Web Application Development Research Articles

Vesicle Viewer: Online visualization and analysis of small-angle scattering from lipid vesicles

Small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering are among the most powerful experimental techniques for investigating the structure of biological membranes. Much of the critical information contained in small-angle scattering (SAS) data is not easily accessible to researchers who have limited time to analyze results by hand or to nonexperts who may lack the necessary scientific background to process such data. Easy-to-use data visualization software can allow them to take full advantage of their SAS data and maximize the use of limited resources. To this end, we developed an internet-based application called Vesicle Viewer to visualize and analyze SAS data from unilamellar lipid bilayer vesicles. Vesicle Viewer utilizes a modified scattering density profile (SDP) analysis called EZ-SDP in which key bilayer structural parameters, such as area per lipid and bilayer thickness, are easily and robustly determined. Notably, we introduce a bilayer model that is able to describe an asymmetric bilayer, whether it be chemically or isotopically asymmetric. The application primarily uses Django, a Python package specialized for the development of robust web applications. In addition, several other libraries are used to support the more technical aspects of the project; notable examples are Matplotlib (for graphs) and NumPy (for calculations). By eliminating the barrier of downloading and installing software, this web-based application will allow scientists to analyze their own vesicle scattering data using their preferred operating system. The web-based application can be found at https://vesicleviewer.dmarquardt.ca/.

E-commerce Web App in Azure Cloud: Considerations, Components of Implementation and Schematic Design

Consumers shifted their spending to the web due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Businesses and organizations that once mapped digital strategy with careful planning over a transition period, now forced to scale their initiatives in a matter of days. In this regard, we are motivated by the need to develop a scalable, highly available, resilient, secure, and cost-effective e-commerce web application for demonstrating how cloud services can be leveraged for implementing such applications. 
 
 This paper is a part of the aforementioned web application development project, titled “A cloud-based e-commerce storefront prototype for SMEs in Oman”. In this paper, we discuss the system considerations, components of implementation, and the schematic design of the proposed software solution.
 
 This paper provides meaningful guidelines for companies that want to adopt cloud-based E-commerce web application to bring their products and services online without much upfront cost or initial investment.

Model Driven Web Application Development with Agile Practices

Model Driven Web Application Development with Agile Practices

Islamic Education Content Platform for Secondary School Students

The rapid development of information technology has affected various aspects of life including education at the school level. However, conventional teaching and learning methods are still used in secondary schools, especially for Islamic subjects. One of the ways to help students learn better in Islamic subjects is by implementing a web-based content platform in the context of Islamic education. This is a learning tool to support the teaching and learning process using various media such as educational video materials for secondary school students, because multimedia elements will make learning more interesting especially for Islamic subjects that require memorization, reading, and comprehension. Another desired goal is for teachers to be able to manage their Islamic lessons online. In developing web applications, appropriate development methodologies have been implemented using Waterfall Model as a guideline. The waterfall model has different development phases such as analysis, design, implementation, testing and finally documentation. The web-based Islamic Education Content Platform (IECP) was designed and developed using Visual Studio Code with PHP and MySQL databases. It was assessed by obtaining Expert Review (ER) through a set of questionnaires given to four experts and fifteen respondents through User Acceptance Test (UAT). The results of ER indicate that web-based IECP is suitable for use and currently need to be refined and improved. Meanwhile, the UAT results show that web-based IECP is generally accepted and believed to be beneficial, especially to secondary school students and teachers.

Group Formation based on Students’ Learning Styles by Circular Genetic Algorithm

Student group formation plays a critical role in promoting academic learning styles. Therefore, in this study, we employed a heuristic algorithm called the circular genetic algorithm (CGA) to form balanced groups of dissimilar students in terms of personal preferred learning styles. The benefit of balancing students’ learning styles is to assist students with diverse abilities to work collaboratively. With the assistance of our developed web application, members within a group contain mixed characteristics, while all formed groups of students are similar. In addition, an empirical case study was used to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Corresponding results verified by the analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicate that the algorithm can optimally allocate students in an efficient way.

An implementation of Replication Oriented Architecture (ROA) for Web Service Scalability

Web services provide application to application integration across different platforms. However, the consumption of web services generates request traffic that must be attended to by an instance of the web server without fail. To guarantee dependability of the web service, the instances of the web service are replicated as a way of scaling the web service. The Replication Oriented Architecture (ROA) has been designed and implemented using the Java Enterprise application development platform and interesting results have been obtained. Improvements in the PHP scripting language have made it a popular programming language for web and enterprise application development. In this paper, an implementation of the ROA architecture using PHP is done. The implementation is simulated on the Apache Jmeter and results compared to the results obtained in the Java implementation. The results show that both application development platforms achieve web service scalability as a quality of service (QOS) expected of a web service. In specific terms, 50.9% at 95.0% confidence level improvement in response time was achieved when PHP is used which compares favorably with 22.5% improvement at 95.0% confidence level achieved on the Java platform.

Evolving JavaScript Code to Reduce Load Time

JavaScript is one of the most used programming languages for front-end development of Web applications. The increase in complexity of front-end features brings concerns about performance, especially the load and execution time of JavaScript code. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary program improvement technique to reduce the size of JavaScript programs and, therefore, the time required to load and execute them in Web applications. To guide the development of this technique, we performed an experimental study to characterize the patches applied to JavaScript programs to reduce their size while keeping the functionality required to pass all test cases in their test suites. We applied this technique to 19 JavaScript programs varying from 92 to 15,602 LOC and observed reductions from 0.2 to 73.8 percent of the original code, as well as a relationship between the quality of a program's test suite and the ability to reduce the size of its source code.

Classification for Quality Assessment of the User Interface and its Application in the Development of Web-applications

The article considers a classification for validation and quality assessment of the user interface (UI) from the point of view of the main aspects of design and its application in the development of web-applications. The problem with inaccurately crafted user interface requirements is relevant and as a result, developers often have to redesign the interface and architecture of the application. The article analyzes the role and place of UI in the architecture of client-server applications, analyzes aspects of UI design, on the basis of which the classification is formed. The classification is used to analyze UI design oversights of the developed web-applications for BPMS “Fireproof Corporation” company. Based on the results of UI validation, a set of typical UI design oversights has been added.

Common Attacks and Trends in Web Application

This aim of this paper is to review the available literature on the recent trends in web application vulnerabilities. Google Scholar was used as the main search database for the review. Studies from the last few decades to analyse the trends in web application vulnerabilities over the years, especially since they are a relatively recent phenomenon. Using a set of criteria, approximately 400 scholarly works were initially selected and then reduced to a smaller number which was then explored in detail. It was found that there are a variety of forms in which attacks on web applications may take place. These attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated with advancements in technology. Additionally, novel ways of attacking users have been developed in order to do so without tricking the user. Given the influx of technology and web applications in every aspect of life, this makes the user especially vulnerable. This means that web application developers must treat security as a priority rather than solely focus on usability.

High-Tech Companies are an Important Structural and Innovative Aspect of the Development of the Regional Economy

This article is devoted to the development of high-tech companies in the modern economic market. The author presents the definition of a high-tech company, shows that with the development of the digital economy, high-tech companies are more and more efficient in their activities in the economic market and have a multilateral positive impact on the development of regions. The author analyzes the main functions of high-tech companies in the modern economic market. In addition, the article shows that high-tech companies, through their own scientific developments, the introduction of advanced solutions in the activities of industries and spheres of the regional economy, contribute to the development of the business environment, training of the personnel of economic objects, the quality of life of the population of the regions. The article notes that high-tech companies in their activities use a full range of modern innovations: technical, technological, marketing, organizational, process, etc. The article tells that in the modern period in the economic market of the Russian Federation there are many high-tech companies that specialize in the development and implementation of information and communication technologies and digital projects. For example, such as the development of data stores, web and mobile applications, enterprise resource planning systems, industrial process control systems, etc. As the main characteristics of high-tech companies, the article highlights such as the use of progressive achievements of science and technology in the main areas of the company's work, the presence of trade secrets, the production of goods and services, information security, profitability, instant rate of change, constant integration with scientific institutions, mobility and uniqueness of specialists.Purpose. The purpose of this article is to prove the provisions that high-tech companies are an effective tool in the development of the regional economy.Materials and methods. In the process of writing this article, a systematic and comparative analysis, methods of working with WEBsites, monographic studies, research materials of domestic and foreign authors in the field of regional and digital economy were used.Results. In this article, based on the study of domestic and foreign experience, the main directions of the functioning of high-tech companies in the economic market, their advantages and disadvantages are identified; the main provisions for further improving their activities and a positive impact on the growth of economic indicators in the development of regions of the country are stated.Conclusion. This paper shows that high-tech companies that are effectively developing in the modern period have many positive effects on the development of the regional economy. In particular, they contribute to the creation of an innovative ecosystem, the development of production and urban infrastructure based on advanced scientific discoveries, innovative practical developments and the attraction of qualified personnel.

Methodology of Security testing of IKID website and Security Vulnerabilities

Due to the large amount of data stored in web applications and the increasing number of transactions on the web, the right Web Application Security Testing is very important day by day and web application is an important in business life. By increasing complexity of web systems, Security testing has become a very necessary and important activity of the life cycle of developing web applications, web security testing consists of searching for information about the network, application and looking for holes and weakness.

Water Data Explorer: An Open-Source Web Application and Python Library for Water Resources Data Discovery

We present the design and development of an open-source web application called Water Data Explorer (WDE), designed to retrieve water resources observation and model data from data catalogs that follow the WaterOneFlow and WaterML Service-Oriented Architecture standards. WDE is a fully customizable web application built using the Tethys Platform development environment. As it is open source, it can be deployed on the web servers of international government agencies, non-governmental organizations, research teams, and others. Water Data Explorer provides uniform access to international data catalogs, such as the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) Hydrologic Information System (HIS) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hydrological Observing System (WHOS), as well as to local data catalogs that support the WaterOneFlow and WaterML standards. WDE supports data discovery, visualization, downloading, and basic data interpolation. It can be customized for different regions by modifying the user interface (i.e., localization), as well as by including pre-defined data catalogs and data sources. Access to WDE functionality is provided by a new open-source Python package called “Pywaterml” which provides programmable access to WDE methods to discover, visualize, download, and interpolate data. We present two case studies that access the CUAHSI HIS and WHOS catalogs and demonstrate regional customization, data discovery from WaterOneFlow web services, data visualization of time series observations, and data downloading.

Learning From Doing

Software applications in educational technology have been a strong driving force for the success of online learning at all levels. These applications are created for various purposes and are used by a range of experts. The development of a successful educational technology software takes a deliberate team effort and thoughtful project management. This interpretive case study details the processes, successes, and challenges determined throughout the development of an educational web application, the Social Performance Optimization Tool (SPOT). In describing the evolution of SPOT, and the processes the heterogeneous team followed in the development of the web application, this study provides analysis and guidance to educational researchers who are interested in developing educational web applications in the future. The study described how authors mindfully adopted software design models, team management techniques, and communication tools. Additionally, the paper highlights practical and unique implications developers must account for when working in higher education contexts.

Integrating Web Services/Applications to Improve Pediatric Functionalities in Electronic Health Records.

The past decade has seen a substantial increase in the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by health care providers caring for children. However, gaps in pediatric-specific functionalities continue to exist in some EHR systems, including population-specific growth curves, immunization clinical decision support, weight-based medication dosing with rounding, calculation of pediatric hypertension percentiles, age-specific developmental assessment, newborn bilirubin nomograms, anticipatory guidance reminders, and other functionalities described elsewhere. Implementing pediatric functionalities into EHRs is critical to the provision of safe pediatric care. As an alternative to direct implementation in EHRs, EHR vendor agnostic Web applications, Web services, and application programming interfaces offer an opportunity to provide pediatric functionalities and eliminate the need for each vendor to develop these functionalities. Successful implementation of Web services and related technologies requires responsible attention from both EHR vendors and developers of Web services, Web applications, and application programming interfaces to the use of data terminology standards, adherence to privacy and security requirements, rigorous testing, change management processes, and robust system support and maintenance. Education of health care providers about opportunities to improve pediatric functionalities in EHRs by using these services can facilitate discussions in EHR user groups in which vendors can be lobbied to implement them. This policy statement emphasizes the need to address pediatric-specific functionalities in EHRs by providing insight and recommendations into the development, maintenance, integration, and support of these novel solutions.

Web Services and Cloud Computing in Pediatric Care.

Electronic health record (EHR) systems do not uniformly implement pediatric-supportive functionalities. One method of adding these capabilities across EHR platforms is to integrate Web services and Web applications that may perform decision support and store data in the cloud when the EHR platform is able to integrate Web services. Specific examples of these services are described, such as immunization clinical decision support services, consumer health resources, and bilirubin nomograms. Health care providers, EHR vendors, and developers share responsibilities in the appropriate development, integration, and use of Web services and Web applications as they relate to best practices in the areas of data security and confidentiality, technical availability, audit trails, terminology and messaging standards, compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, testing, usability, and other considerations. It is desirable for health care providers to have knowledge of Web services and Web applications that can improve pediatric capabilities in their own EHRs because this will naturally inform discussions concerning EHR features and facilitate implementation and subsequent use of these capabilities by clinicians caring for children.

COMPUTER AIDED SCHEMATIC DESIGN: HOW TO MANAGE LARGE DATA IN THE EARLY STAGES OF URBAN DESIGN PROJECTS

The study was designed to research and analyse the existing methods used in the industry and propose alternative solutions that would meet the growing project demand. One of the major findings of this paper shows that 65% of interviewed architects and urban designers reported a lack of data accuracy in their concept design solutions, as well as dissatisfaction with the segregated concept design process. Having identified key inefficiencies in pre-design and the schematic design stages of urban design, the study develops a multiplatform web application - a space planning tool that is capable of assisting with data informed design decisions in the early stages of large-scale urban design projects. The alternative solution allows for the execution of concept stage prototyping through UI cell modification by integrating data and generating spatial solutions based on the adjacency requirements.
 Purpose: the purpose of this study is to understand, improve and eliminate inefficiencies in the early stages of the urban design process.
 Methodology: this study will first review existing inefficiencies of the architecture and urban design industry using 2 researched methods: non-participant observations and surveys. Non-participant observations were continuous and were carried out for a period of 9 months. The group that was studied involved 17 people that worked on the early-stage design stage of large-scale architecture and urban design projects. In addition to that, a survey was carried out to examine the identified inefficiencies further and to confirm the hypothesis. The survey involved 370 industry professionals from over 15 countries. Based on the developed understanding of project delivery inefficiencies, a classification will be developed to categorize the existing software. Finally, this study will conduct a series of experiments to develop a technical solution to meet current industry demands.
 Results: identification of key pre-design and the schematic design inefficiencies, development of a multiplatform web application.
 Practical implications: the application is being tested and used in the industry of architecture, urban and spatial design, it has the potential to save companies time and financial resources.

Web application for design and development of environmental information systems in supply distribution

The Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia is an archipelagic country most of which is in the form of water. In maintaining the security and integrity of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, several Navy bases were built which spread from Sabang to Merauke. In terms of meeting the needs of military supplies for soldiers throughout the territory of Indonesia, an Information System for monitoring the distribution of military supplies is needed that is transparent, timely, on target so that any military supplies distributed can be received by each soldier under their respective rights. So far, there is no information system in the process of distributing military supplies, so it is very difficult to monitor the distribution of military supplies, so there are often delays and even wrong deliveries. This study aims to design an information system that can monitor the distribution of military supplies from the top units to the lowest units throughout Indonesia to reduce errors that are still happening in the field in terms of the distribution of military supplies using the Unified Modeling Language (Unified Modeling Language) method. UML) such as Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams. The result of this research is to be able to create an Information System that is under functional and non-functional needs that can handle the problems that have existed so far in terms of monitoring the distribution of military supplies so that there are no delays in the distribution of military supplies.

Web application for design and development of environmental information systems in supply distribution

Web application for design and development of environmental information systems in supply distribution

Why we use Django rather than Flask in Asset Management System

Python provide number of frameworks for web development and other applications by Django, Flask, Bottle, Web2py, CherryPy and many more. Frameworks are efficient and versatile to build, test and optimize software. A web framework is a collection of package or module which allows us to develop web applications or services. It provides a foundation on which software developers can built a functional program for a specific platform. The main purpose of this study about python framework is to analyze which is better framework among Django or flask for web development. The study implement a practical approach on PyCharm. The result of this study is - “Django is better than flask”.

Machine learning based diabetes prediction and development of smart web application

Diabetes is a very common disease affecting individuals worldwide. Diabetes increases the risk of long-term complications including heart disease, and kidney failure among others. People might live longer and lead healthier lives if this disease is detected early. Different supervised machine learning models trained with appropriate datasets can aid in diagnosing the diabetes at the primary stage. The goal of this work is to find effective machine-learning-based classifier models for detecting diabetes in individuals utilizing clinical data. The machine learning algorithms to be trained with several datasets in this article include Decision tree (DT), Naive Bayes (NB), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting (GB), Logistic Regression (LR) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). We have applied efficient pre-processing techniques including label-encoding and normalization that improve the accuracy of the models. Further, using various feature selection approaches, we have identified and prioritized a number of risk factors. Extensive experiments have been conducted to analyze the performance of the model using two different datasets. Our model is compared with some recent study and the results show that the proposed model can provide better accuracy of 2.71% to 13.13% depending on the dataset and the adopted ML algorithm. Finally, a machine learning algorithm showing the highest accuracy is selected for further development. We integrate this model in a web application using python flask web development framework. The results of this study suggest that an appropriate preprocessing pipeline on clinical data and applying ML-based classification may predict diabetes accurately and efficiently.