Development of sandbox components with microservices architecture and design patterns in games

This chapter introduces an approach to use best-practice experiences in terms of Design Patterns to support the development of high-quality and successful educational games. These Game-based Learning Design Patterns draw from previous work on Game Design Patterns and Pedagogical Patterns. The chapter provides background on the Design Pattern approach and explains the structure of the new pattern type based on selected examples. It also illustrates that existing patterns, e.g., from Game Design, may provide first evidence, while the identification of Game-based Learning Design Patterns is not straightforward.

We draw on years of ethnographic investigation into the disaster response practices of fire emergency response, urban search and rescue, and incident command to inform the design of games. Our objective is to support training disaster responders, yet our findings apply to general game design. We identify critical components of disaster response practice, from which we develop game design patterns: emergent objectives, developing intelligence, and collaborative planning. We expect that, in implementing these patterns, designers can engage players in disaster-response-style planning activities. To support the design patterns, we survey exemplar games, through case studies. The paper contributes a set of game design patterns that support designers in building games that engage players in planning activities.

Adopting Web 2.0 technologies and techniques in modern e-learning systems guarantees a more interactive e-learning experience. It leverages collaboration among learners and enhances accessibility to various learning resources. Providing such functionalities as web services within an integrated e-learning system achieves interoperability and reduces redundancy. Our aim in this paper is to identify recurrent Web 2.0 and Service-oriented architecture (SOA) design and architectural patterns that would provide reusable building blocks for any Web 2.0 based service-oriented e-learning system. The paper builds on induction theory techniques to validate taxonomy related to Web 2.0 and SOA behavioural and technological patterns. We identified 3 elementary design patterns, inter-connectivity, file sharing and content re-mixing, a well as 4 secondary design patterns, streaming, content authoring, content aggregation and tagging. The proposed design patterns share three elementary architecture types, client-server, peer-peer and SOA. The paper also builds on UML4SOA techniques in modelling requirements prior application of proposed patterns in the case study.

Mobile and in particular pervasive games are a strong component of future scenarios for teaching and learning. Based on results from a previous review of practical papers, this work explores the educational potential of pervasive games for learning by analysing underlying game mechanisms. In order to determine and classify cognitive and affective learning outcomes, the authors propose employing game design patterns for mobile games and context information. Context information, in the course of this article, is introduced as an additional characteristic feature of mobile game design patterns. With the proposed framework the authors aim to understand how pervasive game content may support learning. Findings from their research indicate that context information directs the use and presentation of content within a game and thus influences learning effects of individual patterns. This work concludes with a discussion on the shortfalls and potentials, which the authors’ framework for analysis provides.

Research in Serious Games (SG), as a whole, faces two main challenges in understanding the transition between the instructional design and actual game design implementation and documenting an evidence-based mapping of game design patterns onto relevant pedagogical patterns. From a practical perspective, this transition lacks methodology and requires a leap of faith from a prospective customer in the ability of a SG developer to deliver a game that will achieve the desired learning outcomes. A series of workshops were thus conducted to present and apply a preliminary exposition though a purpose-processing methodology to probe various SG design aspects, in particular how serious game design patterns map with pedagogical practices. The objective was to encourage dialogue and debate on core assumptions and emerging challenges to help develop robust methods and strategies to better SG design and its interconnectedness with pedagogy.KeywordsGame mechanicsLearning mechanicsLudo-pedagogy mappingPedagogically-driven game designPatterns

Prior research has explored potential applications of video games in programming education to elicit computational thinking skills. However, existing approaches are often either too general, not taking into account the diversity of genres and mechanisms between video games, or too narrow, selecting tools that were specifically designed for educational purposes. In this paper we propose a more fundamental approach, defining beneficial connections between individual design patterns present in video games and computational thinking skills. We argue that video games have the capacity to elicit these skills and even to potentially train them. This could be an effective method to solidify a conceptual base which would make programming education more effective.

Gameplay in single-player shooter games primarily consists of combat with Non-player Characters (NPCs). However, there has been little research done to study how enemy NPCs affect player behavior in shooter games. As a consequence, there is no formal language for designers to discuss how NPCs are used in shooter games. This paper presents design patterns for NPCs in shooter games and explores their effects on gameplay. These patterns help designers communicate about and explore new ideas for enemy NPCs and further our understanding about how NPC types can be implemented, enabling more engaging experiences.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are centralised data management software, tools, and technologies that enhance collaboration and communication between departments while reducing duplication, errors, and inconsistencies, leading to better accuracy and productivity. However, over time, legacy ERP systems have become cumbersome and difficult to maintain and adapt to new technologies. This paper presents a review of microservices architecture (MSA) as a strategy for modernizing legacy ERP systems. It synthesises literature to highlight the core principles, design patterns, challenges, and best practices associated with MSA. The analysis reveals that MSA significantly enhances scalability, flexibility, and maintainability by decomposing monolithic ERP systems into modular, independent services. Key findings include the benefits of service autonomy, decentralised data management, and API-driven communication in overcoming the limitations of traditional ERP architectures. The paper concludes by highlighting the advantages of MSA in ERP modernisation.

Architectural design patterns are essential in software development because they offer proven solutions to large-scale structural problems in software systems and enable developers to create software that is more maintainable, scalable, and comprehensible. Model-View-Whatever (MVW) design patterns are prevalent in many areas of software development, but their use in Web development is on the rise. There are numerous subtypes of MVW design patterns applicable to Web systems, but there is no exhaustive listing of them. Additionally, it is unclear how these subtypes can be utilized in contemporary Web development, as their usage is typically unconscious. Here, we discuss and define the most prevalent MVW design patterns used in Web development, as well as provide Angular framework examples and guidance on when to employ a particular design pattern. On the premise of the primary characteristics of design patterns, we created a rule system that large language models (LLMs) can comprehend without doubt. Here, we demonstrate how effectively Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models can identify various design patterns based on our principles and verify the quality of our recommendations. Together, our solution and GPT models constitute an effective natural language processing (NLP) solution capable of detecting MVW design patterns in Angular projects with an average accuracy of 90%.

This paper adopts a 5G smart sensor network to design intelligent sensing of environmental information in aquaculture waters, and in this way, we study the significance of optimizing the intelligent sensing model. Microservice architecture and big data analysis and processing will become the innovation of technology in the new era. In this regard, it is very important to study a set of aquarium monitoring and management system based on microservice architecture, so that users can understand the changes in the environment in the aquarium, manage a large amount of historical data quickly, and help users solve existing problems. The design pattern of MVVM architecture, unified management of the life cycle, and microservice architecture make the system very easy to expand and maintain; secondly, it realizes the automatic monitoring of the aquarium environment while making multilevel storage optimization for a large amount of data and realizes fast retrieval of a large amount of data; finally, the system can make intelligent regulation in the environmental control of ornamental fish and can automatically adapt to the environmental requirements of different ornamental fish. Finally, the system can make intelligent control in the environment control of ornamental fish and can automatically adapt to the needs of different ornamental fish environments. After testing its server concurrent processing capability, communication stability, and Android performance, the system runs stably. This paper analyzes the architecture module reuse rate and protocol performance; the module reuse rate analysis results show that the various types of modules in the architecture are reused many times and have strong generality, which effectively reduces the development cycle and development cost, and the architecture can quickly and efficiently integrate hardware units such as sensors, actuators, and communication modules; the protocol performance analysis shows that the designed protocol has high communication performance and meets the architecture. The protocol performance analysis shows that the designed protocol has high communication performance and meets the requirements of the architecture in terms of the transmission rate. At the same time, the edge computing module of the architecture further shifts down the edge computing tasks and lays the hardware foundation for the subsequent implementation of sensor data anomaly detection, data encryption transmission, and other functions.

Software design patterns are used to improve the software quality. There are distinct kinds of software, as well as design patterns. One of them is patterns for enterprise application architecture. Although enterprise design patterns are said to be able to improve the software quality, there is a lack of literature that discusses the evidence of the impact. This preliminary study proposes a method to assess the impact of enterprise software design pattern on maintainability. We use the Academic Information System (AIS) of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) as a case study. It is enterprise software which is frequently maintained and need to be evolved. The software maintainability is measured by using C&K metrics. Then we calculate the relative change and evaluate it based on viewpoints of the metrics. Transaction Script pattern is selected to verify the method. As a result, it decreases the maintainability instead of improving it. The result of this preliminary study shows that design patterns did not improve the software maintainability. Based on the previous researches, it depends on several factors which may be studied in the future work. Thus, we need to propose a method to select the appropriate patterns or whether we use design patterns or not.

Software architectures are comparatively easy to comprehend, especially if there is enough documentation on the subject. The hardship will emerge when you start implementing them to solve real-world problems. This is where architectural patterns will come to your rescue. If you understand the problem at hand and if you can reasonably attach this problem to a scenario similar to a problem you have already addressed, it's rather easy to follow an approach similar to what you adopted earlier. Architecture and design patterns help you to choose and adopt solutions to problems that are similar in nature. A pattern is a reusable solution to repetitive problems of a similar nature that occur in a particular context.

A explosão informacional, impulsionada, principalmente, pelo uso massivo de serviços da Web 2.0 é vista como um desafio para as noções tradicionais do CRM, considerando-se que o consumidor passa a ter um papel ativo no relacionamento com a empresa. Neste contexto, surge o CRM Social que é construído a partir da integração das estratégias tradicionais da Gestão de Relacionamento com o Cliente com ferramentas capazes de recuperar, armazenar e analisar informações coletadas das redes sociais. Por meio de uma pesquisa qualitativa e aplicada, este artigo busca abordar os conceitos das áreas de gestão de relacionamento com o cliente, CRM Social e Web 2.0, enumerando as características e benefícios oferecidos. Baseando-se nestas definições, propõe uma arquitetura de microsserviços para um sistema de CRM Social, que, apesar de aplicável para o enquadramento em questão, deverá ser testada com o intuito de determinar se a mesma atende aos requisitos propostos, visando performance e acurácia nas análises.

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Avionics systems in modern and next-generation airborne vehicles combine and integrate various real- time applications to efficiently share the physical resources on board. Many of these real-time applications also need to fulfill fault-tolerance requirements-i.e., the applications have to provide a sufficient level of service even in presence of failures-and this combination of real-time and fault- tolerance requirements elevates avionics to a class of cyber-physical systems of the highest complexity. Consequently, avionics design is challenging for avionics architects and application engineers alike. One way to manage complexity is a division of the overall problem into a hierarchical set of layers connected by well-defined interfaces. The avionics architect may then select the fundamental network architecture, like AFDX, TTP or TTEthernet, and hide their idiosyncrasies-in particular, those concerning the way in which time is managed and presented-by providing a more uniform conceptual interface to the application engineer. In this paper we call this interface the "model of computation" and discuss the well-known synchronous model of computation and small extensions thereof for real- time systems. The bridge between the network architecture and the model of computation concerns the way in which distributed real-time applications are organized and it is achieved through "design patterns." We revise and formally analyze two such design patterns, the Sparse Timebase of the Time- Triggered Architecture (TTA) and the Physically- Asynchronous Logically-Synchronous (PALS) approach. Perhaps surprisingly, we show that both design patterns rely on the same assumptions about the network architecture; hence, the choice of network architecture and design pattern should depend on pragmatics and formal considerations orthogonal to those required to support a particular model of computation. Our formal analysis builds directly on the verification in PVS of a PALS-like pattern for TTA that was developed 15 years ago, thereby illustrating that a mechanized formal analysis is an intellectual investment that supports cost-effective reuse.