Application Development Environment Research Articles

The application of building energy management system based on IoT technology in smart city

To introduce new energy management (EM) systems that apply solar energy, geothermal energy, and wind energy to intelligent building (IB), so as to reduce the energy consumption of traditional buildings, and integrate it into the building equipment management system (EMS) to make the application of new energy more transparent and rationalized. The research results show that according to the three characteristics of Internet of Things (IoT)—“Sensor, Internet, Intelligent”, the problem of data connection between IB EMS and IoT is solved. Then, through the user’s demand analysis of application services, it is determined the service content that the system can provide for the user. It can be concluded that the application development environment of the IoT data application platform is used to design and develop a new energy application management system based on the IoT, which lays a theoretical foundation for realizing the large-scale EM of “smart city”.

Visualization Technology Framework of Industrial Cloud Computing

Industrial cloud computing is considered to be an essential technology for future industrial enterprises. Under the influence of Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet concepts, industrial cloud computing related technologies are becoming a hot topic in recent research. How to observe and analyze the intermediate and final results of industrial cloud computing is the first problem to be solved in this research field. This paper proposes a new industrial PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) architecture, which has a very important relationship with the visualization of industrial cloud computing, and it deploys a large number of structurally symmetric Data Engine computing units. Configuration and reusable methods are used in this paper to form a visualization technical framework and establish a data mapping relationship with the Data Engine, which significantly improves the efficiency of visualization application development. Finally, we validated the technology using an industrial internet test bed. The experimental results show that this visualization framework technology can provide industrial users with an advanced industrial application development environment, and effective realtime monitoring of industrial cloud computing through the internet.

Комп’ютерне моделювання руху пасажирського транспорту на зупинних пунктах міських маршрутів

The paper investigates the problem of optimization of public transport traffic based on simulation. The aim of the work is to assess the operational characteristics of the urban public transport organization system to meet the transport needs of city residents. A discrete simulation model for organizing the movement of passengers and route vehicles at a bus stop has been built. The vehicle in conjunction with the bus stop is considered as a multi-channel queuing system with failures. An algorithm for determining the average waiting time of passengers in a queue and an algorithm for determining a rational time interval between route vehicles arriving at a bus stop have been developed. The number of free seats in the route vehicle is set as a random variable. The algorithms are based on the use of dynamic data structures, in particular, queues of limited length. In addition to the maximum and current length, the queue structure includes an array whose elements are the time intervals between the appearance of passengers at the stopping point. In this case, the intervals between the addition of the next passenger to the queue change depending on the time of day. The model is implemented on the example of stopping points on one of the bus routes in Cherkassy using an object-oriented programming paradigm. The software project was executed using the C ++ language in the fully functional Visual Studio 2019 application development environment. The application of the proposed model in the reorganization of public transport allowed to reduce the average waiting time for passengers from 11 minutes to 9 minutes and to develop recommendations on how to solve the problem of overcrowding at stop points during peak hours, which is especially important during the quarantine period due to the spread of Covid-19.

CREATING MOBILE APPS IN MIT APP INVENTOR USING GAMIFICATION ELEMENTS WHEN LEARNING PROGRAMMING IN BASIC SCHOOL

The article describes the possibilities of teaching basic school students the beginnings of programming based on visual environments, in particular, the MIT App Inventor mobile application development environment, using gamification elements. The practical significance of using the MIT App Inventor environment in teaching the basics of algorithms and programming is revealed. The importance of including elements of gamification in the learning process is substantiated in order to increase the motivation of students, develop their teamwork skills and the possibility of independently obtaining a finished product in the form of a popular mobile application. Schoolchildren get the opportunity to use the created software product, modify it for different educational tasks. The article provides specific examples of using the MIT App Inventor mobile application development environment in organizing and conducting an informatics lesson.

Generalizable Layered Blockchain Architecture for Health Care Applications: Development, Case Studies, and Evaluation.

BackgroundData coordination across multiple health care facilities has become increasingly important for many emerging health care applications. Distrust has been recognized as a key barrier to the success of such applications. Leveraging blockchain technology could provide potential solutions tobuild trust between data providers and receivers by taking advantage of blockchain properties such as security, immutability, anonymity, decentralization, and smart contracts. Many health technologies have empirically proven that blockchain designs fit well with the needs of health care applications with certain degrees of success. However, there is a lack of robust architecture to provide a practical framework for developers to implement applications and test the performance of stability, efficiency, and scalability using standard blockchain designs. A generalized blockchain model is needed for the health care community to adopt blockchain technology and develop applications in a timely fashion.ObjectiveThis study aimed at building a generalized blockchain architecture that provides data coordination functions, including data requests, permission granting, data exchange, and usage tracking, for a wide spectrum of health care application developments.MethodsAn augmented, 3-layered blockchain architecture was built on a private blockchain network. The 3 layers, from bottom to top, are as follows: (1) incorporation of fundamental blockchain settings and smart contract design for data collection; (2) interactions between the blockchain and health care application development environment using Node.js and web3.js; and (3) a flexible development platform that supports web technologies such as HTML, https, and various programing languages. Two example applications, health information exchange (HIE) and clinical trial recruitment, were developed in our design to demonstrate the feasibility of the layered architecture. Case studies were conducted to test the performance in terms of stability, efficiency, and scalability of the blockchain system.ResultsA total of 331,142 simulated HIE requests from accounts of 40,000 patients were successfully validated through this layered blockchain architecture with an average exchange time of 11.271 (SD 2.208) seconds. We also simulated a clinical trial recruitment scenario with the same set of patients and various recruitment criteria to match potential subjects using the same architecture. Potential subjects successfully received the clinical trial recruitment information and granted permission to the trial sponsors to access their health records with an average time of 3.07 seconds.ConclusionsThis study proposes a generalized layered blockchain architecture that offers health technology community blockchain features for application development without requiring developers to have extensive experience with blockchain technology. The case studies tested the performance of our design and empirically proved the feasibility of the architecture in 2 relevant health application domains.

A fuzzy mobile decision support system for diagnosing of the angiographic status of heart disease

In estimating the risk of heart disease due to non-deterministic risk factors, often diagnosis of angiographic disease is difficult for physicians. For modeling and application of this uncertain and imprecise modality, decision support systems based on fuzzy logic are appropriate and an effective approach. Smartphone-based applications can facilitate the efficient use of these systems in form of evidence-based medicine. The aim of this applied study was developing and evaluating an application to diagnose angiographic disease conditions and the severity of heart attacks through a smartphone-based clinical decision support system. Android application development environment was utilized after extraction of linguistic rules and definition of membership functions needed for decisions. A smartphone-based application was designed using these guidelines and utilizing fuzzy modeling. Then, the app was evaluated in terms of accuracy using the popular Cleveland dataset. According to the results, 10 fuzzy rules for modeling, seven input variables and one decision variable were extracted. Programming was done in Eclipse. The evaluation results indicate that the accuracy of the program was 94%. Decision support systems within the context of mobile health have become some of the most efficient and influential information technology tools in recent years. They can improve patient-care management, provide easier access to the information needed for healthcare decisions and ultimately reduce healthcare costs while improving its quality.

Architecturally truly diverse systems: A review

The pairing of traditional multicore processors with accelerators of various forms (e.g., graphics engines, reconfigurable logic) can be referred to generally as architecturally diverse systems. Our interest in this work is truly diverse systems, in which more than one accelerator is used in the execution of an application. These systems have the potential for substantial performance gains relative to multicores alone; however, they pose significant difficulties when it comes to application development.In spite of these difficulties, the use of accelerators in high performance computation, generally, has grown substantially over the past decade. This is primarily due to a pair of forces. First, with the demise of Dennard scaling, power has become a substantial limiting factor in systems development, pushing computations to be more power efficient (a strength of many accelerators). Second, the application development environments for accelerators have improved substantially in recent years.We review the use of multiple, distinct accelerators deployed in a individual system or, more to the point, used concurrently within an individual application. We give a history of architecturally diverse systems that use multiple accelerators, discuss the motivations for diversity in accelerators, and describe the approaches that both system designers and application developers have used to put accelerators to beneficial use.

Study of an Application Development Environment Based on Unity Game Engine

In the current era of smartphone, mobile games have become really popular. To the high growth rate of mobile media, online games are getting progressively well-known and have been generally played, particularly among teenage-aged citizens. Our paper is about learning the development process of an ordinary online multiplayer game model and analysis of the complexity for its mobile option by several types of testing using Unity game engine. The emphasis is put on utilizing the inherent Unity segments in a multiplayer game in particular, building up accessory practices to utilize Unity’s Scripting API for C# and incorporating outsider segments like the networking engine, 2D models, and molecule frameworks made for use with Unity and accessible through the Unity Asset Store. We choose to lead a convenient testing on the implemented mobile game application. We also make remarks on Unity as a multiplayer game improvement condition and execution engine.

Methods of simulation mathematical modeling of the Russian derivatives market in modern times

Introduction. The paper is devoted to simulation modeling. Basic methods of the simulation mathematical modeling in the derivatives market are described. A group of realistic nonGaussian Levy processes that generalize the classical BlackScholes model is considered. The work objective is to study the most efficient methods of market forecasting, as well as the software implementation of the simulation mathematical modeling technique of the Russian derivatives market based on the Levy model. This research is relevant due to the demand for applications that simulate the dynamics of financial assets and evaluate options in realistic models of the derivatives market, allowing for jumps.Materials and Methods. Basic methods for forecasting the derivatives market, methods for determining the volatility rate at a known option price, are considered. The most effective types of Levy processes for the simulation mathematical modeling of the Russian derivatives market at the present stage are highlighted. The possibilities of the Java language for the implementation of mathematical methods are considered.Research Results. A program is developed in the Java programming language that implements the Levy mathematical model, which includes Gaussian and generalized Poisson processes. The program for calculating the mathematical method is created in the free integrated application development environment NetBeans IDE to work with any operating system.Discussion and Conclusions. The result of the simulation mathematical modeling analysis has shown that the most efficient methods in the derivatives market are those based on realistic non-Gaussian Levy processes. The software implementation of such mathematical methods can be used for educational purposes. The developed application has demonstrated high quality and speed of calculations using software resources.

Дистанционное управление платы Arduino с помощью Bluetooth модуля

The article discusses the principles of information exchange with Android applications through the integrated Arduino board and Bluetooth modules, which are widely used in robotics, as well as the possibility of remote control using mobile devices. The article includes sketches written in the Arduino IDE, and fragments of program code written in the Java language in the Android Studio mobile application development environment.

Visual Analysis of Actions Performed with Big Graphs

The basic concepts of using application development environments are presented in this paper. The way of using the GraphAnalyser application and its basic functions is also presented. All results of the experiments conducted are generated with this application. According to the experimental methodology, they fall into two groups: the first one includes actions related to the vertices of a graph, and the second one includes actions related to the edges and the dynamic allocation of memory to store the structure of a graph. The results show that when the number of vertices in a graph increases linearly, the time to add and remove these vertices also increases linearly. When the number of graph vertices increases linearly, the number of added vertices per millisecond remains relatively constant. However, the number of vertices removed for one millisecond for graphs containing between 10 and 70 million vertices varies. Similarly, when the number of graph edges increases linearly, the number of added edges per millisecond remains relatively constant. The summarized results of the two experiments show that the actions associated with adding, removing, and calculating the edge lengths are performed much more slowly than adding and removing the vertices.

Key Metrics Identification of Distinct Process Models to Develop an Iot Based Systems

The globe is encompassing gravitate automation. Many organizations turning the theoretical aspects into practical implementation by converging technologies. Embedded systems considered the core of sensor-based technology. Bundle of built-in configuration required to interact devices. Productivity software confederate to communicate with the integrated systems over the web. Process models furnished strategies to implement systems. Process models like a classical waterfall, Spiral, XP, Agile, RUP, Prototype, and Scrum which provides the blueprint for developers. The paper investigating the variations among process models and integrated system development. Discrete factors have to be considered an excerpt of the process model to an integrated system. Process models can be suitable to implement small scale and medium scale systems but implementing sophisticated systems deals with various critical factors. The non-functional attributes of development tools and deployment environments are the key components in system development. Since the cloud is the component of IoT and cloud providing solutions as per pay and use policy. Identifying process model for IoT systems depends on application nature, development and deployment environments. IoT systems require real-time operating systems or devices to interpret code in it. The probable scrutiny is given information about the agile methodology. The research involving with identification of key metrics of various process models to develop IoT based systems. The paper presuming the external factors not involving with the process mode. Identified key factors from agile model to develop medium level integrated systems.

Formal Verification for Task Description Languages. A Petri Net Approach.

One of the main challenges in verifying robotic systems is its asynchronous interaction with an unstructured environment, observed by imperfect sensors. Autonomous robot systems usually require some language to support task-level control. This paper presents an effective approach to apply formal verification methods for that kind of language. A main contribution of this method is to avoid modeling the robotic system with a specific formalism. The approach translates the task-level control models into a Petri net (PN) based representation. This is used to define new methods to analyze some task properties such as liveness, deadlock-freeness and terminability. The approach has been applied to the Task Description Language (TDL) and it is illustrated by experiments. The final goal is to create new tools within the application development environment to include formal verification as part of the normal software development cycle. The TDL to PN translator uses the Petri Net Markup Language (PNML) as its file format. This format permits interoperability with other Petri net tools that can also be used to analyze the PNs.

Use of Mobile Applications for Foreign Language Lexical Competence Formation

The article deals with the problem of foreign language lexical competence formation of non-philological specialties students, which is the basis for foreign-language communicative competence and a compulsory component of a future specialist’s training. The relevance of using mobile technologies in the process of teaching students a foreign language to increase the qualitative level of lexical competence is substantiated. The analysis of mobile applications for the study of a foreign language has shown that there is no unambiguous approach to their development and implementation, focused on the specifics of future students’ professional activities. As a result of the study, the structure, functionality, and design of a mobile application for the study of English by students of non-philological specialties were developed. A mobile application for developing the English language lexical competence for the Android operating system with the help of the integrated Android Studio mobile application development environment has been developed. Experimental testing of the effectiveness of applications in foreign language classes for mobile applications focused on the specifics of students’ future professional activities has shown the positive impact of specialized mobile applications on the level of students' knowledge of the foreign language vocabulary.

Effectual application development on digital platforms

The development of novel software applications on digital platforms differs radically from traditional software development. In this position paper, we posit that software development managers and teams face unique challenges in platform environments and require new development approaches to be successful. While traditional software development approaches have focused on achieving application-market match, platform-based applications must also achieve application-platform match, application-market match, value propositions exceeding platform’s core value propositions, and novelty. We argue that these desired properties support a new vision of the software development team as entrepreneurs. To support this positioning insight, we discuss the limitations of existing software development approaches and introduce an innovative approach for application development on digital platforms that is grounded in the theory of effectuation from the field of entrepreneurship. We investigate an existing application development environment (Apache Cordova) on digital platforms to see if the concepts of effectuation are present. The preliminary findings provide support for the promise of effectual development methods. We conclude with a call for innovative effectual methods of software development on digital platforms and an accompanying research agenda.

Development of application software without programming

End-user programming is an increasingly popular discipline of software engineering. In order to design a development environment that allows programming by non-programmers, it is desirable to understand their mental model. Most languages designed for end-users are based on visual interaction techniques such as programming with graphically presented rules and agents. Visual techniques allow direct manipulation in the environment in such a way that users grasp and pull visual components to match the application, as well as to select specific actions on certain events. Due to its omnipresence in operating systems, desktop and mobile applications, direct manipulation is an interaction technique which non-programmers are familiar with, and therefore highly desirable in application development environments by end-users or non-programmers.In this paper we present a review of the features and the functionality of the development environment that would allow the end-users logopedists to develop their therapeutic software without writing programming code and without any programming knowledge.

12. Information Management

As the electricity industry becomes increasingly competitive, knowledge concerning the capacity, constraints and reliability of the electric system will become a commodity of great value. Electricity markets can be fast changing; understanding the implications of these changes before others can give an important competitive advantage. Power systems, however, are characterized by extremely large sets of data that cover spatial, temporal and contingent dimensions.Therefore, the focus of this mini-track is on the management of the information associated with power markets and power systems. This year there were four accepted papers. The first paper, ?A virtual environment for protective relaying evaluation and testing? addresses the important issue of visualization of the power relaying systems using an interactive 3D approach. In electrical power, systems the relays are charged with protecting the electrical system from potentially catastrophic disturbances. For example, when lightning strikes an electric transmission lines it is the relays, which must quickly sense that there is a problem. They then direct the line's circuit breakers to open, de-energizing the line but hopefully saving the system. This paper presents exciting new work at modeling and testing relays using a virtual environment.The second paper, ?Simulation Environment for Development and Testing of Plug Compatible Power System Applications? looks at the important issue of software management in a large energy control center environment. Traditionally a single manufacturer using a proprietary approach has developed these systems. Such a closed system made it well nigh impossible for outside vendors to supply software components for the system. Thankfully, recent work by EPRI and others has resulted in the opening of the energy control center. The second paper in the session describes recent work in the development and testing of these new ?plug compatible? power system applications.The third paper, ?Optimization and Visualization of the North American Eastern Interconnect Power Market? looks at the optimization and visualization of a proposed power market covering the entire Eastern Interconnect power system. The Eastern Interconnect electrical system covers almost all of North America east of the Rocky Mountains. This paper investigates the potential for operating this entire system as a single regional transmission organization (RTO). Surprisingly, so long as the lines and generators are operating as planned, the paper concludes that there is sufficient low cost capacity and transmission to keep prices uniform across the system. However, loss of just a few key devices can quickly result in market segmentation.The last paper in the mini-track, ?Human Factors Analysis of Power System Visualizations? describes an experimental approach to formally testing the usability of different power system visualizations. Power systems are in need of new visualization techniques. However, hand in hand with this work there must be a formal testing of whether these new visualizations are actually helpful. The last paper in the mini-track describes some recent human factor experiments to help meet this critical need.

Towards a Secure Development Environment for Collaborative Applications

Collaborative applications use the security services offered by secure socket layer / transport layer security (SSL/TLS) to implement authentication and confidentiality. Since SSL/TLS establishes a secure communication between two participants, for a secure network of n (> 2) participants, at least n(n-1)/2 secure communication channels have to be established. Whereas, a group key agreement (GKA) protocol allows the participants to compute a common secret group key as a function of the secrets of participants, and thereby remove the n(n-1)/2 lower bound on the channel requirement. Partial forward secrecy is a property of the GKA protocol which assesses the secrecy of the group key, when the secrets are compromised. Collaborative applications have different security requirements. Hence, the Spread Toolkit offers a set of GKA protocols, so that the designers can choose the most appropriate one. In this article, given a set of GKA protocols, a method is proposed to select the best among them, with respect to partial forward secrecy.

APPLICATION OF THE SECURITY.CRYPTOGRAPHY CLASS LIBRARY FOR PRACTICAL TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS FROM THE CYBER SECURITY

The article deals with the problem of training modern specialists of the specialty "125 - Cyber Security". Issues of providing students with specialized and professional knowledge and skills in cryptographic protection of the information are considered. The necessity of obtaining practical knowledge on information protection with a certain amount of theoretical knowledge for future cybersecurity specialists has been substantiated. Through the analysis of literature and the use of own experience, the essence and structure of the concept of "competence on cryptographic protection of the information" have been determined. Formation of these competencies have been carried out within the framework of interdisciplinary links of educational disciplines, namely: "Applied Cryptology", "Secure Programming". The list of requirements for professionally significant characteristics of a cybersecurity specialist in the field of cryptographic protection of information has been determined. An overview of cryptographic libraries has been conducted and the main criteria for selecting the cryptographic service and the programming environment have been determined. The article demonstrates the need to use modern cryptographic .Net Framework services and the Microsoft Visual Studio application development environment to provide students with the knowledge and practical skills of information protection. The model of formation and development of competences on cryptographic protection of the information for students of the specialty “125-Cyber Security” has been developed and the ways of its realization at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University have been offered. In the course of the research it was determined that in the programming of cryptographic protection mechanisms, practical skills of using cryptographic algorithms in the processing and transmission of data have been effectively formed. It is proved that the definition of the volume of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, taking into account the interdisciplinary connections of educational disciplines, allows preparing specialists with practical skills in cryptographic protection of the information. Such specialists are necessary for IT companies in the labor market.

GETTING AND PROCESSING GEOPRODITIONAL DATA WITH MATLAB MAPPING TOOLBOX

The article considers the problems of providing water, necessary for the needs of the population and the national economy on a global scale and for Azerbaijan in particular. One of the means for the accumulation and storage of water are artificial reservoirs formed, as a rule, in the river valley by water-supporting structures for the accumulation and storage of water for the purpose of its use in the national economy. The main parameters of reservoirs are considered in the article, such as: volume, area of the mirror and the amplitude of fluctuations in water levels in the conditions of their operation, as well as modes of their operation, which became the basis for constructing a mathematical model of the cascade reservoir, which reliably describes the hydrological processes that take place in the reservoirs. Monitoring the status of reservoirs will allow to plan activities, simulate the situation that may arise in other reservoirs that make up the cascade, and make forecasts. The article presents a data processing model in the MATLAB application development environment, which is one of the most popular software in the world. The model is based on the method of calculating differential indices based on multispectral data. Having a large number of additions to the main program in the form of toolboxes, or sets of specialized tools, makes it possible to apply MATLAB in a wide variety of areas of programming. The Mapping Toolbox is specifically designed to leverage MATLAB's richest geospatial capabilities. This article shows how to use Mapping Toolbox tools at all stages of working - from receiving and importing into the workspace of the program, processing and further outputting results in the form of files or finished electronic maps. The task of identifying and mapping the hydrological objects that make up the cascade of reservoirs on the largest waterway in Azerbaijan - the Kura River - was chosen as an example.