As shown in figure 1, the user can open an online application and send a project request the intelligent integration engine. Such engine will send the request for each dataset to data server which is defined in the project document, retrieve these data and deliver them back to user. This engine also builds the rules of connectivity which are defined in the project document and sends it back to user. The network building and network analysis tool are resident in the application which allows the user to build network topology and carry out network analysis on-the-fly.
4. Research methodology
The software system designed involves many various protocols, technologies and developments that make it happen. Several parts that make up the system were implemented and developed which are discussed below.
4.1 Project document
The project document is the configuration document that notifies the system which datasets are required for an application and how features are connected. The project is documented using XML. . The information about a dataset used in an application includes the type of protocol, the name of feature, the type of data and the address of datasets. The following shows the sample of how project datasets are coded.
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To define the rules of feature connectivity, we adopt the concept of the network family (
