The Great Mind Challenge - Project Scenario Template
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Name of the Project
Knowledge Based Community Sharing System(KBCSS)
Objective/ Vision
Today most of the educational institutions in India are understaffed and does not
have a basic interaction with industry. It now exists in such a way that Industries
are now not part of the education system. Providing an environment for
students/faculty/researcher/industry experts will drive us to make up an online
knowledge centre for education and research. The basic idea of KBCSS is to
provide an environment for the students and faculty of a university to enhance
their technical skills and to share their knowledge with their fellow students or
faculty/researchers/industrial experts. It also aims to provide a platform for
mutual cooperation between different kinds of users, learning by mining(i.e.,
previous discussions are a source which is studied). We strongly want to replace
the existing e-learning systems of many universities and colleges which are
unidirectional i.e., from faculty to students to a bidirectional way i.e., also from
student to faculty.
Users of the System
Functional
Requirements
(Atleast Eight)
Non-functional
requirements (Atleast
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Optional features
User interface
priorities
A. students/research scholars
B. faculty
C. industry experts/HR managers
D. Administrators
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A well defined expert group and user groups are designed keeping in mind
of transformation from one group to other.
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A secured mechanism for accessing information based on groups.
iii. A statistical report generator for individual assessment of a user
(student/researcher/faculty) and also for colleges to propose ratings.
iv. Expert division based on branches and interests.
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Discussion forums are enforced.
vi. Posting materials/research papers are organised
vii. Data from previous discussions are organized as notes.
viii. A knowledge base(database) is created for maintaining the discussions
between users and experts.
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Secure access of confidential data (user’s details). SSL can be used.
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24 X 7 availability
iii. Better component design to get better performance at peak time
iv. Flexible service based architecture will be highly desirable for future
extension
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Mobile alerts for informing users about their problem status.
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Using efficient data mining concepts to make up notes for
discussions
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HR managers of companies are given permissions on statistical
information so as to introduce priority for recruitments.
A. Professional look and feel
B. Use of AJAX atleast with all registration forms
C. Browser testing and support for IE, NN, Mozila, and Firefox.
D. Use of Graphical tool like JASPER to show strategic data to admin
E. Reports exportable in .XLS, .PDF or any other desirable format
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Reports
A. Reports are available on performance of students, college wise and
percentage used.
B. Reports for maximum time taken for a discussion is also taken into
account for future analysis.
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Other important issues
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Team Size
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Technologies to be
used
UML, J2EE, XML, e-Forms, AJAX, Web 2.0, Web-services, SOA
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Tools to be Used
Final Deliverable must
include
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ROSE/RSA / WebSphere Modeler
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Eclipse/ RAD / Lotus Forms Designer / Portlet Factory
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WebSphere Portal/ WAS/ WAS CE / WPS
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DB2 Express – ‘C’ or DB2 UDB
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Tivoli CDP/TSM / Tivoli Directory Server
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Linux will be the preferred OS.
A. Online or offline help to above said users, Application deployment
executive and developer
B. Application archive ( .war/.ear ) with source code
C. Database backup and DDL Script
D. Complete Source code