Keynet supports full-text and keyword retrieval, as well as wildcard matches, and range queries. Keynet is especially well designed for retrieval of complex data structures. Xadvisor The Xadvisor system is a student information system currently in use by the Undergraduate program of the College of Computer Science. In addition to maintaining information about courses taken by students, it also performs degree audit and checklist functions. Advisors can use Xadvisor to record transfer credit, course waivers, course substitutions, and other advising memos.
Students have access to their own student records by a convenient graphic user interface.
Xadvisor is now being adapted to allow access using a Web browser. This is useful for routine file maintenance, since it identifies those places in the tree where deleting files will have the greatest impact on overall space utilization. The hotspot utility is based on research showing that file access patterns tend to follow self-similar probability distributions. TPET simulates a transaction processing system on a network of sites, each with its own TP monitor. It is designed for research and teaching of transaction processing systems and distributed systems, and it has been used successfully for teaching both COM 3560 Distributed Database Systems, COM 3316 Transaction Processing Systems and COM 1317 Transaction Processing.