Broker Architectures for Service-Oriented Systems
White Papers Brokering is an essential element of service-oriented architectures and utility resource sharing. This paper proposes future work to explore the benefits brokers provide to the clients and providers in service-oriented systems, as well as...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Retailer Moves to Service-Oriented Architecture for Increased Business Agility
White Papers In order to increase business agility, Crutchfield needed to move to a service-oriented architecture where applications share core services. Using the service-oriented architecture of Windows Communication Foundation, Crutchfield expects to respond...
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
AspectML: A Polymorphic Aspect-Oriented Functional Programming Language
White Papers This paper defines Aspectml, a typed functional, aspect-oriented programming language. The main contribution of Aspectml is the seamless integration of polymorphism, run-time type analysis and aspect-oriented programming language features.
[January 1, 2009, 23:00]
A Service Oriented Architecture Framework for Collaborative Services
White Papers The demand for flexible, efficient and user-friendly collaborative services is becoming more and more urgent as the competition in the current market-oriented arena is getting more intense and fiercer.
[July 21, 2005, 6:00]
Sens-ation: A Service-Oriented Platform for Developing Sensor-Based Infrastructures
White Papers The authors have designed and developed Sens-ation, an open and generic service-oriented platform, which provides powerful, yet easy-to-use, tools to software developers who want to develop context-aware, sensor-based infrastructures.
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Semantic Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers This paper describes a new prototype of a semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) called Spec Services. Instead of publishing their API through a protocol like SOAP, as Web Services do, services can register to a service manager a powerful...
[July 21, 2005, 6:00]
From the OntoBayes Model to a Service Oriented Decision Support System
White Papers The aim of this paper is to propose a service oriented decision support system based on an ontology-driven uncertainty model (OntoBayes). In order to construct a decision support system, a service oriented framework and architecture will be...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
An Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers Software vendors, systems integrators and consultants are increasingly touting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the panacea for the challenges of integrating disparate, distributed, IT systems. Vendors started marketing SOA as the new...
[July 21, 2005, 6:00]
A Service-Oriented Middleware for Integration and Management of Heterogeneous Smart Items Environments
White Papers The paper proposes middleware concepts that abstract from the smart items network on a service-oriented level to ease integration into business applications. This paper describes concepts for a middleware that enables communication between smart...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
When Good Instructions Go Bad: Generalizing Return-Oriented Programming to RISC
White Papers This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "Return-oriented programming" - a technique by which OX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully crafted stack frames that divert control flow into the middle of existing variable...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
Improved Agent-Oriented Middleware for Distributed Smart Cameras
White Papers This paper reports on an improved, agent-oriented middleware for embedded smart cameras. In the recent past, much effort has been put into the development of distributed vision systems with smart cameras as key components.
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
WSMX: A Semantic Service Oriented Middleware for B2B Integration
White Papers The paper illustrates the approach on the WSMX - a middleware platform built specifically to enact semantic service oriented architectures. This paper presents a B2B integration scenario building on the principles of Semantic Web services.
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - So Ah, What Does It Mean to Me??
White Papers If anyone has attended a technical conference or read a technical magazine, he/she must have heard about Service Oriented Architecture - SOA. As an IMS systems programmer or IMS DBA, if anyone is trying to understand what challenges SOA introduces...
[August 1, 2009, 1:21]
Designing Assessment Tools in a Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers This paper examines a number of current assessment projects, predominantly emanating from the UK, to consider how a service oriented architecture can facilitate the implementation of tailored assessment environments, providing improved assessments...
[July 27, 2007, 4:40]
Service Identification and Packaging in Service Oriented Reengineering
White Papers With the adoption to Web service technologies, more and more existing non-service-oriented software systems turn to be legacy systems. They require a service-oriented reengineering process in order to survive in service-oriented computing environment.
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
A Service-Oriented Framework for Sustainability Appraisal and Knowledge Management
White Papers This paper proposes a service-oriented framework and architecture for integrated sustainability knowledge management in construction. The proposed architecture is based on a survey conducted amongst industry professionals in Hong Kong SAR.
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Specification and Satisfaction of SLAs in Service Oriented Architectures
White Papers This paper presents two essential aspects related to the specification of Quality of Service (QoS) in service oriented architectures. Firstly an overview is presented of the concepts and requirements that a language for the specification of QoS...
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Service Oriented Dynamic Decoupling Metrics
White Papers In the present paper, the authors develop the service oriented dynamic decoupling metrics at the design phase. The decoupling metrics can be used to measure and evaluate the decoupling attributes of a distributed, service-oriented software...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Service-Oriented Grid Computation for Large-Scale Parameter Estimation in Complex Environmental Modeling
White Papers In this paper, the authors present a service-oriented framework, named GGPE-G (Grid-enabled Global optimization for General Parameter Estimation), for efficient parameter estimation in heterogeneous, distributed systems.
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Tailoring DoDAF for Service Oriented Architectures: A Recommended Guide
White Papers This paper provides guidance on how to use the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) to describe a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). With acceptance of Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) and "Net-centricity", the Department of Defense...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]



