SWI-Prolog and the web

AbstractProlog is an excellent tool for representing and manipulating data written in formal languages as well as natural language. Its safe semantics and automatic memory management make it a prime candidate for programming robust Web services. Although Prolog is commonly seen as a component in a Web application that is either embedded or communicates using a proprietary protocol, we propose an architecture where Prolog communicates to other components in a Web application using the standard HTTP protocol. By avoiding embedding in external Web servers, development and deployment become much easier. To support this architecture, in addition to the transfer protocol, we must also support parsing, representing and generating the key Web document types such as HTML, XML and RDF. This article motivates the design decisions in the libraries and extensions to Prolog for handling Web documents and protocols. The design has been guided by the requirement to handle large documents efficiently. The described libraries support a wide range of Web applications ranging from HTML and XML documents to Semantic Web RDF processing. The benefits of using Prolog for Web-related tasks are illustrated using three case studies.

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Keamanan Aplikasi Web Melalui Penerapan Cross Site Request Forgery(CSRF)

ITEJ (Information Technology Engineering Journals) ◽

10.24235/itej.v1i2.10 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 46-62

Author(s):

Taufik Ramadan Firdaus

Keyword(s):

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Treatment Method ◽

The Internet ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Media ◽

Cross Site Request Forgery ◽

Cross Site ◽

The Web

Currently the Internet became one of the media that can not be separated, as well as a wide variety of applications supplied her. As the development of technologies, reliance on Web applications also increased. However, web applications have a wide range of threats, one of it is a CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery). This study uses CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) Protection. CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) Protection is a treatment method that has a variety of ways, one of which uses a token in the session when the user login. Token generated at login will be used as a user id that the system of web applications to identify where the request originated. The results of this study are expected in order to increase web application defenses against CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery), so that web application users will be able to feel safe in using the Internet and its various feature. Reduced level of attacks on web applications. So that visitor traffic on the web application can be increased.

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Using Neural Networks to Protect Web Applications

NBI Technologies ◽

10.15688/nbit.jvolsu.2020.2.3 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 16-20

Author(s):

Marina Ozhiganova ◽

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Emil Kurtametov ◽

Keyword(s):

Neural Networks ◽

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Reference Network ◽

Network Systems ◽

Web Application Security ◽

Specific Content ◽

Preventative Measures ◽

Wide Range ◽

Security Of Network

Security of network systems has become a necessity, as more and more important information is stored and used online. The spread of web applications opens up new attack vectors. Traditional security mechanisms, such as firewalls, are not designed to protect web applications and therefore do not provide adequate protection. Current attacks cannot be prevented only by blocking ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). Preventative measures (such as web application firewall rules) are not always possible. Signature methods for detection are always behind the actual event. Protocol-enforced network firewalls usually provide the first line of defense, delaying most major attacks on the network perimeter. They mainly work on the network, session, and transport layers of the reference network model (OSI). Developers have significantly expanded the capabilities of network firewalls to control the integrity of a wide range of top-level protocols, such as DNS, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, and TFTP. Standard firewalls can help restrict or allow access to network ports. Although application proxy firewalls exist, they cannot understand the specific content of all web applications run by an enterprise. The purpose of this article is to study the features of using machine learning in web application protection. Methods of web application security and learning neural networks were studied. The result of this work is a theoretical overview of the neural network security of a web application.

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An Ontology-Based Extraction Framework for a Semantic Web Application

Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics - Intelligence Methods and Systems Advancements for Knowledge-Based Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1873-2.ch013 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 231-246

Author(s):

Hadrian Peter ◽

Charles Greenidge

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Language Processing ◽

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Prototype System ◽

Web Databases ◽

Web Documents ◽

Inference Engines ◽

Automatic Matching ◽

Machine Readability

The Semantic Web vision is rapidly becoming a mainstream reality, but obstacles remain in the way. A major challenge is the adoption of practical Semantic Web applications and the production of vast stores of ubiquitous meta-data which is needed to allow robust inference engines to attain the goals of machine readability of web documents. The authors propose the Semantic Web Applications (SEMWAP) framework which facilitates semi-automatic matching of instance data from opaque web databases using lightweight ontology terms. This framework combines information retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing, and ontology techniques to produce a matching and thus provides a viable building block for Semantic Web applications. To experimentally investigate the characteristics and limitations of the SEMWAP framework, a prototype system called the Semantic Ontological Data Labeler (SODL) was constructed.

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A Tool Suite to Enable Web Designers, Web Application Developers and End-users to Handle Semantic Data

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems ◽

10.4018/ijswis.2010070103 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 38-60

Author(s):

Mariano Rico ◽

Óscar Corcho ◽

José Antonio Macías ◽

David Camacho

Keyword(s):

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

End Users ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

Application Development ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Semantic Data ◽

Wide Range ◽

Application Developers ◽

Web Designers

Current web application development requires highly qualified staff, dealing with an extensive number of architectures and technologies. When these applications incorporate semantic data, the list of skill requirements becomes even larger, leading to a high adoption barrier for the development of semantically enabled Web applications. This paper describes VPOET, a tool focused mainly on two types of users: web designers and web application developers. By using this tool, web designers do not need specific skills in semantic web technologies to create web templates to handle semantic data. Web application developers incorporate those templates into their web applications, by means of a simple mechanism based in HTTP messages. End-users can use these templates through a Google Gadget. As web designers play a key role in the system, an experimental evaluation has been conducted, showing that VPOET provides good usability features for a representative group of web designers in a wide range of competencies in client-side technologies, ranging from amateur HTML developers to professional web designers.

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An Updated “Call Database” to Support Lab Consultation and Quality Improvement Projects

American Journal of Clinical Pathology ◽

10.1093/ajcp/aqz112.005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 152 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S3-S3

Author(s):

Niklas Krumm ◽

Noah Hoffman

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Data Entry ◽

Clinical Pathology ◽

Structured Data ◽

Current Application ◽

Clinical Laboratories ◽

Wide Range ◽

Hipaa Compliance

Abstract Clinical laboratories may have “on-call” residents and fellows, a practice that assists the laboratory in providing quality support to clinicians and provides valuable clinical experience to trainees. A Call Database may be used as a tool to facilitate call handoffs, as an educational resource and knowledge base for trainees, and as a call logging and review tool as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Call Database at our institution currently contains over 51,000 entries and is used by all clinical pathology residents and fellows while “on call.” Prior versions of our Call Database (first developed in 2004 and updated in 2014) were self-hosted applications with limited feature sets that were difficult to support; moreover, they provided few guarantees around electronic protected health information (ePHI), a topic of increasing concern as HIPAA compliance among clinical laboratories is increasingly audited. A review of the current application also identified that it has limited usefulness in supporting faculty review of calls, does not easily allow structured data entry for quality improvement projects, and lacks features commonly seen in modern web applications (eg, rich text editing and file attachments). Here we describe the latest update to our existing Call Database addressing these feature limitations. In addition, we discuss our approach to using a modern cloud-based infrastructure design that address prior shortcomings in data security, user management, and ease of development. The updated Call Database is a single-page web application, compatible with a wide range of local and cloud environments. We updated the user interface with features such as auto-saving of entries, rich text entry, file attachments, and topic tagging. Several new features facilitate the faculty review process: (1) a dedicated “review mode” for rapid viewing and commenting of relevant calls, (2) automated weekly emails by topic sent to faculty, and (3) a user “mention” feature so that trainees can solicit the opinion of faculty in the text of a call or comment itself. Finally, we provide support for customizing the structured data fields of call entries, which enables support of quality improvement and monitoring projects via the call database (eg, a customized entry for monitoring use of specific send-out tests, massive transfusion reactions, etc.). Our application delivers a modern, performant, and easy to use call database for use by trainees and faculty alike. We utilize the Amazon Cloud (AWS) to host the application and have developed a specific set of compliance and risk review documents to address HIPAA compliance. Future work will incorporate user feedback and will focus on supporting the implementation of our application at other sites or clinical pathology residency programs.

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Temporal Lensing: An Interactive and Scalable Technique for Web3D/WebXR Applications in Cultural Heritage

Heritage ◽

10.3390/heritage4020040 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 710-724

Author(s):

Bruno Fanini ◽

Daniele Ferdani ◽

Emanuel Demetrescu

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Interaction Model ◽

Archaeological Sites ◽

The Past ◽

Wide Range ◽

Interactive 3D ◽

Over Time ◽

The Web

Today, Web3D technologies and the rise of new standards, combined with faster browsers and better hardware integration, allow the creation of engaging and interactive web applications that target the field of cultural heritage. Functional, accessible, and expressive approaches to discovering the past starting from the present (or vice-versa) are generally a strong requirement. Cultural heritage artifacts, decorated walls, etc. can be considered as palimpsests with a stratification of different actions over time (modifications, restorations, or even reconstruction of the original artifact). The details of such an articulated cultural record can be difficult to distinguish and communicate visually, while entire archaeological sites often exhibit profound changes in terms of shape and function due to human activities over time. The web offers an incredible opportunity to present and communicate enriched 3D content using common web browsers, although it raises additional challenges. We present an interactive 4D technique called “Temporal Lensing”, which is suitable for online multi-temporal virtual environments and offers an expressive, accessible, and effective way to locally peek into the past (or into the future) by targeting interactive Web3D applications, including those leveraging recent standards, such as WebXR (immersive VR on the web). This technique extends previous approaches and presents different contributions, including (1) a volumetric, temporal, and interactive lens approach; (2) complete decoupling of the involved 3D representations from the runtime perspective; (3) a wide range applications in terms of size (from small artifacts to entire archaeological sites); (4) cross-device scalability of the interaction model (mobile devices, multi-touch screens, kiosks, and immersive VR); and (5) simplicity of use. We implemented and developed the described technique on top of an open-source framework for interactive 3D presentation of CH content on the web. We show and discuss applications and results related to three case studies, as well as integrations of the temporal lensing with different input interfaces for dynamically interacting with its parameters. We also assessed the technique within a public event where a remote web application was deployed on tablets and smartphones, without any installation required by visitors. We discuss the implications of temporal lensing, its scalability from small to large virtual contexts, and its versatility for a wide range of interactive 3D applications.

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WEBCAP

Advances in Distance Education Technologies - Technologies Shaping Instruction and Distance Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-934-2.ch011 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 166-180

Author(s):

Habib Sami ◽

Safar Maytham

Keyword(s):

Distance Learning ◽

Capacity Planning ◽

Web Applications ◽

Planning Techniques ◽

Web Documents ◽

Web Document ◽

Precedence Graph ◽

Heavy Burden ◽

Operation Timing

In many web applications, such as the distance learning, the frequency of refreshing multimedia web documents places a heavy burden on the WWW resources. Moreover, the updated web documents may encounter inordinate delays, which make it difficult to retrieve web documents in time. Here, we present an Internet tool called WEBCAP that can schedule the retrieval of multimedia web documents in time while considering the workloads on the WWW resources by applying capacity planning techniques. We have modeled a multimedia web document as a 4-level hierarchy (object, operation, timing, and precedence.) The transformations between levels are performed automatically, followed by the application of Bellman-Ford’s algorithm on the precedence graph to schedule all operations (fetch, transmit, process, and render) while satisfying the in time retrieval and all workload resources constraints. Our results demonstrate how effective WEBCAP is in scheduling the refreshing of multimedia web documents.

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An Ontology-Based Extraction Framework for a Semantic Web Application

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations ◽

10.4018/ijkbo.2011070104 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 56-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hadrian Peter ◽

Charles Greenidge

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Language Processing ◽

Web Application ◽

Web Applications ◽

Prototype System ◽

Web Databases ◽

Web Documents ◽

Inference Engines ◽

Automatic Matching ◽

Machine Readability

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ANALYZING AND IMPROVING WEB APPLICATION QUALITY USING DESIGN PATTERNS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY ◽

10.24297/ijct.v2i2b.2641 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 112-116

Author(s):

Shikha Bhatia ◽

Mr. Harshpreet Singh

Keyword(s):

Web Application ◽

Design Pattern ◽

Design Patterns ◽

Web Applications ◽

Past Research ◽

Software Systems ◽

Interactive Software ◽

Web Based ◽

Software Application ◽

Execution Speed

With the mounting demand of web applications, a number of issues allied to its quality have came in existence. In the meadow of web applications, it is very thorny to develop high quality web applications. A design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a generally stirring problem in software design. It should be noted that design pattern is not a finished product that can be directly transformed into source code. Rather design pattern is a depiction or template that describes how to find solution of a problem that can be used in many different situations. Past research has shown that design patterns greatly improved the execution speed of a software application. Design pattern are classified as creational design patterns, structural design pattern, behavioral design pattern, etc. MVC design pattern is very productive for architecting interactive software systems and web applications. This design pattern is partition-independent, because it is expressed in terms of an interactive application running in a single address space. We will design and analyze an algorithm by using MVC approach to improve the performance of web based application. The objective of our study will be to reduce one of the major object oriented features i.e. coupling between model and view segments of web based application. The implementation for the same will be done in by using .NET framework.

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THE USE OF WEB APPLICATIONS FOR THE SELECTION OF CROP GROWING TECHNOLOGIES

Siberian Herald of Agricultural Science ◽

10.26898/0370-8799-2018-3-11 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 84-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. A. Lapchenko ◽

S. P. Isakova ◽

T. N. Bobrova ◽

L. A. Kolpakova

Keyword(s):

Web Application ◽

Crop Production ◽

Web Applications ◽

Weather Forecast ◽

Technical Institute ◽

Software Complex ◽

Agricultural Enterprise ◽

Weather Situation ◽

The Web ◽

Selection Of

It is shown that the application of the Internet technologies is relevant in the selection of crop production technologies and the formation of a rational composition of the machine-and-tractor fl eet taking into account the conditions and production resources of a particular agricultural enterprise. The work gives a short description of the web applications, namely “ExactFarming”, “Agrivi” and “AgCommand” that provide a possibility to select technologies and technical means of soil treatment, and their functions. “ExactFarming” allows to collect and store information about temperature, precipitation and weather forecast in certain areas, keep records of information about crops and make technological maps using expert templates. “Agrivi” allows to store and provide access to weather information in the fi elds with certain crops. It has algorithms to detect and make warnings about risks related to diseases and pests, as well as provides economic calculations of crop profi tability and crop planning. “AgCommand” allows to track the position of machinery and equipment in the fi elds and provides data on the weather situation in order to plan the use of agricultural machinery in the fi elds. The web applications presented hereabove do not show relation between the technologies applied and agro-climatic features of the farm location zone. They do not take into account the phytosanitary conditions in the previous years, or the relief and contour of the fi elds while drawing up technological maps or selecting the machine-and-tractor fl eet. Siberian Physical-Technical Institute of Agrarian Problems of Siberian Federal Scientifi c Center of AgroBioTechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed a software complex PIKAT for supporting machine agrotechnologies for production of spring wheat grain at an agricultural enterprise, on the basis of which there is a plan to develop a web application that will consider all the main factors limiting the yield of cultivated crops.

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