Projekt ALERT

Active support and reaL-time coordination based on Event pRocessing in FLOSS development. ALERT improves the efficiency and management of bug resolution in software development in Open Source communities by providing methods and tools based on context-aware notification, event-driven processing and real-time interactions.

Umfeld

In FLOSS development projects the complexity of managing coordination is multiplied:

  • The variety of communication tools causes an information pull very heterogeneous, distributed and not well-linked on the basis of its content.
  • A very communication-intensive open source community generates vast amounts of information as a result of the interactions/communication, which causes a kind of information overload.
  • The awareness about the work and need of other developers is very vague.

In order to enhance coordination in FLOSS projects, communication must be efficient (i.e. timely and clear) and effective (i.e. targeted).
FLOSS community members need to understand who is working on what in the community and how their work affects other community members. This knowledge has to be collected in real time, as it is created. Such knowledge will allow people to coordinate work effectively, anticipate other members’ actions, discuss tasks and locate help.

Projektziele

The aim of the ALERT project is to develop methods and tools that improve FLOSS coordination by maintaining awareness of community activities through real-time, personalized, context-aware notification. ALERT will create an active collaboration platform, i.e. a virtual actor would interact with other developers, process and recognize various kinds of interactions, suggest actions on the basis of these and remember and bring past interactions into the developers’ attention, thus enabling developers to work better together.

Beitrag des FZI

  • Conceptual ALERT Architecture
  • Conceptual model for the event-driven interaction
  • Language for representing interaction patterns
  • Complex Event Detection
  • Management of the event-driven interaction
  • Publish/Subscribe service
  • Development of modules feeding interaction highway in the run-time
  • Scientific and Technical Management
  • Knowledge Management & Quality Assurance

Projektpartner

  • FZI Germany KARLSRUHE
  • URJC Spain Madrid
  • IJS Slovenia Ljubljana
  • ICCS Greece Athens
  • CIM Serbia and Montenegro (Yugoslavia) Niš
  • KDE Germany Berllin
  • ATOS Spain Madrid
  • CORVINNO Hungary Budapest
  • EBM France

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