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One of the major and costly activity in Information Systems is controlling the quality of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that has some challenges such as a long time is needed for detection and refinement of changeability of architecture qualities, how to quantify its quality attributes and variation in architecture changes. Self-adaptation of architecture is a novel automatic method that can be composed with architectural patterns to quantify and control the quality of SOA. In this paper, a self-adaptive framework, process and methodology is defined for this issue. Based on MAPE-K model, evaluation metrics by applying architectural tactics and final quality based on quality models and... 

The architecture of a software system, its elements and the way they interact is a valuable treasure for understanding the system. If architecture description of a system is not available, working on its extraction and reconstruction should be done. For a software with huge size and vast complexity, architecture extraction by hand and without any predefined method is nearly impossible. So, it is essential for software architecture extractor to use a framework and a well-defined process related to it, for extracting the software architecture. It can help him to use automated tools as much as possible in addition to havingauniquelogicalstructureforperformingthearchitectureextractionprocess. In... 

In accomplishment of knowledge management in real world, organization can be in different processes of awareness about importance of knowledge management and its achievements. Recognition of strength and weakness points of organization helps to logical planning and success in performance of knowledge management. For avoiding from failing in knowledge management projects, it is necessary that before stating for project performance, evaluate development level of organization from viewpoint of knowledge management, and determine some approaches for control of general problems of knowledge management, like abundance of information, work complexities, knowledge Storage.
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According to the increase of interest in the internet of things, the importance of understanding the ongoing situation in an environment and acting upon them is largely considered. Due to the massive size of sensors used in a smart environment, there are plenty of data manufactured every second. Therefore, an interpretation of this data is mandatory to obtain valuable information to comprehend the situation ongoing in an environment. Situation recognition can bring a better understanding of the interaction between the smart actuators and sensors with the living agents in the environments.This will enable the system to help people do their routines, save energy, and accomplish more... 

There is a growing potential for the use of micro-cogeneration systems in the residential sector because they have the ability to produce both useful thermal energy and electricity from a single source of fuel such as oil or natural gas. Benefits of cogeneration system will cover around 25% of internal electricity needs of ceramic, around 30 % saving in global fuel consumption, reduction of carbon dioxide. In tile factories, there is a system called a spray dryer. This system can use hot air to produce the soil needed to produce ceramic tiles. This hot air is supplied by a very large burner. In developed countries, instead of a burner, a gas turbine is used to produce hot air, with the... 

Internet of Things is a promising paradigm consensus of different technologies. It has gained increasing popularity during recent years. However it is still in its infancy phase. Heterogeneous and constrained devices, resource discovery, identification, scalability, mobility, difficulty of application development and deployment, and security requirements are some of the most important concerns that must be resolved in order to achieve more maturity. To address these challenges, several IoT platforms have been proposed. In some recent of them, a concept called virtual object(vo) has been introduced. A virtual object is a virtual representation of a physical device. Using this concept, many...