{"title":"Model-driven security for Web services in e-Government system: Ideal and real","authors":"Zhendong Ma, Christian Wagner, T. Bleier","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088181","url":null,"abstract":"Web services facilitate agile development and deployment of new services in e-Government systems. Due to their distributed nature, Web services as well as e-Government systems must be secured against various cyber attacks and ensured that only authorized users can have access to valuable and sometimes sensitive information and resources. However, correct and efficient security engineering for Web service-based e-Government systems is not a trivial task. Model-driven security (MDS) is considered to be a promising approach to reduce complexity and increase efficiency in the design and development of secure Web services for e-Government systems. Nevertheless, the practicability of MDS has yet not been fully assessed. In a recent pilot project, we have applied MDS to the design and development of Web services for the actual e-Government system in Austria. Our work shows that despite extensive research work, several aspects of MDS need to be adapted and further developed such that one can really benefit from such an approach in practice. Our work on addressing these aspects provides realistic assessment and valuable insights on the application of MDS to Web services in the real world.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114478123","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":"The performance effects of process cascade-based organizational design","authors":"M. Kohlbacher, D. Weitlaner","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088176","url":null,"abstract":"An organizational design based on process cascades is an approach where the business process design of the organization is based on internal customer-supplier relationships. The approach is based on the idea that, in general, each business process is activated by an order which is placed by another business process. The receiving process executes the order and delivers the results back to the ordering process. The ordering process therefore acts as an internal customer for the receiving process, which acts as an internal supplier. The approach is recursive, i.e. the supplier process may act itself as a customer process which places an order to a third process, and so forth. This paper discusses the idea of process-cascade based organizational design and empirically investigates the impact of such a design on firm performance. We find general support for this effect using carefully collected data from 114 manufacturing firms.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"38 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121171008","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":"ImagePass - Designing graphical authentication for security","authors":"M. Mihajlov, B. Jerman-Blazic, Marko Ilievski","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088188","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have developed various graphical authentication mechanisms, with varied results in different environments. However, it has been difficult to get users to abandon traditional text-passwords in favor of something unfamiliar, therefore limiting graphical passwords to isolated environments rather than mass market solutions. Current studies show that while dominant on the usability side, because of their intuitiveness and potential password space, graphical authentication mechanisms are not necessarily more secure. This paper presents the development of a graphical authentication prototype by following usable security guidelines. Codenamed ImagePass, the prototype is a mechanism that uses image recognition as the basis for the authentication process.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122765121","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":"Web-based system for evaluating day trading strategies","authors":"Juan Ricardo Rivera Peruyero, P. Martí-Puig","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088186","url":null,"abstract":"This work evaluates two simple speculation methods in terms of the mean losses and benefits they produce under different market conditions, after 200 days of activity. One of the methods is widely known while the other is proposed by the authors. An application was developed to mine the prices of financial assets from free web information providers. The results relate to stocks of the Spanish IBEX-35.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115208374","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. Verborgh, T. Steiner, D. V. Deursen, R. Walle, Joaquim Gabarró Vallés
{"title":"Efficient runtime service discovery and consumption with hyperlinked RESTdesc","authors":"R. Verborgh, T. Steiner, D. V. Deursen, R. Walle, Joaquim Gabarró Vallés","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088208","url":null,"abstract":"Hyperlinks and forms let humans navigate with ease through websites they have never seen before. In contrast, automated agents can only perform preprogrammed actions on Web services, reducing their generality and restricting their usefulness to a specialized domain. Many of the employed services call themselves RESTful, although they neglect the hypermedia constraint as defined by Roy T. Fielding, stating that the application state should be driven by hypertext. This lack of link usage on the Web of services severely limits agents in what they can do, while connectedness forms a primary feature of the human Web. An urgent need for more intelligent agents becomes apparent, and in this paper, we demonstrate how the conjunction of functional service descriptions and hypermedia links leads to advanced, interactive agent behavior. We propose a new mode for our previously introduced semantic service description format RESTdesc, providing the mechanisms for agents to consume Web services based on links, similar to human browsing strategies. We illustrate the potential of these descriptions by a use case that shows the enhanced capabilities they offer to automated agents, and explain how this is vital for the future Web.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115301205","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}
T. Steiner, R. Verborgh, Joaquim Gabarró Vallés, R. Walle
{"title":"Adding meaning to facebook microposts via a mash-up API and tracking its data provenance","authors":"T. Steiner, R. Verborgh, Joaquim Gabarró Vallés, R. Walle","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088202","url":null,"abstract":"The social networking website Facebook offers to its users a feature called “status updates” (or just “status”), which allows users to create microposts directed to all their contacts, or a subset thereof. Readers can respond to microposts, or in addition to that also click a “Like” button to show their appreciation for a certain micropost. Adding semantic meaning in the sense of unambiguous intended ideas to such microposts can, for example, be achieved via Natural Language Processing (NLP). Therefore, we have implemented a RESTful mash-up NLP API, which is based on a combination of several third party NLP APIs in order to retrieve more accurate results in the sense of emergence. In consequence, our API uses third party APIs opaquely in the background in order to deliver its output. In this paper, we describe how one can keep track of provenance, and credit back the contributions of each single API to the combined result of all APIs. In addition to that, we show how the existence of provenance metadata can help understand the way a combined result is formed, and optimize the result combination process. Therefore, we use the HTTP Vocabulary in RDF and the Provenance Vocabulary. The main contribution of our work is a description of how provenance metadata can be automatically added to the output of mash-up APIs like the one presented here.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114818071","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}
Abraham Prieto Garcia, Gervasio Varela Fernández, B. Torres, F. López-Peña
{"title":"Educational autonomous robotics setup using mixed reality","authors":"Abraham Prieto Garcia, Gervasio Varela Fernández, B. Torres, F. López-Peña","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088222","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the presentation of a mixed-reality operational environment for carrying out experiments in robotics. This set up was designed as an intermediate system between a real and a simulated scenario in order to work with real robots and to ease and simplify the configuration and modification of the rest of the elements of the experiments. The environment uses video projection over the arena of the experiment, image capture to obtain the current position of the robots and a computer which monitors and controls the scenario. The graphic representation of the virtual elements of the scenario is projected onto the arena and their state is updated based on world rules of the experiment and on the state and actions of the robots. The scheme followed to control and structure this environment is based on the one proposed in a previous work for the creation of a simulation environment named Waspbed, which was designed for the study of simulated coevolution processes in multiagent systems. This setup is used for getting students from engineering degrees used to deal with robotics and all its associated fields, such as artificial vision, evolutionary robotics, communication protocols, etc. in a very simple, quick and cheap way, which otherwise wouldn't be feasible taking into account the academic constraints of time and resources.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"569 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122103822","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":"Intelligent online assessment methodology","authors":"U. Kumar M, J. Mamatha, Sandesh Jain, D. Jain","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088180","url":null,"abstract":"Applying intelligence in e-Learning services has been the focus of several recent research projects and papers, and with the explosive growth of information sources available on the World Wide Web, the existing e-Learning services requires pedagogical overhauling for keeping pace with the trends in e-Learning. One of several possibilities can be its application to Online Assessment. In this Paper, we present the system architecture for applying intelligent methodologies to online assessment that adapts to the examinee's ability level and the other side we describe that web mining can be applied to Learning Content Management Systems to build knowledge about e-Learning and has potential to help and improve learner's performance.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116953945","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":"A P2P content delivery system for alternative business models — Harnessing Internet's full potential","authors":"A. P. Alves, H. Castro","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088158","url":null,"abstract":"The production, distribution and consumption of information goods have evolved through continuous disruptions. Presently, these activities are being disrupted by the Internet and digital technology revolutions, which challenge established practices. P2P content diffusion is playing a key role in this process. This technology has frequently been regarded as intrinsically “ill-purposed”, but this view is changing and it has begun to see some commercial use, even if timid and fraught with obstacles. In this article, we analyze the present use of P2P technologies in content diffusion. Based on previously developed work, we identify the economic root of the present problems and discuss possible solutions. Finally, we describe a possible P2P architecture, currently being implemented, that could be used to support the alternative business models needed to fully exploit Internet's potential and deliver content to the users in friendly way.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130043351","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}
Carmen Hernandez-Capel, Agustin Belmonte-Carmona, J. Roca-Piera, J. Álvarez-Bermejo
{"title":"Integrated architecture to track and organize tasks in corporations and institutions","authors":"Carmen Hernandez-Capel, Agustin Belmonte-Carmona, J. Roca-Piera, J. Álvarez-Bermejo","doi":"10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NWESP.2011.6088170","url":null,"abstract":"Corporations invest amounts of capital in building plans to organize their workers. Academic institutions, especially in Europe, is moving towards the student so a much more coordination is required for both teachers and students. There are pretty much methodologies to organize how task should be accomplished but they lack effectiveness due to a poor integration with the worker, student, coordinator, etc. This paper shows an integrated system to track and organize task, using smartphones and the cloud.","PeriodicalId":271670,"journal":{"name":"2011 7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125582316","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}