| Betreff: | [AISWorld] International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) | contents of the latest issue |
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| Datum: | Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:56:00 +0100 |
| Von: | Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha <mcunha@ipca.pt> |
| Antwort an: | mcunha@ipca.pt |
| Organisation: | Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave |
| An: | <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org>, <irma-l@irma-international.org> |
International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP)
Official Publication
of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 4, Issue 1,
January - March 2012
Published: Quarterly
in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1938-0194
EISSN: 1938-0208
Published by IGI
Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
Editors-in-Chief:
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Insitute of Cavado and
Ave, Portugal) and João Varajão (University of
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
EDITORIAL PREFACE
Maria
Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave,
Portugal
João
Varajão, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
PAPER ONE
The
Perceived Potential of Business Social Networking Sites
Maria Manuela Cruz
Cunha (Polytecnic Institute of Cávado and Ave & CITEPE
Research Centre, Portugal), João Varajão (University of
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro & ALGORITMI Research Centre,
Portugal), Patrícia Gonçalves (Polytecnic Institute of
Cávado and Ave & CITEPE Research Centre, Portugal),
Cecília Alvarenga (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave,
Portugal), Aida Martins (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and
Ave, Portugal), and Maria Teresa Martins (Polytechnic
Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal)
Business social networking is a facilitator of
several business activities, such as market studies,
communication with clients, and identification of business
partners. This paper traduces the results of a study
undertaken with the purpose of getting to know how the
potential of networking is perceived in the promotion of
business by participants of the LinkedIn network, and
presents two main contributions: (1) to disseminate within
the business community which is the relevance given to
social networking; and (2) which are the social networks
best suitable to the promotion of business, to support the
definition of strategies and approaches accordingly. The
results confirm that LinkedIn is the most suitable network
to answer the needs of those that look for professional
contacts and for the promotion of business, while innovation
is the most recognized factor in the promotion of business
through social networking. This study contributes to a
better understanding of the potential of different business
social networking sites, to support organizations and
professionals to align their strategies with the perceived
potential of each network.
To obtain a copy of
the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/perceived-potential-business-social-networking/72132
To read a PDF sample
of this article, please visit
PAPER TWO
A Conceptual Model
of SOA-Enabled Business Process and its Empirical Study
Serdal Bayram
(Siemens Turkey, Turkey), Özalp Vayvay (Marmara University
Göztepe Campus, Turkey), and Süleyman Serdar Yörük (Marmara
University Göztepe Campus, Turkey)
In today’s strong competitive environment,
business processes that answer customer needs are required
to be flexible and agile so as not to miss business
opportunities and to adopt new market requirements and new
trends easily so business activity monitoring is becoming
more crucial for enterprises. Although obstacles of the mass
of hybrid and complex distributed systems make it an
effortful issue, SOA researchers investigate solutions to
eliminate them. This study proposes a conceptual model for
SOA-enabled business process frameworks to identify
components of such systems. The model consists of entities
and their relationships represented by UML. The proposed
model was tested in an international company where its
business processes are well-defined and IT is seen as an
important necessity for their implementation.
To obtain a copy of
the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/conceptual-model-soa-enabled-business/72133
To read a PDF sample
of this article, please visit
PAPER THREE
Web
Personalization Based on Fuzzy Aggregation and Recognition
of User Activity
Alexander
Alfimtsev (Bauman Moscow State Technical University,
Russia), Sergey Sakulin (Bauman Moscow State Technical
University, Russia), and Vladimir Devyatkov (Bauman Moscow
State Technical University, Russia)
This article addresses Web personalization
based on the analysis of individual user activity. However,
human behavior is characterized by uncertainties that should
be considered in the personalization algorithms. Fuzzy logic
allows taking into account different types of uncertainty.
Therefore, the paper presents a method for Web
personalization based on fuzzy aggregation and recognition
of user activity. The advantages of this approach are (1)
the ability to use two types of fuzzy integrals without
using the necessary expert set of fuzzy measures and (2)
covering all stages of the personalization from aggregation
of a single user’s query parameters to aggregation of an
individual user’s profiles in a single parameter of group of
users.
To obtain a copy of
the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/web-personalization-based-fuzzy-aggregation/72134
To read a PDF sample
of this article, please visit
PAPER FOUR
An Analysis on
SAWSDL and its Implementation Tools
Ibrahim Ahmed
Al-Baltah (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia), Abdul Azim
Abd Ghani (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia), Wan
Nurhayati Wan Ab. Rahman (Universiti Putra Malaysia,
Malaysia), and Rodziah Atan (Universiti Putra Malaysia,
Malaysia)
Recently, Semantic Annotations for WSDL
(SAWSDL) standard emerged as a W3C recommendation to add
semantics to WSDL components. SAWSDL annotates WSDL
components with different semantics in order to automate Web
service tasks, such as service discovery, composition,
mediation, and invocation. In fact, certain service task
requires a specific service semantic that semantically
describes the service. As a result, several tools and
techniques have emerged to allow users to get maximum
advantage of semantic Web service by implementing SAWSDL.
This paper analyzes SAWSDL standard. The relationships
between SAWSDL and WSDL components were revealed. The direct
relationships between SAWSDL components and service tasks
through service semantics were investigated and reported.
This paper also reviews some well-known tools that are used
for SAWSDL implementation.
To obtain a copy of
the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/analysis-sawsdl-its-implementation-tools/72135
To read a PDF sample
of this article, please visit
PAPER FIVE
Web Portal: Total
Challenge
Tiago Martins
(University of Minho, Portugal), Vítor Carvalho (University
of Minho & IPCA, Portugal), and Filomena Soares
(University of Minho, Portugal)
The Web is an extraordinary success, for its
simplicity. This simplicity has brought disadvantages,
because with vast amounts of information available, the
search is a difficult, time-consuming and sometimes
inefficient task, creating the need for a strategic
information management. To overcome this need came the
portals. The characteristics of portals differ from each
other, which made them appear different definitions. Also
arose several classifications of portals, one of which
considers three dimensions to classify them: the scope of
content, the aim of the portal and the range of its intended
users. With this work, the authors intend to build a Web
Portal to support one or more serious games. A database is
shared with the Web Portal. This portal will serve to make
an interface between the user and the games, for the
dissemination and support of these and as a platform for
managing and monitoring results.
To obtain a copy of
the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/web-portal-total-challenge/72136
To read a PDF sample
of this article, please visit
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the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) in your institution's library. This journal is also
included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals"
database: http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mission of IJWP:
The International Journal
of Web Portals (IJWP) focuses on enterprise
integration strategy that deals with the exchange of
messages as the basic component of the solution architecture
enabling the integration of people, information,
applications and business processes. Portals are expected to
care more about the infrastructure services they consume,
which is a key architectural difference between the past and
the future generations of portals and represent the paradigm
shift in enterprise integration strategy. This paradigm
shift focuses on identifying core integration components,
assets, enterprise portals and encourages the reuse and
refinement of these assets for integration projects.
However, these topics are rarely discussed among the
practitioners or in the international journals without
primarily encouraging use of the solutions from particular
vendors. It is important to establish a sounding board
(international journal) which provides readers with an
independent view of models for enterprise integration
strategies, vendor independent tool sets, and the experience
with the development of strategic solutions carried out
within the context and rules of the enterprise's integration
architecture. The readers are expected to benefit from
having access to the latest practical solutions, as well as
research papers in the field of integration approaches, the
review of tools which can effectively and proactively
support integration objectives across the enterprise.
Coverage of IJWP:
Topics to be
discussed in this journal include, but are not limited to,
the following:
Business process
integration and management using SOA and portals
Case studies for
using portals with content management systems
Composite Web service
in portal frameworks (creation and enabling infrastructure)
Customization and
portal user interface issues, multilingual portals
E-commerce
applications based on portals and SOA
Evolution of B2E
& B2B portals as windows into the enterprise, on demand
services in portals
Frameworks for
building portal applications, development tooling, and
development environments (e.g Portlet Factory, NetBean
portal plug-in, and other tools)
Frameworks for
designing SOA solution with portal platforms, models, and
modeling tools usage, efficiency, and usability
Grid portals
Managing development
of portals & SOA solutions
Mobile portals,
mobile portal platform, and content management systems
applied to mobile portals
Portal architecture,
research, and practical issues in portals, including mobile
portal initiatives
Portal security
issues and single sigh-on
Resource management
in portals, performance issues, and administration issues
Semantic Web services
& federated portal architectures
Web services for
remote portlets (WSRP), performance, security, standards,
WSRP extensions, and enhancements in UDDI
WSRP role in business
integration
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should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijwp
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