Intelligent Alert

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COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCECHEEMENI KASARGOD

(Affiliated to Kannur University)

Managed By

INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT(Government of Kerala undertaking)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Project Report On

INTELLIGENT ALERT

Submitted By,PRADEEP.P

SAJIN.T

SAVAD.AM

SUHAIL.AG

VIJESH.T


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COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCECHEEMENI KASARGOD

(Affiliated to Kannur University)

Managed By

INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT(Government of Kerala undertaking)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

CERTIFICATE

Certify that this is the bonafide report On the project work entitles

INTELLIGENT ALERTDuring the year 2008-2009 in practical fulfillment of the Requirement for the award of

the Degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science of the Kannur University, Kerala

Submitted By,

PRADEEP.P

SAJIN.T

SAVAD.AMSUHAIL.AG

VIJESH.T

Project Guide External Examiner


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External Examiner Head of the Department


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We take thsi oppertunity to expree our sincere thanks and wholehearted

gratitude to our revered and beloved pricipal Mr.Santhish Kumar K , with great

appreciation and endorsement.

We thank heartily our project co-ordinator Miss. Shafeena for facilities

provided for the completion of the project work.

From core of our heart we would like to express our great fullness to our

guide Miss. Saritha for help, contribution and advice, and for the able guidance and

sincere interest, which motivated us all through this venture we also thank her for the

valuable suggestions and support given throughout the period.

We deeply express our gratitude to all the staff members of the department

o computer science for the encouragement, which we recieve throughout the semester.

Submitted By,

PRADEEP.P

SAJIN.T

SAVAD.AM

SUHAIL.AG

VIJESH.T


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i

ABSTRACT

Intelligent Alert is an integrated windows and web application.that communicates

with the website hosted by a web service. At some regular intervals, it communicates

with the web service to find if there are any new events created. According to these

events it generates a simple alert with specified link to that Web Service.

Intelligent Alert tool helps our members to receive instant alerts from a Website

about Articles, News, Comments or Answers when posted in the site. Intelligent Alert

is a windows application that communicates with the web services.

Even when the tool is hidden, it works silently in the background, at some regular

intervals of time, it communicates with web services to find if there are any newalerts created .If it finds a new alert, the tool downloads the alerts and pops up a

message displaying as alert. This message will include a short description and a URL

to click. By clicking the URL, you can directly reach the web page represented by the

alert.


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ii

LIST OF TABLES

Sl. No Table Name Page No

1 User master 14

2 Administrator 14

3 Category 14

4 Rating 14

5 Article 15

6 Feedback 15

7 Alert 15


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iii

LIST OF FIGURES

Sl. No Figure Name Page No

1 General DFD 11

2 DFD Administrator Login 11

3 DFD User Login 12

4 DFD AdministratorLogin 12

5 DFD User 13


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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i

ABSTRACT ii

LIST OF TABLES iii

LIST OF FIGURES iv

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Overview 1

1.2 Existing System 1

1.3 Proposed System 2

2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 3

3 ENVIRONMENT SPECIFICATION

3.1 Software Requirements 4

3.2 Hardware Requirements 4

3.3 Technology 4

3.3.1 ASP.Net 4

3.3.2 Windows 2000 Server 5

3.3.3 SQL Server 6

4 DESIGN

4.1 System Design 7

4.1.1 Database Design 7

4.2 Detailed Design 9

4.3 Data flow diagrams 10

4.4 Implementation 15

5 RESULT

5.1 Screenshots 17

6 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE 23

REFERENCES 23


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INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW

Intelligent Alert is an integrated windows and web application that

communicates with the website hosted by a web service. At some regular intervals, it

communicates with the web service to find if there are any new events created.

According to these events it generates a simple alert with specified link to that Web

Service.

Intelligent Alert tool helps our members to receive instant alerts from a Website

about Articles, News, Comments or Answers when posted in the site. Intelligent

Alerts is a windows application that communicates with the web services.

Even when the tool is hidden, it works silently in the background, at some regular

intervals of time, it communicates with web services to find if there are any new

alerts created .If it finds a new alert, the tool downloads the alerts and pops up a

message displaying as alert. This message will include a short description and a URL

to click. By clicking the URL,you can directly reach the web page represented by the

alert.

1.2 EXISTING SYSTEM

The existing systems are providing the user with the new information about the site only

after the user tries to login into the webpage with his/her username and password .The

user have to login into the page and search in the site for the newly posted Articles,

News, Comments or Answers.


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Disadvantages of Existing system:

Wastage of time : -Time is simply wasted by the user to surf through the site

searching for the newly posted articles.

Updates unknown : -The user is not updated with the latest post unless he

logins into the website and searches for it.

1.3 PROPOSED SYSTEM

The existing system is studied and the drawbacks are found out. The proposed system

is verified and designed in such way that it will be compatible with the existing system and it

will overcome all the limitations of existing system.

Advantages of Proposed System :

Saves time :- This reduces the time required to surf the entire webpage to find

out a newly posted article

Keeps us updated :- It keeps us updated with the recent events in the website

while the user is out of scope of the website.


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CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Every user is unaware of the updates produced in a website. Tracking these

updates using the conventional methodologies is found to have either become too

difficult, or obscure. To avoid these difficulties we develop a new system that helps the

user to get updates without any effort.

[4] defines project management as the "ensemble of activities concerned with

successfully achieving a set of goals". An alternate viewpoint is that project management

is the discipline of defining and achieving targets, whilst optimizing the use of resources

(money, people, time, and so on). Administrator seldom participates directly in the

activities that produce the end result, but strives to maintain the progress and effective

interaction of the various parties such that the overall risk of failure is minimized.

In [5], questions were addressed for guiding the study. One of them was "What do you

feel is the secret to project management". The most common answer was

"communication, making sure everyone knows what is going on."

The INTELLIGENT ALERT is a product that is so effective in reducing the

time spent by users on surfing a site for a specific article.


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CHAPTER 3

ENVIRONMENT SPECIFICATION

3.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Web Server : IIS 5.0

Web Client : IE 6.0

Tools : ASP.Net

Back End : MS SQL Server 2005

Internet Standard : HTTP, XML, SOAP

Operating System : Windows 2000 Server

Machine Type : IBM PC/AT

3.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

PROCESSOR : Pentium III Processor

RAM : 128 MB

HARD DISK DRIVE : 20 GB

KEYBOARD : Standard KeyboardFLOPPY DRIVE : 1.44 MB

CD-ROM DRIVE : Creative

3.3 TECHNOLOGY

The INTELLIGENT ALERT is developed on .NET platform using C#. as developing

tool and Microsoft SQL Server for database maintenance.

3.3.1 ASP.NET

ASP.NET is more than the next version of Active Server Pages (ASP); it is a

unified web development platform that provides the services necessary for developers to

build enterprise-class web applications. While ASP.NET is largely syntax compatible


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with ASP, it also provides a new programming model and infrastructure for more secure,

scalable, and stable applications.

ASP.NET is a compiled, .NET based environment; you can author applications in

any .net compatible language, including VisualBasic.NET, C#, and Jscript.NET.

Additionally, the entire .NET framework is available to any ASP.NET application.

Developers can easily access the benefits of these technologies, which include the

managed common language runtime environment, type safety, inheritance and so on.

ASP.NET has been designed to work seamlessly with programming tools,

including Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Not only does this make Web development

easier, but it also provides all the benefits that these tools have to offer, including a GUIthat developers can use to drop server controls onto a Web page and fully integrated

debugging support. Developers can choose from the following two features when

creating an ASP.NET application, Web Forms and Web Services, or combine these in

any way they see fit. Web Forms allows you to build powerful forms-based Web pages.

When building these pages, you can use ASP.NET server controls to create common UI

elements, and program them for common tasks. These controls allow you to rapidly build

a Web Form out of reusable built-in or custom components, simplifying the code of a

page.

3.3.2 Windows 2000 Server

Windows 2000 Server includes improved network, application, and Web services.

It provides increased reliability and scalability, lowers your cost of computing with

powerful, flexible management services, and provides the best foundation for running

business applications. It provides Network data security by protecting data on the wire or

at the network interface. It also provides stored data security by using data encryption.

Data encryption is provided transparently within Windows 2000 by a feature known as

Encrypting File System (EFS). It has the ability to run on a single PC chip with a single

user up to a multi-user, multiprocessor network installation.


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3.3.3 SQL Server

Relational database systems are the most important database systems used in the

software industry today. One of the most outstanding systems is Microsoft SQL Server.

SQL Server is a database management system developed and marketed by Microsoft. It

runs exclusively under Windows NT and Windows 95/98.

The most important aspects of SQL Server are:

SQL Server is easy to use.

SQL Server scales from a mobile laptop to symmetric multiprocessor systems.

A database system is an overall collection of different database software components

and database containing the parts viz. Database application programs, Database

management systems, and Databases.

A database system must provide the following features:

A variety of user interfaces.

Physical data independence.

Logical data independence.

Query optimization. Data integrity.

Concurrency control.

Backup and recovery.

Security and authorization

A variety of user interfaces.


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CHAPTER 4

DESIGN

4.1 SYSTEM DESIGN

System design is the process of planning a new system or one to replace or complement

an existing system. This is the most creative and challenging phase important too it

improves the understanding and procedural details necessary for implementing the new

system.

This design of an information system shows the major features and also howthey are related to one another. The first step of the system design is to design logical

design elements. This is the most creative and challenging phase and important too.

Design of proposed system produces the details of the state how the system will meet

the requirements identified during the system analysis that is, in the design phase we

have to find how to solve the difficulties faced by the existing system. The logical

design of the proposed system should include the details that contain how the solutions

can be implemented. It also specifies how the database is to be built for storing and

retrieving data, what kind of reports are to created and what are the inputs to be given

to the system. The logical design includes input design, output design and database

design and physical design.

4.1.1 DATABASE DESIGN

The overall objective in the development of database technology has been to treat

data as an organizational resource and as an integrated whole. DBMS allow data to be

protected and organized separately from other resources. Database is an integrated

collection of data. The most significant form of data as seen by the programmers is data

as stored on the direct access storage devices. This is the difference between logical and

physical design.


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Database files are the key source of information in to the system. It is the process of

designing database files, which are the key source of information to the system. The files

should be properly designed and planned for collection, accumulation, editing and

retrieving the required information. This database contains tables, where each table

corresponds to one particular type of information. Each piece of information in the table

is called a field or column. A table also contains records, which is a set of fields. All

records in a table have the same set of fields with different information. There are

primary key fields that uniquely identify a record in a table.

4.1.2 OUTPUT DESIGN

Only software needed to operate this site. This site is optimized to work with various

browsers. Special extension for individual browsers is avoided for the unique

performance. A unique coloring screen gives the user and integral feeling for the entire

site. Proper help and user-friendly message are given to the user to avoid confusion.

Forms are designed with GUI designed tools like textboxes, List boxes, Radio Button,

Checkboxetc., which are very user Friendly, and self-explanatory. Proper validations

are given to the textboxes with user understandable error messages, which helps the user

to correct it and submit again, and reviewed, and selection made.

4.2 DETAILED DESIGN

Intelligent Alert has the following four functional modules:

Administrator Site User Site. Web service Windows Application


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Administrator Site:

Add Category section:

Here Administrator can add new category under which users can post new articles.

View Section:

Here Administrator can view all the articles posted by the user.

Feedback Section:

Here Administrator can view the feedback generated by users related to an article.

Approval Section:Here the Administrator approves the articles posted by users to get displayed on the

site.

User Site:

Posting Section:

Here users can login into their home page and can post articles the wish under a

specific category.

Feedback Section:

Here users can post feedbacks related to an article approved by the Administrator.

Web Service:

A new alert is generated in Website when one of the following happens: A new article is submitted

A new Comment is posted

An Reply is posted

A news is posted


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Windows Application:

This Application communicates with the web services that are hosted by the website.

When you minimize, this tool disappears from the screen and you can see a small

icon in the system tray, which can be used to reactivate the tool. Even when the tool

is hidden, it works silently in the background. At some regular intervals of time, it

communicates with Website web services to find if there are any new alerts created.

If it finds a new alert, the tool downloads the alerts and pops up a message displaying

the alert. This message will include a short description and a URL to click. By

clicking the URL, you can directly reach the website page represented by the alert.

4.3 DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS:

The DFD is an excellent communication tool for analysts to model processes and

functional requirements. A DFD is a graphical representation of the flow of data through

an information system. It can also be used for the visualization of data processing. It is

common practice for a designer to draw a context level DFD first, which shows the

interaction between the system and outside entities.

Used effectively, it is a useful and easy to understand modeling tool. It is easily

integrated with the data modeling, workflow modeling tools, and textual specs. Together

with these it provides analysts and developers with solid models and specs. It is simple

and easy to understand by users and can be easily extended and refined with further

specification into a physical version for the design and development teams.


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LEVEL 0:

i n t e l l i g en t a l e r t

A d m i n i s t r a t o r U s e r

r e s p o n s e

r e q u e s t

r e s p o n s e

r e q u e s t

FIG: 1 GENERAL DFD

This DFD explains about the relationship between the administrator and users

using Intelligent alert. The software gives response to the user according to their requests.

LEVEL 1:

L o g i nh o m e

A d m i n i s t r a t o r p a s s w o r du s e r n a m e

i n v a l i d l o g i n

a u t h e n t i c a t e d u s e ra d m i n i s t rh o m

a d m i n i s t r a t o r

FIG: 2 ADMINISTRATOR LOGIN DFD

Here Administrator logins into the website by verifying the username and password from

the administrator table. If it is a valid one then the administrator is allowed to enter the

administrator home page.


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L o g i nh o m e

u s e r p a s s w o r du s e r n a m e

i n v a l i d l o g i n

a u t h e n t i c a t e d u s e ru s e rh o m e

U s e r M a s t e r

FIG3: USER LOGIN

Here User logins into the website by verifying the username and password from the User

Master table. If it is a valid one then the User is allowed to enter the User home page.

LEVEL 2:

A d m i n i s t r a t o r

A d d

c a t e g o r y

A p p r o v ea r t i c l e w e bs e r v i c e u s e r

c a t e g o r y

A l e r t

FIG: 3 ADMINISTRATOR LOGIN DFD

Here Administrator logins into the site and can approve article, add category etc.


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u s e r

v i e wc a t e g o r y

a l e r t w e bs e r v i c e A d m i n i

c a t e g o r y

A l e r t

R e a da r t i c l e

p o s ta r t i c l e

a r t i c l e

FIG: 4 USER DFD

Here User logins into the site and can add articles, view newly alerted articles and view

the category available.

4.4 DATABASE

For this project to be implemented, we have to use different tables for the storage

of data relating to administrator, client, employee, projects etc. Some pf the tables include

User Master, Administrator, category, Feedback, Article, Alert etc. The detailed

explanation of each table is given below


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Table: UserMasterPrimary Key: User_ID

Table: AdministratorPrimary Key : Adminid

Field Type DataType Length DescriptionAdminid Int 4Username nvarchar 50Password nvarchar 50

Table: categoryPrimary Key : category_ID

Field Type DataType Length DescriptionCategory_id Int 4Category nVarchar 50

Table: RatingPrimary key: Rating_Id

Field Type DataType Length DescriptionRating_id Int 4Article_id Int 4Star Int 4

Field name DataTypes Length DescriptionUser_ID Int 4

Firstname nvarchar 50Lastname nvarchar 50Username nvarchar 50Password nvarchar 50Gender nvarchar 50Age Int 4Country nvarchar 50State nvarchar 50City nvarchar 50Place nvarchar 50Emailid nvarchar 50


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Table: ArticlePrimary Key : article_ID

Field Type DataType Length DescriptionArticleid Int 4

Userid Int 4Category_id Int 4Postdate dateTime 8Title nvarchar 500Description nvarchar 500

Table: Feedback Primary key: Feedback_id

Field Type DataType Length Description

Feedbackid Int 4Article_id Int 4Message nvarchar 500

Table: AlertPrimary key: Alert _id

Field Type DataType Length DescriptionAlert_id Int 4Article_id Int 4Status nVarchar 15

4.5 IMPLEMENTATION

IntelligentAlert has the following four functional modules:

Administrator Site User Site. Web service Windows Application


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Administrator Site:

Administrator with a Username and password can use this site. The Administrator can

add new articles or news that can be seen by users. Administrator can see all the

comments and selected comments can be displayed to all.

Consumer Site:

Authenticated user can log in to this site. They can see all the latest news and articles

that are entered by Administrator. The User Can Post their comments about this site.

Web Service:

A new alert is generated in Website when one of the following happens: A new article is submitted

A new Comment is posted

An Reply is posted

A news is posted

Windows Application:

This Application communicates with the web services that are hosted by the website.When you minimize, this tool disappears from the screen and you can see a small

icon in the system tray, which can be used to reactivate the tool. Even when the tool

is hidden, it works silently in the background. At some regular intervals of time, it

communicates with Website web services to find if there are any new alerts created.

If it finds a new alert, the tool downloads the alerts and pops up a message displaying

the alert. This message will include a short description and a URL to click. By

clicking the URL, you can directly reach the website page represented by the alert.


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CHAPTER 5

RESULTS

5.1 SCREENSHOTS

LOGIN PAGE

Description: This webpage is the login area for the User. The User can log in using his

username and password. If any mismatches occur with the username and the password,

an invalid message is displayed on the page.


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ADMINISTRATOR HOME PAGE

Description : This is the home page for the administrator. Here administrator can do

many functions likeCreate Category : Here the administrator can create new category under which user can

post articles they like.

View Article : Here the administrator can view all articles posted by the user.

View Feedback : Here the administrator can read the feedbacks for a specific article.

Approve Article : Here the administrator approves the article as he wishes.

APPROVE ARTICLE


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Description: Here the administrator can approve the article posted on the site according to

his favor to keep the website clean and secure.

POST ARTICLE

Description: Here the user can post new article under a certain category with a specific

title.

USER HOME PAGE


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Description : This is the home page for the administrator. Here administrator can do

many functions.

SIGNUP PAGE

Description : Here new visitors can register the site.

CREAT CATEGORY


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Description : Here Administrator can create new categories.

WINDOW APPLICATION

Description : This is the user interactive program, which reports to the user if any new

articles are posted on the webpage.


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CHAPTER 6

CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE

RECOMMENDATIONS

6.1 CONCLUSIONS

The objective of our project was to design and implement a model, which helps any User

to get instant alerts on their desktop while they are busy with other work. This enhances

the productivity skills of every individual. It gives a fast and easy way of maintaining or

retrieving accurate data. Intelligent alert is fully computerized provided with security.

This system includes highly integrated databases that enable fast & easy access to data. It

is very user friendly and flexible. Effective communication between administrator and

user is possible and it also supports multi-users.

6.1 FUTURE WORK

We can provide the user with mobile support for the alerts generated in a site.

User gets alerts on their mobile the articles new posted which are approved by the

administrator.


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REFERENCES:

[1] Roger .S. Pressman, Software Engineering

McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1991

[2] Mark Spenik , Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DBA Survival Guide

Sams Publishing Company, New York, 1999

[3] Project Management; beyond the formal definition By Ammar W. Mango, a ProjectManagement Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute

[4] "What is the secret to Project Management", a research article by Peter Marci

[5]. www.pmforum.com
http://www.pmforum.com/http://www.pmforum.com/

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