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Wheat Truck Control System (WTC) A new computerized system is to be developed for the storage and handling of accounts for wheat farmers and truck deliveries to Mahsroh Wheat Board silos. Detailed below are the major objects to be considered in the system: silos, ships, trucks and farmers. This system could be quite complicated. However, to simplify the system for this assignment we will be content to include the following in our proposed system:
Silos
The Board currently has ten (10) wheat silos around the country but the system must be written to seamlessly handle at least twice that number. Each silo has a unique name and storage capacity (in tonnes) that must be stored in the proposed system. In addition the system must maintain the current amount of wheat stored in the silo. Obviously when the silo is full no further deliveries of wheat can be made to that silo before some is offloaded onto a ship for export overseas. Similarly a silo cannot off-load more wheat onto a ship than is currently stored. We will assume that when off-loading to a ship, no trucks can unload due to operational and safety considerations. Only one ship can be handled at a time at each silo. We will assume that only one truck can unload into a particular silo at any one time. Therefore during busy times each silo also maintains a queue of trucks waiting to unload. Trucks should only be entered into the waiting queue when there is sufficient room for the wheat that the truck holds, i.e. you need to know that the current storage plus all the loads currently in the queue will not exceed the silos capacity.
Ships
The system will keep a record of all ships that have been registered to transport wheat overseas for the Wheat Board. The ships name, nationality and capacity (in tonnes) will be stored. The ship's captain can specify the amount of wheat to be off-loaded into the ship as long as it is less than the ships capacity and also the silos CRICOS Provider No. 00103D ITECH7410 Software Methodologies - Assignment 2 Page 2 of 4 current amount in storage. The system will keep a record of the amount of wheat off-loaded to the ship and adjust the current storage appropriately.
Trucks
As each loaded truck arrives at the silo, it is weighed to ascertain the amount of wheat in the truck. The system maintains a list of registered trucks and their empty weight (in tonnes). Therefore, a single weighing is sufficient to determine the wheat load. If there is sufficient room in the silo then the wheat is off-loaded into the silo and a record is kept of the amount off-loaded against both the truck registration number and the farmer providing the wheat.
Date and Time
Normally we would maintain the date and time of each operation (truck delivery or ship off-loading) however to simplify this assignment we will ignore those aspects. Instead, we will keep a sequential count of each operation for each silo. Therefore, we will have a history of the order of truck unloading and ship off-loading operations that take place for each silo. The system would be able to say for example, that silo HORSHAM_1, operation number 999 involved 25 tonne of wheat delivered by the truck registered TONKA owned by Jack Black from farmer Bob Smith. Then operation 1000 was an off-loading operation of 125,000 tonnes to the ship "Southern Aurora". There is also a need to keep track of the operation order between silos, therefore we will keep a global sequential count of the operations at silos as well. See the following table for an example:
Global No |
Silo |
count |
Operation |
Vechicle Name |
Tonnes |
Farmer |
... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
12336 |
|
999 |
Load |
TONKA |
25 |
Smith, Bob |
12337 |
MELBOURNE |
555 |
Load |
DUPLO |
20 |
Jones, Mark |
12338 |
HORSHAM_1 |
1000 |
Off-Load |
Southern Aurora |
125,000 |
|
12339 |
MELBOURNE |
556 |
Load |
LEGGO |
50 |
Simons, Jill |
12340 |
HORSHAM _1 |
1001 |
Load |
TONKA |
25 |
Jones, Mark |
Farmers
The system will maintain a record of each farmer supplying wheat to the silo. Details to be kept include the farmer's name, address and phone number.
Z Schema Operations
You are to create a Z schema that adequately describes the WTC system. It should include at least one state space and the following operations:
- An initialization operation called Init.
- An operation Enter new_silo that an operator uses to enter the details of a new silo into the system. Assume the new silo is currently empty.
- An operation Accept delivery that an operator uses to signal the system to begin off-loading x tonne of wheat from a truck. Note that the system must do a check to see if that storage capacity is available in the silo, if not then an error message must be output and no truck unloading done. Additional information needed by this routine is the truck registration and the farmer's name. If successful this operation stores all necessary details into the system for that delivery. If a truck is already unloading then this new truck will be placed in a queue waiting for its turn to unload.
- An operation Leave_quene. This operation is run by the system operator each time there is a queue for a silo and the driver of a specified truck decides that the anticipated waiting time is too long and leaves the queue. The operation outputs to the operator the list of trucks in the queue alter the specified truck is removed or if none in the queue a reasonable error message.
- An operation Silo account that outputs the total amount of wheat in tonnes delivered to a particular silo by ALL farmers in a specified time period (note that means between two global operations numbers in our simplified system). In other words between global operations 10000 and 10500 for example.
- An operation Ships_total_account that outputs the total amount of wheat that a particular ship has taken from ALL silos in the total history of the system.
- An operation Farmers_account that outputs the total amount of wheat delivered to ALL silos in between two specified global operation numbers (e.g. 10000 and 10500).
You should provide robust versions of each operation that are capable of handling any possible error conditions. For example, if the ship or truck is not correctly registered in the system an appropriate error message must be given.
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