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Signaling attempted transfer to protected entry point bios routine
A data processing system has a microprocessor, a memory system and a plurality of system devices the operation of which is controlled by BIOS routines. The BIOS routines are accessed through protected entry points. When an application program attempts to access one of the routines by using a hard coded instruction for jumping to such entry point, a BIOS signaling routine is executed which provides a signal to an operating system allowing the operating system to control the access without being bypassed.
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This invention relates to data processing systems and, more particularly, to improvements in control programs for multitasking data processing systems in which application programs include hard coded instructions for transferring control to protected entry points in basic input/output system (BIOS) routines.BACKGROUND
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has marketed for the last several years different systems of personal computers that have evolved from single task systems into multitasking systems. Such evolution involved changes in both the hardware and software while maintaining an upwards compatibility throughout the newer systems for running old application programs. Early systems included a BIOS and a personal computer disk operating system (PC/DOS) that interacted with the application program through several software interrupt routines that relieved the application programmer from having to write or create routines common to many different application programs. BIOS was intended to provide routines for controlling operation of the major I/O devices and relieve the application programmer from concern about hardware device characteristics. The recommended manner of invoking or transferring control to the DOS or BIOS routines was to use the well known INT instruction.
BIOS was intended to be invoked by loading the microprocessor's registers with parameters and issuing an INT instruction. Some application programs developed for the IBM PC and XT systems access BIOS in an unprescribed manner. Such application programs are referred to as ill-behaved and use the microprocessor register conventions to pass parameters but use a different invocation method. First, the application programs setup the required return parameters on a stack. Second, the application programs load the microprocessor registers with parameters depending on the BIOS function requested. Then, the programs either jump or call BIOS via its physical address (commonly referred to as a "hard coded" address) in ROM memory. The BIOS memory area was expanded on the IBM AT system. It was not possible to keep the individual BIOS routines or instructions at the same starting address as in prior systems. Directly accessing BIOS by using hard coded addresses caused these applications problems when BIOS entry point addresses changed because the jump would be to an undesired sequence of instructions or into the middle of an instruction or data where the microprocessor would erroneously interpret the target locations as an instruction. To ensure transportability of applications from the early systems to the more recent IBM PS/2 systems, the old locations corresponding to the old entry points, contain hard coded jump instructions to transfer control to the new locations of the entry points. The areas in memory which have the hard coded jumps are referred to as protected entry points.
The IBM OS/2 operating system is a multitasking operating system developed for different computers including IBM PS/2 models 50-80 computers and the IBM AT system. The use of protected entry points has been found to create a problem for such operating system. The OS/2 system maintains a PC/DOS environment. This allows customers to run old PC/DOS applications under, and provides a migration path to, the OS/2 system. In order to run protect mode operations in the background and control foreground operations in the PC/DOS environment, the OS/2 system must have full control and ownership of all system resources. To accomplish such control, the operating system intercepts all BIOS requests through the interrupt vectors and thereby controls access to system resources. If an application, executing in the PC/DOS environment, directly accesses a BIOS routine via one of the protected entry points, the system may hang or act unpredictably where the BIOS routine or a device operation has already been invoked by some other application program or requestor. The BIOS routines are not reentrant because the BIOS work areas will only support a single request at any one time, and some devices cannot handle concurrent operations. Therefore, when an application program jumps directly to a BIOS routine by use of a hard coded address, such process is transparent to the operating system and sets up the potential situation of two different programs accessing the same system resource at the same time when in fact only one program can do so. Note that IBM, AT, PS/2, and OS/2 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.SUMMARY
One of the objects of the invention is to provide, in a multitasking data processing system having protected entry points into BIOS routines, another BIOS routine that will provide a signal to the operating system, that a BIOS routine is about to be invoked through a protected entry point.
Another object is to provide a signal from a BIOS routine to the operating system that a system resource, specifically a BIOS routine, is the target of an attempt by an application program to transfer control to such BIOS routine, to thereby allow the operating system to take some action to prevent problems.
Briefly, the manner in which the above objects are achieved, is to store jump instructions at protected entry points in memory, to jump to BIOS signaling routines that, in turn, issue INT instructions for a new software interrupt called a Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function, to signal the operating system that a BIOS access is being attempted. This signal indicates that an unrecommended access is about to occur and gives the operating system a chance to handle the request and control usage of the specific resource desired.DRAWINGS
Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a data processing system embodying the invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship of certain aspects of the invention; and
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of the invention.DESCRIPTION
Referring now to the drawings, FIG. 1 depicts a data processing system 8 comprising a microprocessor 10 connected over a bus system 12 to a memory system 14 and an input/output (I/O) subsystem 16, these various elements forming the hardware part of the data processing system 8. Data processing system 8 further includes a software part stored in memory system 14 and comprising an operating system (OS) 20, a BIOS 22 and at least one application program 24. The hardware part of the data processing system 8 may be any one of the aforementioned IBM PS/2 models and OS 20 is preferably the IBM OS/2 operating system. Except for the modifications to the software as described hereinafter, the hardware and software parts of system 8 are known, commercially available items so that full details thereof need not be described herein. Such modifications include the addition of BIOS signaling routines 26 and modifying protected entry points (PEP) 28 to jump to signaling routines 26 instead of to the BIOS service routines 30. As used in this application, the terms "service" and "signaling" are used to distinguish two different types of BIOS routines. A "BIOS service routine" is a known routine for interacting with the system devices, and a "BIOS signaling routine" is used to alert OS 20 to an impending hard coded access attempt as described more fully hereinafter.
As indicated previously, a multitasking operating system must control all resources in a system. If an ill-behaved application can access a resource directly without prior knowledge of the operating system, the system's integrity will be violated. This invention allows BIOS 22 to signal operating system 20 that an illegal access is about to occur and give the operating system an opportunity to handle the request. As part of the invention, a new System Service BIOS Function, Int 15 H(hexadecimal), register AH.dbd.0C5H, Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function, has been created. Each entry point or protected entry point 28 vectors microprocessor 10 to a different BIOS signaling routine 26 which invokes the Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function, to indicate to the interceptor, i.e. OS 20, that a ill-behaved BIOS access is being attempted.
The Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function is defined below. Included are the addresses of the protected entry points in the F000 segment in memory system 14. Before the Int 15H instruction can be executed, the AH and AL registers of microprocessor 10 should be loaded as follows:
______________________________________ (AH) = C5H - Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept (AL) - Entry Point Tag Offset in F000H Segment = 00H - Reserved = 01H - Boot Strap E6F2H = 02H - RS232 E739H = 03H - Keyboard E82EH = 04H - Diskette EC59H = 05H - Printer EFD2H = 06H - Video F065H = 07H - Memory Size Determine F841H = 08H - Equipment Determine F84DH = 09H - Time of Day FE6EH = 0AH thru 0FFH - Reserved ______________________________________
Upon EXIT the AH register and carry flag CY are set as follows:
______________________________________ (AH) = 86H For (AL) = 00H, 0AH thru 0FFH (CY) = 1 OR FUNCTION NOT SUPPORTED (AH) = 00H For (AL) = VALID TAG (CY) = 0 ______________________________________
Since several individual BIOS 22 routines exist on the PC and XT, a mechanism to identify which BIOS routine is being directly accessed is also provided. The mechanism consists of a tag loaded into one of the microprocessor registers by a signaling routine 26. This tag represents the individual BIOS service routine that is to be accessed. There is a separate signaling routine for each tag identified above. The signaling routine builds a parameter list on the stack before invoking the Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function. Upon entry to the Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function, the stack contains the following information:
BIOS IP Register
BIOS CS Register
BIOS Flags
Caller AX Register
Caller IP Register
Caller CS Register
Caller Flags
Caller is the application program directly accessing the protected entry point, and BIOS is the specific signaling routine at that entry point.
The operating system loads a PEP intercept function for each tag desired, at initialization. Once operating, OS 20 can elect to intercept and execute its own device routine on a per tag basis or it can let BIOS handle the request. To do the former, the operating system returns to the Caller (via the stack parameters above) as opposed to BIOS, and is responsible for normalizing the stack. No matter which BIOS function is intercepted, the operating system must adhere to the interface for that function on that particular system when returning to the caller. BIOS interface definitions can be found in the IBM Personal System/2 and Personal Computer BIOS Interface Technical Reference Manual. If the operating system chooses not to intercept the request for that service, the operating system simply returns from the specific signaling routine to the intended BIOS, preserving all registers including the flags register. BIOS Int 15h must range check the tag values and if out of range return the indicated errors. The various PEP intercept functions will obviously differ in accordance with the characteristics of the different system resources. Described hereinafter is an example of the function provided for diskette services. The description is of a hard code jump instruction, its associated specific signaling routine and the Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function. The instructions are in assembly language for the microprocessor 10.
______________________________________ BIOS Protected Entry Point Example: Hard Coded Jump NEW OLD ______________________________________ ORG 0EC59H ORG 0EC59H JMP DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 2 JMP DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 1 ______________________________________
DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 2 represents the address of the BIOS diskette signaling routine which will be jumped to upon execution of the JMP instruction, whereas DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 1 represents the address of the diskette service routine which will no longer be jumped to because of the new JMP instruction.
__________________________________________________________________________ Diskette BIOS Signaling Routine: DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 2 EQU $ PUSH AX ; SAVE ORIGINAL FUNCTION ; CALL MOV AH,0C5H ; OUTPUT SIGNAL FOR ENTRY ; POINT INTERCEPT MOV AL,DISKETTE.sub.-- TAG ; ENTRY POINT TAG FOR ; DISKETTE INT 15H ; INVOKE INTERCEPT FUNCTION POP AX ; RESTORE ORIGINAL FUNCTION ; CALL JMP DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 1 ; GO TO ORIGINAL DESTINATION Interceptor Protected Entry Point Example: CMP AH,0C5H ; ENTRY POINT INTERCEPT ; FUNCTION ? JNE NOT.sub.-- MINE ; NO CMP AL,MY.sub.-- TAG ; TAG LOOKING FOR ? JNE NOT.sub.-- MINE ; NO . ; HANDLE REQUESTED ACCESS . ADD SP,4*2 ; NORMALIZE STACK EXIT ; RETURN TO CALLER NOT.sub.-- MINE: EXIT ; RETURN TO CALLER or- PASS CONTROL TO NEXT IN INT 15H CHAIN __________________________________________________________________________
In order to carry out the invention, data processing system 8 is started in the usual manner and the various loadable programs are stored in memory. A vector table 34 is created (see FIG. 2) which holds a series of pointers at indexed locations including a pointer 38 to the start of an operating system interrupt handling (OS IH) routine 20IH for handling the new software interrupt of the invention. Pointer 38 is located at indexed location 15H. When the INT 15H instruction is executed in signaling routine 26D, microprocessor 10 accesses pointer 38, as shown schematically via line 36, to then start executing routine 20IH. This routine contains a pointer 40 to link routine 20IH with the desired BIOS service routine 30.
The various steps of the invention that occur as a result of execution of an exemplary application program 24 will now be described with reference to FIG. 3. It is assumed that the application program will attempt to access a BIOS service routine for diskette functions that is stored in the system at an address corresponding to DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 1 and the BIOS signaling routine corresponding to such function is identified as routine 26D. It should be obvious to those skilled in the art that similar routines can be used for other BIOS functions. In step 44, after the application program 24 has set up the parameters appropriate to the BIOS service being requested, a hard coded jump instruction is executed which causes a jump to a PEP 28. Then step 46 uses the jump instruction at such protected entry point to jump to BIOS signaling routine 26D which includes the instruction previously described. During the course of execution, microprocessor register AH is set to "C5H" which is the specific signal to be used to indicate that such an access is being attempted. Thereafter, the INT instruction transfers control to routine 20IH.
FIG. 3 illustrates in flow chart form the various steps and functions performed by routine 20IH. The first step 50 decides whether the OS should handle the I/0 request or not. If not, step 52 returns control to signaling routine 26D which then completes and transfers control in step 54 to the BIOS service routine at DISKETTE.sub.-- IO.sub.-- 1. Upon completion thereof, step 56 returns control to application program 24. If step 50 decides that the OS will handle the request further, then step 58 proceeds with processing the I/0 operation desired. Step 60 decides if the processing only involves synchronizing operation of the diskette such as in the event the diskette is already busy. If so, step 62 waits for completion of the synchronizing event, e.g., completion of a prior access, and then returns control to the signaling routine 26D to proceed in the manner previously described. If more than simple synchronization is needed, then step 64 will handle such function as appropriate and the step 66 returns control to the application program.
With adding the individual signaling routines, targeting the protected entry point to the signaling routines and architecting the Protected BIOS Entry Point Intercept Function, the operating system is provided an effective method of managing and owning all system resources. By intercepting the Int 15H vector, the operating system can detect any direct access attempt and handle it in an appropriate manner. It should be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes can be made in the details of the invention without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
1. In a data processing system having a microprocessor; I/O device; and a memory system for storing a plurality of BIOS routines for controlling operation of said I/O devices, a plurality of application programs including interrupt instructions and hard coded instructions for initiating transfer of control to said BIOS routines, and a multitasking operating system including a plurality of interrupt instructions in a application programs for calling said BIOS routine; said memory system having a plurality of protected entry points to which control is transferred by said hard coded instructions, the improvement comprising:
- first means in said memory system for storing a signalling routine for alerting said operating system of attempting access to said BIOS routines through said protected entry points;
- second means in said memory system means for storing at said protected entry points jump instructions operative when control is transferred thereto by said hard coded instructions to transfer control to said signalling routine;
- said operating system being operable in response to being alerted by said signalling routine to control use of an I/O device, the operation of which is controlled by one of said BIOS routines, and operable in response to said signalling routine to transfer control to said BIOS routines; and
- said application programs including information associated with said hard coded instructions to uniquely identify which specific BIOS routines are to be accessed.
Type: Grant
Filed: Jun 1, 1988
Date of Patent: Nov 5, 1991
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Inventors: Richard A. Dayan (Boca Raton, FL), Douglas R. Geisler (Boca Raton, FL), Scott G. Kinnear (Boca Raton, FL), James F. Macon, Jr. (Boynton Beach, FL), William H. Schwartz (Delray Beach, FL)
Primary Examiner: Thomas C. Lee
Assistant Examiner: Ayni Mohamed
Attorney: Anibal Jose Cortina
Application Number: 7/201,651
International Classification: G06F 900; G06F 1200;


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I have two of the Knight's Kingdom torsos, and they are the most useless pieces I have in my collection. For the past few weeks I've been tempted to crack them open, and see what's inside. Are there Technic pieces glued inside or what?
Probably some simple gearing
I've ripped two of mine open to use as armor for a moc, they are full of plastic gears and are glued together, I'll take a picture of the gears if I can.
That's super helpful, ty so much!
So note as useless after all. I could see some potential with those gears.
The only useless LEGO piece is the one you admit is useless. As long as you keep striving for creativity, you'll never find a useless piece.
The Knights Kingdom torsos are pretty useless unmodified.
I can see the gears inside being useful. Once I learn how to make my own pieces I'll copy them. They could make good pieces for leaves or for other things.
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Thank you so much! And wonderful build!
I should probably mention that the first photo has the amount of ratchet joints from about 2-3 torsos. They're tough to open too, but the torsos from the later waves are a bit easier.
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PERSIST BY DAY TO RELINQUISH AT NIGHTIlse VAN ROY and Jesse MAGEEIn the exhibition "Perist by day to relinquish by night" Ilse Van Roy and Jesse Magee investigate the border between perseverance in the known (the day) and the surrender into the boundlessness of the foreign (the night). They let their artworks communicate and balance on the fragile cord between light and dark. It is the existential no-man's land where their work is located. Attracted by the darkness of death, their oeuvre seems hopelessly looking for a glimpse of the infallible. They dig simultaneously into the earth and the sky with bare hands chasing the paradox that if everything matters then that matters nothing really matters.Their images are metaphors that approach these questions, pushing the viewer towards the point at which the equilibrium is disturbed. They seek to intensify the viewing experience, cause trouble and especially not to please. The viewer is confronted with the unprecedented and unbalanced as attractive counter-poles to a repetitive and fleeting everyday life.Ilse VAN ROY: black glass plate 10mm - photo-print - steel
Exhibition view - Muzeum L, Roeselare BE
Insitu work at National Glass Museum Leerdam (NL)
"Ilse Van Roy is not limited to one material or one art discipline. She is therefore not an artist to be pigeonholed. But sometimes she just dominantly pigeonholes herself, in order to stimulate you to look at art in a different way.
The subject of 'glass' in this work is the greenhouse itself, period. The floor with its 'white' bathroom tiles isolates this glass pigeonhole from its surroundings. The greenhouse becomes something abstract. At the same time the clean tiles 'turn into' various shades of yellow.
This way they enter into battle with the (in)comprehension of aesthetics: what is art? what is beautiful? what is pure?"
Arend-Jan Weijsters (1961), director of the National Glass Museum Leerdam (NL)


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ES Tunis - Al Ahly: how and where to watch: times, TV, online
All the information on how, where and when to watch ES Tunis and Al Ahly in the CAf African Champions League on Friday 9 November at 20:00.
Esperance Tunis - Al Ahly live: CAF Champions League final
What time does the ES Tunis - Al Ahly game start at?
The second leg of the African Champions League final between ES Tunis and Al Ahly will be played at the Stade Olympique de Radès in Tunisia on Friday November 9 2018 at 20:00 CET.
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|RSA ClearTrust 4.7.1
RSA ClearTrust Agent 2.0 (formerly 4.7.1) for BEA WebLogic
Microsoft Windows 2000
|How to install RSA ClearTrust components
InstallShield window title finishes with the part word 'setu'
Dialog box entries are truncated
Add/Remove programs lists the product as 'ClearTrus Serve'
Installation directory is recommend as 'c:\program files\cleartrus'
|A bug exists in InstallShield causing problems with reading and writing registry keys when different versions of InstallShield have been used on the same system.
When an application is installed using InstallShield, generic InstallShield code is installed into 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\engine\6\Intel 32'. In some instances, existing files in this directory may cause these symptoms when a later product is installed.
For detailed explanation, please see InstallShield Knowledgebase; search for Q106585 about InstallShield v6.3 runtime; and also http://www.installshield.com/downloads/isp/is6.31_relnotes.asp about registry key accessing.
|Later versions of ClearTrust use a version of InstallShield where the problem has been resolved. Where the symptoms occur with existing software, the workaround is to delete the existing 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\engine\6\Intel 32' directory.
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About Ashcroft
"NRA Looking to Ashcroft to Delete Gun Check Records" revealed the February 15, 2001, edition of CQ Daily Monitor. The article explained that the NRA is hoping that Ashcroft will "move on one of their top priorities: immediate destruction of the paperwork collected as a part of instant background checks on gun buyers." Despite the fact the NRA lost a lawsuit brought against the Justice Department on this very issue, they have good reason to hope that Ashcroft will grant their wish.
Federal law requires any person who wants to purchase a firearm from a federal firearm licensee to pass an instant background check before the purchase is authorized. The background checks are conducted through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) which is run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The NICS is the foundation of the enforcement mechanism that prevents felons, domestic abusers, and other prohibited persons from purchasing firearms.
The FBI has established a system with an audit log component that keeps records of each check for six months to monitor the NICS for both speed and accuracy. The NRA has advocated immediate destruction of records. According to CQ Daily Monitor, in his written answers to questions posed by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft "declined to endorse the six-month policy." Asked if he was "prepared to respect the expertise of the FBI in this matter, Ashcroft responded: 'I will fully consult with the experienced professionals of the FBI before making an assessment of the best approach to this issue.'"
As a Senator, Ashcroft supported NRA efforts to immediately destroy essential records maintained under the Brady Law's National Instant Criminal Background Check System. NICS serves as the foundation for the background check required under the law. Currently, as noted above, the NICS records are retained for six months because the FBI has determined that to be the time necessary to conduct audits of the system's accuracy and effectiveness. Implementation of a final rule establishing a 90-day period for retention of records was issued on January 22, 2001. However, the Department of Justice has twice delayed implementation of the final rule.
In response to the document retention policy, the NRA sued the Department of Justice to require the immediate destruction of the records, which would have seriously undermined the effectiveness of the background check system. That case, originally titled NRA v. Reno is now called NRA v. Ashcroft. The NRA suit was dismissed by a federal appeals court on July 11, 2000, and is currently pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. However, Ashcroft, despite being the named defendant in the case, is on record as opposing the position of the Department of Justice and siding with the NRA. On July 21, 1998, he voted for legislation offered by Senator Robert Smith (R-NH) that would have required the FBI to destroy immediately any records relating to an approved handgun transfer.
And at the NRA convention on May 19, 2001, the group's chief lobbyist, James Jay Baker, hinted that the gun lobby will soon be receiving what it wants from the Attorney General. Said Baker, "Attorney General Ashcroft has also vowed to put the 'instant' back in instant check and run the system as Congress intended so that only criminals, not honest citizens, are denied guns. A top-to-bottom review of the National Instant Check System is underway right now."


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22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2014)
June 2–3, 2014
Hyderabad, India
Desktop Layout
All Talks (alphabetic order)
Coming soon (chronological order)
A Code Obfuscation Framework using Code Clones
Aniket Kulkarni and Ravindra Metta
(Tata Consultancy Services, India)
A Diagnosis-Based Approach to Software Comprehension
Alexandre Perez and Rui Abreu
(University of Porto, Portugal)
A Formal Evaluation of DepDegree Based on Weyuker's Properties
Dirk Beyer and Peter Häring
(University of Passau, Germany)
A Semiautomated Method for Classifying Program Analysis Rules into a Quality Model
Shrinath Gupta and Himanshu Kumar Singh
(Siemens, India)
A Visualization Tool Recording Historical Data of Program Comprehension Tasks
Katsuhisa Maruyama, Takayuki Omori, and Shinpei Hayashi
(Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Amalgamating Source Code Authors, Maintainers, and Change Proneness to Triage Change Requests
Md Kamal Hossen, Huzefa Kagdi, and Denys Poshyvanyk
(Wichita State University, USA; College of William and Mary, USA)
An Approach for Evaluating and Suggesting Method Names using N-gram Models
Takayuki Suzuki, Kazunori Sakamoto, Fuyuki Ishikawa, and Shinichi Honiden
(University of Tokyo, Japan; National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
An Empirical Comparison of Static and Dynamic Type Systems on API Usage in the Presence of an IDE: Java vs. Groovy with Eclipse
Pujan Petersen, Stefan Hanenberg, and Romain Robbes
(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; University of Chile, Chile)
An Information Visualization Feature Model for Supporting the Selection of Software Visualizations
Renan Vasconcelos, Marcelo Schots, and Cláudia Werner
(COPPE, Brazil; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Automatic Documentation Generation via Source Code Summarization of Method Context
Paul W. McBurney and Collin McMillan
(University of Notre Dame, USA)
Capturing Software Traceability Links from Developers' Eye Gazes
Braden Walters, Timothy Shaffer, Bonita Sharif, and Huzefa Kagdi
(Youngstown State University, USA; Wichita State University, USA)
CODES: mining sourCe cOde Descriptions from developErs diScussions
Carmine Vassallo, Sebastiano Panichella, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Gerardo Canfora
(University of Sannio, Italy)
Comprehension Support during Knowledge Transitions: Learning from Field
Vikrant Kaulgud, Annervaz K. M., Janardan Misra, and Gary Titus
(Accenture Technology Labs, India)
Condensing Class Diagrams by Analyzing Design and Network Metrics using Optimistic Classification
Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Mohd Hafeez Osman, and Michel R. V. Chaudron
(Singapore Management University, Singapore; Leiden University, Netherlands; Chalmers, Sweden)
Cross-Language Bug Localization
Xin Xia, David Lo, Xingen Wang, Chenyi Zhang, and Xinyu Wang
(Zhejiang University, China; Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Do Architectural Design Decisions Improve the Understanding of Software Architecture? Two Controlled Experiments
Mojtaba Shahin, Peng Liang, and Zengyang Li
(Wuhan University, China; Islamic Azad University, Iran; VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Domain Matters: Bringing Further Evidence of the Relationships among Anti-patterns, Application Domains, and Quality-Related Metrics in Java Mobile Apps
Mario Linares-Vásquez, Sam Klock, Collin McMillan, Aminata Sabané, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
(College of William and Mary, USA; University of Notre Dame, USA; Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
dsOli: Data Structure Operation Location and Identification
David H. White
(University of Bamberg, Germany)
Enabling Integrated Development Environments with Natural User Interface Interactions
Denis Delimarschi, George Swartzendruber, and Huzefa Kagdi
(Wichita State University, USA)
Hey! Are You Committing Tangled Changes?
Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Yoshiki Higo, Keisuke Hotta, and Shinji Kusumoto
(Osaka University, Japan)
How Do API Changes Trigger Stack Overflow Discussions? A Study on the Android SDK
Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, and Denys Poshyvanyk
(College of William and Mary, USA; University of Sannio, Italy; University of Molise, Italy)
How the Evolution of Emerging Collaborations Relates to Code Changes: An Empirical Study
Sebastiano Panichella, Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Rocco Oliveto
(University of Sannio, Italy; University of Molise, Italy)
Identifying and Locating Interference Issues in PHP Applications: The Case of WordPress
Laleh Eshkevari, Giuliano Antoniol, James R. Cordy, and Massimiliano Di Penta
(Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; Queen's University, Canada; University of Sannio, Italy)
Improving Topic Model Source Code Summarization
Paul W. McBurney, Cheng Liu, Collin McMillan, and Tim Weninger
(University of Notre Dame, USA)
Innovating in India: Designing for Constraint, Computing for Inclusion (Keynote)
Edward Cutrell
(Microsoft Research, India)
JCSD: Visual Support for Understanding Code Control Structure
Ahmad Jbara and Dror G. Feitelson
(Netanya Academic College, Israel; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Mining Unit Tests for Code Recommendation
Mohammad Ghafari, Carlo Ghezzi, Andrea Mocci, and Giordano Tamburrelli
(Politecnico di Milano, Italy; University of Lugano, Switzerland)
On Mapping Releases to Commits in Open Source Systems
Joe F. Shobe, Md Yasser Karim, Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani, and Huzefa Kagdi
(Wichita State University, USA)
On the Effect of Code Regularity on Comprehension
Ahmad Jbara and Dror G. Feitelson
(Netanya Academic College, Israel; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Plagiarism Detection for Multithreaded Software Based on Thread-Aware Software Birthmarks
Zhenzhou Tian, Qinghua Zheng, Ting Liu, Ming Fan, Xiaodong Zhang, and Zijiang Yang
(Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Western Michigan University, USA; Xi'an University of Technology, China)
Prioritizing Maintainability Defects Based on Refactoring Recommendations
Daniela Steidl and Sebastian Eder
(CQSE, Germany; TU München, Germany)
Ranking Crowd Knowledge to Assist Software Development
Lucas B. L. de Souza, Eduardo C. Campos, and Marcelo de A. Maia
(Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)
Recommending Automated Extract Method Refactorings
Danilo Silva, Ricardo Terra, and Marco Tulio Valente
(Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; Federal University of Lavras, Brazil)
Redacting Sensitive Information in Software Artifacts
Mark Grechanik, Collin McMillan, Tathagata Dasgupta, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Malcom Gethers
(University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; University of Notre Dame, USA; College of William and Mary, USA; University of Maryland in Baltimore County, USA)
Repeatedly-Executed-Method Viewer for Efficient Visualization of Execution Paths and States in Java
Toshinori Matsumura, Takashi Ishio, Yu Kashima, and Katsuro Inoue
(Osaka University, Japan)
Revealing the Relationship between Architectural Elements and Source Code Characteristics
Vanius Zapalowski, Ingrid Nunes, and Daltro José Nunes
(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
SCQAM: A Scalable Structured Code Quality Assessment Method for Industrial Software
Shrinath Gupta, Himanshu Kumar Singh, Radhika D. Venkatasubramanyam, and Umesh Uppili
(Siemens, India)
The MoJo Family: A Story about Clustering Evaluation (Invited Talk)
Zhihua Wen and Vassilios Tzerpos
(York University, Canada)
Towards More Accurate Content Categorization of API Discussions
Bo Zhou, Xin Xia, David Lo, Cong Tian, and Xinyu Wang
(Zhejiang University, China; Singapore Management University, Singapore; Xidian University, China)
Understanding LDA in Source Code Analysis
David Binkley, Daniel Heinz, Dawn Lawrie, and Justin Overfelt
(Loyola University Maryland, USA; Booz Allen Hamilton, USA)
Understanding the Database Manipulation Behavior of Programs
Nesrine Noughi, Marco Mori, Loup Meurice, and Anthony Cleve
(University of Namur, Belgium)
Version History, Similar Report, and Structure: Putting Them Together for Improved Bug Localization
Shaowei Wang and David Lo
(Singapore Management University, Singapore)
What Is the Foundation of Evidence of Human Factors Decisions in Language Design? An Empirical Study on Programming Language Workshops
Andreas Stefik, Stefan Hanenberg, Mark McKenney, Anneliese Andrews, Srinivas Kalyan Yellanki, and Susanna Siebert
(University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA; University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, USA; University of Denver, USA; Washington University, USA)
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Webinar Presenters
Christian Whalen is a native of Fredericton and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (1987) from Carleton University; a bachelor of law degree (1989) from the University of New Brunswick; and a diplôme d'études approfondies (1993) from l'Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France. A member of the bar in Ontario and New Brunswick, Mr. Whalen worked as a lawyer in private practice and as legal counsel to the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission before joining the Office of the Ombudsman in 2005 as legal counsel. He has been responsible for systemic investigations and acted as lead investigator on several reports of the Office of Ombudsman and the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate, including Connecting the Dots, Hand-in-Hand and Staying Connected. He was also the project lead on the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate's annual State of our Children and Youth reports. He served as Acting Child and Youth Advocate for New Brunswick from April 1, 2011 to August 1, 2013. He founded and serves as secretary to the Working Group on Children's rights in the Francophonie and is founding chair of the Canadian Bar Association's National Sections Council Committee on Children's Law. In 2014 he received the Children's Rights Champion Award from the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children and in 2015 was awarded the John Tait Award for distinguished service as public sector counsel by the Canadian Bar Association.


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Centrally located in Ulsan, Hotel Hyundai Ulsan is convenient to Daewangam Park and Hyundai Motors Ulsan Factory. This 4.5-star hotel is convenient to Jangsaengpo Whale Museum.
Make yourself at home in one of the 258 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and premium TV channels provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.
Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, shopping on site, and wedding services.
Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference space and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.


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Shoppers should visit the island's towns and villages for the best deals. Psalidi, Zipari, Asfendiou, Zia and Lagoudi all offer charming, authentic and reasonably-priced traditional wares.
Visitors will find high-end fashion stores in the old part of Kos Town, as well as smaller shops selling local leather goods, jewellery and ceramics.
Eleftherias Square is a good place to buy locally made souvenirs, oil paintings and Byzantine icons. Local markets carry fresh goods and produce, such as local red cheese, or candied tomato sweets called glyko tomataki.
Kiosks are open 24 hours a day during summer and sell everything from food to cigarettes. Kardamena resort town also offers fantastic shopping opportunities.
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By Monica Paolini, Senza Fili Consulting
Often operators do not want to disclose too much about what they do. But one topic that is guaranteed to get even the most guarded operators to open up is the price of end-user devices.
In my latest report, Getting WiMAX in the Hands of the Subscriber, based on a detailed survey of 74 WiMAX operators, operators were eager to express their views on this topic. For over 80% of them, cost is a critical factor in the selection of devices, followed by technical performance, quality and time to market. (Surprisingly, in the age of the iPhone, design did not score very highly).
So what prices do WiMAX operators expect? They expect USB dongles to be about $40, which is in line with current volume-based pricing. For desktop CPEs, they are looking for a $75 price tag for an entry-level model. This is a price that many operators appear to be able to secure already, but it is well below the prices that others report, especially when using WiMAX-based products in non-certified spectrum bands. In these cases, volumes tend to be lower, so costs are likely to be higher.
Interestingly, WiMAX operators expect entry-level mobile phones to also be priced at around $75, excluding subsidies. This could be a reasonable expectation for a bare-bone phone (no cellular interface, limited functionality, small screen). In the same survey, however, operators indicate clearly their preference for powerful, feature-packed devices, with advanced data capabilities. It is not realistic to expect WiMAX to compete with GSM voice-centric services, so it makes sense for operators to show little interest for basic phones capable of only voice and texting.
WiMAX phones should support web browsers and audio and music streaming in addition to texting and email capabilities to make the service compelling to users, in developed as well as in developing markets. These requirements are going to make it difficult for device vendors to reach the target $75. Operators also overwhelmingly want devices with Wi-Fi and 2G/3G cellular interfaces. This is going to drive the price further up.
Will a higher price destroy the business case? It does not have to, especially since during the initial stages operators still focus on data-centric devices like laptops.
Furthermore, the rapidly growing market share for smartphones indicates that subscribers are increasingly willing to invest money in a powerful device. At Yota, the Russian WiMAX operator, HTC WiMAX smartphones are available for about $1,000 and the operator has sold thousands of them during the initial months of operations. This is clearly not a mass market device, but there appears to be definitely a market for it, in emerging markets as well as in developed ones.


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Everyone worries about keeping their homes as cool as possible during the summer, which makes sense. Being inside on a hot day without air conditioning is a pretty miserable time. That's not the only thing you should be concerned with during the summer, however. Indoor air quality tends to drop in homes during the summer for a number of reasons. While it may not seem like that big of a deal, low indoor air quality can have wide-ranging negative effects on both your health and comfort. Have a look below at why it's important to keep your indoor air quality high this summer, and how you can accomplish it.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday blasted the "dysfunctional" airline practices that caused 69-year-old David Dao to be brutally dragged off a United Airlines flight, igniting national furor.
In an interview on "State of the Union," Sanders condemned the "inappropriate practices on the part of the airlines," saying the United incident was part of a broader pattern of airlines mistreating customers.
"This overbooking, which caused this particular problem, is not unique," Sanders said. "I have been on airlines many, many times where people have been asked to leave."
"What we do need is to take a hard look at the airlines in this country and make them much more responsive to the consumers than they currently are."
The Vermont senator also suggested that part of the problems confronting consumers could be the result of airline consolidation.
"You can have two people on an airline, one is spending twice as much as another person," Sanders said. "So the idea of taking a hard look at airline travel and, by the way, the consolidation of ownership in the airline industry is something that I think would be a very useful effort."
Sanders was hardly the only lawmaker to slam United over last week's incident. Congressional Democrats said they were considering legislation that would prevent similar problems.
For his part, President Donald Trump also voiced displeasure with Dao's treatment.
"They should have gone up higher," Trump said, referring to United's offer to compensate passengers willing to give up their seats. "But to just randomly say, 'You're getting off the plane,' that was terrible."
Watch the clip, via CNN:
Violence towards paying customers is a crap business strategy. https://t.co/ytAAq9PmBE
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) April 11, 2017
Absurd: "UA is not liable for its…removal of any passenger….The passenger's sole and exclusive remedy shall be [a refund]." #RipOffClause
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Two aberrant forms of the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren have been reported in the literature. The first was a gyandromorph (an individual having both male and female characteristics) found by Hung (1975) and the second, an intercaste (an individual with characteristics intermediate between a worker and a female alate) by Glancey et al. (1980). We now report the finding of a new morphological form which was apparently caused by environmental factors.


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Enjoy a concert with Mount Auburn's former Composer-in-Residence Mary Bichner. Performing with the Planetary Quartet, Bichner will share her composition inspired by Bigelow Chapel's newly restored Great Rose Window. After the hour-long concert, guests are invited to tour the Chapel and Crematory and speak with staff.
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An interesting excursus into the history and projects of the Zucchetti group, including anecdotes, valorisation of human capital and new frontiers.
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In September 2019, the section entitled The Economy of the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera published an article dedicated to the Zucchetti Group. Alessandro and Mino Zucchetti talked about the company, between past, present and future, during an interview held in headquarters, in Lodi. During the interview some anecdotes and stories emerged, a founding part and testimony of Zucchetti DNA; a look at the future perspectives was not missing, along with the data on growth, impressive as regards the rate of recruitment and acquisitions.
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OK, it's finally over. My childhood movie fascination is now complete—I've seen "Episode Three." I have in many ways "grown-up" with Star Wars. I was six when the first (I mean the fourth) movie came out, and I saw all of the original three (Episodes 4, 5, and 6) in the theater when they first came out. I had all the Star Wars figures, the Death Star, the Millennium Falcon, the Land Speeder—you name it, I had it. All of my friends had them too…we were the Star Wars generation.
Incredibly though, the new trilogy of movies (Episodes 1, 2, and 3) has captured the imagination of a whole new generation. My son was more excited to see the movie than I was. He wore his Darth Vader tee shirt and sat in patient anticipation through the obligatory "coming attractions." And it was interesting to observe the reactions of people as they were walking out of the theater two and a half hours later. For the fathers and mothers, it was sort of like a sigh of relief, a moment of closure. They weren't so much energized by the movie as they were contemplating it. You could see wheels turning and brains buzzing putting all of the Star Wars pieces together. The kids on the other hand were all ablaze with what they just witnessed, they were talking about their favorite parts and "Anakin this" and "Yoda that." One movie—two very different reactions.
Being a parent and well on the "contemplative" side of the age gap, I found myself mulling over what I had just seen as we walked to the car. With my son talking a mile a minute about his favorite parts, I kept replaying a certain scene in my mind. If you've seen the movie you'll remember the scene, if not, let me try to paint the picture. Anakin (Darth Vader) and Obi-Wan are fighting. They stop fighting to discuss why they're fighting (in typical Hollywood style). After voicing his displeasure with the Jedi (the "good" side), Anakin turns his back to the audience and tells Obi-Wan, "Whoever is not with me is my enemy." Obi-Wan looks at Anakin unbelievingly and states emphatically, "Only the Sith deal in absolutes." The Sith are the Dark Side's equivalent of the Jedi. Obi-Wan is saying that Anakin is now a full-fledged "bad guy." This scene took the magic of the whole Star Wars series that has been building ever since I was six and instantly deflated it. The whole "good vs. evil" story that had been the staple of all of the Star Wars episodes was a sham. I had been had.
I realized at this point in the movie that Darth Vader wasn't the "bad guy" because he was on the bad side of the force, it was because he was so sure he was right. Obi-Wan and Yoda constantly lament Anakin's association with the Chancellor of the Senate, Palpatine (who becomes the Emperor). They begin to fear that Palpatine is a Sith. About this they are right, Palpatine is a Sith and he is slowly turning Anakin against his former mentors. The turning point for Anakin comes when a member of the Jedi council, Mace Windu, is ready to kill Palpatine because he is "too dangerous" to leave alive. Anakin tells Windu that this is not the Jedi way (which it's not), but situational ethics are the name of the game for Windu. Anakin sees the hypocrisy in this and his view of the Jedi instantly changes, and he does nothing as Palpatine (now the Emperor) proceeds to kill Windu. Anakin becomes Palpatine's disciple—and consequently, Darth Vader—on the spot.
The troubling part about all of this for me was the post-modern double standard that we are faced with in our own day and galaxy. You see, Anakin is constantly counseled in all of the first three episodes that the Dark Side of the force is bad and the Jedi are good. But we get to the real deal in Episode Three when Obi-Wan makes this revealing statement about only the Sith dealing in absolutes. What does the Jedi deal in then? Feelings, emotions, hopes? On what basis does Obi-Wan make his assessment that the Dark Side and the Emperor are "evil?" This is exactly the same dilemma that the court at the Nuremberg Trial found itself in. The Nazis argued that they acted in accord with the laws of Germany and were simply following orders, yet were on trial for crimes against humanity. The "sovereign nation" ideal had its limits. Obi-Wan wants the same thing here. It's easy enough to proclaim that the Dark Side is evil, but it's really another thing to prove it when the Jedi are also out trying to eliminate those that they deem "dangerous." It all becomes relative; the only true "bad guy" is one who "deals in absolutes."
What would Obi-Wan have said to Jesus, who said much the same thing as Anakin in Matthew 12:30, "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters." Jesus makes an emphatic statement here. He is declaring for all who read and hear that there is no middle-ground, there is no neutrality. As much as our post-modern world would like to have each viewpoint as valid as the next, they can't live this way. Obi-Wan couldn't live this way either. If Anakin's absolutist worldview was just another valid viewpoint (presumably Obi-Wan doesn't deal in absolutes), then why bother fighting him. Why not shake hands and wish him well in his future galaxy-conquesting endeavors? Why not? Because Obi-Wan is an absolutist too, he just doesn't want to admit it.
As I said, this scene revealed the whole Star Wars series for what it really was. George Lucas showed his true colors here. He was not making a grand good vs. evil epic. He was making a modern commentary, complete with double-standards and non-sequiturs. Lucas was simply toeing the line of modern politics. The only real enemy in today's world is the one who thinks in terms of black and white—the fundamentalist. Whether they are Christian, Muslim, Democrat or Republican, the only one who is wrong, is the one who thinks he's right. But we, as Christians, must remember Jesus' (and Anakin's) words. There is a war of ideas going on, and you must fall on one side or the other. Neutrality is not an option…as much as we would like it to be.


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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was caught off guard on Tuesday when her press secretary prayed for a possible extension of her term beyond 2010 as lawmakers debated on an impeachment complaint against her, reported dpa.
Arroyo and her cabinet often start their meetings with a prayer, which is led by different officials.
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This document covers some important aspects of the Z-Wave application-level standard that you may come in contact with when developing Device Handlers for Z-Wave devices. If you are already familiar with Z-Wave development, you can learn how SmartThings integrates with it in Building Z-Wave Device Handlers. You can also consult the Z-Wave public specification for more information about the Z-Wave protocol.
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Z-Wave device messages are all called "commands", even if they are just info reports or other kinds of communications. They are organized into command classes which group related functionality together. Some devices list which command classes they support in their manuals.
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- Sensors that report a numeric value, like temperature or illuminance.
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- The Alarm command class was renamed to Notification in version 3.Used by sensors and other devices to report events.
- See Configuration section below.
- Battery level reporting for battery powered devices.
- See Listening and Sleepy Devices section below.
- See Association section below.
- All devices report their Z-Wave framework and firmware version on request.
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- Commands to and from security-sensitive devices can be sent encrypted by wrapping them in SecurityMessageEncapsulation commands.
- The Multi Instance command class was renamed to Multi Channel in version 3. It is used by devices to distinguish between multiple control or reporting end points.
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Z-Wave devices that are plugged in to power are called listening devices because they keep their receiver on all the time. Listening devices act as repeaters and therefore extend the Z-Wave mesh network.
Battery powered Z-Wave devices such as sensors or remote controllers are sleepy – they turn off their receivers to save energy, so you can't send them commands at any time. Instead, they wake up at a regular interval and send a WakeUpNotification to alert other devices that they will be listening for incoming commands for the next few seconds. The WakeUpIntervalSet command is used to configure both how often the device will wake up and which controller it will send its WakeUpNotification to. When the controller gets the WakeUpNotification and has no commands to send to the device, it can send WakeUpNoMoreInformation to tell the device that it can go back to sleep.
Some battery powered devices like door locks and thermostats have to be able to receive commands at any time. These are known as beamable devices, because they wake up for only a tiny slice of time each second or quarter-second and listen for a "beam". Thus, the sending device must "beam" the receiving device for a full second to wake it up fully before sending a command. This makes communication with these devices take a significantly longer time than with a normal listening device.
A Z-Wave device can use the Configuration command class to allow the user to change its settings. Configuration parameters and their interpretation vary between device models, and are usually detailed in the device's manual or technical documentation.
The command class includes commands to read and set configuration parameter values. One thing to be careful of is that the ConfigurationSet command encodes the setting value in a 1, 2, or 4 byte format, and many devices will only properly interpret the value if it is sent in the same byte format. When sending a ConfigurationSet, make sure to set the 'size' argument to the same value as it has in an incoming ConfigurationReport from the device for the parameter number in question.
The Association command class is used to tell a Z-Wave device that it should send updates to another device. It provides the ability to add associated devices to different numbered groups that can have different meanings. This functionality is used in a few different ways, often detailed in the device's manual or technical documentation:
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- Many sensors will send BasicSet commands to associated devices, for example to turn a light on when a door opens and off when it closes.
- Some devices have multiple groups for different uses, like group 1 gets sent BasicSet commands, group 2 gets sent SensorBinaryReport events, and group 3 gets sent BatteryReport updates.
- Most door locks will send status updates to associated devices when they are locked or unlocked manually.
The SmartThings Hub automatically adds itself to association group 1 when a device that supports association joins the network.
If this is inappropriate for your Device Handler, your Device Handler can use AssociationRemove to undo it.
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The Hub's node ID is provided to Device Handler code in the variable