Emily owns this blog which is supposedly Maxinne's.
This blog is also supposedly for schoolwork. Well you know what. That is a load of sheep poo because, yeah, no.
Sorry Sir. (:

Requirement Report: Describes what a product will be like when it's completed. Provides information about the need met by the product, its capabilities, its operating environment, user experiences, and properties.

Source of information is 'E-how': SOURCE

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Emily and I (we still need the product's name -.-;;) are creating a website that will be filled with information about different multimedia and multimedia systems. We shall be exploring the positives and negatives for them in hopes that we will be able to educate individuals in the subject matter - thereby accomplishing the problem definition of creating something that would display information about multimedia, and multimedia systems (website, powerpoint presentation with hyperlinks, a wiki, etc.)

The website itself will have various pages dedicated to either a significant multimedia type, or the system themselves. We will be having a home page that will link to each page, and those pages to each other - thereby creating pretty much one big circle which would allow easy use and accessibility to whatever information is being searched for.

Operating system would be online within the school network, only to be accessed by those give permission, such as Mr Cavil and ourselves.

Users/participants should be able to navigate easily around the website, and if any problems would arise they would have to contact Emily or myself about it (we would probably provide mock email addresses or something like that).

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COAST PD - COLLECTING, ORGANISING, ANALYSING, SHARING AND TRANSMITTING, PROCESSING, DISPLAYING

The site (as well as the actual creating of the site) will be doing:

• Collecting: Data about multimedia and multimedia systems, the type of website that would attract users (design, level of language, etc.)
• Organising: Information would be organised into separate web pages, thereby grouping all information into categories which enables easier use and access for everyone (as well as making work load some what more but easier for us?)
• Analysisng: Deciding which information would be best used for the website, ensuring for understandability for everyone, as this project is directed towards high school students upwards
• Sharing and Transmitting: Sharing of information to those who access the website. Sharing would also happen between the developers (i.e. Emily and myself) in regard to various aspects of the website
• Displaying: Done through a monitor + and the website itself.

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o.o; that felt like a repeat of the feasbility report, only with a few random changes/edits.

Oh well, ANOTHER THEORY PART FINISHED!

All that is left, I think is the data flow diagram.

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Feasibility Report: Formal document for management use, briefly enough and sufficently non technical to be understandable by high level management. There is no standard or formal format for the preparation.

Primary objectives are as followed:

1. What the proposed system will achieve
2. Who will be involved in operating the system
3. Benefits of the system
4. Estimated cost

Information source = "Blurt it" : SOURCE

• Easy access to information surrounding multimedia - which means time saving for everyone
• Free access to those who are able to access it (as it won't technically be on the world wide web)
• Understandable for everyone, therefore users from all background/education levels would be able to understand what is being said.

As the website is a school assignment there would be no economic cost to it's creation, in fact there should be not cost whatsoever in terms of money, time wise however is another thing.

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Whaddya know...MORE THEORY WORK!!!

The server is still crashed...

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Yes, yes MORE theory work....which is only getting done due to the server crashing on us *shakes fist* :)

Storyboard time.



:) we'll provide mini previews of pages...at a later date :D

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o.o;; what other theory work needs to be done Emily??

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Here's our lovely Gantt Chart (that word looks wrong...I wish we had spelll check..)

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Problem Definition:

To create something(i.e a website/powerpoint with hyperlinks/wiki) that displays information about multimedia (video, audio, text, images) and the platforms that are needed to use multimedia (hardware and software).

Constraints:

• Finance - what finance? We're supposed to create an easily accessible, FREE fountain of information about multimedia. And we're supposed to do this without spending a cent :) we're magical like that.
• Time - To do it within the time we are allocated (two months [in class mixed with everything else]..???), finish everything by the time the assignment is due in July.
• Social - make sure we don't use anything that is copyrighted OR at least reference sources of information
• Ethical - Don't put anything M-rated OR not allowed on the internet (or at least a school related website...). In brief otherwords, anything that Mr Neaves approves of :)

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Practice HSC Qns.

Q26.
a) i) GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS. It integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
ii) GPS systems. They use information that is collected from street maps and traffic systems to determine possible routes to a selected destination. These determined routes can help the user select a specific route based on a pre-determined criteria set by the user.

b) EXPERT SYSTEM. A computerised advisory program that attempts to imitate the reasoning of experts.

(Two things that help the development of an expert system.)
+ Knowledge Base (Human experts): They are needed to input their knowledge, which will be used for the purpose of aiding people in making informed decisions.
+ Knowledge engineer: Codes the knowledge of human experts in the rules and data of the knowledge base.

c) i) NEURAL NETWORK. A computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons.


Practice HSC

Q26.
a) i) DATA MINING. It is the process of shifting through and analysing enormous quantities of data to discover hidden patterns.

EXAMPLE. Large retail stores use it to search raw data from all their point of sales terminals in their various stores locations.

HOW IT RELATES TO DSS. They use it to discover patterns and changes in customer purchases, product references, and spending habits.

ii) KNOWLEDGE ENGINEER. Codes the knowledge of human experts in the rules and data of the knowledge base.

EXPERT SYSTEMS. They do not replace human experts, but make their knowledge and experience more available. Thus, increasing productivity of the human expert, and organisation

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DSS notes

Decision Support System (DSS): Information system designed to assist in decision making.

Drilled-down analysis: Process of obtaining more details about a solution provided a DSS.

Optimisation: Approach to decision support that involves finding the best solution.

Satisficing: An approach to decision support that involves finding a good but not necessarily the best solution to a problem.

Heuristics: Commonly accepted guidelines or procedures that will usually find a good solution.

2) Pertaining to the use of the general knowledge gained by experience, sometimes expressed as "using a rule-of-thumb." (However, heuristic knowledge can be applied to complex as well as simple everyday problems. Human chess players use a heuristic approach. (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212246,00.html#)
‘What-if’ simulation: The process of making changes to data in order to observe the results.
Goal seeking analysis: The process of finding the initial data needed to produce a set result.