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1. how far away a potential ride sharer can live from the user s home or pick up point how far away a potential ride sharer can work from the user s office or drop off point how close the potential ride sharer s work hours are to the user s work hours etc The carpool vanpool will have a number of attributes such as Names of potential riders Pick up point start of day Pick up time start of day Drop off point start of day Drop off time start of day Pick up point end of day Pick up point end of day Drop off point end of day Drop off time end of day Route for the carpool the software system has to be able to form simple routes probably using mapquest or such One way to constrain the routes BTW would be to have designated meeting points such as park and ride lots and drop off points such as UK Young Library After examining the hypothetical carpools vanpools and their routes a user can choose to suggest one or more of these to other users registered in the system County governments can use the system to periodically look and see if a vanpool can be formed to go from the County to a main location in the city such as going from Estill County to UK Young Library The County should be able to specify how many seats their van has what time the van can leave in the morning what time it has to be back at night etc A vanpool might stop in more than one location For example a van pool from Esti2. Credits screen RRR E y Complete High Scores 3 http dime58 dizinc com rtucker database php game_name GridIron amp score_mode 1 Microsoft Internet Explorer Ble Edit View Favorites Tools Help 9e 0 Os Vernis O Ge 4 J BER S 3 Address El http dime58 dizinc com rtucker database php game_name GridIron8score_mode 1 GridIron High Scores Player Name jip nr rat Ol ola nl wn AJ wl nd o _ _ pas N User Scenarios Instructions to play the game Use mouse to move right and left Click to shoot basketballs at opponents If you get hit by a brick you lose a life Game is over when you have zero lives or one of your opponents reaches the bottom of screen Design Considerations One of the key features that cannot be release as of 3 2 2008 is to give users the ability to use the keyboard to control the movement of the unit and firing of the basketball However due to time constraints because we wish to release before March Madness and the problems with the sensitivity of the movement of the unit we cannot include this feature with the first release The layout of the game was heavily influenced by the Herald Leader s requirement to limit the board game to only 600 pixels x 600 pixels Additionally there was spaced reserved for a sponsor s logo Implementation Testing for this product w
3. Leader Deliverables dependent on flash learning curve Product Planning Effort and size estimation e Estimated lines of code or function points per module before you started implementing the application Function Point Calculation Measurement Parameter Count Weighting Factor Total number of user inputs 4 6 24 number of user outputs 10 7 70 number of user inquires 1 6 6 number of files 25 10 250 number of ext interfaces 0 10 0 count total 350 complexity multiplier 4 function points 1400 e Actual lines of code or function points Function Point Calculation Measurement Parameter Count Weighting Factor Total number of user inputs 4 6 24 number of user outputs 20 7 140 number of user inquires 2 6 12 number of files 180 10 1800 number of ext interfaces 10 10 100 count total 2076 complexity multiplier 4 function points 8304 e Discuss what factors may have thrown your estimates off if accurate what methods you used to achieve accuracy Originally the number of files that we were incorporating into the project was much smaller Also there was also only one version of the game at the beginning and now we have two different versions of the game Since our estimates we have added several new features into the game The biggest thing that was added was a php and mySQL database to keep track of the high scores This was extremely complicated to add as flash ActionScript could not talk directly outside of th
4. a person familiar with php needs to open the file database php and make the following changes For the lines that read define DB_NAME rtucker_scores MySQL database name define DB_PASS paulppaulp Password for db connection define DB_SERVER 72 29 73 71 IP or DNS address for MySQL server define DB_USER rtucker_hoops Username for db connection define TBL_GAMES game_table define TBL_SCORES scores_table The text that reads rtucker_scores on the first line should be changed to the name of the MySQL database On the second line the text reading paulppaulp should be changed to the password of a user who has access to the database On the third line the IP address needs to be changed to the address of the server On the fourth line the text rtucker_hoops needs to be changed to a user of the database The text game table and scores table are meant to reflect tables in the database it is suggested by the team that the Herald Leader leave the names of these tables alone Instructions for linking to SWF in an HTML file lt embed src NameOfGame swf play true loop true quality best pluginspage http www macromedia com shockwave download index cgi P1_Prod_ Version ShockwaveFlash height 600 width 600 gt Note Replace NameOfGame swf with file name of game SWF The file database php needs to be copied to the same directory on the web server as the SWF file In
5. is to label all cross references in a PDF file Say you have a line in your PDF paper that reads Hayes et al 10 developed 10 is reference to your paper In some good conference paper templates 10 will be a hyperlink to the end where this paper s reference is while it is better than a non hyperlinked version it is still a distraction for reading the electronic version What want to see is a little pop up box showing the full citation in place when the mouse is over that 10 This is similar to the pop up tips for buttons in a good UI it seems that the acrobat SDK is free to download http www adobe com devnet acrobat So this project will be to study and implement this capability as a plug in using the SDK 8 Ride Matching Helping to Form Carpools and Vanpools to Stick it to the Oil Companies The software system will assist with ride sharing in a given metropolitan area and its surrounding counties There will be two main groups of users individuals looking for a carpool or vanpool and county governments trying to form vanpools to help their citizens The system will allow a user to discover what if any carpools vanpools and or potential ride sharers exist near their home and or near their place of work It will allow a user to join a carpool or vanpool as a driver or a rider or a sharing driver take turns driving It will allow a user to build hypothetical carpools or vanpools by specifying criteria such as
6. 1 Medical Claim EDI to PDF translator Stakeholder Prof Tony Baxter CorrectCare Context Medical Claims Processing High level Description Build a system to convert medical forms encoded using ANSI X12 an electronic data interchange into an industry standard paper format for humans to view and or print Details Most medical claims are generated and submitted electronically using the X12 EDI format This is great for reducing transcription errors but is very difficult to troubleshoot when things do go wrong There exist industry standard paper forms with which all claims processors are familiar The ability to translate X12 claims into PDF for these standard forms called UB 04 and HCFA 1500 would be a powerful first stage troubleshooting tool It could also be useful for presenting claim information to patients This project would involve learning about the ANSI X12 EDI standard and producing a translation system The ANSI X12 formats are described using a finite state machine which could be the basis for a lexical analyzer and parser Additional Information Description from Dr Baxter X12 Web Site UB 04 Form Example National Uniform Billing Committee HCFA 1500 Example 2 Medicaid Repricer Stakeholder Prof Tony Baxter CorrectCare Context Medical Claims Processing High level Description Build a system for adjusting medical claim costs for standard services to normal rates for the region Details It is
7. 12 3323 disagreeing on all 4 characters A collection of 9 cards that has no sets 0000 0001 0022 0100 0101 0122 0212 0220 0221 Here then is the challenge Generate the largest number of maximum set free collections using say 10 seconds of computer time I don t want to give away the maximum size of a set free collection but I have a conjecture 6 It seems today that offensive technologies found in the wild far outpace the defensive technologies we use to protect our computer systems I would like to propose a project that would capitalize on some of these shortcomings of modern anti malware technology In particular defensive technologies such as AVG Virus Scanner or any other of the same leave a large footprint on a user s system This footprint becomes a target for offensive technologies like malware Further anti virus software generally seems to be largely behind the curve in persistence and stealth technologies as well even neglecting to use techniques that are widely known I propose that we develop an anti virus software that does not leave such footprints on the system for offensive technology to attack that attempts to defend itself from attack and strive to provide more cutting edge stealth and persistence techniques to help protect our computer systems 7 l have a pet project always want to do but am not sure if it fits into the scope and difficulty level for CS499 or CS616 The idea
8. ActionScript The leaderboard was written using php with a MySQL back end database Design Overview The Herald Leader maintains a website that has a huge user base The content varies from sports to politics and even job listings In order to accommodate the newer generation users Kentucky com wants to develop a suite of flash based games that are lightweight relevant to Kentucky s events but more importantly fun Games are needed for March Madness and the Kentucky Derby With the Herald Leader located in Lexington KY home of the Kentucky Wildcats it is projected that a game revolving around the event will be successful if done properly A proposed idea is a Space Invaders remake The theme will be used to accommodate UK basketball Everything will be done in Flash for a web based interface The front end will be developed using Adobe Flash Pro CS3 while the back end will use ActionScript to control the gameplay s logistics The final result should be scalable enough to sway the images out with relative ease Environment The user s system must have the latest version of Flash installed for best results Data Flow Preloader Frame Timeline Progression Do Nothing Button Click Back Button Click Sponsor Logo Click Play Again Button Not Game Over Game Over li Credits Click Sponsor Frame Logo Do Nothing Game Over Lives 0 or rivals reach bottom of screen User Scre
9. ame updates and enhancements Keyboard play and sounds added Updated graphics and design Levels created with multiple graphical enemies March 3 2008 Design finalized March 4 2008 Midterm Presentation March 6 2008 Prototype delivery to customer March 14 2008 Final posting version delivered to customer Posted on Kentucky com March 27 2008 Customer meeting with Danny Kelly to discuss future of project Decided on leaderboard and a football version March 14 2008 Final posting version delivered to customer Posted on Kentucky com April 01 2008 Code review in class Met to work on leaderboard April 03 2008 Team meeting to work on leaderboard using flash and php April 08 2008 Team meeting to work on leaderboard using flash and php Prototype testing began April 10 2008 Team meeting to work on leaderboard using flash and php Prototype testing April 15 2008 Team meeting to work on leaderboard using flash and php Prototype testing Final presentation preparation April 17 2008 Team meeting with Professor to discuss project April 23 2008 Team meeting to work on leaderboard using flash and php Prototype testing Leaderboard code completed Football version created Final presentation preparation April 24 2008 Presentation to class on general project April 30 2008 Final product turnover Platforms tools languages This game was developed using Adobe CS3 in flash
10. as done in stages as the development process went on As the game ran we could only test for certain things as game play allowed We used various testers outside of the team such as children at E day family members friends and co works of team members to test the game in order to get a broad sampling of playing styles The team implemented no standardized testing method between users we simply tried to have as many people play the game as possible to ensure its functionality Future Enhancements Maintenance e Future Enhancement Multiple projectiles fired at once 1 Within the hit code functionality to shoot up to three shots at a time was written and tested However this functionality did not make it into the final iteration of the game Should this program be edited in the future this feature could be potentially implemented e Maintenance Sponsor logo 1 A section of the game board on all frames has been reserved for a sponsor logo to be sold by the Herald Leader A member of the Herald Leader staff must be able to open the product import the advertisement navigate through the frames and place the advertisement on the board Conclusions The primary difficulty in this project was learning to program ActionScript in an Adobe CS3 environment The movie oriented development environment is not ideal for programming however it makes up for this shortcoming by making it easy to animate objects on the screen Since no team member was fa
11. ch damages Abstract What is Kentucky com The Herald Leader maintains a website that has a huge user base The content varies from sports to politics and even job listings Now in order to accommodate the newer generation users Kentucky com wants to develop a suite of flash based games that are lightweight relevant to Kentucky s events but more importantly fun What are the games Games are needed for March Madness and the Kentucky Derby With the Herald Leader located in Lexington KY home of the Kentucky Wildcats it is estimated that a game revolving around the event will be successful if done right A proposed idea is a Space Invaders remake The theme will be used to accommodate UK basketball The software solution Everything will be done in Flash for a web based interface The front end will be developed using Adobe Flash Pro CS3 while the back end will use ActionScript to control the gameplay s logistics The final result should be scalable enough to swap the images out with ease Introduction Product Specifications 600x600 Flash vertical shooting with a basketball theme based on space invaders 600x600 Flash vertical shooting with a football theme based on space invaders Herald Leader will provide graphics for team logos Design will include a start screen a help screen a play screen and a final score credits screen High score screen php and database Game will incorporate a sponsor logo to be added by Herald
12. common for states to tie their medical reimbursements for medical claims for inmates to Medicaid accepted values Usually this is something like a percentage e g 120 or 130 of regionally accepted rates A physician or hospital the provider will submit a claim and it is repriced to the appropriate rate As a contractor to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ODRC CorrectCare performs this repricing service The current 3M software used to reprice these medical claims is geared towards hospital use and works well if used for a specific hospital It does not integrate well into CorrectCare s workflow where they provide services for a large number of different hospitals They need software that easily switches between hospitals and retains the values from previously repriced claims Merely revising the existing software is not an option as it was commercially purchased The code is proprietary and the source code is unavailable The project would involve some database design and implementation a small amount of reporting and analysis and implementation of Medicaid pricing Additional Information e Dr Baxter s Description 3 ideas for new games for the Herald leader and or revising item 4 below basketball game I still have several ideas for this project and its offspring I took CS499 in the Spring and the Herald Leader wanted a series of games to coincide with relevant calendar events They wanted a horse racin
13. e application to the php This new development that was not originally accounted for added a new layer of complexity to both games Both versions now have outside interfaces that make the game quality much higher but more complex Schedule and milestones January 24 2008 Initial team meeting and discussion of ideas January 25 2008 Team meeting to look over flash development application and to discuss game ideas January 29 2008 Initial customer meeting with Danny Kelly and full team for general ideas and parameters of project January 31 2008 Meeting with Danny Kelly to receive a flash tutorial and general overview of flash IDE February 04 2008 Team webpage is launched February 05 2008 Team CSV was setup in class February 07 2008 Received development resources from Danny Kelly to start a flash application Team met to continue learning flash IDE and begin working on design of project February 14 2008 Completed very primitive space invaders type game with primitive artwork February 15 2008 Fixed game bug Prototype now runs February 17 2008 Inserted barriers into prototype February 20 2008 Inserted Wildcat logo into game as user s ship February 21 2008 Made informal presentation on project status Known bug in collision tracking Working to track down and fix Learned how to post SWF files on the web Posted playable prototypes on web for E day and customer viewing Week of February 26 2008 G
14. elves to database encryption password schemes password recovery systems unsubscribe options etc We did not have time to go that deep I think the Herald Leader would like a more traditional basketball game Shooting a ball at a basket type of play The basket can move while the player remains stationary or vise versa Sprites can move between th shooter and the basket Any combination of these Our game levels could be interlaced with the traditional basketball game These could be bonus rounds or the new game could stand alone We also discussed a deeper bench of opponents We only have SEC teams minus Vandy I think The structure of the opponent system could be changed Currently our game uses a repeating list The list could be randomized or ven better read the UK schedule from a text file and order the season Compute the NCAA brackets Weight the teams differently Our game play only increases the speed of the opponents and drops the starting height each round What if the opponents had different strengths or projectiles we chose bricks for the pun Opponents could break out of rank and swoop down like Galaga Add 3 point shots Add shot clock Add power ups We left stubs for increased numbers of balls per shot Remember that arcade game theory wants a coin drop at least every five minutes The game cannot be too hard players give up or too easy players get bored so any advantages need an offset in difficult
15. ens Game Start Menu SCORE LIVES 3 Name of Game INSTRUCTIONS Game Instructions lt BACK Instructions Use mouse to move right and left Click to shoot basketballs at opponents If you get hit by a brick you lose a life Game is over when you have Zero lives or your opponent reaches bottom of screen Game Play SCORE 21 Alabama LIVES 1 uy ey ey i E uy ey I I I High Scores SCORE 63 Sponsor logo LIVES 0 TOP SCORES YOUR SCORE Initials Scores 888 mdc 373 t9 111 Enter Your Initials SUBMIT HIGH SCORES Game Credits GAME OVER Credits University of Kentucky Computer Science CS 499 Senior Design Project Spring 2008 Michael Conaway Jeff Merritt Viet Nguyen Jeff Phillips Robert Tucker Lexington Herald Leader and Kentucky com Artwork Chris Ware Production management Danny Kelly Complete High Scores Table AA http dime58 dizinc com rtucker database php game_name Hoops amp score_mode 1 Microsoft Internet Explorer Game Start Menu SCORE O LEVEL LIVES 3 Sponsor logo Gridiron Defenders Instructions Screen SCORE LIVES click 16 s it li ak Sen H 308 ot ki t k ta Yau tie g ite R G m Over gehen va fave IRA OF X L S v nt e boten ef BORER Game play SCORE LEVEL 3 LIVES Florida wind High score screen IG eA RG ANE vd OS srt HIGH SCORES
16. g game for Derby week a basketball game for March Madness and a golf game for the tournament event at Valhalla We quickly produced the basketball game and delivered it during Spring break This did not leave time to produce another quality game so we spent the remainder of the semester building a PHP MySQL framework for tracking high scores The high score system was built to be expandable so that follow on games could use the same architecture Looking at our game tonight on kentucky com I see they never implemented the high score system We also gave them a football game to use in the following Fall semester since it was easy to replace the background and ball The intention was to buy some time for future classes Fall semesters would then develop for Spring calendar events and Spring semesters would develop for Fall events I believe the high score system could be developed into a useful marketing tool I think players would be more likely to return to the site if their ego and vanity drives them to achieve high scores I think the high score system could also be expanded into a large list of users aka customers I think an opportunity for targeted marketing could be developed from list We considered this potential but stopped short of building a system of usernames passwords e mail addresses etc due to the concern for security and privacy With more time a group could devote thems
17. hor was a phd student did we have between Aug 2008 and May 2009 The way we do it now is painful namely to ask each faculty member for this info collect it ina wide range of formats somehow process combine information from all the sources removing duplicates etc and then computing statistics across the combined set of information A system that would help automate this process would be very helpful Note there are already conference paper submission systems online library collections etc that might be a starting point to get a student part of the way there Jim
18. ll County could drop people off in Winchester and then in Lexington as Winchester is along the route There are existing systems that possess subsets of this functionality such as UK AlertNetRide and LFUCG LexVan RideShare These systems lack a few things off the top of my head 1 they do not create routes or try to create carpools or vanpools 2 often they do not map the prospective riders or carpools they just list them 3 they are not specific as to the final destination UK is a big place need to say where on UK campus 4 some systems such as LFUCG only let you enter information about yourself and then snail mail you any matches found To my knowledge the smaller counties who really need this do not have any form of ride sharing application yet many of them have vans that sit idle 9 Statistics Generator for Academic Unit It would be great to have a web interface to a database that would allow me and all other faculty and even students to enter standard CV information edit change the information view the information and extract summary information For example if I could enter all my publications into the DB all grants all conference committees etc in a common format that can be searched and processed then Diane or the DGS or whoever could quickly come up with answers to questions like how many journal publications did the department produce in 2008 or how many conference pub where the first aut
19. miliar with this environment a good portion of time was spent on understanding the basics and navigation of this IDE in the early stages of this project Upon familiarization with Adobe CS3 the team was able to work much more efficiently towards the end goal of creating a game Looking back the team rushed into the development using a web tutorial for a guide By emulating the code in this tutorial we were able to successful implement a playable game but this left our code with poor modularity and confusing functions Once the code worked the team became much more hesitant to willingly break it to improve the flow so a good portion of our code is still poorly broken up Another possible improvement would be to include a graphic artist in the team As computer scientists the team was more focused on implementing the functionality of the game then cleaning up the looks The graphics of the game were not implemented till late in the semester since we were forced to wait on graphics from the Herald Leader Including a graphic artist in the team would provide a much quicker turn around on the look and feel of the project and allow more creative control to reside within the team References Knepper Luke How to Make Your First Game in Flash 8 Online Available http www flashkit com tutorials Games How_to_M Luke_Kne 1388 index php User s manual and installation guide Before using this program in order to ensure that the program runs correctly
20. shadings where each of n c p and s is 3 All combinations are represented exactly once numbers n 1 2 3 colors c red blue green shapes p oval diamond peanut shadings s open hatched filled For instance there is one card that has 2 green hatched peanuts 9 cards are drawn from a shuffled deck and placed face up on the table usually in a 3x3 array The first person to see a set defined below shouts Set and collects the three cards comprising the set to be replaced by three new cards from the deck If nobody sees a set fora while by mutual agreement 3 more cards are added face up on the table and another 3 if necessary and so forth There is a penalty for saying Set if there isn t one whoever claims a set must demonstrate to everyone s satisfaction that the three indicated cards do form a set The winner is whoever has collected the most sets minus penalty when nobody can discover another set even after all cards are on the table A set is a collection of 3 cards that for each character either agree for instance all three are red or all three are hatched or they disagree on that character one red one blue one green or one open one hatched one filled Example of a set 0000 0001 0002 I represent each card by 4 base three numbers These three cards agree on the first 3 characters but have all three values for the fourth character Another example 1231 1133 1332 Another 1231 21
21. the FLA file the URLs need to be replaced in the high score frame 1 occurrences and in the credits frame 3 occurrences with URL paths to database php See the comments for database php in the FLA file The sponsor link button in the FLA file should also reference the URL of the game sponsor In order to create the tables within the database the user has two options The first call to the file database php will automatically create the tables assuming the account the file is using has create privileges Another option is to use the following SQL commands CREATE TABLE game_table id INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT name CHAR 80 NOT NULL CREATE TABLE scores table id INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT game_id INT NOT NULL player CHAR 3 NOT NULL score INT NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY game id REFERENCES game table id 5 The game of Set If you are still looking for CS499 projects you might want to develop one around the game of Set which you can find at www setgame com An interactive version of the game might be fun Here is a puzzle I gave the folks at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre where I am on sabbatical The game of Set is one of the few games at which children can usually beat their parents There are 81 cards each with n figures in one of c colors all having one of p shapes all having one of s
22. y to maintain balanced game play I still have a link to my material for CS499 on my CS web page S http www cs uky edu rgtuck0 Hopefully this give you and your students some ideas 4 BASKETBALL GAME have attached the project documentation The game is still on the Herald Leaser web site at http www kentucky com hoops_ survivors Header Leader Flash Games Personnel Michael Conaway Jeff Merritt Viet Nguyen Jeff Phillips Rob Tucker CS499 001 University of Kentucky 04 30 08 Disclaimer This project has been designed and implemented as a part of the requirements for CS 499 Senior Design Project for Spring 2008 semester While the authors make every effort to deliver a high quality product we do not guarantee that our products are free from defects Our software is provided as is and you use the software at your own risk We make no warranties as to performance merchantability fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranties whether expressed or implied No oral or written communication from or information provided by the authors or the University of Kentucky shall create a warranty Under no circumstances shall the authors or the University of Kentucky be liable for direct indirect special incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use misuse or inability to use this software even if the authors or the University of Kentucky have been advised of the possibility of su
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