MSE PROJECT

MSE PROJECT

Fengyou Jia

Department of Computing and Information Science

Kansas State University

(CIS895, Spring 2003)

Supervisory Committee

• Major Professor– Dr. Hankley, William (CIS)

• Committee Members– Dr. Deloach, Scott (CIS)– Dr. Zamfir-Bleyberg, Maria (CIS)

Academic Background

1. Ph. D., University of Kansas, Lawrence (USA), Jan. 1995--- May 1999. Entomology.

2. M. Sc., The Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing (P. R. China), Sept. 1987---Aug. 1990. Insect Ecology.

3. B. Sc., Beijing Forestry University, Beijing (P. R. China), Sept. 1980---July 1984. Forest Protection (Entomology).

4. MSE (ongoing), Kansas State University (USA), Jan 2003---2004(?)

Current Employment

Research Assistant Professor(Official title)

Department of EntomologyKansas State UniversityManhattan, KS 66506)

Research Projects

1) A developing user-oriented database for pesticides

2) Kansas pesticide usage survey and data analysis

3) Insect Pest Management (on Cockroaches)

(Ongoing)

Program of Study (1)

CIS764 A 3 Fall 2000 KSU Database design CIS798 A 3 Fall 2001 KSU Pesticide DatabaseCIS748 A 3 Spring 2002 KSU Software management CIS864 A 3 Spring 2002 KSU Data EngineeringCIS740 A 3 Fall 2002 KSU Software EngineeringCIS771 * 3 Spring 2003 KSU Software SpecificationCIS895 * 3 Spring 2003 KSU MSE ProjectCIS895 * 3 Fall 2003 KSU MSE ProjectCIS625 * 3 Spring 2004 KSU Parallel Programming

Total KSU credits 27 (expected)

(Courses taken, taking, and to be taken)

Program of Study (2)

(Transferred WORK)

Course Grade Credit Year Offer Institute Course Name

BIOL701 A 2 1996 University Of Kansas VB ProgrammingBIOL985 A 1 1997 University Of Kansas VB ApplicationBUS920 A 4 1996 University Of Kansas Probability Business ResearchBUS921 A 4 1997 University Of Kansas Statistics for Business Research

(Courses taken, taking, and to be taken)

Program of Study (3)

I intend to integrate my MSE Project with my current research program, a user-

oriented database for pesticides.

I am planning to submit a research proposal to EPA for funding (RAMP)

Second and third Presentation: (Scheduled at next semester).

(CIS895 MSE Project)

A developing user-oriented database for pesticides

(CIS895, MSE Project---Phase 1)

Problem Statement

Pesticides were created to control pests and improve human living quality. Pesticide selection and application are based on following two considerations:

Pests

Cost

Problem Statement

One problem solved

Many new problems created

Hazardous potential to eco-system

I. Kill non-target organisms (natural enemy)

Hazardous potential to the environment

I. Water pollution

II. Soil pollution

III. Pesticide residues in food

Sources: http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/committees/WPPR/discdoc.pdf

Example: pesticide residues in food

1: Additive effect of pesticide residue? 2: Interaction between these residues? 3: some cancer-related; 4: some birth defect-related.

Problem Statement

Existing pesticide databases:

Pest-oriented

Product-oriented

Administration-oriented

User-oriented?

Problem Statement

A new pesticide database with following features:

User-oriented

Be able retrieve safety information

Allow applicators to find the most safe pesticide product in pest control

program

Purpose

Provide an easy tool for users

Storage and retrieval data

Accessible to public

Ultimately, reduce and minimizing the usage of certain hazardous pesticides via using this database

Proposed project overview

• Basic version– Pesticide ingredients– Pests

• Enhance version (upon funding)– Pesticide ingredients– Pests (album, assisting to identify the pest)– Pesticide products– Users

Fig. 1 ER Diagram for pesticide database (Basic Version)

Ingredients

Pests

Environmental fate

Ecotoxicity

Mamtoxicity

Pest_no

Pest_name

Pest_group

Pest_album

Pest_description

EPA_no

EPA_no

DT50

FISH

EPA_noIngredient_name

Pesticide_no

Ingredient_proportion

Model_action

WHO

EPA

BEE

EPA_no

BIRD

EPA_no

Have

Control

Have

Have

Soil Half_lifeFD50

Field dissipation Half_life

1

1

1

11

1

n

n

Restrict

C/BD

multiple-valued attributes.

PLP

PesticidesUsers

Fig. 2 ER Diagram for pesticide database (Enhanced version)

Purchase Contain

Product_no

Target_pest

Manufacture

PriceFormulation

Register_noRegister_state

EPA_no

User_name

User_no

User_address

1 nn1

multiple-valued attributes.

Pest

Fig. 2 (cont.)

Ingredients

Pests

Environmental fate

Ecotoxicity

Mamtoxicity

Pest_no

Pest_name

Pest_group

Pest_album

Pest_description

EPA_no

EPA_no

DT50

FISH

EPA_noIngredient_name

Pesticide_no

Ingredient_proportion

Model_action

WHO

EPA

BEE

EPA_no

BIRD

EPA_no

Have

Control

Have

Have

Containn

1

Soil Half_lifeFD50

Field dissipation Half_life

1

1

1

11

1

n

n

Restrict

C/BD

multiple-valued attributes.

PLP

Solution

PC based application

Microsoft windows

Graphical user Interface (FrontPage)

User Configuration

Designed for over 3000 pesticide ingredients and more than 1000 pest images

Who use it?

Farmers/Ranches

Professional pesticide applicators

University and extension agencies

Environmental protection agencies

Related government agencies

Information Tracking and Record

User information?https://www.oznet.ksu.edu/pesticidedatabase/user.asp

Pesticide safety informationhttps://www.oznet.ksu.edu/pesticidedatabase/interface.asp

Information Tracking and Record

User information

Name First Last Profession

AddressStreet City State Zip code

CommunicationPhone Email Fax

Pest to be controlled Applied Sites Comments

Information Tracking and Record

Pesticide (product) information (*)

PestPest to be controlled Pest description Pest album

MamtoxicityEPA WHO Cancer/Birth defects related

Ecotoxicity BIRD FISH HONEY BEES

Environmental fatesDissipation half-life (DF50) Soil half-life (DT50) Leaching Potential (LP)

Pesticide productsActive Formulation

Registration States Registration Number Restricted federal Restricted State

Cost

* The information is subjected to change

Benefits (intangible)

• Data information easily to accessible for publics (final deliverable product only)

• Reducing or minimizing negative influence of pesticides

• Protecting the environment (underground waters and ecosystems)

My responsibility(in the proposed project)

• Data collections

• Date transformations– PLP (High, Mid, Low)– TD50 (High, Mid, Low)

• Database designs

Project Cost?

The SW cost estimation is not applicable to my MSE Project due to following reasons. 1) The critical parts of this project are data collections and data transformations (including categorization), which may take approximately one year for 2 persons to complete the tasks. The reviewing process alone for data transformations may take to 4-6 months, ensuring that general publics understand the interfaces and all terminologies used. 2) Several automate tools will be used for the proposed program. One tool we will use in interface design is Microsoft FrontPage (2000), which can automatically generate desired user interfaces. Another tool we will use is Oracle9i, which is hugely different from the previous Oracle versions (e. g., Oracle8i). Oracle9i provide the user interfaces for database designs, database constraint implementations, data populations, and data manipulations (insert, modify, delete, update, etc.).

1.Based upon project plan

1.Person-hour: 1108 hours,

2.Cost: $110,800

2.Based upon COCOMO (4600 = LC)

1.Person-hours: 1350 hours

2.Cost: $135,000

Who own the database

• Kansas State university– Database manipulation– Data retrieval and data analysis

What can it do for them?

• Data Retrieval

• Report Generation

• Data Analysis

When is it going to be done?• ? (whole project for five years)• As my part:

– Mail Documentation for Presentation 1 4/1/2003– Presentation 1 4/4/2003– Documentation Signed off from Presentation1 4/4/2003– Mail Documentation for Presentation 2 8/1/2003– Presentation 2

8/22/2003– Documentation Signed off from Presentation2

8/22/2003– Mail Documentation for Presentation 3 9/1/2003– Presentation 3

9/26/2003– Documentation Signed off from Presentation3

9/26/2003

Questions & suggestions?