The document describes BLACKBOX, a multimodal display platform that fuses different types of data into a single presentation. It allows up to 16 "pods" or windows to display various media types simultaneously. The platform is designed to help analysts and operators in fields like defense, intelligence, and emergency response to better understand complex, multimedia data streams. It provides tools to customize interfaces, templates, and controls to interact with different data sources. The goal is to enhance situational awareness, cognitive analysis, and information sharing through an interactive multimodal interface.
Agent based frameworks for distributed association rule mining an analysis ijfcstjournal
Distributed Association Rule Mining (DARM) is the task for generating the globally strong association
rules from the global frequent itemsets in a distributed environment. The intelligent agent based model, to
address scalable mining over large scale distributed data, is a popular approach to constructing
Distributed Data Mining (DDM) systems and is characterized by a variety of agents coordinating and
communicating with each other to perform the various tasks of the data mining process. This study
performs the comparative analysis of the existing agent based frameworks for mining the association rules
from the distributed data sources.
Mobile Computing: Microsoft Mobile Solutions for Online LearningTmobile Girl
The purpose of this presentation is to empower people through intelligent mobile (#TMobilePhones or any smart phone) communication devices and software solutions.
Geo Everything White Paper on Collaborating Web 2.0 MappingNewton Day Uploads
This document introduces Encanvas Map Data Integrator (MDI), a collaborative mapping software. MDI allows users to capture, visualize, and analyze geospatial data across an organization. It integrates data from different sources and systems and can be deployed on mobile, desktop, and web platforms. MDI provides capabilities for basic GIS functions like geocoding, routing, and thematic mapping in a single, affordable solution.
The document discusses several topics related to mobile systems engineering including:
1. Data storage options for Android applications including SharedPreferences, internal storage, external storage, SQLite databases, and network connections.
2. The concept of mobile cloud computing including definitions, architectures, advantages and issues.
3. Context-aware computing including definitions, basic functions, and a layered framework.
4. The Internet of Things including definitions, characteristics, enabling technologies, and applications across various domains.
The document discusses the SMARCOS project which aims to improve the usability of communicating embedded devices through user-centric research and technology developments validated in trials. The first results include an experimental mobile application that allows users to add context descriptions to social media entries. Two initial small-scale trials involved developing a mash-up editor and testing smart phone applications for daily tasks. Going forward, four pilot projects will be developed covering aviation, monitoring systems, assistance for disabled people, and complex systems control.
With a rapid growth of the mobile applications and development of cloud computing concept, mobile cloud
computing (MCC) has been introduced to be a potential technology for mobile services. MCC integrates the cloud
computing into the mobile environment and overcomes obstacles related to the performance, security etc discussed in
mobile computing. This paper gives an overview of the MCC including the definition, architecture, and applications. The
issues, existing solutions and approaches are presented.
The document defines Information Technology (IT) and summarizes the development of IT from stand-alone computers to the current trend of cloud computing. It discusses stand-alone computers, mainframes, client-server networks, distributed computing, and cloud computing. The development progressed from individual stand-alone computers to networks of connected computers and servers, and now to cloud-based computing where resources are accessed over the Internet.
Design and implementation of intelligent community system based on thin clien...ijasuc
With the continuous development of science and technology, the intelligent development of community
system becomes a trend. Meanwhile, smart mobile devices and cloud computing technology are
increasingly used in intelligent information systems; however, smart mobile devices such as smartphone
and smart pad, also known as thin clients, limited by either their capacities (CPU, memory or battery) or
their network resources, do not always meet users' satisfaction in using mobile services. Mobile cloud
computing, in which resource-rich virtual machines of smart mobile device are provided to a customer as a
service, can be terrific solution for expanding the limitation of real smart mobile device, but the resources
utilization rate is low and the information cannot be shared easily. To address the problems above, this
paper proposes an information system for intelligent community, which is composed of thin clients, wide
band network and cloud computing servers. On one hand, the thin clients with the characteristics of energy
efficiency, high robustness and high computing capacity can efficiently avoid the problems encountered in
the PC architecture and mobile devices. On the other hand, the cloud computing servers in the proposed
information system solve the problems of resource sharing barriers. Finally, the system is built in real
environments to evaluate the performance. We deploy the proposed system in a community with more than
2000 residents, and it is demonstrated that the proposed system is robust and efficient.
Agent based frameworks for distributed association rule mining an analysis ijfcstjournal
Distributed Association Rule Mining (DARM) is the task for generating the globally strong association
rules from the global frequent itemsets in a distributed environment. The intelligent agent based model, to
address scalable mining over large scale distributed data, is a popular approach to constructing
Distributed Data Mining (DDM) systems and is characterized by a variety of agents coordinating and
communicating with each other to perform the various tasks of the data mining process. This study
performs the comparative analysis of the existing agent based frameworks for mining the association rules
from the distributed data sources.
Mobile Computing: Microsoft Mobile Solutions for Online LearningTmobile Girl
The purpose of this presentation is to empower people through intelligent mobile (#TMobilePhones or any smart phone) communication devices and software solutions.
Geo Everything White Paper on Collaborating Web 2.0 MappingNewton Day Uploads
This document introduces Encanvas Map Data Integrator (MDI), a collaborative mapping software. MDI allows users to capture, visualize, and analyze geospatial data across an organization. It integrates data from different sources and systems and can be deployed on mobile, desktop, and web platforms. MDI provides capabilities for basic GIS functions like geocoding, routing, and thematic mapping in a single, affordable solution.
The document discusses several topics related to mobile systems engineering including:
1. Data storage options for Android applications including SharedPreferences, internal storage, external storage, SQLite databases, and network connections.
2. The concept of mobile cloud computing including definitions, architectures, advantages and issues.
3. Context-aware computing including definitions, basic functions, and a layered framework.
4. The Internet of Things including definitions, characteristics, enabling technologies, and applications across various domains.
The document discusses the SMARCOS project which aims to improve the usability of communicating embedded devices through user-centric research and technology developments validated in trials. The first results include an experimental mobile application that allows users to add context descriptions to social media entries. Two initial small-scale trials involved developing a mash-up editor and testing smart phone applications for daily tasks. Going forward, four pilot projects will be developed covering aviation, monitoring systems, assistance for disabled people, and complex systems control.
With a rapid growth of the mobile applications and development of cloud computing concept, mobile cloud
computing (MCC) has been introduced to be a potential technology for mobile services. MCC integrates the cloud
computing into the mobile environment and overcomes obstacles related to the performance, security etc discussed in
mobile computing. This paper gives an overview of the MCC including the definition, architecture, and applications. The
issues, existing solutions and approaches are presented.
The document defines Information Technology (IT) and summarizes the development of IT from stand-alone computers to the current trend of cloud computing. It discusses stand-alone computers, mainframes, client-server networks, distributed computing, and cloud computing. The development progressed from individual stand-alone computers to networks of connected computers and servers, and now to cloud-based computing where resources are accessed over the Internet.
Design and implementation of intelligent community system based on thin clien...ijasuc
With the continuous development of science and technology, the intelligent development of community
system becomes a trend. Meanwhile, smart mobile devices and cloud computing technology are
increasingly used in intelligent information systems; however, smart mobile devices such as smartphone
and smart pad, also known as thin clients, limited by either their capacities (CPU, memory or battery) or
their network resources, do not always meet users' satisfaction in using mobile services. Mobile cloud
computing, in which resource-rich virtual machines of smart mobile device are provided to a customer as a
service, can be terrific solution for expanding the limitation of real smart mobile device, but the resources
utilization rate is low and the information cannot be shared easily. To address the problems above, this
paper proposes an information system for intelligent community, which is composed of thin clients, wide
band network and cloud computing servers. On one hand, the thin clients with the characteristics of energy
efficiency, high robustness and high computing capacity can efficiently avoid the problems encountered in
the PC architecture and mobile devices. On the other hand, the cloud computing servers in the proposed
information system solve the problems of resource sharing barriers. Finally, the system is built in real
environments to evaluate the performance. We deploy the proposed system in a community with more than
2000 residents, and it is demonstrated that the proposed system is robust and efficient.
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
BNP Paribas implemented a new dynamic publishing solution called eComtail from Quark to replace its outdated in-house tool for customizing marketing materials across its 2,500 French branches. eComtail provides an intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to quickly and easily edit templates and add customized content. It streamlines approval workflows and ensures brand consistency. The solution was deployed rapidly and has increased responsiveness, reduced material creation times, and improved standardization.
La computación en nube el estado de la técnica y desafíos de la investigaciónLILI
Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that delivers resources as general utilities over the Internet. It offers advantages like no upfront investment, lower operating costs through scalability, and easy access to resources. However, cloud computing also faces challenges that need to be addressed, like standardization and security. The paper surveys the key concepts, architecture, implementations, and research challenges of cloud computing.
This document discusses exploring data visualization in virtual reality. It describes a project that created an immersive "gallery" in virtual reality where users could navigate and interact with different representations of their data. The project aimed to make data visualization more accessible by allowing non-technical users to simply provide their data in a standardized format for parsing and display in the virtual environment. This provides an improved way to visualize and analyze multidimensional and complex data compared to traditional 2D tools.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
This document presents a new service development platform that allows programmers to develop mobile applications enabling users to share localized information in real-time. It discusses localized information exchange services, the system design and architecture of the platform, which uses a three-tier system with a backend database layer, business logic layer, and frontend user interface layer. It provides examples of how the platform can be used to access user location and handle annotations on a map for displaying localized information to users.
Multimedia is any combination of text, art, sound, animation, and video delivered digitally. It can be interactive and hyperlinked. Multimedia is used in business for presentations, training, marketing, and advertising. It is used in schools to improve teaching and engage students. Multimedia is also used at home for activities like gaming, and in public places through kiosks and displays.
The semantic MDM system is an innovation in the area of consolidation of reference data, unification of services for their processing, consolidation of knowledge in semantic models and standardization of data exchange processes.
Virtual Campfire/iNMV Storytelling on the iPhoneYiwei Cao
This document summarizes a workshop on future mobile applications. It discusses the UMIC research cluster, challenges for mobile multimedia management, the Virtual Campfire architecture for mobile multimedia management, and the Virtual Campfire concept. It also summarizes the iNMV application for storytelling on the iPhone and the agenda for the workshop, including presentations on iNMV features, the developing environment, implementation experiences, and installation instructions for workshop participants.
Elspec PURE BLACKBOX Handheld Single Phase Power Quality Analyzer from Suprem...Angus Sankaran
The Pure-Blackbox is a portable class A power quality analyzer that can measure all three phases and neutral with 0.1% accuracy. It continuously records waveforms, harmonics, power quality events, and energy data with 0.1% power and energy accuracy. The included analysis software allows users to view graphs and generate reports of the electrical system dynamics and power quality measurements in compliance with EN 50160 standards.
Black Box for Machine Tools; Based on Open CNC Architecture Control SystemsIDES Editor
Most computer numerical control (CNC) systems
are closed for users. Engineers typically can only program the
machine, nothing more. it cannot be freely modified by the
user. The introduction of open architecture philosophy
propitiated the evolution of a new generation of numeric
controllers. This brought the conventional CNC technology
to the standard PC microcomputer. As a consequence, the
characteristics of the CNC (positioning) and the micro
computer (easy of programming, system configuration, network
communication etc) are combined. There are also a number
of commercially available OAC (Open Architecture
controllers) (e.g. MDSI, Fanuc, Okuma, Siemens). There
are also a number of efforts at developing OAC standards [1-
4]. This paper uses Siemens [5] OAC to build the unique
BlackBox for machine tool industry. This new technology in
machine tool industry helps us in understanding the cause of
crash or malfunctioning of machine or machine health by
means of debugging the critical machine data such as Spindle
Speed, Axis positions, Feed rates, Type of Tool used etc which
are facilitated by this application just before the crash and
same can be accessed remotely via Internet/ Ethernet. This
application is successfully intergraded and tested with actual
Machine.
LATEST EMBEDDED PROJECTS TITLES-COCKPIT WHITE BOX AUTOMATION(ECE/EEE/E&I)ASHOKKUMAR RAMAR
The document proposes a "Cockpit Whitebox" system to automatically record and transmit flight data from the cockpit to air traffic control in real-time. It would include sensors to track the plane's speed, altitude, direction and a unique identification code. Data would be sent via transceivers to a control base where it is stored, mapped to a static map, and available for replay or alerts. The system aims to improve on current "Black Box" limitations and allow pilots and air traffic control real-time access to flight data and replay of past flights. It would be implemented in three parts: sensors and software in the cockpit, transceiver hardware, and an interface and database at air traffic control.
Packet sniffers can intercept data transmitted over wireless networks, allowing hackers to see websites visited and steal login credentials. Encryption scrambles data during transmission so intercepted data is unusable. The most secure encryption standard is WPA2, while older standards like WEP and WPA have security vulnerabilities. Broadcasting the network SSID provides less security than hiding it from view.
ECE PROJECTS ABSTRACT-COCKPIT WHITE BOX AUTOMATION SYSTEMS-AVIONICS/EMBEDDEDASHOKKUMAR RAMAR
The document proposes an automated system to record and relay information from the cockpit to the control base in real-time. It splits the project into 3 parts: the pilot-side software and sensors, external hardware including transceivers and microcontrollers, and the control base software and database. The system will store flight details, maps, and replay flight paths and alerts for pilots.
The BlackBox Project: Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial (originally for P...Tom Limoncelli
A presentation given at PuppetCamp NYC 2014 about why Puppet users should stop storing secrets in Git/Hg and encrypt them instead. TLDR: It enables collaboration.
Social media and mobile technology are enabling more participatory and localized news. Everyday people can now capture and share news-worthy content, increasing the total time spent consuming news. While online news is growing, traditional media still plays an important role as the reliable source of authority. Rawporter aims to better connect media organizations and citizen journalists by providing a platform for compensating people who submit newsworthy content. This convergence of social, mobile and media presents both challenges and opportunities for the future of journalism.
If the world's population was represented by a village of 100 people, 57 would be Asian, 21 European, 14 American, and 8 African. There would be 52 women and 48 men, with 30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians. 30 would be Christian and 70 non-Christian. 6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and be from the US. 80 would live in poverty, 70 would be illiterate, and 50 would suffer from hunger or malnutrition.
The document discusses the organizational environment, which includes external and internal factors that can influence an organization. The external environment consists of a general environment and task environment, with the general environment comprising economic, political, social, and technological forces, and the task environment including suppliers, customers, and competitors. The internal environment contains conditions within the organization like employees, management, and culture. Understanding the organizational environment is important for management to plan effectively and set goals in response to unpredictable external forces.
This very short document appears to be an instruction to click something to advance or proceed further. However, it does not provide any other context or details on what exactly should be clicked or what the end goal or purpose of advancing might be. The document is only one sentence with limited informational content to summarize.
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
BNP Paribas implemented a new dynamic publishing solution called eComtail from Quark to replace its outdated in-house tool for customizing marketing materials across its 2,500 French branches. eComtail provides an intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to quickly and easily edit templates and add customized content. It streamlines approval workflows and ensures brand consistency. The solution was deployed rapidly and has increased responsiveness, reduced material creation times, and improved standardization.
La computación en nube el estado de la técnica y desafíos de la investigaciónLILI
Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that delivers resources as general utilities over the Internet. It offers advantages like no upfront investment, lower operating costs through scalability, and easy access to resources. However, cloud computing also faces challenges that need to be addressed, like standardization and security. The paper surveys the key concepts, architecture, implementations, and research challenges of cloud computing.
This document discusses exploring data visualization in virtual reality. It describes a project that created an immersive "gallery" in virtual reality where users could navigate and interact with different representations of their data. The project aimed to make data visualization more accessible by allowing non-technical users to simply provide their data in a standardized format for parsing and display in the virtual environment. This provides an improved way to visualize and analyze multidimensional and complex data compared to traditional 2D tools.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
This document presents a new service development platform that allows programmers to develop mobile applications enabling users to share localized information in real-time. It discusses localized information exchange services, the system design and architecture of the platform, which uses a three-tier system with a backend database layer, business logic layer, and frontend user interface layer. It provides examples of how the platform can be used to access user location and handle annotations on a map for displaying localized information to users.
Multimedia is any combination of text, art, sound, animation, and video delivered digitally. It can be interactive and hyperlinked. Multimedia is used in business for presentations, training, marketing, and advertising. It is used in schools to improve teaching and engage students. Multimedia is also used at home for activities like gaming, and in public places through kiosks and displays.
The semantic MDM system is an innovation in the area of consolidation of reference data, unification of services for their processing, consolidation of knowledge in semantic models and standardization of data exchange processes.
Virtual Campfire/iNMV Storytelling on the iPhoneYiwei Cao
This document summarizes a workshop on future mobile applications. It discusses the UMIC research cluster, challenges for mobile multimedia management, the Virtual Campfire architecture for mobile multimedia management, and the Virtual Campfire concept. It also summarizes the iNMV application for storytelling on the iPhone and the agenda for the workshop, including presentations on iNMV features, the developing environment, implementation experiences, and installation instructions for workshop participants.
Elspec PURE BLACKBOX Handheld Single Phase Power Quality Analyzer from Suprem...Angus Sankaran
The Pure-Blackbox is a portable class A power quality analyzer that can measure all three phases and neutral with 0.1% accuracy. It continuously records waveforms, harmonics, power quality events, and energy data with 0.1% power and energy accuracy. The included analysis software allows users to view graphs and generate reports of the electrical system dynamics and power quality measurements in compliance with EN 50160 standards.
Black Box for Machine Tools; Based on Open CNC Architecture Control SystemsIDES Editor
Most computer numerical control (CNC) systems
are closed for users. Engineers typically can only program the
machine, nothing more. it cannot be freely modified by the
user. The introduction of open architecture philosophy
propitiated the evolution of a new generation of numeric
controllers. This brought the conventional CNC technology
to the standard PC microcomputer. As a consequence, the
characteristics of the CNC (positioning) and the micro
computer (easy of programming, system configuration, network
communication etc) are combined. There are also a number
of commercially available OAC (Open Architecture
controllers) (e.g. MDSI, Fanuc, Okuma, Siemens). There
are also a number of efforts at developing OAC standards [1-
4]. This paper uses Siemens [5] OAC to build the unique
BlackBox for machine tool industry. This new technology in
machine tool industry helps us in understanding the cause of
crash or malfunctioning of machine or machine health by
means of debugging the critical machine data such as Spindle
Speed, Axis positions, Feed rates, Type of Tool used etc which
are facilitated by this application just before the crash and
same can be accessed remotely via Internet/ Ethernet. This
application is successfully intergraded and tested with actual
Machine.
LATEST EMBEDDED PROJECTS TITLES-COCKPIT WHITE BOX AUTOMATION(ECE/EEE/E&I)ASHOKKUMAR RAMAR
The document proposes a "Cockpit Whitebox" system to automatically record and transmit flight data from the cockpit to air traffic control in real-time. It would include sensors to track the plane's speed, altitude, direction and a unique identification code. Data would be sent via transceivers to a control base where it is stored, mapped to a static map, and available for replay or alerts. The system aims to improve on current "Black Box" limitations and allow pilots and air traffic control real-time access to flight data and replay of past flights. It would be implemented in three parts: sensors and software in the cockpit, transceiver hardware, and an interface and database at air traffic control.
Packet sniffers can intercept data transmitted over wireless networks, allowing hackers to see websites visited and steal login credentials. Encryption scrambles data during transmission so intercepted data is unusable. The most secure encryption standard is WPA2, while older standards like WEP and WPA have security vulnerabilities. Broadcasting the network SSID provides less security than hiding it from view.
ECE PROJECTS ABSTRACT-COCKPIT WHITE BOX AUTOMATION SYSTEMS-AVIONICS/EMBEDDEDASHOKKUMAR RAMAR
The document proposes an automated system to record and relay information from the cockpit to the control base in real-time. It splits the project into 3 parts: the pilot-side software and sensors, external hardware including transceivers and microcontrollers, and the control base software and database. The system will store flight details, maps, and replay flight paths and alerts for pilots.
The BlackBox Project: Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial (originally for P...Tom Limoncelli
A presentation given at PuppetCamp NYC 2014 about why Puppet users should stop storing secrets in Git/Hg and encrypt them instead. TLDR: It enables collaboration.
Social media and mobile technology are enabling more participatory and localized news. Everyday people can now capture and share news-worthy content, increasing the total time spent consuming news. While online news is growing, traditional media still plays an important role as the reliable source of authority. Rawporter aims to better connect media organizations and citizen journalists by providing a platform for compensating people who submit newsworthy content. This convergence of social, mobile and media presents both challenges and opportunities for the future of journalism.
If the world's population was represented by a village of 100 people, 57 would be Asian, 21 European, 14 American, and 8 African. There would be 52 women and 48 men, with 30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians. 30 would be Christian and 70 non-Christian. 6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and be from the US. 80 would live in poverty, 70 would be illiterate, and 50 would suffer from hunger or malnutrition.
The document discusses the organizational environment, which includes external and internal factors that can influence an organization. The external environment consists of a general environment and task environment, with the general environment comprising economic, political, social, and technological forces, and the task environment including suppliers, customers, and competitors. The internal environment contains conditions within the organization like employees, management, and culture. Understanding the organizational environment is important for management to plan effectively and set goals in response to unpredictable external forces.
This very short document appears to be an instruction to click something to advance or proceed further. However, it does not provide any other context or details on what exactly should be clicked or what the end goal or purpose of advancing might be. The document is only one sentence with limited informational content to summarize.
3 steps to an effective online video are outlined: 1) Create evergreen content that remains relevant over time. 2) Focus on storytelling techniques like customer/employee testimonials and scripting to engage viewers. 3) Optimize the video production process with the right location, equipment, and actors. The document notes that online video is a powerful medium, with over 180 million Americans watching billions of videos per month and 67% of internet usage being video-based.
The document discusses the importance of having a vision and convincing others to share it. It provides examples of three individuals - Asa Philip Randolph, Billy Starr, and Ann Bancroft - who had extraordinary visions they were able to achieve through inspiring others. Their ability to articulate their visions in memorable ways and emphasize common values is what allowed them to generate buy-in from others and accomplish their goals. The document also discusses strategies for effective communication and conveying ideas, emphasizing the power of thinking big and having big ideas.
Vidya is an interior designer who started her own business, Sri Vidya Associates, in 2005 after working for a design firm. She invested 150,000 rupees of her own money and took a 150,000 rupee loan. The business records show receipts of 280,000 rupees but outstanding amounts of 95,000 rupees and bad debts of 20,000 rupees. Expenses have reduced the bank balance to 14,750 rupees.
This document provides tips for using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to share content and engage with others. It discusses how to find valuable content to share, the importance of engagement and balance when updating profiles, and communication etiquette. Social media is positioned as a way to share inspiring content and interact with like-minded people while avoiding oversharing personal details or spamming others. Scheduling tools like Hootsuite can help maintain a consistent social media presence.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY SYSTEM BASED ON THIN CLIEN...ijasuc
With the continuous development of science and technology, the intelligent development of community
system becomes a trend. Meanwhile, smart mobile devices and cloud computing technology are
increasingly used in intelligent information systems; however, smart mobile devices such as smartphone
and smart pad, also known as thin clients, limited by either their capacities (CPU, memory or battery) or
their network resources, do not always meet users' satisfaction in using mobile services. Mobile cloud
computing, in which resource-rich virtual machines of smart mobile device are provided to a customer as a
service, can be terrific solution for expanding the limitation of real smart mobile device, but the resources
utilization rate is low and the information cannot be shared easily. To address the problems above, this
paper proposes an information system for intelligent community, which is composed of thin clients, wide
band network and cloud computing servers. On one hand, the thin clients with the characteristics of energy
efficiency, high robustness and high computing capacity can efficiently avoid the problems encountered in
the PC architecture and mobile devices. On the other hand, the cloud computing servers in the proposed
information system solve the problems of resource sharing barriers. Finally, the system is built in real
environments to evaluate the performance. We deploy the proposed system in a community with more than
2000 residents, and it is demonstrated that the proposed system is robust and efficient.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY SYSTEM BASED ON THIN CLIEN...ijasuc
With the continuous development of science and technology, the intelligent development of community
system becomes a trend. Meanwhile, smart mobile devices and cloud computing technology are
increasingly used in intelligent information systems; however, smart mobile devices such as smartphone
and smart pad, also known as thin clients, limited by either their capacities (CPU, memory or battery) or
their network resources, do not always meet users' satisfaction in using mobile services. Mobile cloud
computing, in which resource-rich virtual machines of smart mobile device are provided to a customer as a
service, can be terrific solution for expanding the limitation of real smart mobile device, but the resources
utilization rate is low and the information cannot be shared easily. To address the problems above, this
paper proposes an information system for intelligent community, which is composed of thin clients, wide
band network and cloud computing servers. On one hand, the thin clients with the characteristics of energy
efficiency, high robustness and high computing capacity can efficiently avoid the problems encountered in
the PC architecture and mobile devices. On the other hand, the cloud computing servers in the proposed
information system solve the problems of resource sharing barriers. Finally, the system is built in real
environments to evaluate the performance. We deploy the proposed system in a community with more than
2000 residents, and it is demonstrated that the proposed system is robust and efficient.
Geochronos File Sharing Application Using CloudIJERA Editor
Accessing, running and sharing applications and data at present face many challenges. Cloud Computing and Social Networking technologies have the potential to simplify or eliminate many of these challenges. Social Networking technologies provide a means for easily sharing applications and data. Now a day’s people want to be connected 24x7 to the world around them. Networking and Communication have come together to make the world a small place to live in. People want to be in constant touch with their subordinates where ever they are and avail emergency services whenever needed. In this paper we present an on-line/on-demand interactive application service (Software as a Service). The service is built on a cloud computing basement that provisions virtualized application servers based on user demand. An open source social networking platform is leveraged to establish a portal front-end that enables applications and results to be easily shared between users. In the proposed system users can access the documents uploaded into the cloud by others and provide any data they have in hand to other users through the same cloud. This also allows the users to have an interactive session through the chat screens present in the cloud. The paper also highlights some major security issues existing in current cloud computing environment.
Fractalia Media is a digital signage solution that allows users to create, schedule and distribute multimedia content to remote screens from a central server. It provides functionality for managing a network of screens and players through the integrated Fractalia Manager platform, which allows remote control and updates. Fractalia Media is suited for organizations with geographically dispersed digital displays and provides tools for centralized content creation and equipment management.
A Framework To Generate 3D Learning ExperienceNathan Mathis
The document discusses a framework called OpenWebTalk (OWT) that was created to generate configurable 3D learning experiences. OWT is a declarative 3D component framework based on XML documents that describe both the formal structure of the virtual world and the complex set of interaction rules that govern user interactions. This framework aims to help fast prototyping and easy building of collaborative applications. It decouples all phases of authoring, allows easy definition and composition of virtual sessions in a component-oriented fashion, and can drive and control interactions to stimulate collaboration. The framework also provides a high-performance 3D rendering engine configurable through XML.
The document discusses the future of cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). It covers several topics:
1) The evolution and current state of cloud computing including public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models.
2) Technical pillars of IoT including RFID, wireless sensor networks, machine-to-machine communication, and SCADA systems.
3) The relationship between cloud computing and IoT, and how they will converge with mobile cloud computing.
4) Emerging paradigms like MAI and XaaS for connecting IoT devices within and outside organizations via the cloud.
OpenVis Conference Report Part 1 (and Introduction to D3.js)Keiichiro Ono
This document summarizes a cytoscape team meeting on May 8, 2014. It discusses the OpenVis conference, which brings together practitioners in visualization including developers, designers, and analysts. The keynote speakers were introduced, including Mike Bostock who created the D3.js library. Bostock's talk focused on how D3 works and its use of data-driven documents to create interactive visualizations in web browsers. The document notes that while cytoscape uses Java for desktop apps, web technologies like cytoscape.js should be used for sharing data. It relates D3 and the team's projects, suggesting D3 could be used to visualize the cytoscape design process from Git commits.
Cloud computing is affecting the software development process. It provides resources over the internet rather than requiring direct physical access. This allows developers to access resources from anywhere and reduces costs since users only pay for what they use. Cloud computing introduces new concepts like mesh computing and pay-per-use services. Research is investigating how cloud computing reduces development costs and time by making services easily accessible. However, security and privacy concerns remain an issue with storing data on external provider networks rather than locally.
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1. WHITE PAPER
BLACKBOX Multimodal Display Platform
Multimodal Interface Design as a
Solution for Data Display, Data
Fusion and Data Sharing
Author
Kurt Kratchman
kurt@blackbox.tv
Abstract – Today data comes at us from different directions in different formats,
structured and unstructured. Viewing so much data and creating data narratives
is challenging due to the various types of sources, supporting operating systems,
hardware, software, platforms, devices, channels, formats, codec, streaming
data, and proprietary data architectures, just to name a few. Fusing data is an
enormous challenge and opportunity we are focused on solving. The display
layer - the human computer interface - is the frontier this paper addresses. We
attempt to provide context, frame the problem statement and offer a strategic
paradigm and solution that is pragmatic, tactical and cost effective. The
functional role of a multimodal display platform is to assist the end user in
organizing and presenting multimedia content. At the lowest level, the display
platform organizes disparate data types and organizes relevant incoming data. At
the highest level, the system presents actionable intelligence to the user. In this
paper, we use the BLACKBOX model as a reference for displaying data driven
content, which utilizes multimedia fusion and multimodal characteristics to
enhance user performance. The design allows for the user to passively monitor
and actively interact with the display system with controls for interface
customization, template creation, interactivity with web services, high end design
and usability features, and a client / cloud based architecture. We present a new
display paradigm that utilizes a multimodal interface to (1) take advantage of the
human’s ability to fuse multisensory information, (2) facilitate situational
awareness, (3) enhance the users cognitive task analysis and (4) share
intuitively.
Keywords: adaptive interface, cognitive task analysis, command control, cross
platform, common operating picture, display bridge, display platform, force
multiplier, fusion, information sharing, multimodal interface design, multimedia,
situational awareness, synthetic vision, user interface, visual technology.
2. 1 Introduction
“We are drowning in data…”
The integration of senses by the human is a natural form of data fusion.
Extensions to human processing include computer displays to guide attention,
facilitate efficient task analysis, and provide cues for situation awareness. A
computer is good at processing large amounts of object data while a human is
good at making inferences over the data. Thus, the key question to ask is “What
framework the human has to inference over the data and what capabilities allow
for active reasoning?” To develop the user refinement capabilities to include in a
design, four issues are paramount (1) situational awareness, (2) cognitive task
analysis, (3) multimodal interface and (4) easy information sharing. The focus of
this paper is multimodal interface and describes a highly scalable display model
called BLACKBOX. BLACKBOX provides a multimedia interactive display
platform that transforms the way information is communicated. BLACKBOX is
specifically designed for fusion/command center analysts who need to view and
analyze data from secure and public sources in context. With BLACKBOX
dynamic data can be displayed by simultaneously force multiplying your existing
screens with video feeds, web services, analyst reports, digital content, charts
and graphs all on a single screen.
BLACKBOX makes having your own mission control affordable and easy to set
up. BLACKBOX gives IT and security organizations important enhancements
that not only help reduce support and remediation costs, but can also provide a
foundation for future solutions as security and communications needs change to
support increasingly virtualized or “multi-tenant” shared data center resources.
BLACKBOX is architected to be available as an externally or internally delivered
application that has built-in application and content syncing and caching. Users
can integrate a wide variety of content types and existing applications to be
delivered within BLACKBOX.
2 Multimodal Interface Design
Passive computer presentations might accurately present the fused data,
however if the mental model of the human operator is not consistent with the
display, the system usability might not improve performance. One way to improve
operator performance is to design an interactive interface that allows for the
capability to interact and refine the display. As an example, we might be able to
refine the data collection so as to get more image perspectives for a 3D target
presentation or multiple looks on the same target. When we interact with the
system, the end user is transformed from a passive operator to an active user.
Another way to improve human operator performance is to design a multimodal
interface. Multimodal interface design (MID) is a concept that leverages our
ability to filter incoming data. MID design is a key feature in military and
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3. intelligence applications, security, aviation, simulators, weather analysis
platforms, and video games. MIDs augment display information with control
inputs, audio warnings, and some proprioceptive information. Such examples are
audio warnings for threat assessment and control interactions affording the
analyst the ability to cue in on data or drill down to areas of interest. Additionally,
we might think of classifying image fusion selections as an extension to the MID
design. For instance, allowing the user to select between electrical-optical (EO),
synthetic-aperture radar (SAR), and infrared (IR) for day, high-altitude, and night
missions, respectively, would enhance the multimodal visual capabilities. A key
component of the MID is the ability to facilitate the analyst’s cognitive ability to
fuse multiple image presentations for task completion.
Most fusion systems are highly specialized, designed as narrow point solutions,
and are expensive to build and operate, like the examples above. Some software
packages are so complex they are sold with their own analysts and engineers.
The typical Law Enforcement/intelligence fusion/command center cannot afford
such luxuries yet the operators are being asked to evolve their skills to handle
more time sensitive demands. What if the end user was empowered to select
their own data sets, live feeds, PowerPoint files, web services, maps and other
content for a fused display presentation with out support from software engineers
and consultants? What if they could set up templates of existing and approved
feeds and share them? This would assist in removing the need for time-
constrained resources and let the experts manage what they know best. More
times than not, the least dramatic fusions of data can have the greatest impact
on day-to-day productivity.
3 Content is Data, Rich Media, and Multimedia
As previously mentioned, the key to a multimodal interface system design is the
ability of the system to convey information desired by the user. With the growth of
rich media in all forms of communication and analysis, information technology
systems have more to deliver for users who handle and analyze multimedia.
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content
forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms)
or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The
term is used in contrast to media, which use only rudimentary computer display
such as text only, or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.
Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video,
or interactivity content forms. The key to consuming multimedia on display
screens is the interface, referred to as a GUI (graphical user interface).
Multimedia terminology has evolved over the years and conceptual terms such
as rich media, or layered media, have entered the professional lexicon.
More synthesized forms of content include the multimedia presentation of the
assets organized into PowerPoint, web pages and other curated forms of digital
content, often relied on during mission briefs and presentations. Digital content
can be stored locally or on remote servers such as cloud based data. The data
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4. fragments fused can be web services and conventional application files such as
PowerPoint, web browsers, MP4 video assets and their players. (this seems
repetitive of the first sentence) Compatibility between operating systems, file
standards, proprietary software, and platforms make it difficult to fuse data into a
common view that can be presented on a display screen.
With our reliance of computer displays, interface design has become a critical
area of focus to increase performance. The objective of designers and
developers of interactive software systems is to align the mental model of the
human with the display of the data. One way UX (user experience) designers
improve operator performance is to design an interactive interface enabling the
human operator the capability to interact and refine the display.
Fig. 1 NASA Mission Control – Johnson Space Center
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5. Fig. 2 NASA BLACKBOX
4 Force Multiply
Command centers and fusion centers are designed to provide situational
awareness and a common operating picture. Command centers such as NASA’s
are proliferating around the world. Sensors, surveillance and intelligence
solutions rely more and more on video imagery. Video displays are sharing the
real estate with computer screens. As prices go down, the demand for large
displays increases, driving new requirements and benefits. But most displays
are not utilized to their full potential. Historically, splitting the screens and running
multiple applications on a single view require additional hardware and software
components. Consumer oriented Smart TVs are leveraging web services and
web applications running through browser like application. While this makes the
viewing experience more dynamic, it is quite narrow and limited. In mission
critical command centers, rarely is budget spent on enhancing the usability of the
content that these architectures provide. Most system integrators and IT
professionals are not trained in user experience or interface design and such
resources have not been made a priority in the designers of NOCs or fusion
centers. Yet it is the human computer interface that is paramount to
understanding what the data means in context. Data presentation that creates
actionable intelligence saves lives and protects our security. Synthetic vision
supports our air force pilots. Where is the synthetic vision support for the analysts
who are piloting our security data centers?
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6. 5 The Market for New Ways to Communicate
The market for new ways to communicate continues to grow and evolve
dramatically. Organizations expect and are willing to pay for, seamless
integration between their access to data, media and new technologies.
BLACKBOX consolidates data driven content through its unified digital display
platform.
Few organizations have the resources or expertise to manage large internal
teams of strategic, technical and creative personnel necessary to execute
comprehensive integrated digital media solutions in-house. BLACKBOX
empowers users to easily display multiple types of data and media tailored to
varying audiences for maximum impact. BLACKBOX’s award-winning interface
assembles new and existing technologies, enabling business and technical users
to combine information maintained in numerous databases across various
platforms. CIO’s and CFO’s are able to maximize their return on investment with
dozens of features that enables end users to access data that might not
otherwise be available or difficult to find.
6 Usage Models
MAJOR MILITARY DEFENSE CONTRACTOR. A leading military defense and
aerospace pioneer focused on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
solutions for the US military worked with BLACKBOX to develop a customized
version of the BLACKBOX software as a multimodal interface paradigm for their
wide ranging software R&D and drone programs. The problem for most of these
companies is that they spend so much money on responding to RFPs, building
prototypes too slowly, developing intense hardware, software engineering and
system integration solutions that take months if not years of planning, design and
development, that by the time the end user operator gets to interface with the
system, they have run out of time or money to consider the adapting needs of the
end user and the context they need to see the data in. More often than not, the
needs of the ultimate end user are never studied or designed. Great ideas and
solutions die because of a failure to develop an interface that makes the system
usable. Hence interface design and usability together the next generation in
advancement for all software solutions and BLACKBOX is helping to set the
agenda.
NASA. Imagine the need to obtain approval for $30 million in funding; knowing
that the program you are trying to sell is extremely complicated and difficult for
even management to understand. This is the task that faces the engineers on
the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle Simulation program at NASA. The
team at NASA knows that in order for their project to survive they need be able to
demonstrate what they are attempting to accomplish with real data. Standard
presentation tools were not even an option. We proposed our solution to NASA
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7. highlighting the depth and power of BLACKBOX including the ability to translate
a multitude of data points into graphs and charts (HDF5 conversion). To a
common viewer the data is meaningless, but to an engineer trying to analyze real
time and simulation data this is a valuable tool. The team at NASA recognized
the value in being able to show live satellite feeds, adjacent to sensor data views
in context with their plans and their mission – all as a means to get funding.
Project approved.
MAJOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION. Private and public educators are forced
to adapt and augment curriculums, pedagogy, and content distribution to remain
relevant in a world of digital technology. A leading private content creator and
publisher has a news program broadcast via satellite to 8,000 middle and high
schools across the United States. The company even partners with the largest
broadcasting company in the world to help produce their content. Traditionally, all
of this content was broadcast on a single TV video screen in the classroom.
Recognizing the need to keep up with new technologies the company contacted
BLACKBOX to create an interactive learning platform. Desiring to engage
students and empower teachers even more, the educational leader will run a pilot
program utilizing BLACKBOX as a tool to augment content and provide a deeper
educational experience. BLACKBOX will be used to merge content and active
learning applications providing a more interactive approach to teaching and
learning. BLACKBOX offers schools a powerful tool to improve teacher
effectiveness. With the integration of interactive whiteboards, students truly
become active participants in the daily news broadcast, interacting with digital
content in real-time.
GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE BRAND. This company is known throughout the world
for their innovations at every level in the global automotive industry.
Unfortunately marketing communication tools and messaging has not kept pace
with this rapidly changing market. A tailor-made version of BLACKBOX was
created for the marketing teams to be used as a sales tool to access information
about assets available to dealerships, as well as marketing resources that they
might not otherwise know existed. Management discovered that BLACKBOX is
also an effective tool for recruiting and employee on boarding.
7 How BLACKBOX Works
BLACKBOX provides the ability to display a multitude of media in a single
presentation screen: streaming video, web browsers, audio, RSS Feeds, Google
Maps, PDF, HDF5 data, graphs…the list of application driven “pods” goes on and
will continue to grow. There can be up to sixteen (16) pods on a screen. There
can be an unlimited number of screens, or “acts” that are the rotating sides of a
box. BLACKBOX allows this same content to be rearranged, overlaid or
enlarged on demand. The BLACKBOX platform allows multiple types of content
to be shared and distributed at the same time through an adaptive interface that
allows users to simultaneously control the display and organization of any type of
digital content.
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8. 8 BLACKBOX Architecture
The BLACKBOX application runs as an externally or internally delivered
application that includes built in application syncing and caching. It is built using
Action Script 3 for the Adobe Air platform as a key technology. Adobe AIR is a
cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems for building
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that can be run as desktop applications or on
mobile devices. The Adobe AIR Runtime is the core of the application delivery.
Not unlike a JVM or other virtual machine, it provides a base layer for the
application.
BLACKBOX customers are provided with either an external or internal (behind
the firewall) installation of the system. Installations can be a single machine
running locally only or can consist of several machines with various
synchronization patterns as best suits the needs of the customer.
The BLACKBOX application is built on top of Adobe Air and provides core
features including playback, editing, content and application synchronization and
caching. The application is made up of several major components including:
• Authentication and Authorization. The application validates a single
installation on a single machine and ensures appropriate authorization
to access the installer.
• Update Manager. This is used to keep application versions consistent
within an installation. Update manager also can push content as part of
a regular update.
• Playback. The application is able to execute playback of a series of
acts (pages) and pods (individual windows). Pods can consist of a
wide variety of different media types and applications and can be
expanded.
• Content Editor. This allows users update the content that will be
played via each instance of the application. Through the update
manager this will be pushed across the installations.
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9. The BLACKBOX application development follows best practices established by
Adobe Technical Services and partners. We use Cairngorm as the foundation on
how we deliver successful enterprise Flex and AIR projects. Most large-scale
applications within Adobe Technical Services are built by applying patterns and
practices of Cairngorm 3 using Inversion-of-Control (IoC) containers. Design
patterns advocated with Cairngorm MVC, such as encapsulating operations
within command objects, declaring models and services externally, and
separating presentation and domain concerns, can be applied with Inversion-of-
Control containers to simplify development and testability. The following diagram
illustrates the BLACKBOX software framework.
Fig. 3 BLACKBOX Framework Diagram
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10. A Cairngorm application consists of:
• Architectural Layers that separate classes with different kinds of
responsibility
• Functional Areas that group classes related to the same area of
functionality
• Design Patterns that coordinate objects in consistent ways
Architectural Layers
Classes with different kinds of responsibility belong to different layers than can
be changed separately from one another. So if the visual design needs to be
tweaked, most changes are confined to the classes in a presentation layer, and
not other parts of the code. Cairngorm recommends the layers described by Eric
Evans in Domain-Driven Design:
1. Presentation - presents data to the user and gathers input. i.e. the fancy
UI
2. Application - performs the operations of the application. i.e. saving a form
3. Domain - models the business concerns of the application. i.e. the form
data
4. Infrastructure - coordinates objects and integrates with other systems. i.e.
talking to the server
Extensions
The BLACKBOX architecture uses an extend relationship to specify that one use
case (extension) extends the behavior of another use case (base), increasing
product flexibility and adaptability. This type of relationship reveals details about
a system or application that are typically hidden in a use case. While the base
use case is defined independently and is meaningful by itself, the extension use
case is not meaningful on its own. The extension use case consists of one or
several behavior sequences (segments) that describe additional behavior that
can incrementally augment the behavior of the base use case. Each segment
can be inserted into the base use case at a different point, called an extension
point. The extension use case can access and modify the attributes of the base
use case; however, the base use case is not aware of the extension use case
and, therefore, cannot access or modify the attributes and operations of the
extension use case. The diagram below illustrates the BLACKBOX extensions.
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11. Fig. 4 BLACKBOX Extension Diagram
Component Model
BLACKBOX utilizes the Spark component architecture to support a seamless
way to customize the visuals and behaviors of components in a much more direct
and effortless manner. Spark is the name of the new component skinning
architecture and component set that is part of the Adobe Flex 4 open source
software development framework. The main tenet of the Spark architecture is a
skinning model that provides a neat separation of a component’s visual elements
from its logic. This separation gives designers and developers more freedom,
because the visual elements of a Flex component can be designed in an
unfettered manner, independent of the implementation of the logic powering the
component. The following diagram illustrates the BLACKBOX Spark Component
Model.
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12. Fig. 5 BLACKBOX Component Model
Class Diagram
BLACKBOX class diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) describes
the structure of the system by showing the system's classes, their attributes,
operations (or methods), and the relationships among the classes. The class
diagram is the main building block of object-oriented modeling. It is used both for
general conceptual modeling of the systematics of the application, and for
detailed modeling translating the models into programming code. The classes in
the class diagram below represent both the main objects and or interactions in
the application and the objects to be programmed. In the BLACKBOX class
diagram below these classes are represented with boxes which contain two
parts:
• The upper part holds the name of the class
• The bottom part gives the methods or operations the class can take or
undertake
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13. Fig. 6 BLACKBOX Class Diagram
9 API
The BLACKBOX API provides a way to extend the core capabilities
of BLACKBOX in a seamless way. The Open Pod provides a container that is
similar to modern web browsers. HTML, CSS and JavaScript are used to
present content and access BLACKBOX functionality through JSON. The API
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14. includes the ability to access the raw HTML DOM. Taken together this provides
rich hooks to content objects and functionality giving a simple mechanism that is
widely used by software engineers as a means to build interesting extensions
BLACKBOX.
10 Security
When discussing security for BLACKBOX applications, it's first important to
understand that this is a controlled delivery environment that is quite different
from the security issues that exist when delivering Flash or Adobe AIR
applications across public web sites. Most installations use the controlled
environment as the first layer of protection that eliminates entry of malicious
code. Coupling that with code signing from Adobe AIR provides a high degree of
protection. Adobe AIR requires developers to digitally sign their applications in
order to maintain the integrity of the software and the identity of its publisher.
BLACKBOX has a certificate from one of the most respected Certification
Authorities (CA) - Thawte. Digitally signing AIR files provides significant
assurance to users that the application they are installing has not been altered.
That said, BLACKBOX is being built to work in public installations that will have
broader security concerns. Thus, we've architected it to leverage several of the
core security features of the Adobe AIR framework:
Sandbox
The Adobe AIR runtime like other kinds of JVMs prevents code from running
directly on the machine. Further, the Adobe AIR sandbox provides additional
security that limits application access according to given security specifications.
BLACKBOX leverages the sandbox to restrict access of the application.
Memory Restrictions
BLACKBOX also leverages the built in memory restrictions of Adobe AIR that
prevent buffer overflow, memory corruption or other cross application memory
issues.
Data Encryption
For added security we have initiated the Data Encryption to store local data in an
AES-CBC128-bit encryption. This ensures that local data cannot be attacked or
corrupted by malicious attacks. Further we restrict local data to non-script data,
i.e., that is not executed. Rather it is only content oriented information that would
cause playback issues but is not an entry for execution.
HTML Security
BLACKBOX is capable of rendering HTML that includes untrusted JavaScript.
This is greatly restricted by the sandbox and the AIR runtime.
References
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15. Further reading around Adobe AIR security can be found in the following
references:
• http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/security/air_security.pdf
• https://docs.google.com/open?id=15SBR17kOVz8kVADOBgIGqAacKe
jhNSCKSEMNf0J0igbtV-Bc3yJJy_DbGCYy
• http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/security/index.html
11 BLACKBOX System Requirements
The system requirements for BLACKBOX playback are as follows:
Windows
• Intel® Pentium® III 1GHz or faster processor; Intel Pentium 4 2GHz or
faster
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Home, Professional, or Tablet PC Edition with
Service Pack 2 or 3 (including 64-bit editions); Windows Server® 2003 or
2008; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise
(including 64-bit editions) with Service Pack 2; or Windows 7 (including
64-bit editions)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
MAC OS
• Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
• Mac OS X v10.5 or v10.6
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
12 SUMMARY
Most enterprise software tools execute only on functional requirements and
system architectures designed in isolation of other point solutions,
communication systems and end user contexts. The demands for integration and
sharing across channels are more dynamic than ever. Today’s businesses and
organizations need this kind of enhanced productivity to help optimize critical
customer, employee, and financial data, and preserve systems infrastructure.
This grows ever more crucial as companies adopt more virtualized, shared, and
multi-tenant infrastructure models.
With BLACKBOX enabled solutions you can:
• Leverage existing infrastructure and force multiply the views of data to
help make informed decisions
• Improve productivity and operator effectiveness by fusing disparate data
feeds into a multimodal interface
• Improve communications across the enterprise, with customers and
constituents
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16. • Give (consistency in tense) control to the analyst to customize their data
views without needing support from designers, front-end coders, and IT for
rapid data fusion - reduce strain on IT resources and limited budgets
• Share complex data views at multiple levels on multiple platforms
• Address the increasing and evolving security threats across your physical
and virtual infrastructure through display enhancements
• Facilitate compliance with government and industry regulations and data
protection standards
• Reduce precious real estate costs by using less hardware
• Reduce hardware costs by reducing the need for more displays and
dedicated computers - doing more with less
• Reduce user fatigue by removing all the visual noise from the useful
content the operator needs to focus on
“Few organizations have the resources or
expertise to manage large internal teams of
strategic, technical and creative personnel
necessary to execute comprehensive integrated
digital media solutions in-house.”
Overall, BLACKBOX is enabling a significant opportunity for organizations to
“future proof” their infrastructures. Using BLACKBOX-enabled solutions, they
can get ahead of the curve of emerging technologies. IT organizations can gain
important data display solutions for their growing virtualized environments to
allow them to better control the flow of confidential, privileged, or sensitive
workloads or data by restricting these to more thoroughly evaluated or trusted
platforms. While at the same time, enable their customers to rapidly exploit new
data feeds with minimum strain on existing infrastructure. While the near-term
model will be the creation of up-sell and cross sell strategies amid their legacy
system vendors, increasingly, BLACKBOX platform trust will grow on the ability
to take advantage of the data to create unfair advantage for the “good guys.”
Having the BLACKBOX platform enables a baseline level of assurance as
systems are refreshed - essentially “raising the bar” for fusion and data center
optimization, profitability and security over time.
13 Suggested Reading
1. EDWARD TUFTE, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities,
Evidence and Narrative, Graphics Press (February 1997), ISBN-10:
0961392126.
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17. 2. EDWARD TUFTE, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,
Graphics Press; 2nd edition (May 2001), ISBN-10: 0961392142.
3. EDWARD TUFTE, Beautiful Evidence, Graphics Pr; 1St Edition (July
2006), ISBN-10: 0961392177.
4. STEPHEN FEW, Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual
Communication of Data, O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 1, 2006),
ISBN-10: 0596100167.
5. JERALD HUGHES, Baruch College, CUNY and KARL LANG, Baruch
College, CUNY, White Paper: “Transmutability: Digital
Decontextualization, Manipulation, and Recontextualization as a New
Source of Value in the Production and Consumption of Culture
Products,” Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences, 2006.
6. DIMITROS TZOVARAS, Multimodal User Interfaces: From Signals to
Interaction (Signals and Communication Technology), Springer;
(November 25, 2010), ISBN-10: 3642097030.
7. OLIVIERO STOCK (Editor), MASSIMO ZANCANARO (Editor),
Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation (Text, Speech and
Language Technology), Springer; 1st edition (April 29, 2005), ISBN-10:
1402030495.
8. ANDREW LOSOWSKY, Visual Storytelling: Inspiring A New Visual
Language, Gestalten, Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89955-375-8.
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