Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is the study of how people use technology, with relation to hardware and software, to work together in shared time and space. Mobile office environments are becoming commonplace. Workers form virtual online communities on a global scale and use groupware to collaborate and complete a common goal. We tend to be mobile, yet need to be available to collaborate. This thesis investigates a protocol for our decentralized artifact control system, Nomad. Nomad enables globally dispersed members of small casually connected communities to share artifacts which are gathered on a best effort approach. The Nomad protocol takes into consideration the work habits of users and their variety of devices. The major contribution of this thesis is a simulator of the Nomad protocol, which serves as a proof-of-concept for its design. Specifically, we look at how such a protocol handles casually connected small communities. We consider high level aspects such as setting up the community, the overhead of nodes, availability, scalability and connectivity. We demonstrate scenarios that the protocol will need to handle. Furthermore, we take a broad look at CSCW, push and pull technologies, peer-to-peer technologies, and enabling technologies such as Microsoft .Net. These form the basis of the Nomad design. In addition, we suggest the integration of mobile agents, which we consider a future addition to Nomad. It was found that the protocol had to compensate for two nodes that were never online at the same time. In the case that a best effort approach is not feasible, we propose alternate approaches at the cost of overhead on a propagation node. The developed concept provided valuable insight into the problem domain, outlined the boundaries of the protocol and provided a possible solution for Nomad. The simulator proved to be a useful tool for determining outcomes from possible scenarios. The results from the simulator will feed directly into the development of Nomad. / Dissertation (MSc (Computer Science))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Computer Science / unrestricted

This thesis is about description and design of system for media files management and their distribution. System allows users to upload media files in different formats. Media files are distributed to devices on which they are played. The system creates an overview of the playback based on records that the device sent to the system. The thesis describes the technology used to create the system. Furthermore, the work is a description of the structure of the system, its functions and a description of system implementation.

<p>Thule Sweden AB utvecklar, tillverkar och marknadsför kompletta och funktionella lasthållarsystem för bilar. De erbjuder en mycket stor bredd av olika lasthållare till över 1500 bilmodeller. De tillverkar lasthållare som cykelhållare, boxar, skidhållare, hållare för vattensport och andra tillbehör. För att en bil skall kunna bära en takbox måste det tillverkas en lasthållare som placeras mellan biltaket och takboxen. En del i denna lasthållare kallas för takbleck och dess form tas fram med en speciell takskanner vilken analyserar biltakets form vid kanterna.</p><p>Till detta har en mjukvara tagits fram som Thule kan använda för att söka/lägga till/redigera takbleck, istället för att manuellt söka i en pärm bland 700 olika ritningar. Programvaran var först utvecklad i Microsoft® Visual Studio 2003 (.NET Framework 1.1), men på senare tid omarbetad från grunden i den nyare utvecklingsmiljön Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0).</p><p>Innan programmeringen av mjukvaran sattes igång utformades en kravspecifikation från Thule om vad de ville ha för funktioner i programmet. Denna kravspecifikation har under utvecklingens tid ändrats, både under de möten som hållits och på en speciell webbplats som skapats för återkoppling av programmet (”TBS Felhanterings-center”), i form av buggar/ändringar/annat.</p><p>Förutom en avdelning i rapporten som behandlar hur denna programvara är uppbyggd, vilka problem som uppstod och hur de löstes, finns även teoretisk information om databaser, XML och andra teknologier.</p><p>Resultatet av projektet blev en applikation för hantering av takbleck som kan användas ute i fält (hos kund) utan uppkoppling mot en gemensam databas hos företaget (mot vilken all information synkroniseras). All information som läggs till/redigeras sparas på användarens lokala dator i form av XML som sedan kan synkroniseras mot den gemensamma server-databasen på företaget.</p> / <p>Thule Sweden AB develop, manufacture, and market complete and functional load carriers for cars. They provide a large amount of different load carriers for over 1500 car models. They also manufacture carriers such as bike carriers, roof boxes, ski carriers and water sport carriers. To be able to put a roof carrier on a car, a load carrier must be manufactured and be placed between the car roof and the roof carrier.</p><p>We have developed software that the group of workers at Thule can use to search/add/edit brackets, instead of manually search in a folder containing over 700 drawings. The program was first developed in Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (.NET Framework 1.1), but has been rewritten in Microsoft’s new develop environment Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0).</p><p>Before we started to write the program, Thule gave us a specification of requirements that contained information of possible functions in the program. The specification of requirements has been changed a couple of times during our work. We have also put up a website where bugs and changes could be reported.</p><p>Except a part in this report, where we describe how the program is built, how we have solved problems, there is also theoretical information about how databases, XML and other techniques work.</p><p>The result of this project became an application, which the personnel at Thule can use while they visit their customers. The saved information can later be synchronised with the server.</p>

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

Thule Sweden AB utvecklar, tillverkar och marknadsför kompletta och funktionella lasthållarsystem för bilar. De erbjuder en mycket stor bredd av olika lasthållare till över 1500 bilmodeller. De tillverkar lasthållare som cykelhållare, boxar, skidhållare, hållare för vattensport och andra tillbehör. För att en bil skall kunna bära en takbox måste det tillverkas en lasthållare som placeras mellan biltaket och takboxen. En del i denna lasthållare kallas för takbleck och dess form tas fram med en speciell takskanner vilken analyserar biltakets form vid kanterna. Till detta har en mjukvara tagits fram som Thule kan använda för att söka/lägga till/redigera takbleck, istället för att manuellt söka i en pärm bland 700 olika ritningar. Programvaran var först utvecklad i Microsoft® Visual Studio 2003 (.NET Framework 1.1), men på senare tid omarbetad från grunden i den nyare utvecklingsmiljön Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0). Innan programmeringen av mjukvaran sattes igång utformades en kravspecifikation från Thule om vad de ville ha för funktioner i programmet. Denna kravspecifikation har under utvecklingens tid ändrats, både under de möten som hållits och på en speciell webbplats som skapats för återkoppling av programmet (”TBS Felhanterings-center”), i form av buggar/ändringar/annat. Förutom en avdelning i rapporten som behandlar hur denna programvara är uppbyggd, vilka problem som uppstod och hur de löstes, finns även teoretisk information om databaser, XML och andra teknologier. Resultatet av projektet blev en applikation för hantering av takbleck som kan användas ute i fält (hos kund) utan uppkoppling mot en gemensam databas hos företaget (mot vilken all information synkroniseras). All information som läggs till/redigeras sparas på användarens lokala dator i form av XML som sedan kan synkroniseras mot den gemensamma server-databasen på företaget. / Thule Sweden AB develop, manufacture, and market complete and functional load carriers for cars. They provide a large amount of different load carriers for over 1500 car models. They also manufacture carriers such as bike carriers, roof boxes, ski carriers and water sport carriers. To be able to put a roof carrier on a car, a load carrier must be manufactured and be placed between the car roof and the roof carrier. We have developed software that the group of workers at Thule can use to search/add/edit brackets, instead of manually search in a folder containing over 700 drawings. The program was first developed in Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (.NET Framework 1.1), but has been rewritten in Microsoft’s new develop environment Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0). Before we started to write the program, Thule gave us a specification of requirements that contained information of possible functions in the program. The specification of requirements has been changed a couple of times during our work. We have also put up a website where bugs and changes could be reported. Except a part in this report, where we describe how the program is built, how we have solved problems, there is also theoretical information about how databases, XML and other techniques work. The result of this project became an application, which the personnel at Thule can use while they visit their customers. The saved information can later be synchronised with the server.

This diploma thesis deals with design and implementation of a network application for monitoring of computers for a chosen company. The application allows administrators to automate the gathering of hardware and software information. The purpose of the application is also to monitor hardware values, such as processor temperature or harddisk free space. The design uses client-server architecture. Three applications were created: server, client and graphical management console.

This work deals with a issue of a DoS vulnerability in web applications. At first, there are described principles of a computer security, general principles of the DoS and a penetration testing. Further text describes a OWASP Testing Guide v3 for the DoS in web applications. There is a design of own application on basis own experiences. This application is implemented and tested by the web applications.

Thesis (M.Sc.(Computer Science))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

The capacity to engage in web services transactions on smartphones is growing as these devices become increasingly powerful and sophisticated. This capacity for mobile web services is being realised through mobile applications that consume web services hosted on larger computing devices. This thesis investigates the effect that end-to-end web services security has on the interoperability between mobile web services requesters and traditional web services providers. SOAP web services are the preferred web services approach for this investigation. Although WS-Security is recognised as demanding on mobile hardware and network resources, the selection of appropriate WS-Security mechanisms lessens this burden. An attempt to implement such mechanisms on smartphones is carried out via an experiment. Smartphones are selected as the mobile device type used in the experiment. The experiment is conducted on the Java Micro Edition (Java ME) and the .NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) smartphone platforms. The experiment shows that the implementation of interoperable, end-to-end, mobile web services security on both platforms is reliant on third-party libraries. This reliance on third-party libraries results in poor developer support and exposes developers to the complexity of cryptography. The experiment also shows that there are no standard message size optimisation libraries available for both platforms. The implementation carried out on the .NET CF is also shown to rely on the underlying operating system. It is concluded that standard WS-Security APIs must be provided on smartphone platforms to avoid the problems of poor developer support and the additional complexity of cryptography. It is recommended that these APIs include a message optimisation technique. It is further recommended that WS-Security APIs be completely operating system independent when they are implemented in managed code. This thesis contributes by: providing a snapshot of mobile web services security; identifying the smartphone platform state of readiness for end-to-end secure web services; and providing a set of recommendations that may improve this state of readiness. These contributions are of increasing importance as mobile web services evolve from a simple point-to-point environment to the more complex enterprise environment.

The nature of Internet and Intranet Web applications has changed from a static content-distribution medium into an interactive, dynamic medium, often used to serve multimedia from back-end object-relational databases to Web-enabled clients. Consequently, developers need to make an informed technological choice for developing software that supports a Web-based application for distributing multimedia over networks. This decision is based on several factors. Among the factors are ease of programming, richness of features, scalability, and performance. The research focuses on these key factors when distributing images from an Oracle9i database using Java Servlets, JSP, ASP, and ASP.NET as the server-side development technologies. Prototype applications are developed and tested within each technology: one for single image serving and the other for multiple image serving. A matrix of recommendations is provided to distinguish which technology, or combination of technologies, provides the best performance and development platform for image serving within the studied envirorunent. / KMBT_363 / Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in