Automatic derivation of BPEL4WS from IDEF0 process models

Integration definition for function modelling (IDEF0) is one of the most popular notations for modelling business processes. It employs a rather simple and intuitive modelling construct, consisting of boxes representing functions and arrows connecting them signifying flow of information and materials. Web services on the other hand are an emerging technology for implementing distributed systems. Web service orchestration languages, such as Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), are the emerging approach for describing processes as networks of coordinated web services. Business processes as captured in IDEF0 models, however, may contain both web services as well as other types of activities which need to be coordinated. By automatically analysing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) definition of an IDEF0 model, we can identify how web services interact with other activities and at runtime generate code to support the orchestration of web services with the overall business process. The approach proposed is independent of the orchestration language and ensures an implementation independent model for specifying web service orchestrations. This approach also enables the top-down analysis of a business process to its constituent web services and avoids any misalignment problems during design time between the two.     

基于SWRL的网络管理信息定义

针对当前现有的网络与系统管理信息定义语言种类多、语义和规则描述能力弱的缺陷,提出了一种在基于本体的网络管理框架中使用语义网规则语言SWRL(SemanticWebRuleLanguage)定义网络管理信息的方法。通过本体语言从语义的层面整合现有的管理信息定义语言,使用RuleML(RuleMarkupLanguage)定义管理行为的规则,提高了网络管理信息定义的表达力,为智能网管奠定了基础。     

Converting XML DTDs to UML diagrams for conceptual data integration

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is fast becoming the new standard for data representation and exchange on the World Wide Web, e.g., in B2B e-commerce. Modern enterprises need to combine data from many sources in order to answer important business questions, creating a need for integration of web-based XML data. Previous web-based data integration efforts have focused almost exclusively on the logical level of data models, creating a need for techniques that focus on the conceptual level in order to communicate the structure and properties of the available data to users at a higher level of abstraction. The most widely used conceptual model at the moment is the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

This paper presents algorithms for automatically constructing UML diagrams from XML DTDs, enabling fast and easy graphical browsing of XML data sources on the web. The algorithms capture important semantic properties of the XML data such as precise cardinalities and aggregation (containment) relationships between the data elements. As a motivating application, it is shown how the generated diagrams can be used for the conceptual design of data warehouses based on web data, and an integration architecture is presented. The choice of data warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing as the motivating application is another distinguishing feature of the presented approach.     

基于深度神经网络的电子商务智能客服系统设计与实现

近年来,随着自然语言处理技术的飞速发展,传统的客服越来越不能满足当前的业务需求,基于自然语言技术的智能客服系统应运而生并被广泛应用在学习、生活、工作等各个领域中.本系统使用HTML和JavaScript进行前端页面的实现,采用Django进行后端的搭建,并使用MySQL进行数据的管理;使用ESIM模型进行语义匹配,该模...     

SCML业务特征冲突检测

针对业务生成标记语言SCML业务脚本中存在的特征冲突问题,提出了一种基于逻辑表达和推理的,以业务生成形式规约语言SCFSL形式化描述和分析特征冲突的新方法,并分别针对单业务和多业务脚本中存在的特征冲突进行了研究,提出相应特征冲突的判定规则。所提出的特征冲突检测方法可用于实现业务特征冲突检测器。     

Development of context-aware workflow systems based on Petri Net Markup Language

The Petri Net Markup Language (PNML) is originally an XML-based interchange format for Petri nets. Individual companies may specify their process models in Petri nets and exchange the Petri nets with other companies in PNML. This paper aims to demonstrate the capabilities of PNML in the development of applications instead of an industrial interchange format only. In this paper, we apply PNML to develop context-aware workflow systems. In existing literature, different methodologies for the design of context-aware systems have been proposed. However, workflow models have not been considered in these methodologies. Our interests in this paper are to propose a methodology to automatically generate context-aware action lists for users and effectively control resource allocation based on the state of the workflow systems. To achieve these objectives, we first propose Petri net models to describe the workflows. Next, we propose models to capture resource activities. Finally, the interactions between workflows and resources are combined to obtain a model for the whole processes. Based on the combined model, we propose architecture to automatically generate context-aware graphical user interface to guide the users and control resource allocation in workflow systems. We demonstrate our design methodology using a health care example.     

基于DSML的Web目录服务系统的设计与实现

目录服务标记语言DSML利用XML来定义数据内容和目录结构 ,并将它保存在目录服务系统上 ,使开发人员可以简单方便地在Internet上部署基于XML的应用。介绍基于DSML的Web目录服务系统模型的设计与实现     

基于语义Web服务的分布式服装搜索引擎系统设计

从电子商务环境下服装供应链管理的需求出发,分析了目前服装搜索引擎存在的问题,提出了基于语义Web服务的分布式服装商品搜索引擎系统模型,并讨论了它的体系结构。介绍了基于Ontology Web Language (OWL)的服装本体设计模型及其语义描述方法。分析了服装搜索引擎的基本功能及分布式环境下的Web Services (WS)合成。理论分析和实例原型说明了基于服装语义树的搜索引擎多关键词搜索效率明显高于全文搜索引擎。     

Semantic web reasoners and languages

Semantic web reasoners and languages enable the semantic web to function. Some of the latest reasoning models developed in the last few years are: DLP, FaCT, RACER, Pellet, MSPASS, CEL, Cerebra Engine, QuOnto, KAON2, HermiT and others. Some software tools such as Protégé, Jena and others also have been developed, which provide inferencing as well as ontology development and management environments. These reasoners usually differ in their inference procedures, supporting logic, completeness of reasoning, expressiveness and implementation languages. Various semantic web languages with increasing expressive power continue to be developed for describing web services. We survey the some of the more recent languages like OWL-S (Ontology Web Language-Schema), WSML (Web Service Modeling Language), SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) and others that have been tested in early use. We also survey semantic web reasoners and their relationship to these languages.     

XrML-RBLicensing approach adapted to the BPEL process of composite web services

Web service orchestration represents an open and standards-based approach for connecting web services together leading to higher level of business processes. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engines are designed to handle this orchestration. However, web service compositions into BPEL suffer from several non-functional requirements such as security. To address this problem, we propose in this paper a novel approach that is based on a harmony between the licensing concept offered by eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML), aspect-oriented programming (AOP), and web service compositions in BPEL. Our proposed approach, based on XrML, offers the ability to associate security licenses with activities offered by the composite web services. It allows to automatically generate BPEL aspects depending on the developed licenses, to separate between crosscutting concerns of the composed web services, and provides an easy way to include and update the non-functional requirements (e.g., security) into a BPEL process. It offers also the ability to validate the licenses, at runtime and without affecting the business logic of this model. To evaluate our approach, we have developed an inventory control system (ICS) sample that is composed of several web services. Case study and performance analysis are presented to demonstrate its feasibility as well.     

Finding an application-appropriate model for XML data warehouses

Decision support systems help the decision making process with the use of OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) and data warehouses. These systems allow the analysis of corporate data. As OLAP and data warehousing evolve, more and more complex data is being used. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible text format allowing the interchange and the representation of complex data. Finding an appropriate model for an XML data warehouse tends to become complicated as more and more solutions appear. Hence, in this survey paper we present an overview of the different proposals that use XML within data warehousing technology. These proposals range from using XML data sources for regular warehouses to those using full XML warehousing solutions. Some researches merely focus on document storage facilities while others present adaptations of XML technology for OLAP. Even though there are a growing number of researches on the subject, many issues still remain unsolved.     

大型设备网络化监测与维护系统体系结构研究

以基于状态的维护开放系统体系结构（OSA-CBM）模型为标准架构，以XML/SOAP和Web Services技术为网络通信支持，提出了一种“功能—服务—系统”三维体系结构，为大型设备网络化监测与维护系统建设提供了一种新的设计开发模式．基于该体系结构设计开发的分布式设备远程状态监测与故障诊断系统已在工程项目中获得成功应用．     

利用Web服务和XML实现数据库同步

XML（可扩展标记语言）以其自描述性和便于传输的优势迅速成为网络上交换数据的存储格式。Web服务的应用使得Web应用程序可以透明地访问服务,请求参数和响应结果是被序列化进入SOAP消息中的。结合Web服务和XML技术的各自特点 ,提出了利用Web服务和XML实现数据库同步的策略。     

PGSW-OS: a novel approach for resource management in a semantic web operating system based on a P2P grid architecture

A web operating system is an operating system that users can access from any hardware at any location. A peer-to-peer (P2P) grid uses P2P communication for resource management and communication between nodes in a grid and manages resources locally in each cluster, and this provides a proper architecture for a web operating system. Use of semantic technology in web operating systems is an emerging field that improves the management and discovery of resources and services. In this paper, we propose PGSW-OS (P2P grid semantic Web OS), a model based on a P2P grid architecture and semantic technology to improve resource management in a web operating system through resource discovery with the aid of semantic features. Our approach integrates distributed hash tables (DHTs) and semantic overlay networks to enable semantic-based resource management by advertising resources in the DHT based upon their annotations to enable semantic-based resource matchmaking. Our model includes ontologies and virtual organizations. Our technique decreases the computational complexity of searching in a web operating system environment. We perform a simulation study using the Gridsim simulator, and our experiments show that our model provides enhanced utilization of resources, better search expressiveness, scalability, and precision.     

An experience report on developing an automated web services platform

Web services have attracted significant industry interest as a low-cost and flexible technology alternative to distributed object and proprietary message-oriented methods for delivery of on-demand business processes, enabling intra-organizational systems integration, and in the long term, development of dynamic inter-organizational process networks that may revolutionize B2C and B2B e-commerce. Exploiting this latent potential of web services technology requires the development of automated techniques for scalable and reliable service composition and execution in web service platforms. In this paper, we summarize our experience in developing an architectural framework for web services platforms, called Integrated Service Planning and Execution architecture (ISP & E). The use of recent advances in AI planning, learning and semantic web technologies for service composition, reliable service execution, transaction synthesis, and model-driven deployment of services is discussed. Furthermore, we discuss implications for and research issues in the development of web services based systems to aid e-business.     

Data Transfer Over the Internet for Real Time Applications

Efficient real time data exchange over the Internet plays a crucial role in the successful application of web-based systems. In this paper, a data transfer mechanism over the Internet is proposed for real time web based applications. The mechanism incorporates the extensible Markup Language (XML) and Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) to provide a flexible and efficient data format. Heterogeneous transfer data is classified into light and heavy data, which are stored using XML and HDF respectively; the HDF data format is then mapped to Java Document Object Model (JDOM) objects in XML in the Java environment. These JDOM data objects are sent across computer networks with the support of the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) data transfer infrastructure. Client's defined data priority levels are implemented in RMI, which guides a server to transfer data objects at different priorities. A remote monitoring system for an industrial reactor process simulator is used as a case study to illustrate the proposed data transfer mechanism.     

Self-maintaining web pages

Data-intensive web-based information systems usually employ database systems to store the contents forming the basis for web page construction. Generating web pages on the fly, especially in peak times, can lead to severe performance problems. Thus, pre-generation of web pages has been suggested to be ready for prime time, allowing to reliably deliver several hundred pre-generated pages per second. Maintaining the consistency of these web pages with respect to changes within the database in an efficient way, however, represents a major challenge. This paper presents a novel approach for “self-maintaining” web pages that is, different to previous approaches, characterized by a simple (and thus, easy to maintain) database-to-web page mapping and very low page re-generation costs. This is achieved by utilizing fragmentation techniques from distributed databases, by allocating parameterized fragment classes to web page classes (rather than individual fragments to single web pages), and using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as an intermediate layer between the database and the final web pages.