Modeling the Impact of UAVs in Sustainability

Conejero, José María; Brito, Isabel Sofía; Moreira, Ana; Cunha, Jácome; Araújo, João

doi:10.1109/rew.2016.044

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“…Penzenstadler and Femmer introduced a metamodel for sustainability that allows its instantiation for specific company processes or products [2]. In our previous work [22] we identified limitations of that metamodel, i.e., missing elements to handle conflicts such as effect, stakeholder, and priority and now we address these limitations in an integrated and generic approach to identify and describe concerns, and handle conflicts that can emerge between the various types of con concerns. Handling these limitations are part of the contribution of the present paper.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a way to evaluate this proposal, our metamodel was instantiated to model the impact of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in sustainability [22], offering managers of the organization to study the impact of incorporating these technologies and their degree of benefits with respect to the economic, social, individual, environmental and technical sustainability dimensions, and also see the limitations due to strict aerial regulations, for example.…”

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A concern-oriented sustainability approach

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2018 12th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)

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Sustainability and sustainable development has become a concern worldwide, hence introduced in roadmaps and strategies of public and private organizations. This trend has not been neglected by the computer science community, who is increasingly considering sustainability as a first class entity in software development. To properly address sustainability, its various dimensions need to be reasoned about and their impact on each other and on other system concerns studied from the very early stages of software development. To this purpose, we present a concern-oriented requirements approach that allows both, modeling sustainability concepts and their relationships, and managing conflicting situations triggered by impacts among sustainability dimensions or between those and other system concerns. To tackle the complexity of conflict management, a rigorous trade-off analysis technique based on multi-criteria decision making methods is used to rank, stakeholders and effects between concerns' responsibilies. We use a real project to validate our proposal, discuss the results obtained and synthesize major points that require further research.

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A concern-oriented sustainability approach

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2018 12th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)

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“…β = swarm size -robot id swarm size (6) Initially, a beacon robot will be available at position p 0 = (40, 50) of the map presented in Figure 2. New robots will be added progressively from this position each minute.…”

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“…There are many scenarios where it is extremely useful to create such networks using UAVs [5]. In particular, UAVs are highly and successfully used to support environmental sustainability [6]; for example, in order to search for resources in an unknown environment, for pollution monitoring, in precision agriculture and when building communication systems, among others. In this article, we will focus on the last application: a behavior able to create a communication link between a building and its outdoors will be provided, assuming that there is only one access point to the building.…”

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Energy-Efficient Swarm Behavior for Indoor UAV Ad-Hoc Network Deployment

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Building an ad-hoc network in emergency situations can be crucial as a primary tool or even when used prior to subsequent operations. The use of mini and micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is increasing because of the wide range of possibilities they offer. Moreover, they have been proven to bring sustainability to many applications, such as agriculture, deforestation and wildlife conservation, among others. Therefore, creating a UAV network for an unknown environment is an important task and an active research field. In this article, a mobility model for the creation of ad-hoc networks using UAVs will be presented. This model will be based on pheromones for robust navigation. We will focus mainly on developing energy-efficient behavior, which is essential for this type of vehicle. Although there are in the literature several models of mobility for ad-hoc network creation, we find that either they are not adapted to the specific energy requirements of UAVs or the proposed motion models are unrealistic or not sufficiently robust for final implantation. We will present and analyze the operation of a distributed swarm behavior able to create an ad-hoc network. Then, an analytical model of the swarm energy consumption will be proposed. This model will provide a mechanism to effectively predict the energy consumption needed for the deployment of the network prior to its implementation. Determining the use of the mobility behavior is a requirement to establish and maintain a communication channel for the required time. Finally, this analytical model will be experimentally validated and compared to the Random Waypoint (RWP) mobility strategy.

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“…Some authors adopted Dicks et al's definition [8] such as Penzenstadler et al [6] and Conejero et al [9], who focused their definition of software sustainability on the impact (positive or negative) of software on various dimensions (economy, society, human beings, and environment) when using, deploying or developing software. Correspondingly, authors have proposed five dimensions [10] (environmental, social, economic, technical, individual), [7], [9] for software sustainability while others proposed four dimensions [11], [12] by ignoring the individual. It can be argued that the inconsistency and vagueness seen in software sustainability literature is due to the immaturity of the software engineering (SE) field and software sustainability concept [13].…”

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Software Sustainability from A User Perspective A Case Study of A Developing Country (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Aljarallah

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2018

2018 International Conference on Computing, Electronics &Amp; Communications Engineering (iCCECE)

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Interest in sustainable development is increasing. Understanding the user's perspective toward software sustainability helps to enhance understanding of the concept. The need for developing countries to enhance their ICT infrastructure to align with UN sustainable development goals increases the necessity to understand the current perception of software users, industry and sustainability experts, to improve the level of software sustainability. Software sustainability has a number of challenges with regard to adoption by software users. This study investigates software sustainability from users' points of view in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). It also addresses key barriers for sustainable software.

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Modeling the Impact of UAVs in Sustainability

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A concern-oriented sustainability approach

A concern-oriented sustainability approach

Energy-Efficient Swarm Behavior for Indoor UAV Ad-Hoc Network Deployment

Software Sustainability from A User Perspective A Case Study of A Developing Country (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

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