Web Engineering Research Articles

An ethical decision-making framework with serious gaming: a smart water case study on flooding

AbstractSensors and control technologies are being deployed at unprecedented levels in both urban and rural water environments. Because sensor networks and control allow for higher-resolution monitoring and decision making in both time and space, greater discretization of control will allow for an unprecedented precision of impacts, both positive and negative. Likewise, humans will continue to cede direct decision-making powers to decision-support technologies, e.g. data algorithms. Systems will have ever-greater potential to effect human lives, and yet, humans will be distanced from decisions. Combined these trends challenge water resources management decision-support tools to incorporate the concepts of ethical and normative expectations. Toward this aim, we propose the Water Ethics Web Engine (WE)2, an integrated and generalized web framework to incorporate voting-based ethical and normative preferences into water resources decision support. We demonstrate this framework with a ‘proof-of-concept’ use case where decision models are learned and deployed to respond to flooding scenarios. Findings indicate that the framework can capture group ‘wisdom’ within learned models to use in decision making. The methodology and ‘proof-of-concept’ system presented here are a step toward building a framework to engage people with algorithmic decision making in cases where ethical preferences are considered. We share our framework and its cyber components openly with the research community.

Engaging Students in Science Using Project Olympiads: A case study in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Making science enjoyable inspires students to learn more. Out-of-class activities such as science fairs and Olympiads, serve as reasonable informal learning environments that demand attention. The association <b><sup> </sup></b>of students’ involvement in these activities with increased student interest in science followed by the selection of <b> </b>science-related careers, should motivate all in-charge stakeholders. In this work, we analysed the outcomes of the Bosnia Science Olympiad (BSO) as the first national Science Olympiad in<b> </b>Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), aiming the improvement of science education and bringing different ethnic groups under the umbrella of science, in a post-conflict area. The two-day endeavour held in Sarajevo includes competition in <b><sup> </sup></b>four sciencerelated categories (Environment, Engineering, Have an Idea, Web Design) and social activities. In this work, the comprehensive data, including participants’ gender, their ethnic background, cities, schools, and supervisors, over five years, was analysed. The number of participating high-school students increased from 78 to 143, of supervisors from 21 to 95, and of schools from 7 to 15, reaching a wide demographic acceptance to cover all<b> </b>ethnic regions in BiH. The relationship between gender and the selection of a category, shows bias of male<b> </b>participants towards Web Design (21%) and Engineering (40%), and of female students towards “Have an Idea” (40%) and Environment (44%) categories. The contribution of BSO choosing a science career, getting socialized <b>   </b>without prejudices, and the improvement of students’ self-confidence, were as well addressed. Our work demonstrates a model work to successfully promote science in post-conflict settings.<b> </b>

National level E-Resource Centre for Tobacco Control (E-RCTC): One stop solution to information on tobacco control in India

The existing information on tobacco control, though highly valuable, is lying scattered at different sources. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh in collaboration and technical support of International Union against TB and Lung Diseases (The Union) undertook an initiative to start a national level E-Resource Centre for Tobacco Control (E-RCTC) with an aim to provide relevant information on tobacco control under one roof thereby countering the misleading facts on tobacco control which exist on various web engines. The national level E-Resource Centre for Tobacco Control was developed in three stages. In the span of less than 3 years, the portal is open in public domain with over 2,36,019 visitors from around 80+ countries (as on 23rd July 2020), and growing. The portal showcases an array of valuable and vital information related to tobacco control initiatives under various heads like: Policies and Legislations, Circulars and Orders, National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), Publications and IEC Materials. India's first national level Resource Centre for Tobacco Control has proved to be a much-needed step in the country for facilitating speedy implementation of World Health Organization- Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC), MPOWER and other tobacco control interventions. Even with its limitations like absence of an interactive mechanism among a few others, the Resource Centre is nothing less than a storehouse of knowledge as it showcases content that are immensely helpful for the tobacco control community. Constant efforts are being made to improve the national level E-Resource Centre for Tobacco Control website and minimize the drawbacks.

Разработка Web-приложений с учетом элементов качества данных – DQAWA

An acceptable level of quality in data is nowadays a paramount for any kind of organization or enterprise that wishes its business processes to prosper. Thus, introducing activities focused in the data quality management is a crucial requirement for the analysts if the level of quality of data for the functionality or service at hand is to be ensured. Such specialized data quality management activities should be presented as early as possible during the software development process. So far and having done a search for proposals in this field, there is still a lack of either methodological or technological proposals with which a developer could be able to design data quality aware applications in the specific field of Web application development. Considering the benefits offered in the field of Model Driven Web Engineering, this work presents a partial outcome of our research in this novel field: a metamodel and a UML profile, both able to be used as data quality artefacts during the design stage of Web applications. The main objective is to provide the designer with the tools needed to design Web applications, in order to prevent data quality issues.

Global Surgery Fellowships—An Investigation of Opportunities, Outcomes, and Applicants

Following the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery in 2015, the Global Surgery Fellowships have risen in popularity, advertised as formalized opportunities for surgical trainees who have an interest in international surgical care. There is currently no up-to-date review of all fellowships available and an urgently needed overview of these opportunities is presented, including critical appraisal of their accessibility, funding, and outcomes. Detailed searches were conducted on the web engine Google, using the term “global surgery fellowship” and iterations. From the 547 resulting links, after applying exclusion criteria, 69 relevant fellowships were included in analysis. The majority of fellowships based in the United States (55%) and arranged by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or universities (>70%). Also, 60% of fellowships had a duration of 1 year or longer. Only a quarter of the fellowships was open solely to trainees from low- or middle-income countries (LMIC), with over 80% of these being full funded. But 40% of the fellowships were advertised as open to trainees from any country, though only one-third of these provided full funding. Key themes across the fellowships’ outcomes included “Professional Development,” “Research,” and “LMIC Quality Improvement.” Almost all of the fellowships (95%) stated international travel opportunities. Twelve of the fellowships offered higher degrees, with the most common being a Masters of Public Health. The global distribution of fellowships and reduced funding opportunities for trainees from LMIC limit accessibility of the Global Surgery Fellowships. It is, however, still promising that most of key themes and high rates of international work are in line with The Lancet Commission’s recommendations. This overview of the Global Surgery Fellowships highlights the need for collaboration between institutions and has illustrated points for consideration when introducing new and the value of established fellowships.

Sistem Informasi Pariwisata Untuk Memudahkan Wisatawan Dalam Menentukan Rute Perjalanan Berwisata di Kota Pagar Alam Berbasis Web

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuat sebuah Sistem Informasi Pariwisata berbasis Web. Dalam penyampaian seputar pariwisata masih dilakukan promosi melalui media masa televisi,surat kabar, spanduk dan baleho. Dampaknya wisatawan masih terasa kesulitan dalam menentukan perencanaan perjalanan wisata di kota Pagar Alam. Metode pengembangan sistem yang digunakan adalah metode Web Engineering dengan lima tahapan Customer Communication, Planning, Modelling, Construction dan Deployment. Oleh karena itu, peneliti akan membuat sebuah sistem informasi pariwisata berbasis web guna untuk mempermudah para wisatawan dalam mencari informasi seperti data objek wisata, data hotel dan data restoran serta tempat yang di hubungkan dengan google map. Dengan adanya sistem informasi berbasis web dapat membantu penyebaran promosi ke wisatawan secara luas untuk meningkatkan kunjungan para wisatawan ke Kota Pagar Alam.
 
 Kunci Utama: Sistem Informasi;Pariwisata;Web Engineering

Tourism Information System To Facilitate Tourists in Determining Travel Routes in a Web-Based City of Pagar Alam

This study aims to create a Web-based Tourism Information System. In conveying about tourism, promotion is still carried out through the mass media of television, newspapers, banners and baleho. The impact is that tourists still find it difficult to determine the planning of a tour in the city of Pagar Alam. The system development method used is the Web Engineering method with five stages of Customer Communication, Planning, Modeling, Construction and Deployment. Therefore, the researcher will create a web-based tourism information system in order to make it easier for tourists to find information such as tourist attraction data, hotel data and restaurant data as well as places that are connected to the google map. With the existence of a web-based information system can help spread promotions to tourists widely to increase tourist visits to the City of Pagar Alam.

Knowledge Sharing System Berbasis Web (Studi Kasus: PDAM Tirta Musi Palembang)

Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum (PDAM) Tirta Musi Palembang is a company engaged in providing mineral water services to the people of Palembang city. The company realizes the importance of managing and documenting employee knowledge for the sustainability of the company. Currently, the knowledge of employees at PDAM Tirta Musi Palembang has not been distributed properly, thus resulting in the ineffective utilization of this knowledge. The Knowledge Sharing System is a tool that can assist in documenting and distributing employee knowledge so that knowledge sharing can occur between employees. The purpose of this research is to build a Knowledge Sharing System that can be used to document and distribute employee knowledge. The system development method used in the Knowledge Sharing System is the Web Engineering method. This method is often used for web-based software development. The result of this research is that a web-based Knowledge Sharing System has been built which has been tested using the Black Box testing method and has been implemented at PDAM Tirta Musi Palembang which is used to assist in the management and documentation of employee knowledge.

Developing Web Applications with Awareness of Data Quality Elements – DQAWA

An acceptable level of quality in data is nowadays a paramount for any kind of organization or enterprise that wishes its business processes to prosper. Thus, introducing activities focused in the data quality management is a crucial requirement for the analysts if the level of quality of data for the functionality or service at hand is to be ensured. Such specialized data quality management activities should be presented as early as possible during the software development process. So far and having done a search for proposals in this field, there is still a lack of either methodological or technological proposals with which a developer could be able to design data quality aware applications in the specific field of Web application development. Considering the benefits offered in the field of Model Driven Web Engineering, this work presents a partial outcome of our research in this novel field: a metamodel and a UML profile, both able to be used as data quality artefacts during the design stage of Web applications. The main objective is to provide the designer with the tools needed to design Web applications, in order to prevent data quality issues.

Design and Implementation of Environmental Engineering and Protection Information System Based on Custom Workflow

The natural building and assurance data framework is a perplexing framework, which coordinates multi-framework multi-procedure and manages bigger amounts of ecological information. In the paper, present the framework dependent on work process, the framework could bargain ecological data consequently by utilizing a great deal of innovations, for example, work process, web and multi-level engineering, and so on the framework could alter itself to the changing or transformation of natural cycle and association. The force capacity of information insights and investigations in this framework could assist the prevalent divisions with settling on great choice.

Badminton Competition Aplication Using Website

Persatuan Bulu Tangkis Seluruh Indonesia (PBSI) is an organization that manages the game of badminton in Indonesia. The Palembang branch of PBSI has so far held a competition that has not used special software, from registration to the results of the competition. The problem that often occurs is the frequent occurrence of misinformation about the race. For this reason, an application will be made that can help accommodate the race administration, starting from the registration of the race to the results of the race. Application created using the website. The development method used in making applications is the Web Engineering method. The programming language used is using PHP and the database is used using MySql. The results of this study are expected to make it easier for athletes to see information about race events, match schedules, race registration, making it easier for badminton clubs to register their athletes in competitions held by PBSI

National Scale Land Cover Classification for Ecosystem Services Mapping and Assessment, Using Multitemporal Copernicus EO Data and Google Earth Engine

Land-Use/Land-Cover (LULC) products are a common source of information and a key input for spatially explicit models of ecosystem service (ES) supply and demand. Global, continental, and regional, readily available, and free land-cover products generated through Earth Observation (EO) data, can be potentially used as relevant to ES mapping and assessment processes from regional to national scales. However, several limitations exist in these products, highlighting the need for timely land-cover extraction on demand, that could replace or complement existing products. This study focuses on the development of a classification workflow for fine-scale, object-based land cover mapping, employed on terrestrial ES mapping, within the Greek terrestrial territory. The processing was implemented in the Google Earth Engine cloud computing environment using 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. Furthermore, the relevance of different training data extraction strategies and temporal EO information for increasing the classification accuracy was also evaluated. The different classification schemes demonstrated differences in overall accuracy ranging from 0.88% to 4.94% with the most accurate classification scheme being the manual sampling/monthly feature classification achieving a 79.55% overall accuracy. The classification results suggest that existing LULC data must be cautiously considered for automated extraction of training samples, in the case of new supervised land cover classifications aiming also to discern complex vegetation classes. The code used in this study is available on GitHub and runs on the Google Earth Engine web platform.

Challenges for the Adoption of Model-Driven Web Engineering Approaches in Industry.

Challenges for the Adoption of Model-Driven Web Engineering Approaches in Industry.

Social Media Survey and Web Posting Assessment of the COVID-19 Response in China: Health Worker Attitudes Toward Preparedness and Personal Protective Equipment Shortages.

BackgroundUnderstanding health worker awareness, attitudes, and self-confidence in the workplace can inform local and global responses toward emerging infectious threats, like the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Availability of accessible personal protective equipment (PPE) is vital to effective care and prevention. MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey from February 24 to 28, 2020, to assess COVID-19 preparedness among health workers. In addition, we assessed trends from search engine web crawling and text-mining data trending over the Sina Weibo platform from January 1 to March 3, 2020. Data were abstracted on Chinese outbreak preparedness. ResultsIn the survey, we engaged 6350 persons, of whom 1065 agreed to participate, and after an eligibility logic check, 1052 participated (16.6%). We accessed 412 internet posts as to PPE availability. Health workers who were satisfied with current preparedness to address COVID-19 were more likely to be female, to obtain knowledge about the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak from government organizations, and to consider their hospital prepared for outbreak management. Health workers with more confidence in their abilities to respond were those with more faith in their institution’s response capacities. Elements of readiness included having airborne infection isolation rooms, visitor control procedures, and training in precautions and PPE use. Both survey and web post assessments suggested that health workers in need were unable to reliably obtain PPE. ConclusionsHealth workers’ self-confidence depends on perceived institutional readiness. Failure to maintain available PPE inventory for emerging infectious diseases preparedness suggests a failure to learn key lessons from the 2003–2004 SARS outbreak in China.

고속 디지털 시스템 채널의 신호 무결성 성능 분석을 위한 웹기반 서비스 플랫폼

In general, frequency domain and time domain signal integrity characteristics include frequency domain S-parameters, time domain reflectometry(TDR), time domain transmission(TDT) and Eye-Diagram. In this paper, an web-based simulation environment(WSE) which is implemented for analyzing frequency domain and time domain signal integrity characteristics of high-speed digital system channel is introduced. The WSE can be utilized for channel simulation in low cost and reduced time, and in this platform users can also share the engineering web report page link which shows the performance results calculated by the computing machine on the commercial cloud service. By using this WSE, users can communicate with the design engineers and share the design comments verifying the standard channel’s electric specifications.

Integrating Web-Based Collaborative Live Editing and Wireframing into a Model-Driven Web Engineering Process

Today’s Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches automatically generate Web applications from conceptual, domain-specific models. This enhances productivity by simplifying the design process through a higher degree of abstraction. Due to this raised level of abstraction, the collaboration on conceptual models also opens up new use cases, such as the tighter involvement of non-technical stakeholders into Web development. However, especially in the early design stages of Web applications, common practices for requirement elicitation mostly rely on wireframes instead of MDWE, created usually in analog settings. Additionally, state-of-the-art MDWE should integrate established and emerging Web development features, such as Near Real-Time (NRT) collaborative modeling and shared editing on the generated code. The combination of collaborative modeling, coding and wireframing, all in NRT, bears a lot of potential for improving MDWE practices. The challenge when covering these requirements lies with synchronizing source code, wireframes and models, an essential need to cope with regular changes in the software architecture to provide the flexibility needed for agile MDWE. In this contribution, we present a MDWE approach with live code editing and wireframing capabilities. We present the conceptual considerations of our approach, the realization of it and the integration into an overarching development methodology. Following a design science approach, we present the cyclic iterations of developing and evaluating our artifacts, which show promising results for collaborative Web development tasks that could open the gate towards novel, collaborative and agile MDWE techniques.

Designing Palembang's Typical Culinary Information Systems Based on Website and Social Media

Information technology has opened up digital economic opportunities in Indonesia. A number of applications of information technology are the internet, websites and social media. The internet has become a medium of data and information traffic with very large capacities and very high speeds. Website can be used as virtual places for various purposes. Social media can be used as an online social media. Small and medium businesses are one of the pillars of national economic growth. But with the existing limitations, the small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) actors/officers are still constrained by the promotion of their products. All the facilities and advances in information technology need to be packaged in such a way that they can be utilized by SMEs in running their business. This research will design a Palembang culinary information system website. The method used is web engineering which consists of 5 (five) phases: communication, planning, modeling, construction, and dissemination. The results of this study are in the form of web prototype Palembang's culinary information system that can provide information about Palembang's culinary products for social media-based SMEs.

A STUDYING OF WEB CONTENT MINING TOOLS

The web today has become an archive of information in any structure such content, sound, video, designs, and multimedia, with the progression of time overall web, the world wide web is now crowded with different data making extraction of virtual data burdensome process, web utilizes various information mining strategies to mine helpful information from page substance and web hyperlink. The fundamental employments of web content mining are to gather, sort out, classify, providing the best data accessible on the web for the client who needs to get it. The WCM tools are needful to examining some HTML reports, content and pictures at that point, the outcome is using by the web engine. This paper displays an overview of web mining categorization, web content technique and critical review and study of web content mining tools since (2011-2019) by building the table's a comparison of these instruments dependent on some important criteria

Implementation of Y-Model GIS web development in inventory of environmental roads, drainage and septic tanks: A study case

Inventory of GIS Web Applications for Environmental Roads, Drainage, and Septic Tanks is an information system built to support spatial requirements, where these applications are built to address the problem of investing in environmental roads, drainage, and septic tanks according to maps. In developing a web-based GIS application, it usually uses the software development methodology but in this study, the application implementation uses the Y-Model Webgis Development (YWDM) which is a combination of web engineering and the context of developing web-based app with a study case on inventorying spatial requirements on roads, drainage, and septic tanks. This methodology was implemented as a map visualization for city planning and development and is needed applications that are capable and appropriate. By using the YWDM methodology, the needs and accuracy of application development can be done well, using several tools. The data process uses tools, including ArcGIS ESRI, to create spatial data and PHP and JavaScript programming languages to visualize the results. The results show that application development is built more easily because requirements can be well defined because a collection of requirements from the context of software development and spatial specifications are met and the application is completed. When creating a GIS web application, some methodologies can be used besides waterfalls or ordinary SDLCs, because spatial requirements are not well defined. With the implementation of this methodology, it is proven that the development of GIS web applications can be easier and by the needs desired by the user.

Penerapan Metode Web Engineering pada Sistem Informasi Ruang Terbuka Hijau Dinas Pekerjaan Umum dan Penataan Ruang Kota Pagar Alam

This study aims to produce a Green Open Space (RTH) information system of the Pagar Alam City Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR) using the Web Engineering method. Based on observations at PUPR Office Pagar Alam City, it is found that the delivery of information that is currently running is still manual by using brochures, pamphlets, banners, inefficient counseling, and not many people can receive information. Causing many domestic and foreign tourists who do not know the places of Green City Pagar Alam. This research uses the method of developing a Web Engineering system with the following steps: Costumers Communication, Planning, Modeling, Construction and Depeloyment. As well as using Google Maps as a search place. Based on the results of testing that the functionality of the information system can be run well without any obstacles from the process, testing is done using the Black Box method. With this information system, it useful to provide users with easy information about Green Pagar Alam City.