{"title":"Towards a DL-Based Semantic User Model for Web Personalization","authors":"Yanwu Yang, Christophe Claramunt, Marie-Aude Aufaure","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.109","url":null,"abstract":"User models play a kernel role in recommender and Web personalization systems, especially in an information-rich world. In a knowledge-based user interface environment, a semantic user modeling component serves as important inputs for personalization human-computer interactions and adaptive strategies for interfaces. This paper proposes a semantic user model integrated into a Web personalization system which that is based on an expressive description logic language. The user model employs both static and dynamic user information to predict user features relevant to a given application domain. The logic-based user-modeling framework acts as a support for a semantic Web personalization system to tailor information services to the user. Our user-modeling approach is exemplarily applied to the tourism domain, to describe user information and identify user's classification.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116784931","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 Multi-Agent-Based Architecture for Enterprise Customer and Supplier Cooperation Context-Aware Information Systems","authors":"L. Xiang","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.46","url":null,"abstract":"The fast-growing and tremendous amount of enterprise customer and supplier documents has far exceeded the human ability for comprehension. A enterprise customer and supplier cooperation context-aware information system is powerful tools to process cooperating customer and supplier information. While there has been a variety of context middleware infrastructures and context-aware applications, little work has been done on integrating context-aware into enterprise customer and supplier cooperation information systems. In order to realize enterprise customer and supplier cooperation context-aware information systems that are on the one hand context-aware and on the other hand support enterprise customer and supplier cooperation electronic business. This paper proposes a multi-agent-based architecture for enterprise customer and supplier cooperation context-aware information systems which considers Web service, multi-agent, data warehousing and OLAP interoperability compatible. A data warehousing that supports context-aware OTAP queries, use data cubes to store enterprise customer and supplier cooperation electronic business historical context data and to extract interesting knowledge from collections of enterprise customer and supplier cooperation electronic business context data, and to create new context from analysis of enterprise customer and supplier cooperation electronic business existing data. Finally, outline the implementation issue and conclusion and future research.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121143679","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":"Autonomic Behaviour in QoS Management","authors":"R. Anane","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.60","url":null,"abstract":"In QoS provisioning adaptation defines an area of overlap between QoS management and autonomic computing. This convergence is highlighted by the adherence of QoS systems to fundamental principles such as transparency, and the ability of QoS mechanisms to adapt seamlessly to prevailing environmental conditions. This characteristic is also underpinned by a combination of monitoring and management mechanisms, features that are inherent to autonomic behaviour. This paper is concerned with an investigation into the autonomic behaviour of QoS management systems. Relevant QoS mechanisms are identified and their functionality mapped onto autonomic behaviour. In a wider context, the components of a specific QoS architecture, ITSUMO, are considered from the perspective of autonomic control. Furthermore, as part of an ongoing research project, an evaluation mechanism is presented as a fundamental component in the architectural support for autonomic behaviour.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128406442","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 Investigation of Sharing Seller Reputation among Buyers in Agent-Based Markets","authors":"Sandhya Beldona, C. Tsatsoulis","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.56","url":null,"abstract":"Our work investigates the effects of knowledge sharing among buyer agents in an electronic market, where the shared knowledge is the reputation of seller agents. Each buyer agent independently models a seller after having purchased goods from the seller and, upon request, shares this knowledge with friends. We investigated if having a larger number of friends enables buyers to find good quality low priced sellers in the market more rapidly and also if there is a point of diminishing returns, beyond which increasing the number of friends will not have any positive effects. Our results show that, by sharing information with friends, the buyers are able to identify good sellers earlier. However the marginal gain of having more friends decreases as the number of friends increases.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128729432","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":"Towards Collective Spatial Awareness Using Binary Relations","authors":"Clemens Holzmann, A. Ferscha","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.110","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an architecture for recognizing spatial relationships between real-world objects with integrated computing capabilities. The aim is to develop mechanisms for providing collectives of such artifacts with an awareness about spatial relations to other artifacts of the same collective. Therefore, an approach for recognizing binary relationships by a pairwise comparison of the spatial contexts of artifacts, as well as a novel algorithm which takes advantage of the relation properties in order to make all artifacts of the collective spatially-aware, are presented. The scope is on orientation- and distance-relationships, which are represented in a qualitative way. A general focus of this work is on the efficiency of the solutions with regard to their application in embedded systems. We expect the presented approach to be valuable for the interaction among artifacts and humans, as well as for acquiring high-level context information about artifact collectives.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124173367","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":"Autonomously Reconstructable Semi-Structured P2P Networks for File Sharing","authors":"K. Ohnishi, S. Nagamatsu, T. Okamura, Y. Oie","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.63","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a semi-structured peer-to-peer (P2P) network for file sharing built from a structured P2P network as a basis for file search together with an unstructured P2P network for access load balancing. This semi-structured P2P network adopts a structured P2P network capable of providing reliable file search as its base structure. In addition, it makes lightly loaded nodes in the structured network construct unstructured P2P networks over which heavily loaded nodes can spread their access load. The semi-structured P2P network is required to dynamically reconstruct its network topology according to changes in node loadings and file search performance. We also propose an autonomic, distributed, and cooperative method for dynamically altering the network topology. In simulation experiments, we first obtain a network topology that ensures reliable file search and is optimal in terms of access load balancing. This is carried out under the (idealized) assumption that the load state of all nodes in the network can be obtained in advance. We also show that the proposed topology reconstruction method yields network topologies with almost the same performance as the optimal configuration.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114854749","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":"MOF-EMF Alignment","authors":"M. Mohamed, M. Romdhani, K. Ghédira","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.85","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explains the relationship between the MOF and EMF meta-models and describes the ATL transformation tool. Based on this specific mapping, general principles for transformation between these modelling frameworks are discussed and used to reflect on our current standardization work on MOF query/view/transformations (QVT) within the OMG's model driven architecture initiative.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116990759","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}
M. Shevertalov, E. Stehle, C. Rorres, S. Mancoridis, M. Kam
{"title":"An Approach to Comprehending Networked Applications through Analogy","authors":"M. Shevertalov, E. Stehle, C. Rorres, S. Mancoridis, M. Kam","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.55","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed applications rely on packet-switched networks to connect their various elements. This paper describes a technique that can help software engineers and network administrators characterize unfamiliar networked applications by matching them to a single, or a combination of several, analogous and familiar networked applications). This matching is based on the size distribution of the packets sent and received by the application undergoing scrutiny.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116403433","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":"Modeling Distributed Scheduling via Fuzzy Constraint-Based Agent Negotiation","authors":"K. R. Lai, M. Lin, B. Kao","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.84","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a general framework for modeling a distributed scheduling problem via fuzzy constraint-based agent negotiation. Fuzzy constraints, in this way, are used not only to represent the requirements that jobs being scheduled must satisfy, but also to specify the possibilities prescribing to what extent the solutions are suitable for scheduling to rank the solutions. Furthermore, fuzzy constraint-based agent negotiation provides a systematic method to gradually relax the requirements to generate a proposal, and then utilizes possibility functions to select an alternative that is subject to the others' acceptability. Each agent, on behalf of each entity involved in the scheduling, iteratively proposes its offers in order to gradually move toward a satisfactory schedule. The iterative nature of agent negotiation process forces the convergence between demand and offer. Thus, each agent, who is in charge of different aspects of the problem, not only distributively solves its problems to maximize its local objectives, but also works together with other agents to attain a globally beneficial schedule. Experimental results suggest that the proposed approach is focused not only on the minimization of parameters such as makespan and tardiness, but also on the economical effects to maximize the profits of the enterprise.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130633756","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 Methodology & Tool for Determining Inter-component Dependencies Dynamically in J2EE Environments","authors":"U. Bellur","doi":"10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2007.44","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of server side component models such as J2EE has considerably simplified the construction of enterprise applications. However the dependence of the enterprise on these applications and their proliferation has shifted the complexity in managing the environment in which these applications operate. The difficulty in management is cheifly due to the inter-dependencies that exist between the components that make up these applications. Changing one component can have unpredictable side effects in the performance and functional behavior of other components because of this coupling. Self management or autonomic computing looks into techniques of self for self-configuration, self-healing and self protection. We believe that in order for a middleware to be self-managing, it is first necessary to obtain and maintain its topology which characterizes the components and their inter-dependencies making up this complex distributed environment. We present here a methodology and a tool to non-intrusively and dynamically extract and store the component topology from a distributed execution environment. The techniques presented in this paper have been evolved primarily for a J2EE environment although they can be applied without loss of generality to any distributed object system.","PeriodicalId":288478,"journal":{"name":"Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130281106","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}