JWSR, Volume 2, Number 3, July-September 2005
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1545-7362
EISSN: 1546-5004

Editor-In-Chief: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA

EDITORIAL PREFACE:

"A Framework to Ensure Trustworthy Web Services"

Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

This issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) collects five papers that span from Web Services discovery and development, state management for Web Services composition, information service for Grid computing, and Web service-based personalized Web mining. Special thanks to guest editors Dr. Savas Parastatidis and Dr. Jim Webber for their help in organizing quality papers.

RESEARCH PAPERS

PAPER ONE:

"Discovery of Web Services in a Multi-Ontology and Federated Registry Environment"

Swapna Oundhakar, University of Georgia, USA
Kunal Verma, Universtiy of Georgia, USA
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, University of Georgia, USA
Amit Sheth, Universtiy of Georgia, USA
John Miller, University of Georgia, USA

In this paper, the authors discuss an ontology-based Web service discovery infrastructure (METEOR-S Web Service Discovery Infrastructure), to provide access to registries that are divided based on business domains and grouped into federations. In addition, they discuss how Web service discovery is carried out within a federation. They provide a novel discovery algorithm, which addresses semantic heterogeneity with respect to multiple ontologies from the same domain. They also show through preliminary results of our empirical evaluation that even when services are annotated with different ontologies, their algorithm is able to find good matches and eliminate false matches by considering the context and the coverage information of the annotated concepts.

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PAPER TWO:

"Ontology and Service Oriented Programming"

Bing Li, Arizona State University, USA
Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

This paper presents a novel methodology to develop and integrate distributed applications. It starts from analyzing requirement specifications based on a service’s point of view. Thereafter, it is required to describe each service using ontology. The modeling and describing procedures described in the paper are regarded as a new way to program Ontology and Service Oriented (OSO) programming, and descriptions obtained in the procedure are called OSO code. Moreover, OSO code has the features of interpretability, transformability, comparability, composability, and portability.

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PAPER THREE:

"Information Management for Computational Grids"

Wei Jie, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Tianyi Zang, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Terence Hung, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

This paper presents an Information Service for a computational Grid Virtual Organization (VO). The main functionality of this Information Service is the provision of information essential for applications running on a computational Grid. This Information Service is a hierarchical structure that consists of VO layer, site layer, and resource layer. In this paper, the authors propose different models of information data organization for Information Service, and experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of these models. Based on the experimental results, they further introduce the data organization model for their Information Service. The implementation of the Information Service is based on the Globus Toolkit and complies with the OGSI (Open Grid Services Infrastructure) specifications. In this paper, some application experiences of using the Information Service are also presented.

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PAPER FOUR:

"Architectural Foundations of WSRF.NET"

Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
Glenn Wasson, University of Virginia, USA

This paper describes the architectural foundations of WSRF.NET, which is an implementation of the full set of specifications for WSRF and WS-Notification on the Microsoft .NET Framework. To the authors' knowledge, the observations and lessons learned from the design and implementation of WSRF.NET provide the first evaluation of the WSRF approach. A concrete example of the design, implementation, and deployment of a WSRF-compliant service and its accompanying WSRF-compliant client are used to guide the discussion in this paper.

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PAPER FIVE:

"A Web-Services-Based Personal Information Integration Framework"

Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Jingting Lu, University of Florida, USA
Erwin Jansen, University of Florida, USA

In this paper, the authors present their E-Service-Based Information Fusion Framework for end users. This framework enables end users to collect scattered information from diverse autonomous sources and to transparently create a repeatable process by which newer instances of the same information can be obtained in the future. By exploiting this framework, users do not need to repeat the manual information-gathering task over and over again. The authors present their framework and provide some implementation details in this paper.

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http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5024

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