Web Portal Design, Implementation, Integration, and Optimization

Web Portal Design, Implementation, Integration, and Optimization

Jana Polgar, Greg Adamson

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 296

ISBN13: 9781466627796|ISBN10: 1466627794|EISBN13: 9781466627802

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2779-6

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Web Portal Design, Implementation, Integration, and Optimization discusses the challenges faced in building web services and integrating applications in order to reach the successful benefits web portals bring to an organization. This collection of research aims to be a resource for researchers, developers, and industry practitioners involved in the technological, business, organizational and social dimensions of web portals.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

A Reference Ontology Based Approach for Service Oriented Semantic Interoperability (pages 1-16)

Shuying Wang, Kevin P. Brown, Jinghui Lu, Miriam Capretz

To establish effective information exchange among applications in a distributed environment, participants not only share their functions and service interfaces, but often exchange data models. This paper proposes the use of...

Chapter 2

Lightweight Collaborative Web Browsing (pages 17-32)

Raphael O. Santos, Felipe F. Oliveira, Roberta L. Gomes, Magnos Martinello, Renata S. S. Guizzardi

Collaborative navigation systems provide a useful way for virtual groups to share information through the web. However, the common set of features of these tools is not enough to offer a more face-to-face browsing experience. To fill...

Chapter 3

Improving Collaborations in the Neuroscientist Community (pages 33-49)

Isabelle Mirbel, Pierre Crescenzo

In this paper, the authors present an approach called SATIS (Semantically AnnotaTed Intentions for Services), relying on intentional process modeling and semantic web technologies and models, assists collaboration among the members...

Chapter 4

E-Performance Systems: A Method of Measuring Performance (pages 50-57)

Abdulaziz Al-Raisi, Saad Amin, Saad Tahir

Organizations are looking for solutions to manage and maximize the performance of their workforce. They recognize that there has been a shift in the business environment from a tangible asset economy to an intangible asset economy....

Chapter 5

E = Mportfolios2?: Challenges and Opportunities in Creating Mobile Electronic Portfolio Systems for Lifelong Learning (pages 58-70)

Ian Weber, Peter Evans

This paper critically examines the developmental trends of mPortfolios and gauges their impact on newer forms of learning that utilise mobility, portability, and flexibility. Placing this study within the emerging paradigm of...

Chapter 6

Computing the Spreading Power of a Business Portal to Propagate the Malicious Information in the Network (pages 71-79)

Hemraj Saini, Bimal Kumar Mishra, T. C. Panda

This paper predicts the malicious object prone site from the set of multi business portals of an organization or company. Graph theory is used to solve this problem as the diverted traffic of customers is interdependent among all the...

Chapter 7

Advanced Content Management System in Murdoch Research Institute (pages 80-86)

Saeed Shadlou, Hamdam Solaymani, Abdolreza Hajmoosaei

The Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Laboratory is a world leader in the analysis of walking disorders in children. Using state of the art equipment, highly specialised staff are able to determine why children walk the way they do....

Chapter 8

Online Payment via PayPal API Case Study Event Registration Management System (ERMS) (pages 87-95)

Saeed Shadlou, Ng Jie Kai, Abdolreza Hajmoosaei

PayPal is an international payment gateway allowing businesses and individuals to transfer funds in a secure manner over the Internet. Using PayPal to accept payments has several advantages for online merchants. It is a recognized...

Chapter 9

Research Essay: Challenges and Considerations of Modern Day Portal Tooling (pages 96-110)

Jaspreet Singh

Java based Portals have come a long way. The inception of open portlet standards, like JSR168 and the more open JSR286, has led to their wider adoption across verticals and horizontals. Now, Java EE and non-standard MVC frameworks...

Chapter 10

Ontology Mapping Validation: Dealing with an NP-Complete Problem (pages 111-121)

Felipe Serpeloni, Regina Moraes, Rodrigo Bonacin

The use of ontologies and ontology mappings is increasing in companies. Often the same context is modeled in different ontologies. Mapping is necessary to integrate these ontologies; however, in many cases these mappings are...

Chapter 11

A SOA-Based Environment Supporting Collaborative Experiments in E-Science (pages 122-136)

Andrea Bosin, Nicoletta Dessì, Bairappan Madusudhanan, Barbara Pes

Many sophisticated environments allow creating and managing of scientific workflows, whereas the workflow itself is provided as a service. Scientific Grids handle large amounts of data and share resources, but the implementation of...

Chapter 12

A Semiotic-Based Approach for Search in Social Network Services (pages 137-151)

Júlio C. dos Reis, Rodrigo Bonacin, M. Cecília C. Baranauskas

Search mechanisms in Social Network Services (SNSs) should take into account the meanings created, shared, and used by people through the use of the system. This paper investigates a new approach to develop search mechanisms more...

Chapter 13

Adaptive Ontology-Based Web Information Retrieval: The TARGET Framework (pages 152-170)

Cédric Pruski, Nicolas Guelfi, Chantal Reynaud

Finding relevant information on the Web is difficult for most users. Although Web search applications are improving, they must be more “intelligent” to adapt to the search domains targeted by queries, the evolution of these domains...

Chapter 14

Eidsvoll 1814: Creating Educational Historical Reconstructions in 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments (pages 171-185)

Ekaterina Prasolova-Forland, Ole Ørjan Hov

3D Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) or virtual worlds have been widely used in educational settings for the purposes of simulation and demonstration of scientific concepts, art and historical events that for practical...

Chapter 15

Perceptions of Trust Between Online Auction Consumers (pages 186-197)

Sanna Malinen, Jarno Ojala

Trust between partners is a precondition for business transactions. The perceptions of trust were studied among the users of a popular Finnish online auction site, ‘Huuto.net’. Results are based on interview and survey data collected...

Chapter 16

An Initial Examination of Free and Proprietary Software-Selection in Organizations (pages 198-215)

Damien J. Sticklen, Theodora Issa

This article presents the findings of a study concerning organisational software-selection in the context of proprietary and “Free Software”. Proprietary software with its inherent benefits and drawbacks remains dominant over Free...

Chapter 17

Prosumerization of Mobile Service Provision: A Conceptual Approach (pages 216-228)

Dirk Werth, Andreas Emrich, Alexandra Chapko

Prosumerization is the enabling of users to act as producers. Prosumerization of content for the mobile internet, in which users are consumers and producers of content, is a recent trend. However, user-generated mobile services are...

Chapter 18

Multiagent Social Computing (pages 229-242)

Ben Choi

This article provides a framework for extending social networks to social computing. When people join social networks, such as Facebook and discussion groups, their personal computers can also join the social networks. This framework...

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