The Webbridge Framework for Building Web-Based Agent Applications

Software maintenance and evolution are important processes in software development. Developers usually face issues in the process of maintaining and evaluating software. The common problem is software code not well structured and organized. This will have an impact on the difficulty of the process of maintaining and evolving software. Maintenance and evolution process is done in all types of applications. In this research, we focus on web-based applications. Web-based applications are chosen because the development of web-based applications is very evolving. One of the most widely used design patterns in web applications is the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern. This research focuses on the model layer in web applications. Because this layer automatically changes if there is a change in the data structure or database. Therefore, to make the maintenance and evolution process easier, it is necessary to analyze and reorganize the model layer. In this study, we trying to group the functions on the model layer by looking at the similarity of table reference access in the query. For the analysis process of the reorganization of the function structure, we use DSM (Design Structural Matrix). in this research, we use DSM in a new field that is in the model layer on MVC based application. The preliminary result, the reorganization of the function structure provides better contex recommendations that following the reference table for each function.

The article provides a comparative analysis of web frameworks based on the Python programming language. The right choice of a software development tool will allow developers to speed up the process of designing and software implementation of web resources. With the development of programming languages, solutions have begun to appear that make it easier for programmers to create web applications. In recent years, many tools of this type have been developed, including web frameworks. Some of them are used to develop small web applications, and other frameworks are used to create large-scale systems. The existing web frameworks differ from each other, but choosing them can be a difficult task for a programmer. Therefore, it is necessary to specify several parameters that are common to frameworks, according to which the desired web framework should be selected. The selected criteria make it possible to evaluate the frameworks more qualitatively and more objectively and speed up the process of design and software implementation of web resources. Due to the high demand for web applications, developers need to develop cost-effective, secure and well-coded web applications. Analyzing the Django framework, it can be argued that it is the most popular for web development, written in the Python programming language and using the MVC architecture. It is ideal for application projects with limited time and a small budget. If the application is not very voluminous and only simple URL routing and templates with a simple context are needed, then the Flask framework can be used instead of Django. The framework for building a Flask application in the resulting HTML files contains additional tags and scripts. The mechanism of work of processing forms also works differently. Flask stores more information about form fields on pages. The size of HTML files created using the Flask framework turns out to be significantly larger.

Modern web applications are built on top of web frameworks, which offer benefits such as feature reuse and productivity improvement. By relying on web frameworks, developers can safely handle the multiple needs of real-world web applications. Despite the benefits of web frameworks, they are not intended to address all requirements to create web applications. In particular, the Django web framework provides a rich software ecosystem of reusable applications to support developers with advanced development aspects, such as modern authentication, caching, and deployment. However, currently, it is not clear what solutions developers can reuse or how active and reliable this ecosystem really is. To overcome this gap, this paper proposes an empirical study to assess the Django ecosystem of reusable applications. We analyze 487 reusable applications to understand their target domain, activity level, frequency of tests, and compatibility. We find that reusable applications are mostly concentrated in three categories: developer tools (27.8%), user interface (17.1%), and persistence (15.9%). Overall, these categories have distinct characteristics; for example, developer tools have the highest concentration of young and inactive applications, while persistence applications are the oldest. The reusable applications are 7.7 years old but have 10.17 months without commits, on the median. We also find that 80% of the reusable applications include the supported Python versions, 64% include the Django versions, and only 61% include both Python and Django versions. We detect that upgrading to recent versions of Django and Python may not be supported in some reusable applications, but compatibility issues become less problematic in recent Django and Python versions. Finally, based on our findings, we provide implications for practitioners and researchers.

Simple SummaryWith the increasing popularity of omics technologies, many scientists are dealing with large sets of genomic data for the first time. While there are many amazing bioinformatics tools available to help analyze this data, one common difficulty these scientists face is that not all gene data or analysis tools use the same genomic nomenclature. Another issue is that many publications still use obsolete or colloquial gene aliases instead of official gene identifiers. Common gene ID conversion tools and other downstream analysis software struggle with these gene aliases. Therefore, we developed a free and publicly available web application, GeneToList, to assist in gene ID disambiguation and gene ID conversion, with a specific focus on a user-friendly interface for the non-bioinformatics-savvy scientist.The increasing incorporation of omics technologies into biomedical research and translational medicine presents challenges to end users of the large and complex datasets that are generated by these methods. A particular challenge in genomics is that the nomenclature for genes is not uniform between large genomic databases or between commonly used genetic analysis tools. Furthermore, outdated genomic nomenclature can still be found amongst scientific communications, including peer-reviewed manuscripts. Therefore, a web application (GeneToList) was developed to assist in gene ID conversion and alias matching, with a specific focus on achieving a user-friendly interface for the non-bioinformatics-savvy scientist. It currently includes gene information for over 38,000 different taxa retrieved from the National Center for Biotechnology and Information (NCBI) Gene resource. Supported databases of gene IDs include NCBI Gene Symbols, NCBI Gene IDs (Entrez IDs), OMIM IDs, HGNC IDs, Ensembl IDs, and 28 other taxa-specific identifiers. GeneToList is available at genetolist.com. The tool is a web application that is compatible with many standard browsers. The gene ID conversion feature of this application was found to outcompete the common gene ID conversion tools. Specifically, it was able to successfully convert all tested IDs, whereas the others were not able to recognize the gene aliases. Therefore, the gene ID disambiguation provided by this application should be beneficial for many scientists dealing with gene data when the uniformity of gene nomenclature is important for downstream analysis.

Modern and Responsive Mobile-enabled Web Applications

With the ever-increasing importance of e-commerce/e-business in the manufacturing, traditional standalone CAD/CAPP applications are evolving into web-based applications deployed via the Internet. This paper presents a unique web-based application for automated process planning and NC code generation for mill-turn parts. The application is targeted at a wide range of users. It requires no special software or CAD package at the user’s end, and can be used even by people with virutally no manufacturing knowledge. At the same time, it is also a valuable service for manufacturing experts. This application uses client/server architecture and is developed using Java technologies. This web-based application can be accessed via Internet using any standard web browser with JRE (Java run-time environment), and Java Web Start is used to deploy this application. For wide usability, the application supports easy part specification and automated process planning. Once the part is designed, the user may request NC code generation. The process planning kernel on the server automatically executes all process planning tasks like machinable volume identification, operations sequencing, parameter selection, etc. and generates an intermediate Cutter Location (CL) code. The Cutter Location code is quite generic and can be adapted for any machine using the respective post processors. The interface is also capable of displaying the tool path for verification. The NC code is generated based on the post processor selected by the user and can be downloaded to the client machine if the user is satisfied. It is hoped that this application will develop into a pay-per-use instant NC code generation web service for novices and experts; such a service is currently not offered anywhere on the Internet.

Today almost all organizations have changed their traditional systems and have improved their performance using web-based applications. This process will make more profit and at the same time will increase the efficiency of their activities through customer support services and data transactions. Usually, web application take inputs from users through web form and send this input to get the response from database. Modern web-based application use web database to store all critical information such as user credentials, financial and payment information, company statistics etc. However error in validation of user input can cause database vulnerable to Structured Query Language Injection (SQLI) attack. By using SQLI attack, the attackers might insert malicious code in the user input and trying to gain access to the confidential and sensitive data from database. Security tester need to identify the appropriate test cases before starting exploiting SQL vulnerability in web-based application during testing phase. Identifying the test cases of a web application and analyzing the test results of an attack are important parts and consider as critical issues that affects the effectiveness of security testing. Thus, this research focused on the developing a framework for testing and detecting SQL injection vulnerability in web application. In this research, test cases will be generated automatically based on SQLI attack pattern and then the results will be executed automatically based on generated test cases. The primary focus in this paper is to develop a framework to automate security testing based on input injection attack pattern. To test our framework, we install a vulnerable web application and test result shows that the proposed framework can detect SQLI vulnerability successfully.

Background: In today’s ever-changing world, military forces face significant challenges in maintaining situational awareness and responding swiftly to emerging threats. Traditional aerial surveillance often fails to give timely and thorough intelligence over large areas. Limited coverage, mistakes, and difficulty noticing small changes on the ground hinder military operations. To address these problems, this paper introduces the development of a deep learning-based web application named “SkyViewSentinel”, a solution tailored specifically for military aerial surveillance. Methods: The application framework i.e., SkyViewSentinel has been developed through multiple stages i.e., (i) pre-process the Xview overhead Satellite imagery dataset using Ground Truth refinement and image partitioning method, (ii) employed a SOTA deep model i.e., YOLOv8 as a baseline architecture for the research problem and assessed the performance on experimental dataset, (iii) a series of rigorous experiments have been conducted using deep model and obtained results are reported. (iv) Finally, the trained model has been seamlessly integrated into the web application and develops a comprehensive web-based object detection application. The developed application detects military-based objects from real-time satellite images. Results: The developed application has shown promising results in identifying military objects from satellite images, outperforming other contemporary methods. The designed framework has achieved an overall mAP score of 0.315 for all nine classes of military-based objects. For certain specific classes, detection accuracy exceeds 70%, demonstrating the robustness of the framework. Conclusion: The designed web application enables users to detect military-based objects in the region provided by the user. By harnessing the power of satellite object recognition technology, SkyViewSentinel provides a new way to monitor and understand activities in operational areas.

E-commerce, e-mail, e-greeting, e-this, and e-that everywhere you turn there is a new "e" word for an internet or Web application. We, at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, have been "e-nlightened" and will discuss in this report the implementation of a web-based radiology information system (RIS) in our radiology division or "e-radiology" division. The application, IDXRad Version 10.0 from IDX Corp, Burlington, VT, is in use at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and has both intranet (for use in Radiology) and internet (referring physician viewing) modules. We will concentrate on the features of using a web browser for the application's front-end, including easy prototyping for screen review, easier mock-ups of demonstrations by vendors and developers, and easier training as more people become web-addicted. Project communication can be facilitated with an internal project web page, and use of the web browser can accommodate quicker turnaround of software upgrades as the software code is centrally located. Compared with other technologies, including client/server, there is a smaller roll out cost when using a standard web browser. However, the new technology requires a change and changes are never implemented without challenges. A seasoned technologist using a legacy system can enter data quicker using function keys than using a graphical user interface and pointing and clicking through a series of pop-up windows. Also, effective use of a web browser depends on intuitive design for it to be easily implemented and accepted by the user. Some software packages will not work on both of the popular web browsers and then are tailored to specific release levels. As computer-based patient records become a standard, patient confidentiality must be enforced. The technical design and application security features that support the web-based software package will be discussed. Also web technologies have their own implementation issues.

In this paper we present our state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition system for Dutch that we made available on the web. The free, online disclosure of our software aims at allowing non-specialists to adopt ASR technology effortlessly. Access is possible via a standard web browser or as a web service in automated tools. We discuss the way the web application was built and focus on usability criteria - especially interoperability. To overcome user differences we provide input conversion and basic parameter selection. Extensions of the current system and a path to robust, general purpose ASR are suggested.

In software development for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it is necessary to consider specific design aspects that enable the use of web and mobile applications by such users. However, only a small part of current websites and applications is adequately designed considering the needs of these users. In this paper, we extracted quality user interface attributes regarding autistic users from guidelines found in human computer interaction literature. Based on these attributes, and through the analysis of real applications specifically designed for autistic users found in Brazil, we created new design patterns presenting practitioners with problems, solutions and examples in order to support the development of more appropriate user interfaces for ASD users. We evaluated these patterns from the point of view of practitioners involved in caring for autistic people and software engineers working in projects for autistic end-users. The results provide indicators of the usefulness and understandability of the proposed patterns, while allowing to identify improvement opportunities in their description. By providing a new set of user interface design patterns, we aim to contribute to the development of more accessible mobile and web applications for users with ASD.

Software Design Patterns are reusable designs providing common solutions to the similar kind of problems in software development. Creational patterns are that category of design patterns which aid in how objects are created, composed and represented. They abstract the creation of objects from clients thus making the application more adaptable to future requirements changes. In this work, it has been proposed and implemented the creation of objects involved in Decorator Design Pattern. (Decorator Pattern Adds Additional responsibilities to the individual objects dynamically and transparently without affecting other objects). This enhanced the reusability of the application design, made application more adaptable to future requirement changes and eased the system maintenance. Proposed DMS (Development Management System) web application is implemented using .NET framework, ASP.NET and C#.

This paper presents F4F (Framework For Frameworks), a system for effective taint analysis of framework-based web applications. Most modern web applications utilize one or more web frameworks, which provide useful abstractions for common functionality. Due to extensive use of reflective language constructs in framework implementations, existing static taint analyses are often ineffective when applied to framework-based applications. While previous work has included ad hoc support for certain framework constructs, adding support for a large number of frameworks in this manner does not scale from an engineering standpoint. F4F employs an initial analysis pass in which both application code and configuration files are processed to generate a specification of framework-related behaviors. A taint analysis engine can leverage these specifications to perform a much deeper, more precise analysis of framework-based applications. Our specification language has only a small number of simple but powerful constructs, easing analysis engine integration. With this architecture, new frameworks can be handled with no changes to the core analysis engine, yielding significant engineering benefits. We implemented specification generators for several web frameworks and added F4F support to a state-of-the-art taint-analysis engine. In an experimental evaluation, the taint analysis enhanced with F4F discovered 525 new issues across nine benchmarks, a harmonic mean of 2.10X more issues per benchmark. Furthermore, manual inspection of a subset of the new issues showed that many were exploitable or reflected bad security practice.

Web and Event-driven applications (EDS) is a class of applications that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. All EDS take sequences of events (e.g., messages, mouse-clicks) as input, change their state, and produce an output (e.g., events, system calls, text messages), where as in web, user session data gathered as users operate web applications can be considered as input, change their state, and produce an output. Examples include web applications, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), network protocols, device drivers, and embedded applications. Testing for functional correctness of EDS such as stand-alone GUI and web-based applications is critical to many organizations. These applications share several important characteristics. Both are particularly challenging to test because users can invoke many different sequences of events that affect application behavior. Hence here a novel model is provided to rank the test cases based on their prioritization.

The integration of Near Field Communication (NFC) with web application and mobile application are used to build solid waste tracking and monitoring system. The main purpose of this system is to improve the efficiency of the waste collection process, provide real-time bin status for householder and also provide a communication platform for householder to send their feedback toward the services provided. The proposed system consists of an NFC tag attached to the trash bin, NFC-enabled mobile device, NFC integrated web and mobile application and database server. The NFC-enabled mobile device carry by worker collect the information from NFC tag and send to the server database via Wi-Fi. The database will be updated and the householders are able to check the current bin status via the mobile-based and web-based application. The trash bin information is displayed on Google Maps. Thereby, the solid waste of the trash bin and worker's job schedule are being monitored using NFC-based Waste Management Tracking and Monitoring System.