VERSION CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED EDBMS FOR CSCW

The design in Computer Supported Cooperative Work(CSCW) is a new method to facilitate effective coordination work among designers who are involved in an engineering project.In an integrated CAD/CAM system, designers often generate many versions of an object before selecting the one that satisfies their requirements.Version control is one of the important problems of the distributed engineering database management system(distributed EDBMS) for CSCW.We present the concept of version control based on paths,and solve this problem.This paper gives a brief introduction to CSCW,DBV(database version) of the distributed EDBMS system,and the design and implementation of version control of the distributed EDBMS for CSCW.

A Holistic,Proactive and Novel Approach for Pre,During and Post Migration Validation from Subversion to Git

Software development is getting a transition from centralized version control systems(CVCSs)like Subversion to decentralized version control systems(DVCDs)like Git due to lesser efficiency of former in terms of branching,fusion,time,space,merging,offline commits&builds and repository,etc.Git is having a share of 77%of total VCS,followed by Subversion with a share of 13.5%.The majority of software industries are getting a migration from Subversion to Git.Only a few migration tools are available in the software industry.Still,these too lack in many features like lack of identifying the empty directories as premigration check,failover capabilities during migration due to network failure or disk space issue,and detailed report generation as post-migration steps.In this work,a holistic,proactive and novel approach has been presented for pre/during/post-migration validation from Subversion to Git.Many scripts have been developed and executed run-time over various projects for overcoming the limitations of existing migration software tools for a Subversion to Git migration.During premigration,none of the available migration tools has the capability to fetch empty directories of Subversion,which results in an incomplete migration from Subversion to Git.Many Scripts have been developed and executed for pre-migration validation and migration preparation,which overcomes the problem of incomplete migration.Experimentation was conducted in SRLC Software Research Lab,Chicago,USA.During the migration process,in case of loss of network connection or due to any other reason,if migration stops or breaks,available migration tools do not have capabilities to start over from the same point where it left.Various Scripts have been developed and executed to keep the migration revision history in the cache(elastic cache)to start from the same point where it was left due to connection failure.During post-migration,none of the available version control migration tools generate a detailed report giving information about the total size of source Subversion repositories, the total volume of data migrated todestination repositories in Git, total number of pools migrated, time taken formigration, number of Subversion users with email notification, etc. VariousScripts have been developed and executed for the above purpose during thepost-migration process.

Design and implementation of labor arbitration system based on blockchain

Data island and information opacity are two major problems in collaborative administration. Blockchain has the potential to provide a trustable and transparent environment encouraging data sharing among administration members. However, the blockchain only stores Hash values and transactions in blocks which makes it unable to store big data and trace their changes. In this paper, a labor arbitration scheme based on blockchain was proposed to share labor arbitration data. In the system, a collaborative administration scheme that provides a big data storage model combined blockchain and interplanetary file system(IPFS) is designed. It can store big data and share these data among different parties. Moreover, a file version control mechanism based on blockchain is designed to manage the data changes in IPFS network. It creates a tracing chain that consists of many IPFS objects to track changes of stored data. The relationship of previous and current IPFS objects recorded by blockchain can describe the changes of administration data and trace the data operations. The proposed platform is used in Rizhao City in China, and the experiment result shows collaborative administration scheme achieves traceability with high throughput and is more efficient than traditional hypertext transfer protocol(HTTP) way to share data.

A Data Manager for Engineering Applications

Efficient data management is crucial to the success of a CAD/CAM system.Traditional database systems,designed to deal with only regular and structural data,cannot efficiently manage design data. In this paper,we present a data manager called EDBMS/2,which has been developed by our laboratory for engineering support applications.EDBMS/2 has a data model that combines features of both relational and semantic ones and owns flexible abilities for modeling engineering data,such as variable-length data processing,integrated management of structured data and unstructured data,and composite object handling.Mechanisms based on DBV and DBV graph concepts,proposed in EDBMS/2,make EDBMS/2 own powerful abilities for version management and run efficiently.By now,EDBMS/2 has been used successfully in EDCADS(integrated Electronic Devices CAD environ- ment)project and as a lower level support to develop an object-oriented DBMS for mechanical engineering.