Services and Business Computing Solutions with XML: Applications for Quality Management and Best Processes

Services and Business Computing Solutions with XML: Applications for Quality Management and Best Processes

Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 354

ISBN13: 9781605663302|ISBN10: 1605663301|EISBN13: 9781605663319|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616926113

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-330-2

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Commercial systems built today are increasingly using XML technologies for storing any amount of text or data.

Services and Business Computing Solutions with XML: Applications for Quality Management and Best Processes collects the latest research for academicians and practitioners that describes the use and synergy between data structure technologies. This book explores and investigates various issues of XML data and related applications summarized by Web services.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Extending XML Types Using Updates (pages 1-21)

Béatrice Bouchou, Denio Duarte, Mírian Halfeld Ferrari, Martin A. Musicante

The XML Messaging Protocol, a part of the Web service protocol stack, is responsible for encoding messages in a common XML format (or type), so that they can be understood at either end of a network connection. The evolution of an...

Chapter 2

A Comparative Study of XML Change Detection Algorithms (pages 22-38)

Grégory Cobéna, Talel Abdessalem

Change detection is an important part of version management for databases and document archives. The success of XML has recently renewed interest in change detection on trees and semi-structured data, and various algorithms have been...

Chapter 3

Active XML Transactions (pages 39-56)

Debmalya Biswas, Il-Gon Kim

Active XML (AXML) provides an elegant platform to integrate the power of XML, Web services and Peer to Peer (P2P) paradigms by allowing (active) Web service calls to be embedded within XML documents. In this chapter, the authors...

Chapter 4

SEEC: A Dual Search Engine for Business Employees and Customers (pages 57-81)

Kamal Taha, Ramez Elmasri

With the emergence of the World Wide Web, business’ databases are increasingly being queried directly by customers. The customers may not be aware of the exact structure of the underlying data, and might have never learned a query...

Chapter 5

Web Services as XML Data Sources in Enterprise Information Integration (pages 82-97)

Ákos Hajnal, Tamás Kifor, Gergely Lukácsy, László Z. Varga

More and more systems provide data through web service interfaces and these data have to be integrated with the legacy relational databases of the enterprise. The integration is usually done with enterprise information integration...

Chapter 6

Consistency and Modularity in Mediated Service-Based Data Integration Solutions (pages 98-113)

Yaoling Zhu, Claus Pahl

A major aim of the Web service platform is the integration of existing software and information systems. Data integration is a central aspect in this context. Traditional techniques for information and data transformation are...

Chapter 7

Facilitating Design of Efficient Components by Bridging Gaps between Data Model and Business Process via Analysis of Service Traits of Data (pages 114-120)

Ning Chen

In many large-scale enterprise information system solutions, process design, data modeling and software component design are performed relatively independently by different people using various tools and methodologies. This usually...

Chapter 8

On the Use of Web Services in Content Adaptation (pages 121-135)

Khalil El-Khatib, Gregor v. Bochmann, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik

The tremendous growth of the Internet has introduced a number of interoperability problems for distributed multimedia applications. These problems are related to the heterogeneity of client devices, network connectivity, content...

Chapter 9

Analysis of Service Compatibility: Complexity and Computation (pages 136-155)

Ken Q. Pu

In this chapter, the authors apply type-theoretic techniques to the service description and composition verification. A flexible type system is introduced for modeling instances and mappings of semi-structured data, and is...

Chapter 10

XML Compression for Web Services on Resource-Constrained Devices (pages 156-175)

Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Ylva Brandt, Stefan Fischer

Compared to other middleware approaches like CORBA or Java RMI the protocol overhead of SOAP is very high. This fact is not only disadvantageous for several performance-critical applications, but especially in environments with...

Chapter 11

Mining Association Rules from XML Documents (pages 176-196)

Laura Irina Rusu, Wenny Rahayu, David Taniar

This chapter presents some of the existing mining techniques for extracting association rules out of XML documents in the context of rapid changes in the Web knowledge discovery area. The initiative of this study was driven by the...

Chapter 12

A Tutorial on RDF with Jena (pages 197-216)

Wan-Yeung Wong, Tak-Pang Lau, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu

This chapter gives a tutorial on resource description framework (RDF), its XML representation, and Jena, a set of Java-based API designed and implemented to further simplify the manipulation of RDF documents. RDF is a W3C standard...

Chapter 13

Extending Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) with Mobile and Web Services Technologies (pages 217-237)

Abbass Ghanbary, Bhuvan Unhelkar

Web Services (WS) technologies, generally built around the ubiquitous Extensible Markup Language (XML), have provided many opportunities for integrating enterprise applications. However, XML/Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)...

Chapter 14

Modeling and Specification of Collaborative Business Processes with a MDA Approach and a UML Profile (pages 238-268)

Pablo David Villarreal, Enrique Salomone, Omar Chiotti

This chapter describes the application of MDA (model driven architecture) and UML for the modeling and specification of collaborative business processes, with the purpose of enabling enterprises to establish business-to-business...

Chapter 15

A Fundamental SOA Approach to Rebuilding Enterprise Architecture for a Local Government after a Disaster (pages 269-287)

Zachary B. Wheeler

As a result of Hurricane Katrina, the destruction of property, assets, documentation, and human life in the Gulf Port has introduced a myriad of challenging issues. These issues involve human, social, government, and technological...

Chapter 16

Towards Theory Development for Emergent E-Business Innovations: Using Convergent Interviewing to Explore the Adoption of XBRL in Australia (pages 288-305)

Indrit Troshani, Sally Rao Hill

The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an emerging XML-based standard which has the potential to significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of intra- and inter-organisational information supply chains in...

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Afterword

Compilation of References

About the Contributors

Index

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