Product Specifications

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Coach Dr. Joe WilsonMembers Rahul
AlavalapatiDanton Harrylal Meme ThaiJuli
LimJanuary Realista
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Background

• Instructor Operator Station (IOS)
• IOS Pages
• GUI objects
• Set Integer Button
• Pull-down List-boxes
• Input/Output device to variable elements of
  simulation

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IOS Functions

• Man Machine Interface
• -Instructor Display and controls
• Communication
• -Trainer Load Interface (Variable Referencing)
• -Network Communications for Satellite IOS
• Training Subsystems
• -Malfunction Control
• -Initial Conditions, Mode Control
• -Mission Generation, Performance Analysis

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IOS Page Sample
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Scope

• Structured process for defining the inputs and
  outputs
• Move away from manually connecting IOS controls
  with system variables
• User-friendly interface for this hand-held device

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Objectives

• Design and Implement Database to
• -Store/Retrieve GUI Objects
• -Store/Retrieve Information about IOS page
• -Layout of page
• -Min/max value of each control
• Use Information in Database to auto-generate IOS
  pages
• Create interface for the hand-held device

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Expectations

• Increase re-use of IOS pages and GUI Objects
• Reduce time to create and manipulate IOS Pages
• Decrease number of errors when creating IOS pages
• Reduce cost and schedule in the development of an
  IOS page

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Customer Requirements

• Web-Based
• Run on Windows 2000, NT and CE
• Run on SQL server
• Utilize XML, Visual Basic and Visual C
• Ties with SL-GMS
• User-friendly interface to database
• Secure
• Flexible

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Product Specifications

• Database to organize IOS information
• - GUI Objects
• - IOS Controls
• User-friendly interfaces to database
• - web based, using XML and ASP
• - accomplish database functions
• - different levels of access
• - run on Windows NT/2000

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Product Specifications

• Automated Tools
• - access database information
• - updating system variables
• - generate IOS pages
• - IOS page models
• - IOS documentation
• - IOS help text
• - report generation

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Product Specifications

• GUI for Hand Held Device
• - displays IOS pages
• - Visual C
• - runs on Windows CE

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Initial System Architecture
Map Factory uses XML-DBMS mapping language to
creates map objects
Map Objects
Objects used by XML-DBMS
XML-DBMS (Perl Module) Use DOMToDBMS Class
Existing Legacy System with IOS pages and GUI
Objects info
Convert Legacy Systems data into XML Files
XML Files
Database
XML-DBMS (Perl Module) Use DBMSToDOM Class
XSLT (Style Sheets) Convert XML into HTML to be
displayed through the web-interface
XML File
Web-Interface to the Database
Object used by XML-DBMS
Map Object
Perl/CGI Send queries to the database
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• Changes
• Follow standards of other CAE Incs database
  projects
• Replace Perl/CGI with VBScript/ASP
• Effects
• server starts another Perl interpreter (new
  process), taking up processing time and memory
• Cannot use XML-DBMS Module/Package
• Longer development time
• Lack of prior VBScript/ASP expirence

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New System Architecture
User accesses database to request info
ASP/VBScript Connects and sends queries to the
database
Web-Interface to the Database
IOS Database
Display HTML to user through web-interface
Send XML file along with associated XSLT
Client receives the XML and fetches the
associated XSLT, then transforms XML into HTML
ASP/VBScript Retrieves the data from the
database and converts to XML.
Web-Interface from the Database
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Business Case

• CAE intuitively understands need for product
• Primary Benefits
• Automation of system results in increased
  efficiencies in system engineers
  responsibilities
• Current work load of manually manipulating
  elements and information of the IOS system is
  eliminated
• Investment in the project is the primary cost

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Issues

• Security system on the web interface
• Auto-generation tools to create IOS Pages based
  on database information