XML Language Research Articles

Customization Research on Collaborative Simulation of the Parts of Truck-Mounted Crane

The base frame of the truck-mounted crane was taken for an example, the collaborative simulation process based on the Pro/E and ANSYS Workbench software was put forward. Firstly, the collaborative scheme based on Pro/E and ANSYS Workbench was made; secondly, the model parametric extraction and the two-way transmission path of parameters between Pro/E and ANSYS Workbench were studied. The interface technology of model’s data was discussed; thirdly, the key technology of the implementation of analytic model was discussed. With the ANSYS Workbench, customization development technology of the collaborative simulation process was studied. Based on the method of customized script components, the support platform of customizing simulation of the base frame was built, which includes part’s simulation menu customized by XML language; simulation procedure controlled by Jscript language; interactive interface and input interface of model parameters and load parameters realized by HTML language. Thus, the parametric modeling and analysis of truck-mounted crane’s key parts were implemented automatically. The customization of collaborative simulation process provides important reference for the customization development of product parts.

Flexible access control framework for MARC records

PurposeThe goal of this paper is to propose a data access control framework that is used for editing MARC‐based bibliographic databases. In cases where the bibliographic record editing activities carried out in libraries are complex and involve many people with different skills and expertise, a way of managing the workflow and data quality is needed. Enforcing access control can contribute to these goals.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed solution for data access control enforcement is based on the well‐studied standard role‐based access control (RBAC) model. The bibliographic data, for the purpose of this system, is represented using the XML language. The software architecture of the access control system is modelled using the Unified Modelling Language (UML).FindingsThe access control framework presented in this paper represents a successful application of concepts of role‐based access control to bibliographic databases. The use of XML language for bibliographic data representation provides the means to integrate this solution into many different library information systems, facilitates data exchange and simplifies the software implementation because of the abundance of available XML tools. The solution presented is not dependent on any particular XML schema for bibliographic records and may be used in different library environments. Its flexibility stems from the fact that access control rules can be defined at different levels of granularity and for different XML schemas.Research limitations/implicationsThis access control framework is designed to handle XML documents. Library systems that utilise bibliographic databases in other formats not easily convertible to XML would hardly integrate the framework into their environment.Practical implicationsThe use of an access control enforcement framework in a bibliographic database can significantly improve the quality of data in organisations where record editing is performed by a large number of people with different skills. The examples of access control enforcement presented in this paper are extracted from the actual workflow for editing bibliographic records in the Belgrade City Library, the largest public city library in Serbia. The software implementation of the proposed framework and its integration in the BISIS library information system prove the practical usability of the framework. BISIS is currently deployed in over 40 university, public, and specialized libraries in Serbia.Originality/valueA proposal for enforcing access control in bibliographic databases is given, and a software implementation and its integration in a library information system are presented. The proposed framework can be used in library information systems that use MARC‐based cataloguing.

Integrated Ontology for Agricultural Domain

provide a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and across application systems. An ontology for a certain domain can be created from scratch or by merging existing ontologies in the same domain. Establishing ontology from scratch is hard and expensive. Multiple ontologies of different systems for the same domain may be dissimilar, thus, various parties with different ontologies do not fully understand each other in spite of these ontologies are for the same domain. To solve this problem, it is necessary to integrate these ontologies. Integrated ontology, should be consistent and has no redundancy. This work presents a semi-automated system for building an integrated ontology by matching and merging existing ontologies. The proposed system has been applied on the agricultural domain for Faba Bean crop to get a dynamic integrated ontology, it can be applied also on all crops whatever field crops or horticulture crops. Source ontologies in the proposed system have been implemented in XML language. CommonKADS Methodology has been used in building the target ontology. CommonKADS Methodology deals with the following kinds of entities: Concepts, properties, and values. The proposed system proposed a technique to solve the matching and merging problems by using a multi-matching technique to find the correspondences between entities in the source ontologies and merging technique which deals with concepts, properties, values and hierarchical classifications. The outcome of the proposed system is an integrated ontology in hierarchical classification of the concepts .

Integration of databases on substance properties: Approaches and technologies

This paper discusses the Data Center project, which provides integration of the scientific electronic resources (mainly databases) that are developed and supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The integration technology has been verified within the framework of the Properties of Substances and Materials interdisciplinary theme, which is represented in many Institutes of engineering and natural-science profiles of the RAS. The possibilities of the XML language and ontological modeling are considered for the formalized description of the subject field of the properties of substances. Successful examples of work with databases on properties demonstrate that software engineering has achieved a high level and allows for the development of common exchange standards for heterogeneous resources.

Subtree Reconstruction, Query Node Intervals and Tree Pattern Query Evaluation *

Since the extensible markup language XML emerged as a new standard for information representation and exchange on the Internet, the problem of storing, indexing, and querying XML documents has been among the major issues of database research. In this paper, we study the tree pattern matching and discuss a new algorithm for processing ”ordered tree pattern queries”, by which not only ancestor/descendant relationships, but also left-to-right ordering of query nodes are considered. Such kind of tree matching has many applications in practice, such as the linguistic analysis, the video content-based retrieval, as well as the computational biology and the data mining. The time complexities of the new algorithm is bounded by O(|D|．|Q| + |T|．leaf(subscript Q)) and its space overhead is by O(leaf(subscript T)．leaf(subscript Q)), where T stands for a document tree, Q for a tree pattern and D is the largest data stream among all the data streams associated with the nodes in Q. Each data stream contains the database nodes that match the predicate at a node q. leaf(subscript T) (leaf(subscript Q)) represents the number of the leaf nodes of T (resp. Q). In addition, the algorithm can be adapted to an indexing environment with XB-trees being used. Experiments have been conducted, which shows that our algorithm is promising.

UI Analysis and Style Design

Traditional interactive software and its User Interface (UI) have many shortcomings, so it's hard to meet the needs of users. But the new personalized interface model has good expansibility as it's based on XML language. In addition, the separate storage of XML file and executable programs fully realize the separation of application logic and UI.

Smart Applications of Context Services using Automatic Adaptive Module and Making users Profiles

Context-awareness is becoming an essential feature of services in smart environments in which various computing and sensing devices and position technologies are involved. Location, the most essential part of contextual information, is useful in many applications for determining position, navigation, routing, and tracking. There can be focus on particular application-specific services, e.g., user navigation for visualizing locations on maps and data providing information relevant to the user's current location. It is difficult for existing approaches to offer services as they are not initially designed as client's location is changing continuously and services need to be adapted accordingly. We have designed an architecture that supports automatic adaptation by triggering and discovery services for applications for timely need of user. We will try to give general service quality architecture with XML and XSD(schema) language for describing general services for applications.

LASER THERAPY MARCHES ON!

My dear friends and colleagues, faithful readers, welcome to the second issue of the 21st volume of Laser Therapy. If I look back 23 years, nearly a quarter of a century, to March of 1989, the first words I ever wrote in Volume 1 No 1 as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal were; “Laser Therapy is on the march!” In fact, I wrote more or less the same for the Editorial to the first issue of Volume 14, back in April of 2005, when we resurrected the journal and its masthead from the disrepair into which it had fallen. Back then, we had 48 pages per issue and, true to my promise, we first increased the page count to 60, and now it is up to 84 pages, so we are indeed still on the march. In 1989 the journal was the official organ of the International Laser Therapy Association, ILTA, and then for a while, the World Association for Laser Therapy (WALT). In 2005, however, we were the official journal for no association, but now we proudly count 6 journals who use Laser Therapy as their official organ, which started with the International Phototherapy Association (IPTA) from Volume 15, issue 4, to which have been added the International Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine (ISLSM), the World Federation of Societies for Laser Medicine and Surgery (WFSLMS), the Asian-Pacific Association for Laser Medicine and Surgery (APALMS), the Japan Society for Laser Reproduction (JaSLaR) and the Japan Association for Laser Medicine and Sports Science (JALMSS). Probably the greatest step forward in the onward march of the journal was our acceptance for listing in J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic), and now we can offer articles online up to and including issue 1 of Volume 5 (1993). J-STAGE is working hard to get the remaining volumes scanned and online. All of these journal articles are fully searchable by title, author and keyword. Furthermore, all articles and items in the journal, with the exception of those less than 6 months old at the time of searching, are available freely as open access articles in downloadable and printable PDF files. Those less than 6 months old can be downloaded on a reasonable fee per article basis. We believe this provides a valuable resource to all those researching the field of photomedicine and photosurgery. A further major triumph is the adoption by J-STAGE of the XML language for indexing journals, and as a result, Laser Therapy has already passed the first 2 of 3 hurdles for indexing on PubMed. This is of course an enormous step forward, and not only will it ensure the journal's gaining a higher impact factor, but it will also mean that from the final stage of our acceptance, authors and articles appearing in Laser Therapy will be indexed and searchable in PubMed. Laser Therapy is truly on the march!

E-commerce Smartphone Application

Mobile and e-commerce applications are tools for accessing the Internet and for buying products and services. These applications are constantly evolving due to the high rate of technological advances being made. This paper provides a new perspective on the types of applications that can be used. It describes and analyses device requirements, provides a literature review of important aspects of mobile devices that can use such applications and the requirements of websites designed for m-commerce. The design and security aspects of mobile devices are also investigated. As an alternative to existing m-commerce applications, this paper also investigates the characteristics and potential of the PhoneGap cross-mobile platform application. The results suggest that effective mobile applications do exist for various Smartphones, and web applications on mobile devices should be effective. PhoneGap and Spree applications can communicate using JSON instead of the XML language. Android simulators can be used for ensuring proper functionality and for compiling the applications.

Digital forensics XML and the DFXML toolset

Digital Forensics XML (DFXML) is an XML language that enables the exchange of structured forensic information. DFXML can represent the provenance of data subject to forensic investigation, document the presence and location of file systems, files, Microsoft Windows Registry entries, JPEG EXIFs, and other technical information of interest to the forensic analyst. DFXML can also document the specific tools and processing techniques that were used to produce the results, making it possible to automatically reprocess forensic information as tools are improved.This article presents the motivation, design, and use of DFXML. It also discusses tools that have been creased that both ingest and emit DFXML files.

SugarJ

Existing approaches to extend a programming language with syntactic sugar often leave a bitter taste, because they cannot be used with the same ease as the main extension mechanism of the programming language - libraries. Sugar libraries are a novel approach for syntactically extending a programming language within the language. A sugar library is like an ordinary library, but can, in addition, export syntactic sugar for using the library. Sugar libraries maintain the composability and scoping properties of ordinary libraries and are hence particularly well-suited for embedding a multitude of domain-specific languages into a host language. They also inherit self-applicability from libraries, which means that sugar libraries can provide syntactic extensions for the definition of other sugar libraries. To demonstrate the expressiveness and applicability of sugar libraries, we have developed SugarJ, a language on top of Java, SDF and Stratego, which supports syntactic extensibility. SugarJ employs a novel incremental parsing technique, which allows changing the syntax within a source file. We demonstrate SugarJ by five language extensions, including embeddings of XML and closures in Java, all available as sugar libraries. We illustrate the utility of self-applicability by embedding XML Schema, a metalanguage to define XML languages.

Use of standard vocabulary services in validation of water resources data described in XML

The machine readable encoding language XML is used in water informatics to describe resources and observational data, such as the Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF). WDTF is part of an Australian initiative, established by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in collaboration with CSIRO, to collate water resources data from multiple data providers into a national water information system. A common way of validating XML data is by defining a schema using XML Schema Definition language (XSD) and performing validation using standard XSD tools. However, XSD validation lacks the ability to perform content validation to assert context, domain and organizational rules such as soft-typing, co-constraints, and code-list or vocabulary checking, which is required in the validation of WDTF data. In this paper, we describe a validation service for validating water resources data encoded in WDTF, which combines structural and content validation. We also describe the use of a vocabulary service with the WDTF validation service to perform code-list and vocabulary checking.

Design and Implementation of Embedded Medical Data Transmission Platform based on HL7/XML System

Network interconnection and data sharing has become a global health information development trend. This paper mainly introduces a method and process for embedded medical data transmission platform based on an HL7/XML system. Data format transformation of between hospital and community care are achieved after data collection by the HL7/XML news of construction and analytic in monitoring and hospital, the HL7/XML messages are encoded extensible to markup language XML and are implement transmitted on the network. Then the transmissions of XML data in Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are realized by WiFi network driver development. The results show that this paper proposed the embedded medical data transmission platform operation simple, and has economic and practical value.

Product Information Model of MEMS

A lot of information needs to be processed in the MEMS design process, but this information lack the unified expression format at present. This causes the design stage of MEMS not to be able to share information, furthermore causes low design efficiency. A product information model is presented according to MEMS design stage. XML language is used to describe information of each design stage, and an information exchange and sharing platform model has been established to solve MEMS design data sharing and exchange bottleneck question. The XML technology makes the platform reusable and extensible.

A query language for selecting, harmonizing, and aggregating heterogeneous XML data

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce an expressive query language, called relational XML query language (RXQL), capable of dealing with heterogeneous Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents in data‐centric applications. In RXQL, data harmonization (i.e. the removal of heterogeneous factors from XML data) is integrated with typical data‐centric features (e.g. grouping, ordering, and aggregation).Design/methodology/approachRXQL is based on the XML relation representation, developed in the authors' previous work. This is a novel approach to unambiguously represent semistructured data relationally, which makes it possible in RXQL to manipulate XML data in a tuple‐oriented way, while XML data are typically manipulated in a path‐oriented way.FindingsThe user is able to describe the result of an RXQL query straightforwardly based on non‐XML syntax. The analysis of this description, through the mechanism developed in this paper, affords the automatic construction of the query result. This feature increases significantly the declarativeness of RXQL compared to the path‐oriented XML languages where the user needs to control the construction of the result extensively.Practical implicationsThe authors' formal specification of the construction of the query result can be considered as an abstract implementation of RXQL.Originality/valueRXQL is a declarative query language capable of integrating data harmonization seamlessly with other data‐centric features in the manipulation of heterogeneous XML data. So far, these kinds of XML query languages have been missing. Obviously, the expressive power of RXQL can be achieved by computationally complete XML languages, such as XQuery. However, these are not actual query languages, and the query formulation in them usually presupposes programming skills that are beyond the ordinary end‐user.

Leaf languages and string compression

Tight connections between leaf languages and strings compressed by straight-line programs (SLPs) are established. It is shown that the compressed membership problem for a language L is complete for the leaf language class defined by L via logspace machines. A more difficult variant of the compressed membership problem for L is shown to be complete for the leaf language class defined by L via polynomial time machines. As a corollary, it is shown that there exists a fixed linear visibly pushdown language for which the compressed membership problem is PSPACE-complete. For XML languages, it is shown that the compressed membership problem is coNP-complete.Furthermore it is shown that the embedding problem for SLP-compressed strings is hard for PP (probabilistic polynomial time).

Automated Testing Framework for ODBC Driver

At first, the core ideology, advantage and principle of Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) are presented in this paper. Several automated testing frameworks are summarized and analyzed. In addition, date driven automation test framework is given more attention. Test script is the important composing part of software test automation. Then this paper introduces several technologies of script along with their characteristics. Every technology applies to different places. Moreover, an automated test system with an automated test script language XML which is implemented to solve the problems in current automatic testing solutions. The design and implantation of the test script automation framework based on apache ant is put forward. The proposed key technology details of framework are also introduced. We take the automation test methodology of database connectivity operations by ODBC data source as example for validation, using auto test script as the key technology. Finally, the results demonstrate that it can best increase software test effectiveness and reduce workloads as well as save more efforts.

Tipo abstracto de datos «Biblioteca»

Analysis of bibliographic description from a conceptual point of view from the formal specification: «library» abstract data type. Other approaches are detailed using the entity-relationship model and XML language. We conclude the relevance of abstract approach and its general applicability in a subject of constant change.

M-A model of agricultural remote sensing monitoring metadata based on grid environment

The increase of the amount of agricultural remote sensing monitoring data makes it difficult for data storage and management thereby limiting the utilization of data resources. Considering the security and response time, the original data cannot be directly exposed on the Internet for user queries. Therefore, there is an urgent need to organize and describe agricultural remote sensing monitoring data effectively for users to understand and query. In this paper, based on a detailed analysis, for rational planning and organizing of agricultural remote sensing monitoring data resources, a M-A (Metadata of Agricultural Remote Sensing Monitoring Data) model is constructed with the study of data characteristics and the Grid environment. The M-A model structure and its contents are designed using the XML language which gives a relatively comprehensive description of agricultural remote sensing monitoring data and the Grid environment. In summary, the study of this paper provides a practical and effective support for data standardization, sharing, exchanging and integration under the Grid environment.

Study on Geometric Tolerances Information in Integrated Manufacturing Processes

Tolerance information plays a critical role in many steps of the product life cycle. It is especially important due to the advances in Internet technologies and increasing integration requirements from industry. In this paper, geometric tolerances information in manufacturing process (IMP) is studied, and the layered conformance level of geometric tolerances is established according to ASME Y14.5-1994, STEP and DMIS. An EXPRESS-G data model of geometric tolerance information in IMP is established. The XML language is used to represent and program the geometric tolerances information in IMP.