-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) | contents of the latest issue 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

The contents of the latest issue of:

*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

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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)

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*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.

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*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.

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/conceptual-model-soa-enabled-business/7213...

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*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.

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*PAPER FOUR*

*An Analysis on SAWSDL and its Implementation Tools***

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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.

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http://www.igi-global.com/article/analysis-sawsdl-its-implementation-tools/7...

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* 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.

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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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