Editing Final Report 2011 (section)

===Role Allocation===
During the planning phase of the project, a workload allocation plan was specified, recognising that while some areas could be worked on equally, there were distinct advantages in individual team members focusing on specialty areas. A graphical illustration of allocations is shown in the figure below, with reasoning provided underneath.

<center>[[Image:Work Allocation.png|Contribution of each member towards project]]</center>
<center>'''Figure 18 - Team work allocation proportions'''</center>

The review and research of previous work was split equally since each project member needed to have a good understanding of the entire project and its status. The workload in the Cipher Analysis section (including the CipherGUI) was also equally shared. This was due to the compartmentalised nature of the cipher investigation; individual ciphers were all separate investigations so there was no major advantage in specialising.

Recognising the complexity and distinct segments of the web crawler application, the development of the pattern matching and web crawler modules were assigned to Patrick and Steven respectively. The reasoning behind this was Patrick’s previous experience in active file-searching, whilst Steven’s overall greater exposure to University Computer Science courses was expected to give an advantage in the challenges encountered in developing the web crawling module. System integration between these modules was split equally.
Steven’s GUI design experience was the motive behind being assigned the development of the Web Crawler System GUI, while the pattern matching experience made it logical for Patrick to take responsibility for the structural and statistical analysis of the Rubaiyat which involved writing statistic gathering software. Project management and documentation were both shared. Overall contribution to the project is estimated at 50% each as can be derived from the graph in Figure 16.