ENQUETE-BAISE: A General-Purpose E-Questionnaire Server for Ubiquitous Questionnaire

Abstract

Questionnaire is a general and indispensable method frequently and widely used in many academic, engineering, medical, commercial, and political survey research activities to obtain systematic data and information. Ubiquitous questionnaire, i.e., to provide users with E-questionnaire services anytime and anywhere such that one can use E-questionnaire servers without even thinking about them, is an ideal ubiquitous service in service-oriented computing. Until now, there is no E-questionnaire server that is generally accepted and widely used. This paper presents a general-purpose E-questionnaire server we are developing for ubiquitous questionnaire, named 'ENQUETE-BAISE, " that can be used as a ready-made E-questionnaire server component in various Web service systems as well as an alone E-questionnaire server with general-purpose for various questionnaires. ENQUETE-BAISE can also be used as an E-voting server with general-purpose by restricting its general functions and strengthening its security functions. The paper proposes the notion of ubiquitous questionnaire, presents a requirement analysis for ubiquitous questionnaire servers, introduces in brief persistent computing systems which are indispensable to implementation of ubiquitous questionnaire servers, and presents the architecture and facilities of ENQUETE-BAISE.