Information systems focused on the storage and processing data of animal health are fundamental tools to prove the epidemiological surveillance actions performed by federal, state and municipal government. These softwares promote transparency in the actions performed by defense agencies livestock, given the concerns of importing markets in the acquisition of safe products to its human and animal population. In this context, it was aimed to develop an integrated geoinformation system focused on veterinary epidemiological surveillance, based on structural abstraction of reality, informational and operational processes of the agency's veterinary service of the state of Minas Gerais. The achievement of this research has been structured in four steps: first, the formulation of a theoretical-practical; second, structuring a spatial database as a central data repository; third, developing a geographic information system integrated into the central repository; and fourth, testing and validation practice. The methodology for developing hybrid systems proved effective in a large capillary administrative institution, and the possibility of integration with external databases indicated a new potential for the improvement of agricultural defense. The management system diseases cases and routine immunization (health reports) provided the largest contribution to the primary objectives of veterinary surveillance, with increases in quality and speed of data collection. The Geographic Information System has shown to be effective in the implementation of the tabular data to the space environment, presenting itself as a differential of the proposed system. / Sistemas de informação voltados à estocagem e tratamento de dados da sanidade animal são ferramentas fundamentais para comprovar as ações de vigilância epidemiológica realizadas pelos governos federal, estaduais e municipais. Tais softwares promovem transparência nas ações executadas pelos órgãos de defesa agropecuária, atendendo aos anseios dos mercados importadores na aquisição de produtos inócuos a sua população humana e animal. Nesse contexto, objetivou-se desenvolver um sistema integrado de geoinformação voltado à vigilância epidemiológica veterinária, baseando-se na abstração da realidade estrutural, dos processos operacionais e informacionais do órgão do serviço veterinário oficial do estado de Minas Gerais. A realização dessa pesquisa esteve estruturada em quatro etapas: primeira, formulação de um referencial teórico-prático; segunda, estruturação de um banco de dados espacial como repositório central de dados; terceira, desenvolvimento de um sistema de informação geográfica integrado ao repositório central; e, quarta, teste e validação prática. A metodologia de desenvolvimento de sistemas híbridos mostrou-se eficiente em uma instituição de grande capilaridade administrativa, e a possibilidade de integração com bancos de dados externos indicou um novo potencial para o aperfeiçoamento da defesa agropecuária. O sistema gerencial de casos de doenças e vacinação de rotina (informes sanitários) ofereceu a maior contribuição aos objetivos primários da vigilância veterinária, com incrementos em qualidade e rapidez na obtenção dos dados. O Sistema de Informação Geográfica demonstrou-se eficaz na transposição dos dados tabulares para o ambiente espacial, apresentando-se como diferencial do sistema proposto.

<p>In knowledge-based engineering, the inference engine plays an important part in the behaviour of the system. A flexible and adaptive execution scheme allows the designer to experiment with different modes of operation and selecting an appropriate one with respect to the initial data set and the execution goal.</p><p>In this project, an extension of an existing research prototype software in the field of knowledge-based engineering will be developed, with the goal of building a reliable and easy to use dependency resolution engine that will replace a less-than-ideal current implementation of the same. A discussion will be included how the knowledge concepts and objects can be represented in an abstract mathematical form, converting at the same time the problem of dependency resolution to a more formally specified one in terms of the data abstraction proposed. Some algorithms and methods that are used to operate on the data set will be discussed from both a theoretical and programming point of view, analysing their complexity, proposing and testing their implementation. Graphical interface controls that can be used to visualize and understand easily the relations in the available knowledge base will be also demonstrated.</p><p>The testing and verification of the resulting software will be presented, comparing its behaviour against reference tools serving similar purposes. Methods for validating the consistency of the knowledge base will also be discussed. Finally, the integration of the newly-developed code within the context of the prototype will be discussed, commenting on the new features and functionality gained.</p>

<p>This thesis consists of a strategy to integrate distributed systems with the aid of web services. The focus of this research involves three subjects, web services and distributed database systems and its application on a real-life project.</p><p>For defining the context in this thesis, we present the research methodology that provides the path where the investigation will be performed and the general concepts of the running environment and architecture of web services.</p><p>The mayor contribution for this thesis is a solution for the Chamber Trade in Sweden and VNemart in Vietnam obtaining the requirement specification according to the SPIDER project needs and our software design specification using distributed databases and web services.</p><p>As results, we present the software implementation and the way or software meets and the requirements previously defined. For future web services developments, this document provides guidance for best practices in this subject.</p>

In knowledge-based engineering, the inference engine plays an important part in the behaviour of the system. A flexible and adaptive execution scheme allows the designer to experiment with different modes of operation and selecting an appropriate one with respect to the initial data set and the execution goal. In this project, an extension of an existing research prototype software in the field of knowledge-based engineering will be developed, with the goal of building a reliable and easy to use dependency resolution engine that will replace a less-than-ideal current implementation of the same. A discussion will be included how the knowledge concepts and objects can be represented in an abstract mathematical form, converting at the same time the problem of dependency resolution to a more formally specified one in terms of the data abstraction proposed. Some algorithms and methods that are used to operate on the data set will be discussed from both a theoretical and programming point of view, analysing their complexity, proposing and testing their implementation. Graphical interface controls that can be used to visualize and understand easily the relations in the available knowledge base will be also demonstrated. The testing and verification of the resulting software will be presented, comparing its behaviour against reference tools serving similar purposes. Methods for validating the consistency of the knowledge base will also be discussed. Finally, the integration of the newly-developed code within the context of the prototype will be discussed, commenting on the new features and functionality gained.

<p>The mission was to create a prototype of a menu system for the company</p><p>System Andersson AB. The instructions were that it has to be as interesting and</p><p>modern now as in 20 years. We had to look at technology from the cutting edge</p><p>of development to make our prototype survive in the future. Windows</p><p>Presentation Foundation (WPF) was the technique we focused on. There are</p><p>only a few applications that take advantage of WPF today, but it is predicted</p><p>that WPF will be the next generation method for developing applications to the</p><p>Windows platform.</p><p>To make our menu visually appealing, easy to use and at the same time</p><p>functional, we followed the clear path and guidelines that are available in</p><p>interaction design. Those guidelines tell us how the design process should be</p><p>executed. Through usage of the six basic ideas of interaction design and taken</p><p>the principles of richer user experience further, we were able to build a menu</p><p>system that will be as modern in 20 years as it is now. We took the thoughts of</p><p>physical design into account to make the menu understandable and easy to use.</p> / <p>Examensarbetets uppdrag var att skapa en prototyp av ett menysystem åt</p><p>System Andersson AB, som enligt instruktioner ska vara intressant och</p><p>modernt, även om 20 år. För att lyckas med detta tittade vi på "cutting edge" av</p><p>vad som används idag för att inte systemet skulle riskera att bli föråldrat i</p><p>framtiden. Tekniken som vi undersökte och använde oss av var Windows</p><p>Presentation Foundation (WPF). I dagsläget är det endast ett fåtal applikationer</p><p>som använder WPF men utvecklingsmetoden spås vara morgondagens sätt att</p><p>programmera windowsapplikationer.</p><p>För att vår meny skulle bli estetiskt tilltalande, enkel att använda och samtidigt</p><p>funktionell så finns det inom interaktionsdesign klara riktlinjer om hur</p><p>designutvecklingen bör gå till väga. Genom att nyttja de sex grundtankarna: att</p><p>ett system ska vara effektivt, ha hög verkningsgrad, säkert att använda, vara</p><p>användbart, enkelt att förstå samt okomplicerat; i designen och att bygga vidare</p><p>med principerna så anser vi att vi har kunnat åstadkomma ett menysystem som</p><p>kommer att se lika intressant och modern ut om 20 år som det gör nu. För att</p><p>menyn skulle uppfylla de sex grundtankarna, bland annat att vara klart</p><p>förståelig och enkel att använda så använde vi oss av de tankar och teorier som</p><p>framgår i fysisk design.</p>

Thesis (M.Sc. (Computer Science)) - Rhodes University, 2008.

The demands of software engineering increases with everyday passed and every organization shows interest to work on daily routine work in the computerized system to improve efficiency and accuracy of data. Most of organization demands different kinds of computerized software solutions that developed in modern technologies. There are different software development technologies that is getting popular with the passage of time and provide high quality product to their user. It is not an easy to decide which technology choose to develop computerized system where most software falls. The primary purpose of thesis is to compare two different modern software development technologies by develop an application with same functional requirements. This thesis report will help to user for selection of software development technology. Cash and bank financial application is choose to develop using .NET and Java Enterprise Edition. Microsoft Visual Studio development environment is used for .NET development and NetBeans IDE is used for Java Enterprise Edition application. .NET framework contains many language that are interrelated with each other like C#, VB, J#, C++ and F#. Cash and bank application is develop in C# and Java programming languages and persistence storage of data is design in Microsoft SQL Server. Cash and bank application is develop with three tier architecture and layer approach. The syntax of .NET and Java Enterprise Edition is quite similar but procedure to establish connection, data retrieval and handling the data in different way. NET platform provide built in libraries, components and efficient user controls that helps for fast development in short period of time.

This thesis consists of a strategy to integrate distributed systems with the aid of web services. The focus of this research involves three subjects, web services and distributed database systems and its application on a real-life project. For defining the context in this thesis, we present the research methodology that provides the path where the investigation will be performed and the general concepts of the running environment and architecture of web services. The mayor contribution for this thesis is a solution for the Chamber Trade in Sweden and VNemart in Vietnam obtaining the requirement specification according to the SPIDER project needs and our software design specification using distributed databases and web services. As results, we present the software implementation and the way or software meets and the requirements previously defined. For future web services developments, this document provides guidance for best practices in this subject.

This thesis will deal with problems and solutions of cross-platform developing using MoNo framework as a replacement of Microsoft .NET framework on Linux and Mac OS-X platforms. It will take in account matters such as limitations in the filesystem to problems with deploying released programs. It will also deal with demands of precise timing and the need of efficient code on precise tasks to construct a program used for creating data from recordings of animals. These animals is set to perform a task, for example exploring a labyrinth or running on a rod, and it is all recorded on video. These videos are later reviewed by an observer which transcripts the recordings into data based on predefined behaviors and the time and frequency with which the animal is expressing them.

This thesis will deal with problems and solutions of cross-platform developing using MoNo framework as a replacement of Microsoft .NET framework on Linux and Mac OS-X platforms. It will take in account matters such as limitations in the filesystem to problems with deploying released programs. It will also deal with demands of precise timing and the need of efficient code on precise tasks to construct a program used for creating data from recordings of animals. These animals is set to perform a task, for example exploring a labyrinth or running on a rod, and it is all recorded on video. These videos are later reviewed by an observer which transcripts the recordings into data based on predefined behaviors and the time and frequency with which the animal is expressing them.