| Betreff: | [AISWorld] International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) - vol 5 issue 1 - table of contents |
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| Datum: | Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:56:34 +0100 |
| Von: | Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha <mcunha@ipca.pt> |
| Antwort an: | mcunha@ipca.pt |
| Organisation: | Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave |
| An: | <irma-l@irma-international.org>, <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org> |
The contents of the
latest issue of:
International
Journal of Web Portals (IJWP)
Official Publication of
the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 5, Issue 1,
January – March 2013
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)
PAPER ONE
FSaaS:
Configuring Policies for Managing Shared Files Among
Cooperating, Distributed Applications
Marco
Di Sano (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer
Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy), Antonella
Di Stefano (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer
Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy), Giovanni
Morana (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer
Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy) and
Daniele Zito (Department of Electrical, Electronic and
Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy)
In
this paper, the authors introduce and describe the concept of
File System as a Services (FSaaS), an highly configurable
cloud service that enables cooperating, distributed
applications to define their own rules and policies for
managing sets of files shared. The FSaaS aims to create a
logical virtual space, containing references to shared files,
whose management layer supports the same functionalities of a
file system (basic file operations) but where each single file
can have different policies for consistency, synchronization
and replication. This work explains the idea at the base of
FSaaS, describes in details its main components and their
interactions and illustrates two use cases for better
explaining the provided functionalities.
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entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/fsaas-configuring-policies-managing-shared/78348
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http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=78348
PAPER TWO
Adaptive
Web Services Monitoring in Cloud Environments
Yi
Wei (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA) and M. Brian
Blake (Department of Computer Science, University of Miami,
Coral Gables, FL, USA)
Cloud
computing environments provide flexible infrastructures for
third-party management of organizations’ information
technology (IT) assets. With web services being a standard for
realizing web-based business capabilities, the emergence of
cloud computing will bring new challenges to different web
service activities. In this paper, the authors propose an
agent-based framework that employs a team of management and
monitoring agents on different scopes to provides effective
service management in a cloud environment. To tackle the
dynamism in service operations, an adaptive monitoring
algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is inspired by the
congestion control approach from the TCP protocol and provides
efficient, up-to-date information about service status without
exhaustive monitoring. Experimental results show that the
monitoring algorithm provides significant benefits when
compared to the more exhaustive methods. This approach also
facilitates other service activities, such as cross cloud
service discovery.
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entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/adaptive-web-services-monitoring-cloud/78350
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this article, please visit
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PAPER THREE
Delivering
Deep Health Information Using Clinical Eye
Olga
Nabuco (Decision Support Systems Division, Center for
Information Technology Renato Archer – CTI, Campinas, Brazil)
This
paper introduces a web-based semantic tool that provides more
detailed information about a term selected by the user of a
web browser, the Clinical Eye. This tool was initially
designed for the medical area of cardiology, which is still
controversial in terms of vocabularies. Anontology has been
developed as a reference base where those different
vocabularies converge. The information supplied by the tool
was taken from specialized medical web pages and technical
documents. It is a tool of low interference for ongoing
activities, so it can be used during a clinical activity. It
has been designed according to requirements raised by studies
in various medical communities, which pointed the use of
Internet during consultations and medical needs for deep
information.
To obtain a copy of the
entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/delivering-deep-health-information-using/78351
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PAPER FOUR
A
Formal Approach for the Validation of Web Service
Orchestrations
Wael
Sellami (ReDCAD, FSEGS, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia),
Hatem Hadj Kacem (ReDCAD, FSEGS, University of Sfax, Sfax,
Tunisia) and Ahmed Hadj Kacem (ReDCAD, FSEGS, University of
Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia)
A
web service composition is considered as a real revolution in
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). It is based on assembling
independent and loosely coupled services to build a composed
web service. This composition can be described from both a
local or a global perspective by respective orchestration or
choreography. The validation of web service orchestrations is
the main topic of this work. It is based on the verification
of two classes of properties: generic and specific properties.
The former can be checked for any invoked web services whereas
the specific properties are different interdependence
relationships between activities within an orchestration
process. These properties cannot be directly verified on the
orchestration process, so, the authors have to use formal
techniques. In this paper, they propose a formal approach for
the validation of web service orchestrations. This work adopts
WS-BPEL 2.0 as the language to describe the web service
orchestration and uses the SPIN model-checker for the
verification engine. The WS-BPEL specification is translated
into Promela code which is the input language for the SPIN
model-checker, in order to check generic and specific
properties expressed with LTL (Linear Temporal Logic).
To obtain a copy of the
entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/formal-approach-validation-web-service/78352
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this article, please visit
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PAPER FIVE
Managing
Architectural Reconfiguration at Runtime
Sihem
Loukil (ReDCAD Laboratory, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia),
Slim Kallel (ReDCAD Laboratory, University of Sfax, Sfax,
Tunisia) and Mohamed Jmaiel (ReDCAD Laboratory, University of
Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia)
Managing
dynamic reconfiguration of software systems is a tedious task
in the software development because of the substantially
increasing need for continuously available systems even at
runtime. In particular, the software architecture of
dynamically adaptive systems must continuously adapt to
varying environmental conditions and user requirements.
Therefore, they propose a wide range of possible
configurations. The static enumeration of all the possible
configurations is a difficult task. Moreover, not all dynamic
reconfiguration operations can be foreseen at design time.
Some reconfigurations may appear when the system is already
deployed. In this context, we propose to combine the
Architecture Description Languages and the Aspect-Oriented
Software Development paradigm in order to make the dynamic
reconfiguration process easier to design, understand and
possible to validate. Also, this combination allows to easily
evolving the reconfiguration policies even at runtime.
To obtain a copy of the
entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/article/managing-architectural-reconfiguration-runtime/78353
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this article, please visit
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=78353
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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.
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Business process
integration and management using SOA and portals
Case studies for using
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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
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portlets (WSRP), performance, security, standards, WSRP
extensions, and enhancements in UDDI
WSRP role in business
integration
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