A Dynamic Foundational Architecture for Semantic Web Services

The combination of Web services and ontologies is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullets for tomorrow’s Web, i.e., the Semantic Web. We propose an architectural foundation for managing semantic Web services in dynamic environments. We introduce the concept of community to cater for an ontological organization of Web services. We develop an ontology called community ontology that serves as a “template” for describing communities of Web services. We also propose a peer-to-peer approach for managing communities in dynamic environments.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44807/1/10619_2004_Article_NO00000190.pd

How to Enhance Privacy within DaaS service Composition?

12p.International audienceThe composition of DaaS (Data-as-a-Service) services is a powerful solution for building value-added applications on top of existing ones. However, privacy concerns are still among the key challenges that keep hampering DaaS composition. Indeed services may follow different, conflicting privacy specifications with respect to the data they use and provide. In this paper, we propose an approach for privacyaware composition of DaaS services. Our approach allows specifying privacy requirements and policies and verifying the compatibility of services involved in a composition. We propose an adaptation protocol that makes it possible to reconcile the privacy specifications of services when incompatibilities arise in a composition. We validate the applicability of our proposal through a set of experiments

A Review Of Cloud Manufacturing: Issues And Opportunities

Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is the latest manufacturing paradigm that enables manufacturing to be looked upon as a service industry.The aim is to offer manufacturing as a service so that an individual or organization is willing to manufacture products and utilize this service without having to make capital investment.However,industry adoption of CM paradigm is still limited.This paper compared the current adoption of CM by the industry with the ideal CM environment.The gaps between the two were identified and related research topics were reviewed. This paper also outlined research areas to be pursued to facilitate CM adoption by the manufacturing industry.This will also improve manufacturing resource utilization efficiencies not only within an organization but globally.At the end,the cost benefits will be passed down to end customer

Generalization of ACID Properties

ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) is a set of properties that guarantee the reliability of database transactions [2]. ACID properties were initially developed with traditional, business-oriented applications (e.g., banking) in mind. Hence, they do not fully support the functional and performance requirements of advanced database applications such as computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, office automation, network management, multidatabases, and mobile databases. For instance, transactions in computer-aided design applications are generally of long duration and preserving the traditional ACID properties in such transactions would require locking resources for long periods of time. This has lead to the generalization of ACID properties as Recovery, Consistency, Visibility and Permanence. The aim of such generalization is to relax some of the constraints and restrictions imposed by the ACID properties. For example, visibility relaxes the isolation property by enabling the sharing of partial results and hence promoting cooperation among concurrent transactions. Hence, the more generalized are ACID properties, the more flexible is the corresponding transaction model