GSD 2011 (Global Software Development) "The Smash-Up Project"

This document contains the student group project for the joint 15 ECTS ITU+UFPE project course: "GSD 2011"

Intended Learning Outcomes

• ILO-1 (25%): Design a couple of actual smash-ups (points for creativity, pre-study, and service impact)
• ILO-2 (25%): Implement the designed services (points for separation of infrastructure + service instances)
• ILO-3 (10%): Evaluate the designed services (wrt. stability, personalizability, efficiency, security, usability, testing, QoS, ...)
• ILO-4 (10%): Relate to existing solutions, frameworks, and services (points for real comparison wrt. various aspects)

• ILO-5 (15%): Develop and maintain a plan for the collaboration (points for usage before+DURING+after project)
• ILO-6 (15%): Reflect continually on the plan and the actual collaboration (points for usage before+DURING+after project)

Project Description

The goal of this project is to design, develop, and deploy web service robot(s) (aka., “programmable personal assistant(s)”) that function on top of the internet, as it is. The idea is that such programmable robots could then assist people in their everyday lives by automatically surfing web pages and web services, automatically extracting and submitting information, and automatically managing and coordinating various tasks. We expect that a lot of tasks could be automated and a lot of coordination taken care of by such services. Additionally, a lot of completely new things become possible. The robots will interact with people via SMS which means that they will work for everyone, everywhere, all the time; even in developing countries where many people do not have access to the web, but often still have a cell phone! This project will happen in collaboration with students from UFPE (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) in Recife, Brazil. We hope that the services developed could later be deployed in Brazil. Such robots should be able to make a substantial difference for people there.

• Web-Data Extraction, Automated Browsing, Web Services, Web 2.0, XML, Communication, Orchestration, Cell Phones, SMS.

Aspects

• SMS-HTTP Gateway [using Kannel]:
  • switch between (live use) real phone vs. (development use) mockup client

• Web Data-Extraction (aka., scraping) [using Selenium 2.0 Webdriver + Firefox]:
  • Xpath, regexps, robustness/stability?, full browser , ...

• Service-User management?:
  • phone book, services registered, directory?, subscription?, ...

• Easy Service deployment:
  • easy to add new services (infrastructure + easily plug in a service e.g., subclassing)

• Communication/inteaction patterns:
  • tell, ask, reply, correlation?, ...

• Events?:
  • proactive (timeout), reactive (initiation), ...

• Context (esp. Locationing):
  • (x,y)-coordinates non-intrusively via Facebook Places or use BlueTooth positioning (triangulate from nearest BlueTooth spots)

• Service instances [ points for creativity! ]:
  • {private, public, company} x {1-1 RPC automation, n-n coordination/orchestration} x {mobile primary, mobile primary} x {proactive, reactive}:
    • E.g., soccer match, arrange meeting, good films on TV, taxa, auction, dating, mobile office (word/excell/...), SMSkype...

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Danish exam period: June 10-July 01

Advisors

Assistance

Students

Group 1: Almir Gomes de Castro Júnior Daniel Victor Pinto Costa Guilherme Barreto de Mendonça Ivson Diniz dos Santos Leandro Henrique Freitas Aguiar Marcelo Frota Pinto Pessoa Jakob Madsen Loa Skogø Lind Martin Leegaard Larsen Rasmus Hagemann

Group 2: Caio César Sabino Silva Flávio Juvenal da Silva Junior Gustavo Caue Silva Botelho Irineu Martins de Lima Moura Rafael Alberto Gomes Pereira Lima Thales Vinicius Gomes Pereira Victor Acioli da Costa Alencar Aurelia-Doina Popa Joachim Sejr Lars Bo Lindgren Hansen Nick Patrick Shawnley

Links

• ITU's GSD homepage
• mit.itu.dk's homepage
• UFPE's GSD homepage