scholarly journals Design and Implementation of a 4D Web Application for Analytical Visualization of Smart City Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Murshed ◽  
Ayah Al-Hyari ◽  
Jochen Wendel ◽  
Louise Ansart
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Dynamic Visualization ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Energy Simulations ◽  
Easy Integration ◽  
Contemporary Development

Contemporary development of computer hardware and software, WebGIS and geo-web services as well as the availability of semantic 3D city models, facilitate flexible and dynamic implementation of web applications. The aim of this paper is to introduce 4D CANVAS, a web-based application for dynamic visualization of 3D geospatial data for improved decision making in smart city applications. It is based on the Cesium Virtual Globe, an open-source JavaScript library developed with HTML5 and WebGL. At first, different data formats such as JSON, GeoJSON, Cesium Markup Language (CZML) and 3D Tiles are evaluated for their suitability in 4D visualization applications. Then, an interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) is built observing the principle of cartographic standards to view, manage, understand and explore different simulation outputs at multiple spatial (3D surface of buildings) and temporal (hourly, daily, monthly) resolutions. In this regard, multiple tools such as aggregation, data classification, etc. are developed utilizing JavaScript libraries. As a proof of concept, two energy simulations and their outputs of different spatial and temporal resolutions are demonstrated in five Asian and European cities. Finally, the 4D CANVAS is deployed both in desktop and multi-touch screens. The proposed application allows easy integration of any other geospatial simulation results, thereby helps the users from different sectors to explore them interactively in 4D.

ANALYZING AND IMPROVING WEB APPLICATION QUALITY USING DESIGN PATTERNS

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.

scholarly journals Preventive Measures for Cross Site Request Forgery Attacks on Web-based Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.15) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Emil Semastin ◽  
Sami Azam ◽  
Bharanidharan Shanmugam ◽  
Krishnan Kannoorpatti ◽  
Mirjam Jonokman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Operating Cycle ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Business World ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Combined Solution ◽  
Cross Site Request Forgery

Today’s contemporary business world has incorporated Web Services and Web Applications in its core of operating cycle nowadays and security plays a major role in the amalgamation of such services and applications with the business needs worldwide. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) states that the effectiveness of security mechanisms in a Web Application can be estimated by evaluating the degree of vulnerability against any of the nominated top ten vulnerabilities, nominated by the OWASP. This paper sheds light on a number of existing tools that can be used to test for the CSRF vulnerability. The main objective of the research is to identify the available solutions to prevent CSRF attacks. By analyzing the techniques employed in each of the solutions, the optimal tool can be identified. Tests against the exploitation of the vulnerabilities were conducted after implementing the solutions into the web application to check the efficacy of each of the solutions. The research also proposes a combined solution that integrates the passing of an unpredictable token through a hidden field and validating it on the server side with the passing of token through URL.  

scholarly journals Designing a XSS Defensive Framework for Web Servers Deployed in the Existing Smart City Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-111
Author(s):  
Brij B. Gupta ◽  
Pooja Chaudhary ◽  
Shashank Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Servers ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Dynamic Web ◽  
Attack Mitigation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Cross-site scripting is one of the notable exceptions effecting almost every web application. Hence, this article proposed a framework to negate the impact of the XSS attack on web servers deployed in one of the major applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) i.e. the smart city environment. The proposed framework implements 2 approaches: first, it executes vulnerable flow tracking for filtering injected malicious scripting code in dynamic web pages. Second, it accomplished trusted remark generation and validation for unveiling any suspicious activity in static web pages. Finally, the filtered and modified webpage is interfaced to the user. The prototype of the framework has been evaluated on a suite of real-world web applications to detect XSS attack mitigation capability. The performance analysis of the framework has revealed that this framework recognizes the XSS worms with very low false positives, false negatives and acceptable performance overhead as compared to existent XSS defensive methodologies.

scholarly journals Cross Site Scripting Attacks in Web-Based Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Aliga Paul Aliga ◽  
Adetokunbo MacGregor John-Otumu ◽  
Rebecca E Imhanhahimi ◽  
Atuegbelo Confidence Akpe
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Architectural Framework ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Cross Site ◽  
The Web

Web-based applications has turn out to be very prevalent due to the ubiquity of web browsers to deliver service oriented application on-demand to diverse client over the Internet and cross site scripting (XSS) attack is a foremost security risk that has continuously ravage the web applications over the years. This paper critically examines the concept of XSS and some recent approaches for detecting and preventing XSS attacks in terms of architectural framework, algorithm used, solution location, and so on. The techniques were analysed and results showed that most of the available recognition and avoidance solutions to XSS attacks are more on the client end than the server end because of the peculiar nature of web application vulnerability and they also lack support for self-learning ability in order to detect new XSS attacks. Few researchers as cited in this paper inculcated the self-learning ability to detect and prevent XSS attacks in their design architecture using artificial neural networks and soft computing approach; a lot of improvement is still needed to effectively and efficiently handle the web application security menace as recommended.

scholarly journals UX of a Web based platform for market linkage between farmers and buyers in Tanzania

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesilia Mambile ◽  
Dina Machuve ◽  
Sabine Moebs
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Web Based ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Market Linkage ◽  
Livestock Farmers ◽  
Poultry Farming

Poultry farming has a very good business potential (Mohammad Khairu Islam, Mohammed Forhad Uddin, 2014) since they are fast growing animals meaning the business has potential to generate high return on investment under a short period of time. For example past days it took about four months for a chicken to become two kilograms, however these days a two kilogram chicken can be produced within 42 days (Hamra, 2010). Despite the fact that poultry farming has good business potential there are some obstacles which hinder the poultry business success such as lack of market linkage. Even with advancement of technology which has brought affordable smartphones to most of the livestock farmers, potential livestock information systems in Tanzania are used by very few livestock farmers and some are not used at all (Mussa et al., 2016). It is not that users do not need the system, nor the system does not show any potential for them, but depend on its usability and how well it suited to the user requirements based on their differences. Users of the system have a lot of differences including exposure to technology (Kalimullah & Sushmitha, 2017). It is now as more important than ever that web applications provide a good user experience which was once considered luxury or an added expenses (Juan, 2014; Ross, 2014). Web based platform for reliable market linkage has been developed with more focus on usability and user experience design. Eye tracking method combined with retrospective think aloud method and facial expression was used to test user experience of the developed web application. The result shows that users were emotionally happy when performing the second and the third tasks. But when performing the first task and the last task users were emotionally anxiety and disappointed.

scholarly journals WEB-BASED SCHEDULING APPLICATION AND MOTION SENSOR USING ARDUINO MEGA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Januardi Nasir ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Delay ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Motion Sensor ◽  
Motion Sensors ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Human Object

The purpose of this research is to find out how to make a web application that can control electronic devices in the building, find out how to make motion sensor circuits with Arduino Mega, electronic devices can be on or off, and find out which one is more efficient in using web applications and sensors. motion on the building. The results of this study indicate that the creation of a web scheduling application that can control the needs of building electronic equipment: webserver (hosting), internet connection, Ethernet shield, Arduino mega, relay module, and the use of motion sensors with Arduino Mega. which can adjust the sensitivity and time delay of signaling when there is the movement of a human object. The use of Ethernet shield and motion sensor each has advantages and disadvantages. It would be better if the two components were combined.

scholarly journals Development of a web based smart city infrastructure for refuse disposal management

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Adeyemo Joke Oluwatimilehin
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Web Application ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Client Application ◽  
Application Layer ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Statistical Feature ◽  
The Status ◽  
Refuse Disposal

The future of modern cities largely depends on how well they can tackle intrinsic problems that confront them by embracing the next era of digital revolution. A vital element of such revolution is the creation of smart cities and associated technology infrastructures. Smart city is an emerging phenomenon that involves the deployment of information communication technology wares into public or private infrastructure to provide intelligent data gathering and analysis. Key areas that have been considered for smart city initiatives include monitoring of weather, energy consumption, environmental conditions, water usage and host of others. To align with the smart city revolution in the area of environmental cleanliness, this study involves the development of a web based smart city infrastructure for refuse disposal management using the design science research approach. The Jalali smart city reference architecture provided a template to develop the proposed architecture in this study. The proposed architecture contains four layers, which are signal sensing and processing, network, intelligent user application and Internet of Things (IoT) web application layers. A proof of concept prototype was designed and implemented based on the proposed architecture. The signal sensing and processing layer was implemented to produce a smart refuse bin, which is a bin that contains the Arduino microcontroller board, Wi-Fi transceiver, proximity sensor, gas sensor, temperature sensor and other relevant electronic components. The network layer provides interconnectivity among the layers via the internet. The intelligent user application layer was realized with non browser client application, statistical feature extraction and pattern classifiers. Whereas the IoT web application layer was realised with ThingSpeak, which is an online web application for IoT based projects. The sensors in the smart refuse bin, generates multivariate dataset that corresponds to the status of refuse in the bin. Training and testing features were extracted from the dataset using first order statistical feature extraction method. Afterward, Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network (MLP-ANN) and support vector machine were trained and compared experimentally. The MLP-ANN gave the overall best accuracy of 98.0%, and the least mean square error of 0.0036. The ThingSpeak web application connects seamlessly at all times via the internet to receive data from the smart refuse bin. Refuse disposal management agents can therefore query ThingSpeak for refuse status data via the non browser client application. The client application, then uses the trained MLP-ANN to appositely classify such data in order to determine the status of the bin.

Web Engineering

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
San Murugesan ◽  
Athula Ginige
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Development ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Web Engineering ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Large Complex ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
Web Developers

Web-based systems and applications now deliver a complex array of functionality to a large number of diverse groups of users. As our dependence and reliance on the Web has increased dramatically over the years, their performance, reliability and quality have become paramount importance. As a result, the development of Web applications has become more complex and challenging than most of us think. In many ways, it is also different and more complex than traditional software development. But, currently, the development and maintenance of most Web applications is chaotic and far from satisfactory. To successfully build and maintain large, complex Web-based systems and applications, Web developers need to adopt a disciplined development process and a sound methodology. The emerging discipline of Web engineering advocates a holistic, disciplined approach to successful Web development. In this chapter, we articulate and raise awareness of the issues and considerations in large, complex Web application development, and introduce Web engineering as a way of managing complexity and diversity of large-scale Web development.

Visual Environment for DOM-Based Wrapping and Client-Side Linkage of Web Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Kimihito Ito ◽  
Yuzuru Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Legacy Applications ◽  
Client Side ◽  
The Web

Web applications, which are computer programs ported to the Web, allow end-users to use various remote services and tools through their Web browsers. There are an enormous number of Web applications on the Web, and they are becoming the basic infrastructure of everyday life. In spite of the remarkable development of Web-based infrastructure, it is still difficult for end-users to compose new integrated tools of both existing Web applications and legacy local applications, such as spreadsheets, chart tools, and database. In this chapter, the authors propose a new framework where end-users can wrap remote Web applications into visual components, called pads, and functionally combine them together through drag-and-drop operations. The authors use, as the basis, a meme media architecture IntelligentPad that was proposed by the second author. In the IntelligentPad architecture, each visual component, called a pad, has slots as data I/O ports. By pasting a pad onto another pad, users can integrate their functionalities. The framework presented in this chapter allows users to visually create a wrapper pad for any Web application by defining HTML nodes within the Web application to work as slots. Examples of such a node include input-forms and text strings on Web pages. Users can directly manipulate both wrapped Web applications and wrapped local legacy tools on their desktop screen to define application linkages among them. Since no programming expertise is required to wrap Web applications or to functionally combine them together, end-users can build new integrated tools of both wrapped Web applications and local legacy applications.

scholarly journals Distributed aggregation of heterogeneous Web-based Fine Art Information: enabling multi-source accessibility and curation

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Buchanan ◽  
Niccolo Capanni ◽  
Horacio González-Vélez
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Distributed Data ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Web

AbstractThe sources of information on the Web relating to Fine Art and in particular to Fine Artists are numerous, heterogeneous and distributed. Data relating to the biographies of an artist, images of their artworks, location of the artworks and exhibition reviews invariably reside in distinct and seemingly unrelated, or at least unlinked, sources. While communication and exchange exists, there is a great deal of independence between major repositories, such as museum, often owing to their ownership or heritage. This increases the individuality in the repository’s own processes and dissemination. It is currently necessary to browse through numerous different websites to obtain information about any one artist, and at this time there is little aggregation of Fine Art Information. This is in contrast to the domain of books and music, where the aggregation and re-grouping of information (usually by author or artist/band name) has become the norm. A Museum API (Application Programming Interface), however, is a tool that can facilitate a similar information service for the domain of Fine Art, by allowing the retrieval and aggregation of Web-based Fine Art Information, whilst at the same time increasing public access to the content of a museum’s collection. In this paper, we present the case for a pragmatic solution to the problems of heterogeneity and distribution of Fine Art Data and this is the first step towards the comprehensive re-presentation of Fine Art Information in a more ‘artist-centric’ way, via accessible Web applications. This paper examines the domain of Fine Art Information on the Web, putting forward the case for more Web services such as generic Museum APIs, highlighting this via a prototype Web application known as the ArtBridge. The generic Museum API is the standardisation mechanism to enable interfacing with specific Museum APIs.

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