Dependable Information Systems

Research team

Liviu Miclea, Szilárd Enyedi, Iulia Stefan, Adrian Gut, Istvan Hoka, Daniel Duma, Dragos Sauciuc, Felix Farcas, Stelian Flonta, Marius-Gabriel Lazar, Teodora Sanislav, Szabolcs Balogh.

Research fields

• Reliability and Diagnosis

- System, board, circuit and silicon testing, reliability and diagnosis

- Design for testability

- Fault simulation

- Design for testability of distributed systems

- Built-in self test, self-repair and self-healing

- Software and hardware agents

- Agents in testing

- Software testing and diagnosis

• Computer aided design

- Projects, documentation, standards, design flow

- Concurrent engineering

- Graphic standards

- Computer graphics

- Graphic information management

- CAD‑CAM integration

• Application oriented software environments

- Meta languages

- Information display

- Scripting techniques

- Data management

- Graphic interfaces

- Network communication mechanisms

- Software agent technologies

• Advanced Internet Technologies

- Information management through the Internet

- Client/server applications

- Device access to the Internet

- Internet security

- Advanced Internet services offered by operating systems (Windows, Linux).

Recent research projects

“Development of self-healing capabilities for digital societies”, national research grant funded by CNCSIS – 1065, no. 93/1.10.2007, PNCDI2, (2007-2010).

Liviu Miclea, project manager.

“Using autonomous calculus for dependability improvement of complex heterogenous systems”, national research grant funded by CNCSIS A- 34702/2005, (2004-2005).

Liviu Miclea, project manager.

“Design for testability of distributed systems“, national research grant funded by CNCSIS A - 222, (2004-2006).

Szilárd Enyedi project manager.

“Agro-tourism resources and services integration portal - ARSIP“, national research grant funded by ANCS, CEEX, 17/2005, (2005-2008).

Liviu Miclea project manager.

“Development and promotion of agro-tourism services for leveraging the touristic potential in Transylvania with the aid of the Informational Society – VALOTRANS“, national research grant funded by ANCS, CEEX, INFOSOC, no. 137/01.09.2004, (2004-2006).

Liviu Miclea, project manager.

“Development of a Pacient’s Electronic Health Record – DESP“, national grant funded by CEEX, PNCDI2, (2007-2010).

Liviu Miclea project manager.

“Methods and technologies based on molecular and cellular medicine applied in surgery and treatment of bone cancer and osteo-articular lesions - OSMOCEL“, national research grant funded by CEEX, PNCDI2, no. 41-050/14.09.2007, (2007-2010).

Liviu Miclea scientific coordinator.

“Development of scientific and technological partnership in the field of automation, quality, testing and robotics, AQTR“, national research grant funded by ANCS, CEEX, module III, 2006.

Liviu Miclea scientific coordinator.

Publications

Sz. Enyedi, L. Miclea, H. Valean, I. Stoian, ”On-line monitoring and testing of a power plant chain”, Proceedings of 1st IFAC Workshop on Convergence of Information Technologies and Control Methods with Power Plants and Power Systems, ICPS'07, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 9-11, 2007, pp. 228-233.

Sz. Enyedi., L. Miclea., I. Hoka, I. Popa, A. Gut, ”Web applications development with open-source tools”, Eikon, Cluj-Napoca, 2007.

A. Gut, I. Hoka, L. Miclea, Sz. Enyedi, ”Managing Community Edited Globalized Content”, Proceedings of International Conference on Web Based Communities IADIS 2007, Salamanca, Spain, February 18-20, 2007, pp.187-192.

L. Miclea, A. Gut, Sz. Enyedi, M. Abrudean, I. Hoka, ”Web Applications-Globalization in .NET 1.1”, Proceedings of IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics 2006, TOME I, Cluj-Napoca, May 25-28, 2006, pp. 480-483.

A. Gut, L. Miclea, Sz. Enyedi, M. Abrudean, I. Hoka, ”Database Globalization in Enterprise Applications”, Proceedings of IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics, TOME I, Cluj-Napoca, May 25-28, 2006, pp. 356-359.

H. Valean, L. Miclea, Sz. Enyedi, ”Surveillance of a Complex Heterogeneous System Using Software Agents – Case Study on a Hydroelectric Power Plant Chain”, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering CAINE 2006, Las Vegas, USA, November 13-15, 2006, pp. 126-131.

L. Miclea, Enyedi Sz., P. Prinetto, A. Benso, ”Agent-Based Test and Repair of Distributed Systems”, Journal of Embedded Computing, vol. 1, no. 3, 2005, pp. 405-414.

A. Benso, A. Cilardo, N. Mazzocca, L. Miclea, P. Prinetto, Enyedi. Sz., ”Reconfigurable Systems Self-Healing using Mobile Hardware Agents”, Proceedings of International Test Conference, Austin, TX, USA, November 8 - 10, 2005, pp. 468 – 476.

L. Miclea, Sz. Enyedi, G. Toderean, D. Gizopoulos, Y. Xenoulis, “Processor-Based Periodic Testing and Repair in Distributed Systems Using Software Agents”, Proceedings of the 15-th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science 2005, Bucharest, Romania, May 25 - 27, 2005, pp. 650-655.

L. Miclea, Sz. Enyedi, G. Toderean, A. Benso, P. Prinetto, “Towards Microagent based DBIST/DBISR”, Proceedings of International Test Conference Charlotte, NC, USA, October 26-28, 2004, pp. 867-874.

L. Miclea, Sz. Enyedi, L. Busoniu, M. Abrudean, I. Stoian, A. Vancea, “Limited-Resource Systems Testing with Microagent Societies”, Proceedings of European Test Symposium 2004, Ajaccio, Corsica, France, May 23-26, 2004, pp. 181-182.

Sz. Enyedi, L. Miclea, G. Toderean, ”Reliability and other Problems of a New Solution for Long Distance Calls”, Proceedings of IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 13-15, 2004, pp. 297-302.

L. Miclea, L. Busoniu, Sz. Enyedi, ”Implementation of a Multiagent DBIST/Distributed Testing Solution”, Proceedings of IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 13-15, 2004, pp. 267-272.

L. Miclea, Sz. Enyedi, H. Valean, F. Farcas, M. Damian, ”Operating Systems and Networks for Beginners”, U. T. Press, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2004.

Research description

Agro-tourism resources and services integration portal (ARSIP)

Introduction

Developing telematic intelligent and interactive systems for agro-tourism environment, promoted on national and international level, represents an opportunity to improve life in the rural communities and, at the same time, the national economy. In a context where the local financial resources are reduced and are common with those of public administration, the rural tourism, or agro-tourism, is a way to promote the local resources, having benefic results for the rural communities.

Objectives

The project proposes the implementation of a robust and intelligent platform that integrates agro-tourism resources and services, and promotes them at national and international level, through a portal.

Social objectives:

- Exploiting the touristic potential in our country;

- Interdisciplinary scientific collaborations;

- Enlarging the interest area for young researchers;

- Multiplying research domains;

- Supporting the development of the informational society;

- Increasing the number of tourists (Romanians and especially foreign tourists);

- Increasing the number of investors in agro‑tourism services.

- Technical objectives:

- Identification and classification of agro-tourism resources and services,

- Creating the database,

- Implementing web search algorithms, according to different profiles and requirements,

- Implementing the experimental model of the portal together with the agents and profile systems which it uses,

- Promoting and advertising the portal; workshop and large-scale promotion.

Technical Process Chain

This project tries to integrate all the requirements, resources and services into a single system that will represent an indispensable instrument for individuals and even agencies interested in rural tourism.

The portal is implemented using the four years old platform – Microsoft .NET Framework, using the latest integrated technology for generating dynamic web pages – ASP.NET (Fig. 1). The server side is hosted on Windows 2003 Server’s built-in web server – IIS (Internet Information Services) 6.0. The database is hosted on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 being tested for possible migration. The client side can be the PC web browser, as well as mobile devices.

Results

The main result of the project is a portal system that integrates the agro-tourism areas and presents them at international level, offering new and improved services. This is useful especially for agro-touristic areas that were poorly promoted until now. The portal offers also environmental information about the supported locations.

The online payments section is close to be launched, enhancing the service, especially among foreign tourists.

 

Concluding remarks

The ARSIP project integrates agro-tourism resources and services into a single platform, representing a step forward for digital integration and, at the same time, one step closer to European citizens, consumers of our country’s agro-tourism resources and services. The implementation of this portal increases the use of agro-tourism services that our country offers; this will lead to the development of infrastructure and communication services, based on informational resources, which represent a requirement for European integration. Thus, the ARSIP portal represents the bridge between European citizens and Romanian citizens, by means of our country’s agro-tourism resources and services.