WEB SERVICE WRAPPING, DISCOVERY AND CONSUMPTION - More Power to the End-user

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Author(s):  
Mian-Guan Lim ◽  
Sining Wu ◽  
Tomasz Simon ◽  
Md Rashid ◽  
Na Helian

On-demand cloud applications like online email accounts and online virtual disk space are becoming widely available in various forms. In cloud applications, one can see the importance of underlying resources, such as disk space, that is available to the end-user but not easily accessible. In the authors’ study, a modern file system developed in linux is proposed, which enables consuming of cloud applications and making the underlying disk space resource available to the end-user. This system is developed as a web service to support cross operation system support. A free online mail account was used to demonstrate this solution, and an IMAP protocol to communicate with remote data spaces was used so that this method can mount onto any email system that supports IMAP. The authors’ definition of infinite storage as the user is able to mount file systems as a single logical drive.


2013 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Dalė Dzemydienė ◽  
Arūnas Miliauskas

Šio mokslinio tyrimo tematika nagrinėja internetinių paslaugų kompozicijos atlikimo priemones ir būdus. Straipsnyje aprašomi vartotojo poreikiams pritaikytų internetinių paslaugų kompozicijos automatiniai ir pusiau automatiniai kūrimo būdai ir metodai, plačiau nagrinėjamos šių metodų galimybės ir apribojimai. Analizuojami moksliniuose straipsniuose pateikiami internetinių paslaugų kompozicijos atlikimo metodai ir išskiriami trys pagrindiniai šių paslaugų kompozicijos būdai: darbų srautų modeliais grindžiamas, paslaugų šablonais grindžiamas ir automatinis paslaugų kompozicijos metodas. Tyrimo tikslas – pateikti pasiūlymą, kuris leistų automatiniu ar pusiau automatiniu būdu kurti internetinių paslaugų kompozicijas pagal vartotojų poreikius. Pusiau automatinio internetinių paslaugų komponavimo uždavinio sprendimo būdą iliustruoja sudėtingas kelionės planavimo pavyzdys. Internetinių paslaugų kompozicijai atlikti siūloma taikyti dirbtinio intelekto planavimo metodus. Pateikiama tokio uždavinio sprendimo koncepcija, kuri grindžiama fragmentiniais kituose projektuose gautais paslaugų komponavimo rezultatais ir bando sujungti visą internetinių paslaugų kompozicijos procesą: nuo vartotojo keliamų kompozicijos reikalavimų įvedimo iki tinkamo paslaugų kompozicijos rezultatų pateikimo. Possibilities of automatic and semi-automatic end-user driven web service compositionDalė Dzemydienė, Arūnas Miliauskas  SummaryOur research work relates to the main principles, means and current limitations of the end-user driven automatic and semi-automatic web service composition. It analyses automatic and semi-automatic composition approaches found in literature and classifi es them as workfl ow-based, template-based and automatic methods. The aim of this research is to provide a proposal how to construct semiautomatic or automatic end-user driven web service composition. An approach is illustrated by the multi-complexity of service composition in travel domain. We analyze a conceptual solution that covers the whole composition process: from an end-user submitting composition requirements until the presentation of the a composition execution results. Some methods of an artifi cial intelligence (AI) planning research fi eld were used in proposed web service composition approach.


Author(s):  
Siddharth Arun Panigrahi ◽  
Umamaheswari V

An analytical study of the complete framework for the management of biosignals is done. The framework provides for the acquisition, and storage of the biosignals, along with the associated metadata. It also provides solutions for validation, synchronization of acquired signals, thus allowing error-free signal inputs for further statistical analysis. The model comprises primarily of four layers, namely, acquisition, validation, post-processing and statistical analysis layers. Additionally, a presentation layer is also provided, wherein the appropriate end-user can use a suitable client or Web service to access the results of the statistical analysis. The raw data is deliberately spilt into two: Internal data (actual signal data) and External data (metadata) and they interact only when necessary (e.g. Identifying the biosignal’s origin). Microservices are used to compartmentalize the functionalities required in the system. Additional solutions to problems plaguing the present models (like cloud-upload bottleneck) are also discussed. 


2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mian-Guan Lim ◽  
Sining Wu ◽  
Tomasz Simon ◽  
Md Rashid ◽  
Na Helian

On-demand cloud applications like online email accounts and online virtual disk space are becoming widely available in various forms. In cloud applications, one can see the importance of underlying resources, such as disk space, that is available to the end-user but not easily accessible. In the authors’ study, a modern file system developed in linux is proposed, which enables consuming of cloud applications and making the underlying disk space resource available to the end-user. This system is developed as a web service to support cross operation system support. A free online mail account was used to demonstrate this solution, and an IMAP protocol to communicate with remote data spaces was used so that this method can mount onto any email system that supports IMAP. The authors’ definition of infinite storage as the user is able to mount file systems as a single logical drive.


Author(s):  
Neil Davis

Text mining technology can be used to assist in finding relevant or novel information in large volumes of unstructured data, such as that which is increasingly available in the electronic scientific literature. However, publishers are not text mining specialists, nor typically are the end-user scientists who consume their products. This situation suggests a Web services based solution, where text mining specialists process the literature obtained from publishers and make their results available to remote consumers (research scientists). In this chapter we discuss the integration of Web services and text mining within the domain of scientific publishing and explore the strengths and weaknesses of three generic architectural designs for delivering text mining Web services. We argue for the superiority of one of these and demonstrate its viability by reference to an application designed to provide access to the results of text mining over the PubMed database of scientific abstracts.


Author(s):  
Elena M. Torroglosa García ◽  
Gabriel López Millán

The high adoption in daily lives of services offered by the Web 2.0 has opened a wide field for the proliferation of new Web-based services and applications. Social networks, as the main exponent of this new generation of services, require security systems to ensure end user authentication and access control to shared information. Another feature that is becoming increasingly important in these scenarios is the delegation of controlled access between the different API (Application Programming Interfaces) to integrate services and information. The safe use of these Web services requires end user security credentials and different authentication and authorization technologies. This chapter provides an introduction to the most relevant protocols and standards in the area of Web service security, which are able to provide authentication and authorization mechanisms.


Author(s):  
Donatien Dallery ◽  
Hervé Squividant ◽  
Alban de Lavenne ◽  
Josette Launay ◽  
Christophe Cudennec

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (06) ◽  
pp. 463-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. V. Mejino ◽  
L. T. Detwiler ◽  
J. D. Franklin ◽  
J. F. Brinkley ◽  
A. Puget

SummaryObjectives: Currently, the primary means for answering anatomical questions such as ‘what vital organs would potentially be impacted by a bullet wound to the abdomen?’ is to look them up in textbooks or to browse online sources. In this work we describe a semantic web service and spatial query processor that permits a user to graphically pose such questions as joined queries over separately defined spatial and symbolic knowledge sources.Methods: Spatial relations (e.g. anterior) were defined by two anatomy experts, and based on a 3-D volume of labeled images of the thorax, all the labeled anatomical structures were queried to retrieve the target structures for every query structure and every spatial relation. A web user interface and a web service were designed to relate existing symbolic information from the Foundational Model of Anatomy ontology (FMA) with spatial information provided by the spatial query processor, and to permit users to select anatomical structures and define queries.Results: We evaluated the accuracy of results returned by the queries, and since there is no independent gold standard, we used two anatomy experts’ opinions as the gold standard for comparison. We asked the same experts to define the gold standard and to define the spatial relations. The F-measure for the overall evaluation is 0.90 for rater 1 and 0.56 for rater 2. The percentage of observed agreement is 99% and Cohen’s kappa coefficient reaches 0.51. The main source of disagreement relates to issues with the labels used in the dataset, and not with the tool itself.Conclusions: In its current state the system can be used as an end-user application but it is likely to be of most use as a framework for building end-user applications such as displaying the results as a 3-D anatomical scene. The system promises potential practical utility for obtaining and navigating spatial and symbolic data.


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