Mihaela Brut, S. Buraga, Sergiu Dumitriu, G. Grigoraș, M. Gîrdea
{"title":"A Competency-Oriented Modeling Approach for Personalized E-Learning Systems","authors":"Mihaela Brut, S. Buraga, Sergiu Dumitriu, G. Grigoraș, M. Gîrdea","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.117","url":null,"abstract":"In order to optimize the information retrieval and adaptation facilities inside an e-learning system, there is necessary to improve accessibility and to correlate the educational materials, the users and the information. For this purpose, we present a semantic Web-based modeling approach for the materials annotations and user competences profile, based on the same domain ontology set. The ontologies constitute thus the binder between the materials and users, and we illustrate how their reasoning support contributes to the efficiency improvement of the search and adaptive Web services. As illustrative example, we present our developed I*Teach Web repository of educational scenarios.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126846542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyewon Song, Jay J. Dong, Changhee Han, W. Jung, Chan-Hyun Youn
{"title":"A SLA-Adaptive Workflow Integrated Grid Resource Management System for Collaborative Healthcare Services","authors":"Hyewon Song, Jay J. Dong, Changhee Han, W. Jung, Chan-Hyun Youn","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.105","url":null,"abstract":"A grid technology is one of key issues for healthcare services provided in collaborative environments. In this paper, a SLA-adaptive workflow integrated grid resource management system for supporting collaborative heart disease simulator application in Physio-Grid service is proposed. At first, we propose the system architecture and framework that integrates workflow function into policy quorum based resource management (PQRM) system, one of existing grid resource management systems, for collaborative healthcare services. In addition, we derived the cost-adaptive policy adjustment scheme to adjust a gap between conditions and actions of workflow management and resource management policies for the proposed system. Based on this adjustment scheme, an appropriate policy can be selected according to QoS constraints of collaborated healthcare applications given by SLA negotiated with users. Finally, we evaluate proposed system using a collaborative heart disease simulation service and show the proposed system outperforms a general grid management system throughout performance comparisons under different types of SLA.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114575725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flow Diagram Based Formulation for Protecting Patent and Trade Secret in Information Systems","authors":"H. Sasaki","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.7","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a flow diagram based formulation of the conditions on protecting patent and trade secret in information systems by interpreting legal concepts in engineering manner as a reference to researchers and practitioners. First, we propose the condition on patenting the novel combination of prior disclosed computer programs. Second, we propose the condition on proper specification of the parameter setting components as patentable computer programs. Finally, we propose the condition on protecting the numerical parametric values as trade secret in patentable parameter setting components. We also show the case study for its feasibility check of our formulation.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114637400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Gil, E. S. Cristóbal, S. Martín, G. Díaz, M. Castro, J. Peire, A. Nishihara
{"title":"New Learning Services: Customized and Secured Evaluation","authors":"R. Gil, E. S. Cristóbal, S. Martín, G. Díaz, M. Castro, J. Peire, A. Nishihara","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.47","url":null,"abstract":"All the different kinds of education are converging to a blended learning one and a large number of new applications has appeared using educational platforms (LMS, learning management systems). Besides we must have into account the importance of the security in our applications, in order to get a suitable behavior of our system. One of these possible applications would be in the evaluation procedure. This article describes this huge area for higher education considering different technologies where biometric technology will be our cornerstone. Our application will be developed in two different scenarios: in traditional and on-line test.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114662574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward Trustworthy Service Consumers and Producers","authors":"Phil Bonderud, S. Chung, B. Endicott-Popovsky","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.108","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to propose a mechanism that enables trustworthy relationships among service producers and consumers. Service producers advertise their services through the UDDI. From a QoS perspective, a service consumer needs to know if a service will meet his or her requirements for which various web services are contracted. In terms of a security perspective, a service consumer that obtains services for which they are unable to pay establishes a security concern for service producers. The requirement of the secure quality of services for Web services (S-QoS4WS) needs a mechanism to enable service consumers and producers to establish trust in their prospective partners prior to engaging in any service for which payment or quality of service is required. For this purpose, we propose a S-QoS4WS approach that utilizes 'PublisherAssertion' tags within the UDDI to satisfy security and QoS issues. This approach makes use of existing mechanisms within UDDI version 3 to resolve current issues involving trust and non-repudiation.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129861897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
André Luis Silva dos Santos, S. Labidi, Zair Abdelouahab
{"title":"Information Filtering for a Collaborative Learning Environment: A Multiagent Approach","authors":"André Luis Silva dos Santos, S. Labidi, Zair Abdelouahab","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.101","url":null,"abstract":"A multiagent filtering information system is proposed in this paper. The agents improve the teaching-learning process in a computer-based learning environment by means of information filtering. The system is developed using the PASSI agent development methodology. Furthermore, the paper describes agents specification and implementations for NetClass..","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129872854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personal Preference for Reliable Transaction Identification on Web Service","authors":"Taewan Gu, S. Hong, Jae-Bong Yoo, Kwang-Mo Lee","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.114","url":null,"abstract":"As the Internet has been growing, WWW(World Wide Web) based services have become more popular, and the number of those using the service has increased excessively. To support these services, the processing of many transactions has become essential in the Internet. There are many researches regarding user profiling on web services to support those transactions effectively. Most of them are just for grasping the customer's preferences. However, the user's role on a recent web service is not limited. It is not fixed what they are doing among users; consumers could become providers and also providers could become consumers on virtual online environments such as the open market of the Internet. For this reason, it is necessary to inspect preference of both the consumer as well as the provider. In addition, the traditional service lacks of representing of various provider's preferences. In this paper, we proposed a Personal Preference Tree (PPT) to reflect the preferences for providers then implemented the module applied to the web service. Likewise, we evaluated the applicability and the performance of the personal preference module through simulations.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130355218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. S. Cristóbal, S. Martín, R. Gil, G. Díaz, A. Colmenar, M. Castro, J. Peire, José M. Gómez, Eugenio López-Aldea, Paloma López
{"title":"Integration of Internet Based Labs and Open Source LMS","authors":"E. S. Cristóbal, S. Martín, R. Gil, G. Díaz, A. Colmenar, M. Castro, J. Peire, José M. Gómez, Eugenio López-Aldea, Paloma López","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.45","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays there are a great number of universities and organizations working on developing virtual labs. These virtual labs allow students to carry out their experiments and acquire practical knowledge. At the same time these universities are using one or several learning management systems that allow professors to display and organize theoretical content. A good solution is the integration of learning management system and virtual labs. That is what we are going to describe in this paper. We are working on a middleware that allows using the LMS's services together with the virtual labs.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130685118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient Discovery of Widely Distributed and Non-volatile Resources on DHTs","authors":"C. Abalde, V. M. Gulías, Laura M. Castro","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.19","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, a new generation of structured and decentralized P2P CDNs based on distributed hash tables (DHTs) has emerged. Nowadays, DHT algorithms are a powerful building block when designing distributed behaviors. However, sometimes DHTs are not flexible enough and problems arise when an efficient lookup in the DHT structure itself -instead of in the stored data- is required. Our motivation scenario is the resource discovery problem in a decentralized and distributed caching architecture, deployed in a set of clusters built from cheap off-the-shelf computers organized in a DHT overlay network. In this paper we present the design of a resource discovery service layered on the underlying DHT and based on the combination of(1) an spanning-tree built mapping DHT nodes to their parents in a bottom-up fashion, and (2) a set of routing indices which allow nodes to efficiently lookup other nodes in the DHT overlay network, matching some resource constraints This service does not alter the underlying DHT behavior, it scales to large wide area systems and it tracks both relatively static and frequently changing resources. Furthermore, the results of the experiments conducted to evaluate the good performance and scalability of the architecture are also presented.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128880028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Agent-Based Architecture for Supply Chain Finance Cooperative Context-Aware Distributed Data Mining Systems","authors":"L. Xiang","doi":"10.1109/ICIW.2008.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIW.2008.31","url":null,"abstract":"The unlimited growth of supply chain finance data will inevitably lead to a situation in which it is increasingly difficult to access the desired information. Supply chain finance is often necessary to analyze large data sets, maintained over geographically bank, supplier and customer distributed sites by using cooperative context-aware distributed data mining (DDM) systems. The study of the existing approaches shows that no single solution fulfills all requirements identified for the cooperative context-aware DDM systems. One of the basic obstacles is the lack of context-aware and supporting some of the computational resources - such as data and information bases, computational models, compute power to execute these models, specialized data mining algorithms - required to develop a new compound is not available locally, but accessible via the global computing network infrastructure. This paper proposes a multi-agent-based architecture for supply chain finance cooperative distributed data mining systems. The use of multi-agent-systems (MAS) creates a framework which allows the inter-operation of a vast set of heterogeneous solutions to carry out the complex supply chain finance context-aware distributed data mining tasks, many data mining tasks to connect heterogeneous resources, as data sources, processing nodes and end user applications. It considers a data warehousing that supports context-aware OLAP queries, ensuring the interoperability of all data sources, and then focuses on distributed clustering algorithms and some potential applications in multi-agent-based problem solving scenarios. Finally, we outline the implementation of a prototype for shoes manufacturing.","PeriodicalId":139145,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121914908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}