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ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION:
This assessment is an individual report about the design of an OOP system using Data Structures and
Algorithms. The report should follow the following structure using the actual case study that will be available
on Moodle (in assessment section) by week 8.
1. Title Page
2. Executive Summary
3. Introduction
4. Background
5. Case Study and the Design
5.1 Variables, Ranges and Keys
5.2 Operations and the Justification
5.3 Algorithms and the Justification
5.4 Modifications
6. Conclusion
7. References
CASE STUDY:
To help monitor climate change and to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts in remote areas, NSW
state government decides to deploy nearly 1000 weather stations in remote areas. These weather stations
collect data from a set of instruments that measure temperature and pressure, sunshine, rainfall, wind speed
and wind direction.Wilderness weather stations are part of a larger system, which is a weather information
system that collects data from weather stations and makes it available to other systems for processing.
The weather station includes a number of instruments that measure weather parameters such as the wind
speed and direction, the ground and air temperatures, the barometric pressure and the rainfall over a 24-
hour period. Each of these instruments is controlled by a software system that takes parameter readings
periodically and manages the data collected from the instruments.
The weather station system operates by collecting weather observations at frequent intervals –for example,
temperatures are measured every minute. However, because the bandwidth to the satellite is relatively
narrow, the weather station carries out some local processing (for example searching of critical data and
sorting of data for certain interval) and aggregation of the data. It then transmits this aggregated (min, max,
avg, sum, count) data when requested by the data collection system. If, for whatever reason, it is impossible
to make a connection, then the weather station maintains the data locally until communication can
be resumed.
Each weather station is battery-powered and must be entirely self-contained –there is no external power or
network cables available. All communications are through a relatively slow speed satellite link, slow
processing speed of device/computer, limited memory and the weather station must include some
mechanism (solar or wind power) to charge its batteries. As they are deployed in wilderness areas, they are
exposed to severe environmental conditions and may be damaged by animals. However, the system should
transmit the aggregated data without delay and provide it to central data management system of Weather
management system.
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Other third parties (SES Australia, News Agencies, Security Office) also want to get the information of
weather on the daily basis and want to create awareness of rise in temperature in ascending order and
predictive analysis of the future weather event.
TASKS TO BE COMPLETED
Given the above information:
a) Decide the appropriate variables, keys and ranges to be used in the system. Justify.
b) Identify the appropriate data structure for this problem.
b) The operations that weather station should support.
c) Algorithms for the operations that your system should support. Also, justify the choice of
algorithms.
d) Changes, if any, to be made to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the current System.
Justify.
ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION:
The assignment must be submitted online in Moodle. All materials MUST be submitted electronically in
Microsoft Word format. Other formats (e.g., pdf or MAC file) may not be readable by markers. Please be aware
that any assessments submitted in other formats will be considered LATE and will lose marks until it is presented
in MS Word. No paper based or hardcopy submission will be accepted.
MARKING GUIDE (RUBRIC):

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GENERAL NOTES FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS
Content for Assessment Task papers should incorporate a formal introduction, main points and conclusion.
Appropriate academic writing and referencing are inevitable academic skills that you must develop and
demonstrate in work being presented for assessment. The content of high-quality work presented by a student
must be fully referenced within-text citations and a Reference List at the end. Kent strongly recommends you
refer to the Academic Learning Support Workshop materials available on the Kent Learning Management System
(Moodle). For details please click the link http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/mod/folder/view.php?id=3606
and download the file titled “Harvard Referencing Workbook”. This Moodle Site is the location for Workbooks
and information that are presented to Kent Students in the ALS Workshops conducted at the beginning of each
Trimester.
Kent recommends a minimum of FIVE (5) references in work being presented for assessment. Unless otherwise
specifically instructed by your Lecturer or as detailed in the Unit Outline for the specific Assessment Task, any
paper with less than five (5) references may be deemed not meeting a satisfactory standard and possibly be failed.
Content in Assessment tasks that includes sources that are not properly referenced according to the “Harvard
Referencing Workbook” will be penalised.
Marks will be deducted for failure to adhere to the word count if this is specifically stated for the Assessment Task
in the Unit Outline. As a general rule there is an allowable discretionary variance to the word count in that it is
generally accepted that a student may go over or under by 10% than the stated length.
GENERAL NOTES FOR REFERENCING
References are assessed for their quality. Students should draw on quality academic sources, such as books,
chapters from edited books, journals etc. The textbook for the Unit of study can be used as a reference, but not
the Lecturer Notes. The Assessor will want to see evidence that a student is capable of conducting their own
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research. Also, in order to help Assessors determine a student’s understanding of the work they cite, all in-text
references (not just direct quotes) must include the specific page number(s) if shown in the original. Before
preparing your Assessment Task or own contribution, please review this ‘YouTube’ video (Avoiding Plagiarism
through Referencing) by clicking on the following link: link:
http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/mod/folder/view.php?id=3606
A search for peer-reviewed journal articles may also assist students. These type of journal articles can be located
in the online journal databases and can be accessed from the Kent Library homepage. Wikipedia, online
dictionaries and online encyclopaedias are acceptable as a starting point to gain knowledge about a topic, but
should not be over-used – these should constitute no more than 10% of your total list of references/sources.
Additional information and literature can be used where these are produced by legitimate sources, such as
government departments, research institutes such as the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC),
or international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO). Legitimate organisations and
government departments produce peer reviewed reports and articles and are therefore very useful and mostly
very current. The content of the following link explains why it is not acceptable to use non-peer reviewed websites
(Why can’t I just Google?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39mnu1Pkgw
(thank you to La Trobe University for access to this video).