The Mathematics Placement System 2.0 is a system developed by Dr. Dennis Martin to eliminate the hand-grading bottleneck that delayed feedback of Mathematics Placement test scores to students. The system was written for a Windows-based environment using the Access DBMS with a Visual front-end.
The Mathematics Placement System 3.0 expands on the previous version by:
Image Retrieval System (IRS) will specifically be a product, which will deal with the fronts of human faces (mug shot) only. The user will input the photo of the person first, then the face data of that photograph will be matched with the rest of the photographs stored in the database, and finally the system will recover the matched photo with the description of that person.
The goals of the IRS project are to design and develop an integrated information retrieval and database management infrastructure that supports image information and first-class objects suited for storage and retrieval based on their content. Specifically, research in the IRS project is categorized into the following four sub-areas, each of which contributes to the development of the integrated infrastructure:
It is important for individuals to track their dietary and fitness information in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This can be accomplished through active use of diaries and logs. These tools can be an extremely valuable asset for gaining control of helpful information and bio-feedback. These tools can also assist individuals when analyzing their diets and fitness levels. Unfortunately, conventional ways of logging information are not efficient and do not offer the tools needed for higher-level analysis. The Personal Nutrition Assistant will provide the user with a powerful alternative.
The main objective of this project is to create a system that provides meaningful information to the user. Extensive research and requirements capture will be conducted to ensure this. Another objective is to create a user interface that is intuitive and easy to use. Much emphasis will be placed on user involvement for prototyping interfaces.
PNA will be a web-based software package. Because of this, PNA can be accessed from anywhere in the world via any Internet-accessible PC. Users are not bound by physical location, as they would be if they were using desktop software. PNA will present the user with a friendly interface. The system’s interface will consist of HTML forms that will be used to maintain data. The interface will also tabulate user information and present it in a meaningful way. PNA’s user information will be stored in a secure database. This will allow better storage and faster retrieval of information.
A Comparison of
XML-RPC and SOAP on Disparate Systems
Nicole Staretz
May 2003
This thesis will compare XML-RPC and SOAP as the framework for setting up a distributed computing network. XML-RPC is a specification and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments, to make procedure calls over the Internet/Intranet. SOAP is more complex and a higher-level specification for accessing information over the Internet/Intranet.
This thesis will demonstrate a comparison of XML-RPC and SOAP across heterogeneous systems and formulate conclusions on these technologies based on the results of the timing tests.