Mandala - interoperabilidade baseada em sistemas de sistemas no âmbito de cidades inteligentes

Abstract

The Software Engineering has, over the years, introduced to its universe a range of new technologies, paradigms and programming languages. This has as consequence the development of a great variety of information systems, for the most diverse purposes and using the most different concepts. With the ease of access information at the moment, where a large number of people have access to the Internet, having smartphones a very important role in this process, the idea is that people consume information more easily, with response faster and using as few resources. The solution often is to provide the systems integration, since what the user usually wants is sprayed into several data sources. This can become a problem if it is considered that systems are mostly produced by different programming languages and/or are not designed to be interoperable and will need to negotiate a form of communication with each system that they wish to integrate. In this scenario, this dissertation presents the Mandala, a SoS-centric middleware, to perform interoperability between information systems (constituent systems). Systems of systems (SoS) arise from the interaction among these constituent systems, but the result of such an interaction is said to be more than the sum of the constituents as it enables an SoS to offer new functionalities not provided by any of the constituents working alone. To evaluate the Mandala, a case study was developed using simulated systems of an smart city, which is an environment that has adequate characteristics for the use of SoS, trying to validate the concept of interoperation based on SoS proposed by the platform.