At the beginning of the 21st century, we are now for a couple of years in the social media era, where we are confronting with a lot of applications and tools, easy to use, friendlier, free to use, easy to (re)build. No matter on which kind of activities we intend to spend time, there are plenty of similar applications with similar functionalities. Accordingly, the decision which of them to use ...

Strong passwords have been preached since decades. However, lot of the regular users of IT systems resort to simple and repetitive passwords, especially nowadays in the “service era”. To help alleviate this problem, a new class of software grew popular: password managers. Since their introduction, password managers have slowly been migrating into the cloud. In this paper we review and analyze c...

The establishment and operation of a certified management system (e.g. for Quality Management or Information Security Management) according to an international standard is a complex task for an organization. Hence, organizations usually search for support in order to successfully establish the management system and pass the certification procedure. This support is represented by consultants and...

Project management tools are mandatory to properly manage software projects. The teaching of the usage of these tools is carried out in higher education computer courses and, usually generic tools are adopted, such as MS-Project. However, their lack of educational features has motivated the development of several educational project management tools. This study aims at the analysis of such exis...

The client management tool market is maturing and evolving to adapt to consumerization, desktop virtualization, and an ongoing need to improve efficiency and lower PC total cost of ownership. These tools will continue to broaden their support of client platforms and application delivery models. End-user computing and support organizations use client management tools to automate system administr...

As management of architectural knowledge becomes vital for improving an organization’s architectural capabilities, support for (semi-) automating this management is required. There exist already several tools that specialize in architecture knowledge management, as well as generic technologies that can potentially be used for this purpose. Both tools and technologies cover a wide number of pote...

With the rapid evolution of telecommunication networks, real-time network traffic management is becoming more and more crucial. We propose here a modular system for performing diagnosis at different levels of the network. It is designed as an aid to the operator. We present results of different experiments with a first version of this system which operates at a local level.

This document provides an overall description of the GORDA Management System and details the various modules that have been developed to configure and deploy, monitor, recover and optimize a GORDA database cluster.

Manipulating and defining content of configuration files is one of the central tasks of configuration management tools. This is important to ensure a desired and correct behavior of computer systems. However, often considered very simple, this task can turn out to be very challenging. Configuration management tools provide different strategies for content manipulation of files, hence an adminis...

The quality of model management tools, such as model transformation and validation tools, is of paramount importance to the adoption and success of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). To build confidence in the operational correctness of such model management tools and avoid regressions, establishing a rigorous and automated testing process is crucial. In general, model management tools consume mod...