Data Analysis Management and Exchange System
(DAMES)
Presenter: Claudia Rivera
Committee: Dr. David Novick
Dr. Ann Gates
Dr. Gregory Lush
DAMES capabilities
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Support documentation of history and
progress of research projects
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Archive, retrieve, and manipulate
experimental data
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Present data in a format that is appropriate
and visually useful, e.g., plots and images
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Provide a user-friendly interface that the
facilitates the use of the tool.
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Restrict access according to user access
levels
General Information
• This system will be an internet application
specifically designed to work according to the
needs of the department of Electrical Engineering.
• All account and project information will be stored
in an Oracle8i database under a Linux operating
system
• Languages used: Perl, Java, JavaScript, HTML,
DHTML, PL/SQL.
• Modeling language used: UML (Unified Modeling
Language)
User Access Levels
Administrator
Project Team
General User
Administration
Project Management
Project Display
Use Cases
<include>
Administrate Project
Login
<include>
Administrator
Project DB
View Accounts
Administrate Account
<extend>
General User
View Project
Define Measurement
<extend>
Define Experiment
<extend>
Manage Project
<extend>
Define Constant
define
<extend>
Import File
Project
Team
Maintain Project
<extend>
Export File
Administration Functions
Accounts
• Create
• List
• Edit
• Remove
Projects
• Create
• List
• Edit
• Remove
Administration Functions
Super-Projects
• Create
• List
• Edit
• Remove
Management
• View Projects
• View Project History
Project Management Functions
Projects
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•
•
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Open Different Project
View Current Project
View All My Projects
View All Projects
Experiments
• Define
• View
• Remove
Project Management Functions
Measurements
• Define
• View
• Remove
Data Exchange
• Import
• Export
Project Management Functions
Constants
• Define
• View
• Edit
• Remove
Project Organization
Super-Project A
Project 1
User X
Project 2
User Y
Super-Project B
Project 3
Project 4
Super-Project C
User Z
Project Organization
File F-1
Measurement
Type M-1
Experiment E-1
File F-2
File F-3
Experiment E-2
Project 1
Experiment E-3
Experiment E-4
Project Organization Template
•Experiment Number
• Measurements
•Column Data
•+File 1
•#File 2
:
•-File n
• Images
•+File 1
•#File 2
:
•-File n
•Proposals
•Abstracts
•Journal Articles
•Progress Reports
•Final Report
Column Data (TXT Format)
GIF or JPEG Format
Html, Pdf, Txt, or Doc files
CdTe Solar Cell Project
•Experiment run 012799-A
• Measurements
•IV Measurements
•Capacitance Measurements
• Images
•SolarCell.GIF
•Proposals
•Abstracts
•Journal Articles
•Progress Reports
•Weekly #1
•Weekly #2
•Weekly #
•Final Reports
DAMES Design
7
GUI
Interface
HttpServle t
8
8
Management
Information
Management
Admin_tools
1.1.1.1.1
4
Dbaccess
Iinfo_Generation
1
Database Access
1
Data_Updater
3
Database
Data_Retriever
2
2
5
6
AutoMail
Future Work
Functional Improvement
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Mathematical Parser
Distributed Database Possibility
System extension to more than one
Administrator and Project Team.
Functional Expansion
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Image Processing and Data Mining