Mobile and Web Innovations in Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering

Mobile and Web Innovations in Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering

Dickson K.W. Chiu

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 452

ISBN13: 9781466624702|ISBN10: 1466624701|EISBN13: 9781466624719

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2470-2

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The continuous advances in mobile and web technology are forming the areas of software and systems development and the connection between service users and providers.

Mobile and Web Innovations in Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering offers widespread knowledge on modern organizations and the complications of the current globalized computing environment. This book is aimed at both industry and academia on the multidisciplinary field of service-oriented engineering.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Web Systems Innovations

Chapter 1

ART-Improving Execution Time for Flash Applications (pages 1-22)

Ming Ying, James Miller

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) require fast execution time and allow richer, faster, and more interactive experiences. Flash is a common technology for building RIAs. Flash programmers usually specialize in graphic design rather...

Chapter 2

FTT: A System to Refactor Traditional Forms into Ajax-Enabled Forms (pages 23-43)

Ming Ying, James Miller

Forms are a common part of web applications. They provide a method for the user to interact with the web application. However, forms in traditional applications require entire web pages to be refreshed every time they are submitted....

Chapter 3

Automated Ranking of Relaxing Query Results Based on XML Structure and Content Preferences (pages 44-62)

Wei Yan, Li Yan, Z. M. Ma

This paper proposes a contextual preference query method of XML structural relaxation and content scoring to resolve the problem of empty or too many answers returned by XML. This paper proposes a XML contextual preference (XCP)...

Chapter 4

Enabling Intelligence in Web-Based Collaborative Knowledge Management System (pages 63-82)

Krissada Maleewong, Chutiporn Anutariya, Vilas Wuwongse

This paper presents an approach to enhance various intelligent services of a Web-based collaborative knowledge management system. The proposed approach applies the two widely-used argumentation technologies, namely IBIS and Toulmin’s...

Chapter 5

An Adaptive System for Retrieval and Composition of Learning Objects (pages 83-101)

Burasakorn Yoosooka, Vilas Wuwongse

This paper proposes a new approach to automatic retrieval and composition of Learning Objects (LOs) in an Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System (AEHS) using multidimensional learner characteristics to enhance learning effectiveness....

Chapter 6

Integrating Semantic Web and Software Agents: Exchanging RIF and BDI Rules (pages 102-119)

Yiwei Gong, Sietse Overbeek, Marijn Janssen

Software agents and rules are both used for creating flexibility. Exchanging rules between Semantic Web and agents can ensure consistency in rules and support easy updating and changing of rules. The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) is...

Chapter 7

Implementing Background Net with Knowware System for Personalized Keyword Support (pages 120-133)

Yuan Chen, Liya Ding, Sio-Long Lo, Dickson K.W. Chiu

This article proposes a novel approach that combines user’s instant requirement described in keywords with her or his long-term knowledge background to better serve article selection based on personal preference. The knowledge...

Chapter 8

Developing Rich Internet Applications as Social Sites on the Semantic Web: A Model-Driven Approach (pages 134-155)

Jesús M. Hermida, Santiago Meliá, Andrés Montoyo, Jaime Gómez

Current Web 2.0 applications, either social sites or Rich Internet Applications, share several problems of interoperability when interconnecting different systems. It is therefore complicated to reuse (or export) the information...

Web Services Innovations

Chapter 9

Flexible Provenance Tracing (pages 157-175)

Liwei Wang, Henning Koehler, Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Shazia Sadiq

The description of the origins of a piece of data and the transformations by which it arrived in a database is termed the data provenance. The importance of data provenance has already been widely recognized in database community....

Chapter 10

A Service Bus Architecture for Application Integration in the Planning and Production Phases of a Product Lifecycle (pages 176-191)

Jorge Minguez, Stefan Silcher, Philipp Riffelmacher, Bernhard Mitschang

Constantly changing business conditions require a high level of flexibility in business processes as well as an adaptive and fully interoperable IT infrastructure in today’s manufacturing environments. The lack of flexibility...

Chapter 11

A Service-Oriented User Interface for the Next Generation Web (pages 192-208)

Shiping Chen, Surya Nepal

The Web enters a new era where contents are to take the back seat and services will take the driver seat to form a service-oriented Web. This paper presents a service-oriented user interface design for the next generation Web. The...

Chapter 12

Service Oriented Enterprise and Contracted Profit Sharing (pages 209-227)

Ali Habibi Badrabadi, Mohammad Jafar Tarokh, Shahriar Mohammadi

Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs) outsource their functionalities via third party web services. Therefore, there is a need for a systematic approach to manage the cooperation of the services. SOEs perform their functionalities in...

Chapter 13

Dynamic Business Collaborations Through Contract Services (pages 228-251)

Surya Nepal, Shiping Chen

New applications have recently emerged within the domains of e-Health, e-Science, e-Research and e-Government that require the formation of dynamic collaborations between independent, autonomous business organizations for the...

Chapter 14

Enforcing ASTD Access-Control Policies with WS-BPEL Processes in SOA Environments (pages 252-273)

Michel Embe Jiague, Marc Frappier, Frédéric Gervais, Régine Laleau, Richard St-Denis

Controlling access to the Web services of public agencies and private corporations depends primarily on specifying and deploying functional security rules to satisfy strict regulations imposed by governments, particularly in the...

Chapter 15

Governance of Cross-Organizational Healthcare Document Exchange through Watermarking Services and Alerts (pages 274-299)

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Yuexuan Wang, Patrick Hung, Vivying S.Y. Cheng, Kai-Kin Chan, Eleanna Kafeza, Wei-Feng Tung, Yi Zhuang, Nan Jiang

There is an increasing demand for sharing documents for process integration among organizations. Web services technology has recently been widely proposed and gradually adopted as a platform for supporting such an integration. There...

Mobile Innovations

Chapter 16

Segmentation Matters: An Exploratory Study of Mobile Service Users (pages 301-317)

Anna Sell, Pirkko Walden, Christer Carlsson

Despite the penetration of mobile phones in the world the number of mobile services in actual use is – besides voice calls and SMS – rather few. In the study at hand, the authors describe users of mobile phones and mobile services...

Chapter 17

Facilitating Biodefense Research with Mobile-Cloud Computing (pages 318-332)

Jingyu Zhang, Jinhui Yao, Shiping Chen, David Levy

This paper proposes the use of a mobile-cloud by combining mobile devices and the cloud together in a biodefense and emerging infectious diseases (BEI) research application scenario. A mobile-cloud framework is developed to...

Chapter 18

Towards a Framework for Weaving Social Networks Into Mobile Commerce (pages 333-347)

Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Fahim Akhter

This paper discusses a framework that supports weaving social elements into mobile commerce applications. This weaving takes place through different types of social networks that identify the stakeholders taking part in completing...

Chapter 19

RFID Enabled Vehicular Network for Ubiquitous Travel Query (pages 348-363)

Tianle Zhang, Chunlu Wang, ZongWei Luo, Shuihua Han, Mengyuan Dong

Fixed infrastructure based wireless network is very expensive to provide total coverage and offer ubiquitous communication capacity. RFID enabled Vehicular Network emerges as an alternative which can leverage mobile nodes to bridge...

Chapter 20

Enhancing ERP System with RFID: Logistic Process Integration and Exception Handling (pages 364-379)

Dickson K. W. Chiu, Kai-Pan Mark, Eleanna Kafeza, Tat-Pui Wong

Various contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) have revolutionized the global computing environment. This impacts most companies, especially traditional stand-alone ERP systems are inadequate to handle the...

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