Project Ideas & Guidelines
CS 446/646 & ECE 452 (Spring 2010) – Software Design and Architecture

Guidelines

• Large/Complicated projects should be

  • designed upfront

  • implemented in iterations

    • iteration 1 will qualify for the implementation component as long as an iteration plan is provided

• You don't have to build something from scratch

  • Find an existing product and design and implement a new feature

• Common concerns

  • Usability

  • Functionality

  • Scalability

  • Security & privacy

  • Evolution

  • Deployment

  • Development

  • Project planning

  • Time & cost estimation

Project Ideas

Enterprise applications

• Policy based enterprise security framework adaptable to various layers (presentation, web-services, business, persistence etc).

  • Discover the security requirements of each tier

  • Policy based

    • Different policies can be applied at runtime to get different levels of security

  • Should handle the security concerns

    • Authentication

    • Authorization

    • Management

Cloud Computing Application

• Cloud computing based service,

• Key attributes

  • Scalability

  • Cost

  • Evolution

Digital Content Archival System

• How to archive for long term

• Pictures and home movies

  • How to index information

• Electronic Receipts

  • Paper based receipts to be replaced by digital receipts

  • Digital content archival service

GWT Application

• Take an existing synchronous web application and convert it into a GWT asynchronous application

Writing plugins

• Create a plugin for Mozilla platform (Firefox/ Thunderbird)

• Create a plugin for Eclipse platform

Cross platform application

• Create a user application that can be run on different platforms

• Do not use languages with cross-platform VMs

• You will have to investigate you own strategy for this

Communication Protocol

• Create your own communication protocol on top of TCP, UDP

Mobile Application

• Blackberry / iPhone / Google Android application

Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Projects

• Amazon has agreed to provide credits to allow CS446/646 ECE452 students free use of Amazon Web Services for their course projects.

• In order to take advantage of this, you must create an AWS account. This requires a credit card (yours), and it requires you to provide some information about yourself, e.g., an e-mail address, to Amazon.

• Once you have created an account, you may contact me for a special code, which you will be able to use to apply $100 of free credit to your AWS account, for project-related use.

• You will be responsible for monitoring your AWS usage so that you do not exceed your credit. If you do, your credit card will be charged.

• If you need more credit that this to complete your project, I may be able to provide it. However, you will need to clear that with me in advance.

Last updated on May 4^th, 2010 Atif Khan