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The transfer from the current power grid to the power grid of the future implicates major changes for all stakeholders participating in the smart grid. Hence, utilities have to face several novel problems in terms of service provision. In this contribution, we examine two complementary views in the overall context of smart grids. We argue for a combination of those two views, based on ontology mappings...
While several role-related concepts play an important role in business modeling, their definitions, relations, and use differ greatly between languages, papers, and reports. Due to this, the knowledge captured by models is not transferred correctly, and models are incomparable. In this paper, we provide a meta-model and definitions for several role-related concepts based on the practice of existing...
For IT-services providers, user satisfaction is the key for their company's success. Service providers need to understand the requirements of their users and translate them into their own business goals. Service malfunctions could have negative impact on user satisfaction, therefore to detect and resolve failures of the business process level has become a mission critical requirement for any IT-company...
In present day globalised trade, the ability to support collaboration through B2B (Business-to-Business) services is crucial. One of the key challenges is to pervasively connect partners across the entire value chain, with the appropriate service offerings. Thus, it is vital to quickly identify potential partners to form new B2B collaborations or to support formed collaborations with swift decision...
We propose an integrated framework that manages changes in long term composed services. The main procedure of change reaction is presented. One of the most challenging research issues of change management is how to automate the process of change reaction. To address this issue, we propose a semantic support, which centers around a tree-structured Web service ontology. The ontology is expected to provide...
Information technology (IT) is becoming essential for organizations. In this context, IT management has evolved to include IT service management and governance, towards business driven IT management paradigms. Thus, the alignment between IT and business has been regarded as one of the leading factors to the effectiveness of such paradigms. Furthermore, contributions from management activities automation...
Network management has suffered from increases in business, system, and operational complexity. This has been exacerbated by the heterogeneity in management data as well as the high quality requirements of multimedia services. Autonomic networking manages this growing complexity by adding intelligence inside network nodes and network management applications. While most autonomic applications simply...
Mobile commerce (M-commerce) is an attractive research area due to its relative novelty, rapid growth, and great potential in business applications. Unfortunately, there are a number of constraints effecting both performance and usability of mobile devices and network bandwidth. In addition, existing M-commerce applications are lack of fully automated business processes and still require significant...
In this paper we present a business intelligence process to dynamically develop multidimensional OLAP schemas to support information retrieval in an ontology-based environment. The particular aspect of our work consists in the integration of information retrieval techniques, such as the semantic indexing of non-structured documents with some dynamic management techniques of unbalanced hierarchies...
Although service oriented architecture (SOA) goes a long way toward providing interoperability in distributed and heterogeneous environments, managing semantic differences in such environments remains a challenge. This paper proposes a framework of semantic SOA, and uses Web service modeling ontology (WSMO) as its semantic service model. Last, we introduce a running example using semantic SOA for...
Enterprise information systems (EIS) are the core to support an enterprise to cope with changing requirement and service. However, dynamic is hard to tackle in EIS. Enterprise isomorphic architecture (EIA) which has been studied in our earlier work with models and methods is to provide structural and semantic interoperability of EIS on the three levels of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. Enterprise...
Next generation networks, as well as the future Internet, aim to provide context-sensitive business services that adapt to changing user needs, business goals, and environmental conditions. This paper describes the composition of an autonomic element, as a fundamental part of an autonomic architecture, which uses information models and semantics to link the business services with the services provided...
Web services interact with each other over the Web to accomplish different business objectives, such interactions are known as services conversations, which are specified via the exchanged messages containing the operations to be invoked. Service consumers search the Web for services that fulfil their requirements. Unfortunately, due to services heterogeneities, services consumers usually cannot find...
Most service and network management applications are developed to use vendor- and device-specific management data. These data are produced from different languages, and hence can have different representations of the same concept. We define a novel knowledge representation and mapping mechanism that uses ontological concepts and relations to generate a formal description for the Directory Enabled...
Currently, semantic technology is believed as a promising approach to overcome the limitations suffered by business process management(e.g. poor flexibility, low level of automation, etc). Based on the ontology, the semantic annotation can enhance relevant semantics of process model and hence enable process model has the potentials of facilitating process discovery, deployment and maintenance, and...
With the rapid growth of the e-commerce, how to discovery the specific information such as about buyer, seller and products etc. adapting for the online business user becomes a focused issue to the information search engine. Focused crawling is proposed to selectively seek out pages that are relevant to a predefined set of topics without downloading all of the Web. We present a novel approach for...
Seamless mobility has been described as providing collaborative mechanisms that enable a user to accomplish his or her tasks without regard to technology, type of media, or device. This paper examines how the FOCALE autonomic architecture, in conjunction with a novel understanding of the environment based on the integration of information models and ontologies, can realize these challenges.
B-SCP is a promising framework addressing alignment of IT with business strategy from a requirements engineering perspective. A problem with the B-SCP framework is that it is extremely difficult to track dependencies between requirements in a project of realistic complexity. We discuss how the RDF data model with OWL semantics, will greatly benefit an implementation using B-SCP. Our contribution is...
In pervasive computing environment, collaboration between participants and interacts between applications are key characters of pervasive computing. In order to support those collaborative activities, we propose an ontology based workflow centric collaboration system modeling method. We build the collaboration system models in different abstraction layers according to domain related degree. Based...
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