CENTRE FOR OPEN SOFTWARE

The aim of the open software centre at IIIT is to provide affordable solutions. It offers linux oriented training to students and encourages them to get involved into open software projects. It servers as a common portal for coordinating resources to undertake consultancy and turnkey projects.

Projects done under centre for open software

1. Cost Effective ERP Solutions
The main aim of the project is to build a cost effect ERP solution.The project started as a part of the Free Software Group activities at IIIT.The aim is to provide enterprise solutions to the industries like Sugar,Textile etc., At present, the team is working on the development of the Supply chain Management and Logistics module that would suit the India context.To gain an insight into the working of an enterprise, we have built an Information Management System for Nizam Sugars Limited, a government of AP enterprise.We are also trying to build the framework for the modules of the solution that we are going to provide in the long run.

2. MicroMining: A toolkit for mining DNA Microarrays
The aim of the project is to provide software that will analyze the microarray data by applying data mining techniques. For this, various clustering algorithms - partitioning, agglomerative, and affinity-based algorithms are implemented. The source code is available for non-commercial purposes. Though there are many such toolkits, they are not free for distribution. Our toolkit is available for free distribution for non-commercial and educational purposes.

3. VISDOM: 'View and Index Selector for Data warehOusing Management'
VISDOM is a data warehousing toolkit, which enables the database administrators in the corporate sector, manage the large data warehousing environments. Based on the meta-data of the schema, the set of frequently asked queries, and the cost of maintaining a view (a view is a temporary result of a query) or index (index is like a look-up table for fast access of data records), VISDOM selects a near-optimal set of views and indices to reduce the query response time, and view maintenance cost. For selecting the near-optimal set of views, three algorithms have been implemented. The prototype has been developed in C++, with the Graphical User Interface being enhanced by the MFC graphic libraries. A Linux version using GTK is under development.