iiWAS2008 Journal Special Issue Papers

A Middleware for Location-Based Mobile Applications with Privacy Protection
Oliver Jorns, Gerald Quirchmayr
Research Centre Telecommunication Vienna, University of Vienna (Austria)

A WEB Interface for Hypersim-G Grid Simulation Package
Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, David Martos
Technical University of Catalonia (Spain), Fukuoka Institute of Technology (Japan), Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)

Algorithms for Efficient Structure-based Grouping in XML-OLAP
Chantola Kit, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
University of Tsukuba (Japan)

An Algorithm Explanation Agent for the SHALEX System
Elhadi M Shakshuki, Richard Halliday
Acadia University (Canada)

An Ontology Data Matching Method for Web Information Integration
Chao Wang, Jie Lu, Guangquan Zhang
University of Technology Sydney (Australia)

An XQuery-based Trigger Service to Bring Consistency Management to Data Integration Systems
Jing Lu, Bernhard Mitschang
University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Application Framework with Demand-Driven Mashup for Selective Browsing
Sohei Ikeda, Takakazu Nagamine, Tomio Kamada
Kobe University (Japan)

Automating UML Models Merge for Web Services Testing
Vincent Pretre, Fabrice Bouquet, Christophe Lang
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Franche-Comté (France)

Conceptual Framework for Services Creation/Development Environment in Telecom Domain
Natalia Kryvinska, Christine Strauss, Lukas Auer, Peter Zinterhof
University of Vienna, University of Salzburg (Austria)

Control and Data Dependencies in Business Processes Based on Semantic Business Activities
Zhangbing Zhou, Sami Bhiri, Manfred Hauswirth
National University of Ireland (Ireland)

Enabling Semantics-Aware Collaborative Tagging and Social Search in an Open Interoperable Tagosphere
Javier Soriano, Javier López, Miguel Jimenez, Fernando Alonso
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)

Exception Resolution for BPEL Processes: a Middleware-based Framework and Performance Evaluation
Christos Kareliotis, Costas Vassilakis, Efstathios Rouvas, Panayiotis Georgiadis
University of Athen, University of Peloponnese (Greece)

EzWeb/FAST: Reporting on a Successful Mashup-based Solution for Developing and Deploying Composite Applications in the Upcoming Web of Services
David Lizcano, Javier Soriano, Marcos Reyes, Juan J. Hierro
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (Spain)

GAINS-BI: Business Intelligent Approach for Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies Information System
Thanh Binh Nguyen, Wolfgang Schoepp, Fabian Wagner
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)

Geographical Information Retrieval System using Semantic Relationships between Multiple Layers
Tran Minh Duc, Toshikazu Nishimura
Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

GMX: An XML Data Partitioning Scheme for Holistic Twig Joins
Imam Machdi, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
University of Tsukuba (Japan)

INTERSYND: A Web Syndication Intermediary that Makes Recommendations
Adrian O'Riordan, Oliver O'Mahoney
University of College Cork (Ireland)

Semantic Approach for Modelling an Assistive Environment using Description Logic
Rachid Kadouche, Sylvain Giroux, Bessam Abdulrazak, Mounir Mokhtari
DOMUS Lab Université de Sherbrooke, Handicom Lab, INT GET, Evry, (France)

Techniques for Service Level Enforcement in Web-Services Based Systems
Vladimir Stantchev, Christian Schröpfer
Berlin Institute of Technology (Germany)

Temporal Evolution of Social Networks in PaltalkTM
Khaled Mahdi, Hisham Farahat, Maytham Safar
Kuwait University

Towards Automated Web Service Composition with Fluent Calculus and Domain Ontologies
Ioan Salomie, Viorica R. Chifu, Ioana Harsa, Marius Gherga
Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

Using Tuplespaces to Enact Petri Net-Based Workflow Definitions
Daniel Martin, Daniel Wutke, Frank Leymann
University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Validation of Streaming XML Documents with Abstract State Machines
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim, Qing Wang
Information Science Research Centre (New Zealand), University of Kiel (Germany), Information Science Research Centre (New Zealand)

WEB-PerformCharts: A Collaborative Web-based tool for Test Case Generation from Statecharts
Alessandro Arantes, Nandamudi Vijaykumar, Valdivino Santiago Junior, Danielle Guimarães
Aerospace Technological Center, National Institute for Space Research (Brazil)

XPred: A New Model-Mapping-Schema-Based Approach for Efficient Access to XML Data
Jun Wu, Shang-Yi Huang
National Pingtung Institute of Commerce (Taiwan)