Pernambuco’s Innovation Institute will occupy a spot in Brazil’s Research & Development Pavilion, located in the CeBIT lab area – where prototypes, experiments and ideas with great potential to come into reality will be shown. The team formed by Superintendent Sergio Cavalcante, Chief Business Executive Eduardo Peixoto and Business Manager Victor Nogales will show CESAR’s work as hub of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Latin America, bringing academia closer to the needs of the market. The creation of new ICT enterprises by CESAR will also be presented to the public.

“We will present cases belonging to areas where we have research and development, like Cloud Computing and Smart Cities. We believe this will be a great opportunity for CESAR to show what is being done throughout these almost 16 years of experience,” explains Superintendent Sergio Cavalcante. “In addition, we will also show how CESAR can be an important strategic partner to foreign companies who wish to settle in our country,” he says.

The invitation for CESAR to participate in CeBIT came from the Informatics Policy Office, which is linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Among the authorities who will be at the event are President Dilma Rousseff and German Chancellor Angela Merkell.

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ABSTRACT
A fundamental task when employing software reuse is evaluating its impacts by measuring the relation of reused and developed software, the cost for obtaining reuse and the cost avoided by reusing software during development and maintenance. Different reuse related metrics exist in the literature, varying from strictly code-based metrics, aiming to measure the amount of code reused in a product, to more elaborate cost-based metrics and models, aiming to measure the costs involved in reuse programs and to evaluate the impacts of reuse in software development. Although reuse is commonly claimed to benefit maintenance, the traceability problem is still neglected on the reuse metrics arena, despite its great impacts on software maintenance. Reuse metrics may be used as important support tools for dealing with the traceability between reused assets and their clients.

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ABSTRACT
Component-based software development is becoming more generalized, representing a considerable market for the software industry. The perspective of reduced development costs and shorter life cycles acts as a motivation for this expansion. However, several technical issues remain unsolved before software component’s industry reaches the maturity exhibited by other component industries. Problems such as the component selection by their integrators, the component catalogs formalization and the uncertain quality of third-party developed components, bring new challenges to the software
engineering community. By the other hand, the software components certification area is still immature and further research is needed in order to obtain well-defined standards for certification. In this way, we aim to propose a component quality model, describing mainly the quality attributes and related metrics for the components evaluation.

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ABSTRACT
Component-based software development is becoming more generalized, representing a considerable market for the software industry. The perspective of reduced development costs and shorter life cycles acts as a motivation for this expansion. However, several technical issues remain unsolved before software component’s industry reaches the maturity exhibited by other component industries. Problems such as the component selection by their integrators and the uncertain quality of third-party developed components bring new challenges to the software engineering community. In this sense, the component certification area was analyzed, identifying its lacks and further directions. Thus, a Component Quality Model was proposed, describing consistent characteristics for the components evaluation.

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Introduction
One of the most compelling reasons for adopting component-based approaches to software development is the premise of reuse. The idea is to build software from existing components primarily by assembling and replacing interoperable parts. The implications for reduced development time and improved product quality make this approach very attractive. Most of the research dedicated to software components is focused on their functional aspects (i.e. component specification, development, tests, etc.). In our ongoing research, we are concerned with the evaluation of software components quality. This evaluation should be performed using a component quality model. However, there are several difficulties in the development of such a model, such as: (1) which quality characteristics should be considered, (2) how we can evaluate them and (3) who should be responsible for such evaluation. However, the component market, which is a priori condition to maximize the  intra-organizational software reusability, cannot emerge without supplying high-quality products. Organizations whose aim is to construct software by integrating components – rather than developing software from scratch – will not be able to meet their objectives if they cannot find sufficient number of components that satisfy certain functional and quality requirements. Without a quality level, the component usage may have catastrophic results. So, the common belief is that the market components are not reliable and this prevents the emergence of a mature software component market. Thus, the components market quality problems must be resolved to increase the reliability, and third-party certification programs would help to increase the trust in the market oriented components. In this way, we aim to propose a Component Quality Model, with consistent and well-defined characteristics, sub-characteristics, quality attributes and related metrics for the components evaluation.

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Introduction
Existing reuse methods are either not flexible enough to satisfy the wide variety of industry situations, or too vague. There are some successful reuse stories reported by the industry, but these are not generic enough to be applied outside its original context. Solving these problems requires, among other things, a well-defined reuse process. But even with a good reuse process, there are still some challenges to be addressed, such as the excessive adaptations that systems must suffer due to constant technology and requirement changes. MDA (Model-Drive Architecture)  attempts to solve these problems, by treating models as a living part of the software, and not just “paper”. The benefits of the successful application of MDA include gains in productivity, interoperability, portability and maintenance. It can also offer several benefits in the reuse area, since a single model may be used to generate code for different platforms. Therefore, the combination of MDA and the reuse area seems a natural match. However, this new research direction is being little explored. In fact, none of the reuse processes that we have reviewed explores MDA as a way to increase reuse. The objective of this research is to develop a practical model-driven reuse process. To be practical means to fill the several gaps that exist in current reuse processes. To be model-driven means that the process focuses on models as its most important software artifacts. The motivation is to achieve higher reuse levels than processes that focus on source code and other low-level artifacts.

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ABSTRACT
This paper describes an application to monitor on-line Word of Mouth across different Internet services and how the collected data can be used to feed a company’s on-line marketing strategy. Our motivation lies on the theory of social maps and scale-free network laws. We describe briefly buzzMonitor, which is our first prototype for the task of measuring and monitoring conversations among consumers in on-line communities.

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INTRODUCTION
With the progress of processing power and video cards, the amount of data processed in a 3D scene grows each day, the sophistication of graphic performance is even better in every platform. Even with all that power, real time applications, like 3D games, make a lot of mathematical calculations to create multiples images per second to offer a good user experience. Since time and processing are limited, all aspects which make a 3D scene (geometry, animations, lighting), as the algorithms, should be highly optimized to make this task possible.

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INTRODUCTION
With the progress of processing power and video cards, the amount of data processed in a 3D scene grows each day, the sophistication of graphic performance is even better in every platform. Even with all that power, real time applications, like 3D games, make a lot of mathematical calculations to create multiples images per second to offer a good user experience. Since time and processing are limited, all aspects which make a 3D scene (geometry,  animations, lighting), as the algorithms, should be highly optimized to make this task possible.

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