A unified framework for managing Web-based services

The emergence of Web technologies enables a variety of Web-based service applications, which can be examined from business process integration, supply chain management, and knowledge management perspectives. To categorize existing Web-based services while foreseeing potential new types, a unified view is needed to represent the structures and processes of Web-based services. This paper proposes a general framework to identify essential structures and operations of Web-based services, and then models these components. We articulate the framework with Web technologies, such as Web service and semantic Web, multi-agent and peer-to-peer, and Web information retrieval and mining. Two comprehensive examples in insurance and knowledge services are used to elaborate the use of Web-based service framework in fulfilling business processes. This study synthesizes essential structures and processes of Web-based services to build a framework for researchers and practitioners to develop Web-based services and techniques.     

匿名通信系统隐藏服务定位技术研究综述

匿名通信系统诞生之初是为了保护通信实体身份的匿名性和网络中通信内容的隐私性、完整性,但随着匿名通信系统的广泛使用,其匿名性不断增强,在隐藏服务技术的支持下,匿名通信系统被不法分子滥用的情况愈演愈烈,在匿名通信系统隐藏服务技术支持下的暗网平台已然成为了"法外之地".站在网络监管部门的立场上,对匿名通信系统,尤其是匿名通信...     

Using UML Profiles for Documenting Web-Based Application Frameworks

The Web now offers an exceptional infrastructure for the development of distributed collaborative services and applications. However, most of the existing applications only make use of the Web access and visualization facilities, without exploiting its distributed-processing potential capabilities. Web technologies are currently more focused on the provision of semantics to data and the design of dynamic Web pages, while paying little attention to the distributed architecture of the applications – that should go beyond client-server architectures. Application frameworks are one of the key technologies that may provide the mechanisms required for the design and development of reusable and scalable systems in these environments. However, the way to document such frameworks so they can be effectively tailored and reused still remains unresolved. In this paper we propose the use of UML profiles for documenting Web-based application frameworks, as a standard means for expressing their semantics. UML profiles allow all stakeholders of a system to share a common graphical notation and vocabulary, and permit more precise specifications and better documentation on how to use and customize applications. As an example, we build a UML profile for MultiTEL, a framework particularly well suited for the development of Internet-based multimedia and collaborative systems, and show how systems designers can use it to derive and document their applications.     

A web-based sensor network system with distributed data processing approach via web application

We have proposed a Web-based sensor network constructed of Web-based sensor nodes and a remote management system. The Web-based sensor nodes consist of communication units and measurement devices with Web servers. The management system has intelligent processing and rule-based function to manage them flexibly via the Internet and performs various image analyses easily with Web application services. By distributing the image analyses to Web application services, our proposed system provides versatile and scalable data processing. We demonstrated that it can realize the desired image analyses effectively and perform complicated management by changing its operations depending on the results of analysis.     

Leveraging Web-Based Information Systems

Internet technologies, including the Web, Web browsers, and search engines, have provided unprecedented opportunities for conducting business online. Together, these technologies enable the creation of Web-based information systems, which are changing market dynamics and the way companies conduct business. This article presents a framework for an internetworked business model using Web-based information systems.     

Distributed monitoring and control of office buildings by embedded agents

We describe a decentralized system consisting of a collection of software agents that monitor and control an office building. It uses the existing power lines for communication between the agents and the electrical devices of the building, such as sensors and actuators for lights and heating. The objectives are both energy saving and increasing customer satisfaction through value added services. Results of qualitative simulations and quantitative analysis based on thermodynamical modeling of an office building and its staff using four different approaches for controlling the building indicate that significant energy savings can result from using the agent-based approach. The evaluation also shows that customer satisfaction can be increased in most situations. The approach here presented makes it possible to control the trade-off between energy saving and customer satisfaction (and actually increase both, in comparison with current approaches).     

基于Web服务组合的业务流程管理系统的分析与设计

Internet/Intranet应用的普及和Web技术的发展,为Web工作流管理系统的实现提供了一个理想的平台,而基于Web的工作流管理服务为异地办公及跨企业的合作提供了良好的基础。采用Web技术已成为新一代工作流管理系统的主要特征。本文研究开发的工作流管理系统原型将Web技术与XML相结合,给出了基于XML的过程定义语言与工作流执行机的设计与实现方法。     

A Secure Agent-based Framework for Internet Trading in Mobile Computing Environments

Most of the current Internet trading frameworks, in particular their negotiation and payment phases, are intended for customers frequently connected to the Internet during an entire transaction. This requirement cannot be easily met in the high communication cost and/or low bandwidth settings, typically found in mobile computing environments. Based on the software agent paradigm, a new secure agent-based framework for Internet trading in mobile computing environments is proposed in this paper. The framework is composed of two new protocols. One is the agent-based auction-like negotiation protocol, another is the agent-based payment protocol. Both of them are dedicated to solve the trade problems of Internet trading in mobile computing environments and ensured to be safe by cryptographic technologies. The combination of the two secure protocols constitutes an integrative solution for Internet trading in mobile computing environments.     

Agent-Based Web Services Framework and Development Environment

The current Web services technologies have not exploited sufficient semantics and approaches to dynamic service-oriented operations in open environments. This paper argues that such operations can be realized through agent-oriented interaction approaches. The key challenge is to develop an integration framework for the two paradigms, agent- and service-oriented, in a way that capitalizes on their individual strengths. This paper proposes the notion of agent-based Web services (AWS). We address several critical issues, including the appropriate architectural framework and the structure of its main elements (agent-based Web services), their meta-model, supporting technologies, integration method, and implementation approach. An integrated development environment for this framework called SOAStudio has been developed and tested by implementing a case study of a reverse auction e-marketplace.     

基于网络信息搜索的Web Service 文本描述信息扩充方法

随着Web服务技术的不断成熟和发展,互联网上出现了大量的公共Web服务.在使用Web服务开发软件系统的过程中,其文本描述信息(例如简介和使用说明等)可以帮助服务消费者直观有效地识别和理解Web服务并加以利用.已有的研究工作大多关注于从Web服务的WSDL文件中获取此类信息进行Web服务的发现或检索,调研发现,互联网上大部分Web服务的WSDL文件中普遍缺少甚至没有此类信息.为此,提出一种基于网络信息搜索的从WSDL文件之外的信息源为Web服务扩充文本描述信息的方法.从互联网上收集包含目标Web服务特征标识的相关网页,基于从网页中抽取出的信息片段,利用信息检索技术计算信息片段与目标Web服务的相关度,并选取相关度较高的文本片段为Web服务扩充文本描述信息.基于互联网上的真实数据进行的实验,其结果表明,可为约51％的互联网上的Web服务获取到相关网页,并为这些Web服务中约88％扩充文本描述信息.收集到的Web服务及其文本描述信息数据均已公开发布.     

基于Web的分布式文档管理系统的设计与实现

企业和政府机构的分布式特征对文档管理提出了新的要求,传统的文档管理系统已经不能满足分布式应用需求。本文结合Web Services技术、工作流技术、版本控制技术和数据库技术,设计并实现了基于Web的分布式文档管理系统。本文工作已经在某政府机构的电子政务建设中得到了具体的实现与应用。     

Semantic Web service discovery: state-of-the-art and research challenges

Ubiquitous computing paradigms involving social agents require principled selection of services, context-aware analysis, and satisfaction of requests, as well as dynamic interaction and negotiation with other agents. Synergies between semantic technologies and service discovery facilitate rich and formal representations of services and agent interactions as well as specialization and generalization of service needs. In this paper, we provide an extensive review of semantic Web service discovery, highlighting the state-of-the-art approaches, the key semantic formalisms employed, as well as benchmarks and testbeds for performance evaluation. Defining a generic framework for semantic service discovery, we describe the key tasks and criteria involved in agent-based computing. A detailed comparison of the popular discovery systems is performed with a discussion on trade-offs between existing approaches. We conclude by pointing out important research challenges to be addressed for next-generation service discovery by dynamic multi-agent systems in complex environments.     

Web service adaptation: A decade’s overview

With the exponential growth of communication and information technologies, adaptation has gained a significant attention as it becomes a key feature of service-based systems, allowing them to operate and evolve in highly dynamic and uncertain environments. Although several Web service standards and frameworks have been proposed and extended, existing solutions do not provide a suitable architecture, in which all aspects of monitoring and adaptation (e.g., proactive, cross-layer, and autonomic adaptation) can be expressed. In addition, the emergence of new computing environments to host and execute various types of services (Web/cloud services, big data-intensive services, mobile services, microservices, etc.) raises the need for more efficient monitoring and adaptation systems. This survey aims to bring a synthesis and a road-map to the adaptation of service-based systems. We also discuss adaptation solutions in emerging service models, such as cloud services and big services. Based on an adaptation taxonomy which we extracted from the surveyed approaches, and by identifying the main requirements and goals of service adaptation in Web, cloud and big data environments, detailed analysis and discussions, as well as the open issues, are provided.     

基于Web的Internet信息服务程序的研究

基于Web的Internet信息服务程序是用户连接到World Wide Web的通道,也是用户访问信息、通信、娱乐的出发点。文章首先讨论在Internet上常见的信息服务,然后对实现这些服务的不同技术进行比较,并论述了Web和数据库集成的几种方案。最后,提出了以Java Servlet解决方案为基础的基于Web的Internet信息服务系统的体系结构。     

Web Services在车载信息服务系统中的应用

针对目前车载信息服务系统建设实施过程中遇到的系统信息结构复杂、异构系统类型繁多、信息内容交互困难等问题,结合Web服 务技术面向服务的体系结构,给出了一种基于Web Services技术的信息集成架构,解决了车载信息服务信息实现信息交互的难题。     

Building a multisite Web architecture

Any large organizations that first came online in the late 1990s are now facing the decision whether to upgrade their Web systems or to start anew. Given the speed with which new technologies are introduced in the Web environment, system deployment life cycles have shrunk significantly-but so have system life spans. After only a few years, an organization's Internet infrastructure is likely to need a major overhaul. In late 2001, the systems architecture team to which I belong took on these issues for an organization that wanted to rebuild its Web infrastructure. The existing infrastructure contained multiple single points of failure, could not scale to expected usage patterns, was built on proprietary systems, and had a high management overhead. The legacy infrastructure had grown organically over the previous five years as administrators added unplanned features and functionality, and usage had grown 100-fold since the specifications were initially developed. Because of the age and condition of the legacy systems, we decided to redesign the solution from scratch to overcome the inherent limitations. This case study describes the process our systems architecture team followed for designing and deploying the new architecture. I detail the component selection rationale, with implementation details where allowed. Ours is just one successful approach to deploying a. multisite, fully redundant Web-based system for a large organization; other reasonable and viable ways to build such a system also exist.     

Web技术在网络管理中的应用研究

Internet技术的发展和普及,为实现网络管理的灵活性、廉价性和方便性提供了极大的机遇。文章描述了结合Internet Web技术的网络系统管理的特点和基本模型,并结合一个实用电子邮政系统的网络系统管理探讨了基于Web的网络管理的应用。     

Semantics and knowledge grids: building the next-generation grid

Just as the Internet is shifting its focus from information and communication to a knowledge delivery infrastructure, we see the Grid moving from computation and data management to a pervasive, worldwide knowledge management infrastructure. We have the technology to store and access data, but we seem to lack the ability to transform data tombs into useful data and extract knowledge from them. We review some of the current and future technologies that will impact the architecture, computational model, and applications of future grids. We attempt to forecast the evolution of computational grids into what we call the next-generation grid, with a particular focus on the use of semantics and knowledge discovery techniques and services. We propose a comprehensive software architecture for the next-generation grid, which integrates currently available services and components in Semantic Web, Semantic Grid, P2P, and ubiquitous systems. We'll also discuss a case study that shows how some new technologies can improve grid applications.     

DartGrid II: a semantic grid platform for ITS

Intelligent transportation systems offer an alternative approach to solving many problems by implementing advances in information, Internet, communication, and cybernetics technologies. Grid computing can support traffic data semantization, resource sharing, ITS subsystem cooperation, and global-scale distributed computing that connects all kinds of resources. We are currently using grid technology to build DartGrid II, a semantic ITS platform to support resource sharing, service flow management, and cross-domain cooperation.     

Service-Oriented Computing: Bringing Business Systems to the Web

The notion of "service" has spurred major evolutions for both information systems and the Web. A software application is no longer considered a monolithic component; it can be divided into services that are smaller components defined by their function and accessible through well-defined interfaces and protocols. As a result, IT actors are using service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to remodel the information systems of many companies while the Web is increasingly becoming a programmable place. In both domains, developers build composite client applications to consume these services. Even boundaries between enterprise services and Internet services are vanishing. Some companies, such as Strikelron provide enterprise services that were previously always hosted internally - like customer relationship management solutions. As a consequence, companies now have the technologies required to bring their business online. With Web services, private business processes can be exposed to partners through public composite Web applications. When new projects emerge, companies need guidance to properly handle such work. In this context, we aim to provide companies solutions - through a methodology, an architecture, and technical choices - that will help them solve generic problems such as security and application conception