Accelerating DevOps with Artificial Intelligence Techniques

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart System Infrastructure and Applications".

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

DevOps is a popular software development methodology that connects development, quality control, and technical operations to create a channel for the effective production of high-quality software systems. Although there are several DevOps technologies and tools, the application of DevOps requires software companies to compose and integrate their own set of tools, which is a major obstacle to the application of DevOps.

For instance, Big Data software systems are among the systems for which DevOps is extremely beneficial, as Big Data system architectures are too intricate and distributed to be managed and evolved through traditional software engineering methodologies. However, DevOps’ approaches and tools for Big Data systems still require a great amount of effort. Therefore, the aim of the Special Issue is to collect the most recent innovation in the application of artificial intelligent techniques for accelerating DevOps adoption in the industry. We would like to gather researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds to discuss new ideas, research questions, recent results, and future challenges in this emerging area of research and public interest. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Intelligent automation in DevOps;
  • Machine learning in DevOps;
  • Monitoring and optimization in DevOps;
  • Semantic orchestration in DevOps.

Dr. Álvaro Carrera Barroso
Dr. Carlos A. Iglesias
Dr. J. Fernando Sánchez-Rada
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • DevOps
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • machine learning
  • monitoring
  • automation
  • semantic

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FlockAI: A Testing Suite for ML-Driven Drone Applications
by Demetris Trihinas, Michalis Agathocleous, Karlen Avogian and Ioannis Katakis
Future Internet 2021, 13(12), 317; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fi13120317 - 16 Dec 2021
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Machine Learning (ML) is now becoming a key driver empowering the next generation of drone technology and extending its reach to applications never envisioned before. Examples include precision agriculture, crowd detection, and even aerial supply transportation. Testing drone projects before actual deployment is [...] Read more.
Machine Learning (ML) is now becoming a key driver empowering the next generation of drone technology and extending its reach to applications never envisioned before. Examples include precision agriculture, crowd detection, and even aerial supply transportation. Testing drone projects before actual deployment is usually performed via robotic simulators. However, extending testing to include the assessment of on-board ML algorithms is a daunting task. ML practitioners are now required to dedicate vast amounts of time for the development and configuration of the benchmarking infrastructure through a mixture of use-cases coded over the simulator to evaluate various key performance indicators. These indicators extend well beyond the accuracy of the ML algorithm and must capture drone-relevant data including flight performance, resource utilization, communication overhead and energy consumption. As most ML practitioners are not accustomed with all these demanding requirements, the evaluation of ML-driven drone applications can lead to sub-optimal, costly, and error-prone deployments. In this article we introduce FlockAI, an open and modular by design framework supporting ML practitioners with the rapid deployment and repeatable testing of ML-driven drone applications over the Webots simulator. To show the wide applicability of rapid testing with FlockAI, we introduce a proof-of-concept use-case encompassing different scenarios, ML algorithms and KPIs for pinpointing crowded areas in an urban environment. Full article
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