User Interface Improvement for MLPQ System

Authors

Shasha Wu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

First Advisor

Peter Z. Revesz

Date of this Version

4-2003

Document Type

Thesis

Comments

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate College at the University of Nebraska in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science

Major: Computer Science

Under the supervision of Professor Peter Z. Revesz. Lincoln, Nebraska, April 2003

Copyright 2003 Shasha Wu

Abstract

This thesis describes the experience of migrating the MLPQ constraint database system, a complex standalone Multiple Document Interface (MDI) application, to a server-based remote accessible application. Centralized, standalone MDI application is a common style for personal software products in Windows. For a database management system, server-based, thin-client computing is a more popular infrastructure. Migrating an existing standalone constraint database application to be a web accessible constraint database server is the main goal of this thesis. This migration process provides a method for the constraint database system to collaborate with other specific applications. We rebuild the desktop MLPQ constraint database system to be a web constraint database server. The analysis method, design model and sample codes in this thesis can be considered as a successful development sample for other development of migrating a desktop MDI system to a remote accessible web service application. We also design and implement a function that finds the complement of a 2-D geometric constraint relation.

Advisor: Peter Z. Revesz