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The Advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm has brought exciting opportunities to solve many real-world problems. IoT in industries is poised to play an important role not only to increase productivity and efficiency but also to improve customer experiences. Two main challenges that are of particular interest to industry include: handling device heterogeneity and getting contextual information...
To build a simple picture of M2M communication under service-oriented M2M architecture, a key innovation underlines the enablement of M2M device abstraction and semantics support. However, state of the art structures of M2M devices/software lack common M2M Service Layer for interoperability. Devices/software rely heavily on specific API implementation-oriented data services and the data definition...
The federation of infrastructures in the fields of Cloud and Future Internet (FI) test beds is evolving rapidly due to its multilateral benefits for end-users and infrastructure owners. However, interoperable monitoring data exchange across multiple administrative domains is a critical task to achieve as the heterogeneity of the used tools and interfaces arises. Several efforts have been done to unify...
The growth of APIs and Web services on the Internet, especially through larger enterprise systems increasingly being leveraged for Cloud and software-as-a-service opportunities, poses challenges to improving the efficiency of integration with these services. Interfaces of enterprise systems are typically larger, more complex and overloaded, with single operation having multiple data entities and parameter...
The management of the configuration of network devices is a complex process, due to both the number of devices and parameters to take into consideration, and most importantly to the widely varying ways in which such parameters can be queried and modified on each device. Each equipment vendor provides its own command-line interface or management protocol where parameters are structured in a different...
Hybrid Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) are growing at a remarkable speed, so network administrators need to deal with the configuration of a plethora of devices including OpenFlow elements, traditional equipment, and nodes supporting both OpenFlow and traditional features. The OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol (OF-CONFIG) is positioned as a solid candidate for the remote configuration...
As of today, building automation systems are present in almost any commercial building. They perform climate control, lightning control, access control, surveillance, and quite a few other tasks. As a result of their evolutionary development, building automation systems are divided into separate silos of disciplines that are not well integrated with each other. As of today, a variety of communication...
Provenance awareness adds a new dimension to the engineering of service-oriented systems, requiring them to be able to answer questions about the provenance of any data produced. This need is even more evident where atomic services are aggregated into added-value composite services to be delivered with certain non-functional characteristics. Prior work in the area of provenance for service-oriented...
Cloud Computing is a new computing paradigm where a large amount of computing capacity is offered on demand and only paying for what you use. Several Infrastructure Providers have adopted this approach offering resources which are easily managed by means of web-based APIs. However, if a user wants to use different providers, the resource management becomes tedious because providers define different...
Communication systems are the corner stones of (almost) each automation system. Significant advances have been made in developing such software systems with modern programming paradigms, using software product lines, employing specifications, norms, frameworks, libraries and tools. However, flexibility in terms of incorporating modifications of device profiles, communication protocols and new devices...
One possible threat to linked data quality is the lack of knowledge about the dynamics in dependent remote datasets. Linked data consuming applications often need to be aware of changes in these datasets in order to update local data dependencies. Dataset dynamics recently emerged as an active research topic and methods for the detection, propagation, and description of the dynamics in linked datasets...
This research utilized software agent based technology in expanding remote machine tool service system by constructing related remote service ontologies to facilitate its smart and distributive characteristics. These service agents could be used for remote smart machine tool services underlying Internet through the communication protocols supported by both KQML (Knowledge Query Manipulation Language)...
This paper proposes a new way to complete the interface model mapping from CORBA to ontology in the field of network management, which is interface model mapping adapter. The adapter consists of three parts, which are CORBA interface analyzer, mapping controller and ontology information database. The adapter can automatically map the CORBA interface model to ontology interface model. Therefore, we...
Most of the work on automated Web service composition has focused so far on composition of stateful Web services. This level of composition so called ldquoProcess Levelrdquo considers Web services with their internal and complex behaviours. At process level formal models such as State Transition Systems (STS from now) or Interface Automata are the most appropriate models to represent the internal...
Multi-agent based simulation (MABS) model is based on a relationship between an individual and a computer program, being possible to simulate an artificial world composed by computational interactive entities. The role of simulation has been progressively acquiring importance in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). For this reason, a detailed requirement analysis for the specification of computer MABS platforms...
It is well known that no security mechanism can provide full protection against a potential attack. There is always a possibility that a security incident may happen, mainly as a result of a new or modified attack that the employed countermeasures cannot handle or identify. It is therefore useful to perform a deferred analysis of logged network data, in an attempt to identify abnormal behavior/traffic...
Considering the problem of unified description of data modeling languages for computer network management, information specification ontology may be a prospective solution. However, basics of a unified mathematical theory are still lacking for ontology building. Delighted by the philosophical thinking of conceptual scheme for descriptive metaphysics, this paper tries to utilize formal concept analysis...
Interaction protocols are essential elements for the integration of business processes. Usually, protocols have been agreed in advance by the participating organizations, playing each participant a predefined role. However, it is also possible that processes need to use/to impose a concrete interaction pattern. The question for another process is to decide whether the interaction between them is possible,...
The integration of heterogeneous biomedical information is one important step towards providing the level of personalization required in the next generation of healthcare provision. In order to provide the computer-based decision support systems needed to access this integrated healthcare information it will be necessary to handle the semantics of (amongst other things) medical protocols. The EC FP6...
In this paper we describe atomic services for distributed digital libraries based on RESTful web services. Our understanding of atomic services (as the basic building blocks for distributed digital libraries) was described in one of our previous works. Those services are: content storage service, metadata storage service, composition and relation service, and search service. Communication protocols...
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