Towards a Sustainable Architectural Design by an Adaptation of the Architectural Driven Design Method

Villa, Luis Bernardo; Cabezas, Ivan; López, María José; Casas, Óscar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42108-7_6

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“…Bearing this in mind, an adaptation of the Attribute-Driven Design method including sustainability as a driver was introduced. The aim was to design a sustainable architecture of a cloud-based PHR [ 66 ]. The blockchain technology is also interesting for electronic healthcare data exchange in a distributed environment [ 67 ].…”

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A Study on the Relationship between Usability of GUIs and Power Consumption of a PC: The Case of PHRs

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Ouhbi

Fernández-Alemán

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Usability is key to achieve quality in software products. The client applications with a high score in usability might impact on the power consumption when they are run in a PC. For this reason, energy savings turn to be critical in green software systems. In this paper the relationship between the usability evaluations of the GUIs and the power consumption measurements of the main components of a PC were analysed. A set of 5 web-based personal health records (PHRs) were selected as a case study. The usability assessment was performed by an expert, employing the 14 principles of design by Alan Dix as heuristics. They were scored on a Likert scale after performing a collection of common tasks in the PHRs. At the same time, an equipment to measure the energy consumption of hard disk drive, graphics card, processor, monitor and power supply was used. Spearman’s index was studied for the correlations between the usability assessments and the power consumption measurements. As a results, some weak relationships were found. A total of 5 usability heuristics were observed to may influence energy consumption when they were considered in the implementation of the PHRs. These heuristics were the following ones: consistency, task migratability, observability, recoverability and responsiveness. Based on the results, the usability principles of design cannot always be related to lower energy consumption. Future research should focus on the tradeoffs between usability and power consumption of client applications when they are used in a computer.

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confidence: 99%

A Study on the Relationship between Usability of GUIs and Power Consumption of a PC: The Case of PHRs

García‐Berná

Ouhbi

Fernández-Alemán

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…Although the Karlskrona Manifesto is focused on principles and values of sustainability, instead of current techniques, specific models, and suggested approaches, it can be used as the foundation of specific techniques. An adaptation of the Attribute-Driven Design method [15] was proposed in [16], as a research product of a master's in software engineering project at the Universidad de San Buenaventura -Cali. The adapted method is termed as Sustainable Attribute-Driven Design and includes sustainability drivers as one of the inputs with higher priority, aiming to achieve a sustainable architectural design.…”

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Teaching and Assessing Sustainability Based on the Karlskrona Manifesto

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Ivan Cabezas was born in Colombia in 1973. He received the B. Eng. in Computer Science and the Engineering Ph. D. degrees from Universidad del Valle, in 2004 and 2013, respectively. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE. Engineering education and sustainability concerns during the software engineering design process are among his research interests. He has been working as a full-time professor in the Software Systems Engineering program at the Engineering School of the Universidad de San Buenaventura-Cali, in Colombia, since 2014.

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