Assessment of Interfaith Harmony Between Muslims and Hindus in Socio-Cultural Activities in Swat

This research work investigated the interfaith harmony and social cohesion between two different religious followers of Hinduism and Islam in District Swat of Pakistan. The current world is facing various kinds of issues and challenges regarding interfaith harmony, peace and social cohesion. This is need of the time to establish a peaceful and harmonised day to day life standard for all the segments of society. This research was an effort to analyse the willingness among the Hindus and Muslims for enhancing their tolerance towards each other’s social and cultural activities. It also aimed to highlight the positive approach of the respondents towards the participation in the socio-cultural activities of each other. The results of association of social cohesion showed nonsignificant relationship with an opinion that Hindu and Muslim communities should take part in socio-cultural activities particularly the sports. Similarly, non-significant relationship was found based respondents’ data with an opinion that relations between Hindus and Muslims shall enhanced through participation in cultural and religious ceremonies. The result further concluded that there was peaceful and harmonised environment between Hindus and Muslims being living in the target area. The minorities were fully enjoying freedom and equality in District Swat. Based on the findings of the study, positive social interaction, mutual respect, positivity in thinking and positive role of local media have been recommended as policy guidelines for promoting inter-faith harmony.

A Hybrid Approach for the Representation and Visualization of Composition in Recognized Design Patterns

Design patterns are standard design solutions that can be applied and composed in different applications where pattern related information is generally implicit in the UML diagrams of the applications. Applications of design patterns improve the quality and development productivity of software applications. Most software designs are based on different design patterns which are composed with each other. Therefore visualization of overlapping in recognized design patterns play an important role for the program comprehension. Different representations of design patterns have been proposed but each representation has its strengths and limitations. State of the art design pattern visualization approaches are unable to capture all the aspects of design patterns visualization which is important for the comprehension of any software application e.g. the role that a class, attribute and operation plays in a design pattern. Additionally, there exist multiple instances of a design pattern and different kinds of overlapping in design of different systems. Visualization of overlapping and composition in design patterns is undermining area. This research work is intended to analyze the characteristics, strengths and limitations of key design pattern representations used for visualization and based on the critical analysis of state of the art design pattern visualization approaches propose a hybrid approach which incorporates best features of existing approaches while suppressing their limitations. Our proposed hybrid notation is used to represent design pattern information related to class and to visualize different kinds of overlapping. Stereotypes, their associated tagged values, semantics and constraints are defined to represent the design pattern information related to attributes and/or operations of a class. We developed a prototyping tool named VisCDP to validate the concept of our approach.VisCDP is used to visualize design patterns information related to classes, operations and/or attributes in the composition of Recognized Design patterns. It provides static as well as on demand (dynamic) visualization in any UML class diagram. A real world case study is used to evaluate our approach and to compare the results with the other approaches.