In this paper, we present an overview of a lightweight approach for software architecture recovery. The main advantages of the process are the lightweight recovery of architectural semantics, and the compatibility with the highly iterative adaptive development processes that involve extensive architectural refactorings.

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This paper shows an overview of a research project for integrating formal methods in popular practices for software development in México. The article shows only the main results from the survey about methods and practices and an overview of the initial proposal of practices applying lightweight formal methods to requirements specification and software modelling. Keywords— requirements specific...

In this paper we describe a lightweight approach for semantic interoperability suitable for small and micro enterprises. The approach is based on reusing the existing enterprise infrastructure – emails and documents – and enables lightweight semantic search and recommendation in order to fulfill interoperability tasks.

In 2011, prompted by potential U.S. government requirements for lightweight ciphers (e.g., SCADA and logistics applications) and concerns that existing cryptographic solutions were unnecessarily restrictive, a team of cryptographic designers was formed within the Information Assurance Research Laboratory of NSA’s Research Directorate, with the goal of designing foundational lightweight cryptogr...

We present a framework for semi-automatically acquiring domain knowledge necessary for building lightweight, application ontologies. The approach adopts active learning for semantic annotation of knowledge roles that have been derived from the CommonKADS methodology. We discuss the framework advantages by implementing a lightweight, application ontology for a knowledge management application in...

Providing security in low-cost RFID tags is a challenging task because tags are highly resource constrained and cannot support strong cryptography. Special lightweight algorithms and protocols need to be designed that take into account the limitations of the tags. In this paper, we propose a set of extremely lightweight tag authentication protocols. We also provide an analysis of the proposed p...

Emerging networked applications present significant challenges for traditional data management techniques for two reasons. First, they are based on data encoded in XML, LDAP directories, etc. that typically have complex inter-relationships. Second, the dynamic nature of networked applications and the need to integrate data from multiple sources results in data that is semior irregularly structu...

An artiˆcial lightweight soil has been developed as a backˆll to reduce the earth pressure behind port and harbor structures. To reduce the unit weight lightening ingredient such as air foam or EPS beads is mixed within slurry of dredged soft clay, while cement is used as stabilizer to warrant compressive strength. This experimental study aims to characterize the strength and deformation proper...