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Performing personal risk management in one??s life is often considered to be a job for a professional since insurance as a service is very complex. In addition, the interfaces of current electronic insurance services targeted to ordinary users are often product-oriented. As the current physical services are transferred to the electronic environment, the interaction mode changes from human-to-human...
Virtual organizations are dynamic associations of business partners that join forces to achieve a common goal. Because partners live in very competitive environments and they do not fully trust each other, they establish contractual agreements to help reduce the risk of participating in the virtual organization. This naturally puts severe demands on the security of the process leading to the establishment...
The success of web services has influenced the way in which Grid applications are being written. Web services are increasingly used as a means to realise service-oriented distributed computing. Grid users often submit their applications in the form of workflows with certain Quality of Service (QoS) requirements imposed on the workflows. These workflows detail the composition of web services and the...
The ?? la" (Associative Linking of Attributes) project demonstrates how a system for managing document collections in an organisational setting could be enhanced to support the information delivery process. Contemporary approaches to managing collections of documents typically lack support for flexible metadata definition, browsing and ultimately use for document retrieval. Users are forced to...
Multi-party environments, like account communities, struggle with organizationally pre-defined information structures in corporate document repositories. Different roles work in different information structures according to their tasks and perspectives. The Semantic Desktop increases retrieval quality respecting personal information models, such as individual folder structures. The paper illustrates...
The institution of ??electronic markets as services?? needs careful design. In this context, Market Engineering provides a structured design process that guides the market designer in this demanding task. In analogy to the engineering design process, the design stage of the Market Engineering process is decomposed into four major phases being the conceptual design, embodiment design, detail design...
While outsourcing IT infrastructure and various IT functions is common, outsourcing the digital archival of municipal documents has not been realized. The reasons for this include the complexity of operations, the lack of models complying with governmental regulation on archival as well as conflicting requirements on the security of sensitive information and public access. This paper presents a case...
Enterprise computing faces major challenges such as ever-increasing size and complexity and escalating costs of administering mission-critical IT systems, numerous human-caused failures and outages of IT systems, lack of sufficient supply of trained system administrators, and major obstacles in dealing with changes throughout the software system life cycle. Thus, it is practically impossible to rely...
Since companies face continuously changing business processes, centralized process repositories and execution engines have been integrated into the heart of enterprise systems. These systems are then able to support repetitive processes. In order to extend the reach of process orientation into more collaborative settings, employees must be given the possibility to adapt and refine the processes to...
General Integrated System Architecture is a set of models and methods that describes different aspects of the system and covers its life cycle. Its models are structuralized models with multi-layers and multiviews. They are descriptions and cognitions of the system at the top level and provide tools and methodology to understand, design, develop and implement the system. Therefore, they can supply...
In recent years, a growing number of Web services have emerged as the Internet develops at a fast rate. With the growing number of Web services, it is necessary to compose existing Web services dynamically. Selecting and composing individual Web services into more complicated and more useful Web processes is an important challenge. This paper model those composition processes as a graph problem. Based...
Web Services in the Enterprise: Concepts, Standards, Solutions, and Management. Akhil Sahai and Sven Graupner. New York: Springer, 2005. 312 pp For those who have an academic background of distributed systems and management, upon acquainting oneself with Web services two questions are usually raised: (1) What is the difference between Web services and middleware like CORBA? (2) What makes Web services...
Welcome to the Proceedings of the EDOC 2006 workshop Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2006! The workshop is a follow-up to the successful MWS 2005 workshop held at the EDOC 2005 conference and the subsequent special issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM, published by Inderscience Publishers). Similarly to these past venues, the MWS 2006 workshop...
The methodology of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) has been a popular area of research in recent years. To cater for the increasing awareness of the importance in software Quality of Service (QoS), some have suggested MDA as a solution. However, unlike functional properties, QoS displayed in a development cycle is prone to changes after deployment due to a non-constant runtime environment and usage...
In the domain of soft real-time application design, the gap between component-specification models and the implementations often implies that the implementations cannot fully take advantage of the specification models. To limit this gap, this paper proposes an approach to generate a QoS monitor from the timed behavior specification. To support this approach, we rely on two different component models:...
The Advances in Quality of Service Management (AQuSerM) workshop is a satellite event of the Tenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2006), held between the 16th and 20th of October 2006. The AuQSerM workshop was established as a forum for presenting advances in QoS-oriented techniques and tools for managing enterprise architectures, encompassing approaches to monitoring, diagnostics, runtime...
Workflow forms a key part of many existing Service Oriented applications, involving the integration of services that may be made available at distributed sites. It is possible to distinguish between an "abstract" workflow description outlining which services must be involved in a workflow execution and a "physical" workflow description outlining the particular instances of services...
Digitization of paper-bound documents is one of the foremost commercial interests worldwide. First step in all such applications is transforming a paper bound document into an electronic document by scanning, subsequently applying to the image OCR to generate textual information from the document image. In this paper we describe our work that acts as a pre-processing stage for OCR application. Automatic...
A good decision is made usually from gathering adequate information, working out the importance of individual factors, and choosing the best course of action. The quantity and quality of the information, the process of highlighting the important factors, and the duration to process the decision are critical. Nowadays, outsource hiring and recruitment companies have played an important role in many...
Individual user needs are subjective, perspective, and context-dependent at the same time. In this paper, I will pre-sent an adaptive multi-perspective user interface which learns the individual preferences when working with documents, i.e. the way a user categorizes documents and clusters them within direc-tories. The system is built on dynamic conceptualizations of docu-ments and folders based on...
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