paradigm for the integration of communication devices and technologies. It is leading to a shift from the classical monolithic view of development where stakeholders receive a software product at the end, to materialized software systems through physical objects interconnected by networks and with embedded smartness to support activities. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit our way of developing software systems and begin to consider the particularities required by these new types of applications. This thesis aims to investigate the particularities of these new types of applications to support the definition of a framework to support decision-making in the engineering of this kind of applications and systems. To this end, we use IoT systems as surrogate for CSS, since they present the contemporaneity and multidisciplinarity that we aim to investigate.