Distributed interoperable workflow support for electronic commerce.

Abstract. This paper describes a flexible distributed transactional workflow environment based on an extensible object-oriented framework built around class libraries, application programming interfaces, and shared services. The purpose of this environment is to support a range of EC-like business activities including the support of financial transactions and electronic contracts. This environment has as its aim to provide key infrastructure services for mediating and monitoring electronic commerce.

Recommendation Item Based on Keyword Search using Big Data

Design the methodology for piloting the Book Recommendation System. Provide responses on the suitability of Books with respect to content and likes by users. Determine the suitability of existing technology whether there is need for other recommendations. Moreover, to improve the scalability and efficiency of service recommendation system in “Big Data” environment, we have implemented it on a Map Reduce framework in Hadoop platform. Finally, we recommend books to users based on similarity

Schema integration using metadata

Includes bibliographical references (p. 10-11).Work was supported in part by Reuters and the International Financial Research Services Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Michael Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick

Agency Agreements Process Champion Support Intern

This document will provide information on the 2018 Spring semester NIFS Intern who represented the Office of Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) as a Reimbursable Accountant at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). This intern supported the Agency Agreements Process Champions and Team Lead, Susan Kroskey, Sandy Massey and Mecca Murphy, with major initiatives to advance the KSC OCFO's vision of creating and innovating healthy financial management practices that maximize the value of resources entrusted to NASA. These initiatives include, but are not limited to: updating the Agency Guidance and NASA Procedural Guidance 9090.1 Agreements, implementing a new budget structure to be utilized across all centers, submitting a Call Request (CRQ) to enhance non-federal customer reporting, initiating a discussion to incorporate a 3-year funding program for NASA agreements, and undertaking the Office of Inspector General (OIG) Audit. In support of these initiatives, this intern identified technical methods to enhance and reduce the workload of financial processes for reimbursable and non-reimbursable agreements, prepared reports in support of accounting functions, and performed administrative work and miscellaneous technical tasks in support of the OCFO as requested. In conclusion of the internship, the intern will become knowledgeable on reimbursable accounting, reimbursable policy, types of reimbursable agreements, the agreements process, estimated pricing reports, and the roles and responsibilities of the Financial Accounting and Financial Services offices

Metadata in a Digital Special Library: The Energy and Environmental Information Resources Center in Lafayette, Louisiana

This paper discusses three kinds of metadata and how they are used in the Energy & Environmental Information Resources Center (EE-IR Center), a digital special library of text, numeric, and geospatial data, located in Lafayette, Louisiana. These metadata are Dublin Core (DC), MARC21 (formerly USMARC), and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata. The EE-IR Center was formed as a partnership between the National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Center for Advanced Computer Studies of the University of Southwestern Louisiana (CACS/USL). Both partners are located in Lafayette, Louisiana. The EE-IR Center is funded by a grant from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the U.S. Deptartment of Energy and is a participant in OCLC\u27s Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) project for the creation and sharing of metadata for Internet resources. The subject areas of the EE-IR Center are energy and the environment of Louisiana, especially in the wetlands areas of South Louisiana. An area of special interest is pollution and contamination in the Lower Mississippi Valley and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Other topics of interest include air and water quality, wetlands ecology, coastal zone management, oil and gas production and consumption, and economic indicators. Geospatial data sets include land use/land cover, hydrology, soils, habitats, political boundaries, and oil and gas well locations. The EE-IR Center\u27s home page is located at http://eeirc.nwrc.gov/ and its library catalog is located at http://eeirc.nwrc.gov/metadata.htm. Figure 1 is a .jpg image that exemplifies the kind of geospatial data set found in the catalog. Examples of a Web page, a digital document, and ther data sets in the EE-IR Center\u27s catalog are given in the final section of this paper

The SPOSAD Architectural Style for Multi-tenant Software Applications

Keywords-Software architecture; Software quality; Software performance; Software maintenance Abstract—A multi-tenant software application is a special type of highly scalable, hosted software, in which the ap-plication and its infrastructure are shared among multiple tenants to save development and maintenance costs. The limited understanding of the underlying architectural concepts still prevents many software architects from designing such a system. Existing documentation on multi-tenant software architectures is either technology-specific or database-centric. A more technology-independent perspective is required to enable wide-spread adoption of multi-tenant architectures. We propose the SPOSAD architectural style, which describes the components, connectors, and data elements of a multi-tenant architecture as well as constraints imposed on these elements. This paper describes the benefits of a such an architecture and the trade-offs for the related design decisions. To evaluate our proposal, we illustrate how concepts of the style help to make current Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments, such as Force.com, Windows Azure, and Google App Engine scalable and customizable

Towards intelligent distributed computing : cell-oriented computing

Distributed computing systems are of huge importance in a number of recently established and future functions in computer science. For example, they are vital to banking applications, communication of electronic systems, air traffic control, manufacturing automation, biomedical operation works, space monitoring systems and robotics information systems. As the nature of computing comes to be increasingly directed towards intelligence and autonomy, intelligent computations will be the key for all future applications. Intelligent distributed computing will become the base for the growth of an innovative generation of intelligent distributed systems. Nowadays, research centres require the development of architectures of intelligent and collaborated systems; these systems must be capable of solving problems by themselves to save processing time and reduce costs. Building an intelligent style of distributed computing that controls the whole distributed system requires communications that must be based on a completely consistent system. The model of the ideal system to be adopted in building an intelligent distributed computing structure is the human body system, specifically the body’s cells. As an artificial and virtual simulation of the high degree of intelligence that controls the body’s cells, this chapter proposes a Cell-Oriented Computing model as a solution to accomplish the desired Intelligent Distributed Computing system