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Being able to make objective Quality of Service (QoS) judgments or assessments is a challenging and crucial activity. The process of making these assessments is compounded when the environment in which the assessments have to be made are virtual; in the sense the interacting parties might not have necessarily met with each other physically. In a broad sense Quality of Service assessments could be...
Summary form only given. Digital Ecosystems represent the union between the digital world and real world. Cyber-Physical Systems provide a unified framework for connecting the abstract computational artifacts with the physical world. This allows for robust and flexible architectural design with multi-scale dynamics and integrated wired and wireless networking for managing the flows of mass, energy,...
The success of social software depends on contributions made by two key entities; the infrastructure provider(s) and the content providers (users). Currently, social software providers do not possess a powerful and generic approach to measure the contributions of their users. The ability of measuring user contributions will allow social software providers to accurately identify, acknowledge and reward...
This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating to software engineering is well described in the textbook entitled Software Engineering by Sommerville that is now in its eighth edition (2004) and the white paper, Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK), by the IEEE (203) upon which software engineering ontology...
Crawlers are software which can traverse the Internet and retrieve Webpages by hyperlinks. In the face of the inundant spam Websites, traditional Web crawlers cannot function well to solve this problem. Semantic focused crawlers utilize semantic web technologies to analyze the semantics of hyperlinks and Web documents. This paper briefly reviews the recent studies on one category of semantic focused...
This paper aims to present software engineering ontology as software engineering knowledge representation for a multi-site software development. It will not only facilitate the capturing of software engineering knowledge but also enhance the sharing of software engineering knowledge across geographically multiple software development sites. The software engineering ontology assists in defining information...
In the domain of e-commerce business it is important for the initiating agent of the interaction to analyze and consider the level of perceived risk in forming an interaction with an agent, apart from just considering the level of trust and security. By doing so, the initiating agent would have all the concepts which would assist it in making an informed interaction-based decision. But for risk analysis...
In the literature, the notion of trust has been widely discussed and various approaches have been proposed to assess and quantify it, in order to take it into consideration when making an interaction-based decision in industrial ecosystems. At the same time, the notion and importance of risk have been widely ignored and not been acknowledged as an important factor to consider, along with trust; while...
Component retrieval/discovery is a well-established research direction in Software Engineering. With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service discovery has become increasingly crucial. However, the public UDDI Business Registry - the primary service discovery mechanism over the Internet - has been shut down permanently since 2006. Moreover, keyword-based service discovery is insufficient...
Organizational alliances are rapidly being formed as a means for effective cooperation with a common goal within a targeted value chain. The combination of such communication, coordination and cooperation leads to new organisational forms and scenarios within the digital ecosystem space that require technological support. Convergence refers to the move towards the use of a single united interaction...
In this paper, we introduce the issues and solutions of using OWL ontology to model extra restriction on dasiaPropertiespsila of dasiaClassespsila that are not provided by OWL specifications and to represent associations amongst dasiaPropertiespsila other than dasiaClassespsila. Two specific types of knowledge that cannot be modeled directly using OWL DL elements are identified and presented. Firstly...
Organizational alliances are rapidly being formed as a means for effective cooperation with a common goal within a targeted value chain. The combination of such communication, coordination and cooperation leads to new organisational forms and scenarios within the digital ecosystem space that require technological support. Convergence refers to the move towards concurrently coupled telecommunications...
With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services, service discovery has become increasingly crucial. Public Web services that are available "on the Web" provide unlimited values for a great number of online service consumers and developers. However, the public UDDI Business Registry - the primary service discovery mechanism over the Internet - has been shut down permanently...
The rapid growth of computing, the Internet and telecommunications systems have resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) is a computer telephony integration (CTI) solution that transports voice traffic over a data network as an alternative to the plain old telephone service (POTS). VoIP products promise converged telecommunications...
To ascertain the possible level of risk in a digital business ecosystem interaction, the initiating agent has to determine beforehand the probability of failure, the possible consequences of failure, and the loss of investment probability to its resources while interacting with the other agent. Out of these three constituents, the initiating agent can determine beforehand the probability of failure...
Due to technological advancement of the Internet, conducting e-commerce transactions have become a part of our daily lives. In a financial interaction to be carried over the digital business ecosystem domain, it is rational for an agent instigating the interaction to analyse beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the instigating agent an idea of direction...
The rapid growth of computing, the Internet and telecommunications systems have resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Telecommunication and data convergence promises a wide range of solutions that will increase productivity, reduce costs, and provide new opportunities and revenues for enterprises. Unfortunately, the access of converged telecommunication and data...
Service oriented environment (SOE) is new paradigm for carrying out business activities on the Internet. In this paper the author gives an introduction to the concept of service oriented environment and discusses the different activities carried out in the SOE and different entities involved in SOE. The issues related to trust in service oriented environment are proposed and explained
Advances in proteomics and protein expression techniques have lead to the elucidation of large amounts of protein data. Various data mining algorithms and mathematical models provide methods for analyzing this data; however, there are two issues that need to be addressed: (1) the need for standards for defining protein data description and exchange formats so they can be exchanged across the World...
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