TPM Context Manager and Dynamic Configuration Management for Trusted Virtualization Platform

It is absolutely critical that trusted configuration management which significantly affects trust chain establishment, sealing storage and remote attestation, especially in trusted virtualization platform like Xen whose system configuration changes easily. TPM （trusted platform module） context manager is presented to carry out dynamic configuration management for virtual machine. It manages the TPM command requests and VM （virtual machine） configurations. The dynamic configuration representa- tion method based on Merkle hash tree is explicitly proposed against TCG （trusted computing group） static configuration representation. It reflects the true VM status in real time even if the configuration has changed, and it eliminates the invalidation of configuration representation, sealing storage and remote attestation. TPM context manager supports TCG storage protection, remote attestation etc, which greatly enhances the security on trusted virtualization platform.

Recommender System for Configuration Management Process of Entrepreneurial Software Designing Firms

The rapid growth in software demand incentivizes software development organizations to develop exclusive software for their customers worldwide.This problem is addressed by the software development industry by software product line(SPL)practices that employ feature models.However,optimal feature selection based on user requirements is a challenging task.Thus,there is a requirement to resolve the challenges of software development,to increase satisfaction and maintain high product quality,for massive customer needs within limited resources.In this work,we propose a recommender system for the development team and clients to increase productivity and quality by utilizing historical information and prior experiences of similar developers and clients.The proposed system recommends features with their estimated cost concerning new software requirements,from all over the globe according to similar developers’and clients’needs and preferences.The system guides and facilitates the development team by suggesting a list of features,code snippets,libraries,cheat sheets of programming languages,and coding references from a cloud-based knowledge management repository.Similarly,a list of features is suggested to the client according to their needs and preferences.The experimental results revealed that the proposed recommender system is feasible and effective,providing better recommendations to developers and clients.It provides proper and reasonably well-estimated costs to perform development tasks effectively as well as increase the client’s satisfaction level.The results indicate that there is an increase in productivity,performance,and quality of products and a reduction in effort,complexity,and system failure.Therefore,our proposed system facilitates developers and clients during development by providing better recommendations in terms of solutions and anticipated costs.Thus,the increase in productivity and satisfaction level maximizes the benefits and usability of SPL in the modern era of technology.

Research on Web-Based Product Structure and Configuration Management

An enhanced system architecture of Web-based product structure and configuration management system along with its, functions are is presented. The key techniques, such as construction of object models of product structure and product configuration, hybrid approach method in product configuration management, sharing and integration of heterogeneous product data, integration with other sub-systems, are discussed too. A prototype system is developed by J2EE technology.

Softw are Maintainability Evaluation Based on Software Configuration Management Data

As one of the most important attributes of software quality, software maintainability has been widely recognized.However,the existing maintainability evaluation methods are mostly based on subjectively judgment. Thus it is inapplicable or unbelievable. To evaluate software maintainability objectively,the software configuration management( SCM) data are collected to establish a maintainability model. Based on the hidden Markov chain( HMC), a three-state maintainability estimation model is constructed. To validate the feasibility of the model,a real software example of software maintenance activity is given and the result from the example shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

MRO Configuration Management for Complex Products

Configuration management(CM)is an effective method for data modeling and change management in product development,but the study of how it can be adapted for complex product maintenance,repair and overhaul(MRO)has thus far been superficial.Research propositions are put forward on the basis of a literature review and verified by a case of a high-speed train MRO company.The findings show that CM can be used in MRO data management with adjustments in its functions.First,MRO-CM planning considers both multistage service and single-stage service to keep data consistent and continuous.Second,MRO data integration with the design/production phase should be considered during configuration identification.Third,baselines and change rules are developed for change control.Finally,status accounting and auditing can be repeatedly used in MRO data management.A systematic MRO-CM framework is generated to assist MRO practitioners in understanding the relationships among different MRO-CM functions.This paper contributes to expanding the theory of CM in MRO for complex products and provides an effective method for managing MRO data from systematic engineering insights.

Feature Model Configuration Reuse Scheme for Self-Adaptive Systems

Most large-scale systems including self-adaptive systems utilize feature models(FMs)to represent their complex architectures and benefit from the reuse of commonalities and variability information.Self-adaptive systems(SASs)are capable of reconfiguring themselves during the run time to satisfy the scenarios of the requisite contexts.However,reconfiguration of SASs corresponding to each adaptation of the system requires significant computational time and resources.The process of configuration reuse can be a better alternative to some contexts to reduce computational time,effort and error-prone.Nevertheless,systems’complexity can be reduced while the development process of systems by reusing elements or components.FMs are considered one of the new ways of reuse process that are able to introduce new opportunities for the reuse process beyond the conventional system components.While current FM-based modelling techniques represent,manage,and reuse elementary features to model SASs concepts,modeling and reusing configurations have not yet been considered.In this context,this study presents an extension to FMs by introducing and managing configuration features and their reuse process.Evaluation results demonstrate that reusing configuration features reduces the effort and time required by a reconfiguration process during the run time to meet the required scenario according to the current context.

The Configuration Strategies on Caching for Web Servers

The Web cluster has been a popular solution of network server system because of its scalability and cost effective ness. The cache configured in servers can result in increasing significantly performance, In this paper, we discuss the suitable configuration strategies for caching dynamic content by our experimental results. Considering the system itself can provide support for caching static Web page, such as computer memory cache and disk＇s own cache, we adopt a special pattern that only caches dynamic Web page in some experiments to enlarge cache space. The paper is introduced three different replacement algorithms in our cache proxy module to test the practical effects of caching dynamic pages under different conditions. The paper is chiefly analyzed the influences of generated time and accessed frequency on caching dynamic Web pages. The paper is also provided the detailed experiment results and main conclusions in the paper.

Key Techniques for the Development of Web-Based PDM System

Some key techniques for the development of web-based product data management （PDM） system are introduced. The four-tiered B/S architecture of a PDM system-BITPDM is introduced first, followed by its design and implementation, including virtual data vault, flexible coding system, document management, product structure and configuration management, workflow/process and product maturity management. BITPDM can facilitate the activities from new product introduction phase to manufacturing, and manage the product data andtheir dynamic changing history. Based on Microsoft. NET, XML, web service and SOAP techniques, BITPDM realizes the integration and efficient management of product information.

The Report of Virtual Exhibition Software Development

The main structure and key techniques of our Virtual Exhibition Software are summarized. It demonstrates the practice of Software Engineering during the development of our project and discusses the use of UML in it.

Study of the TMN-Based Configuration Management in Intelligent Networks

The TMN (telecommunications management network) project was started by the ITU T in the fall of 1985. And with the development of the TMN technologies, more and more TMN based networks have been developed. In this paper we study and analyze the application of TMN to intelligent networks from the view of configuration management function, design the TMN based network configuration management system under UNIX environment in intelligent networks, and use the GDMO to describe the information model of the system in the design.