Development of the Searching Module in MY Lost and Found Website

Major problems when people lost their belongings or when someone accidentally
found others' belongings are the difficulty in returning them back to the right owner
and also the lengthy police report procedures they have to follow. This report
presents the development ofMYLost and Found website. It is a region-based online
service made for Malaysian to easily search for items they lost and also to advertise
itemsthat peoplefound. The suitablealgorithmis studied as to capture and matchthe
lost and found data. To fulfil the objectives ofthe project, System Development Life
Cycle will be implemented throughout this project. The methodology selected is
prototyping-based where the analysis, design and implementation phases are
performed repeatedly and the prototype also evolved concurrently from cycle to
cycle until the system is completed. As a result, the website application is developed
which demonstrates the simple and user-friendly Graphical User Interface for
capturing lost and found item's description and the searching and posting modulehas
been integrated together to solve the matching problem.
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