Trust is widely acknowledged as being important for the efficient and effective operation of business in virtual environments. This is because trust functions like a glue that holds and links virtual agents together as they relate and collaborate ...

Nowadays, to survey and guarantee the security policy in networks, the administrator uses different network security components, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS). For a perfect interoperability between these components in the ...

If legacy code has to be integrated into an application, it is often necessary to call this code available as source code written in a particular programming language or available in binary format for a particular computing platform from another ...

Learning how to program is a universal problem that is facing many students in introductory programming courses. This multinational problem created the need for an effective and easy to use learning system. The system introduced in this paper, Java ...

Nowadays, non-integrated system is one of the most common problems in enterprise or organization. Most departments in the enterprise have information systems developed based on their non-standardized requirement processes which often propose different ...

E-Voting is a widely discussed topic---both in the public and in research. In the last couple of years new voting protocols have been proposed. The contribution of this paper is to explain the fundamental concepts of Ben Adida's Scratch & Vote, show an ...

Nowadays the concept of e-insurance is about how to apply online for insurance services (e.g. policy plan, claim). In this study we tried to develop a new model which is not based on insurance company plans. This new model is based on credits, points ...

Just recently emerged a new paradigm for internet-based software systems which is called as cloud computing. The cloud provides scalable processing power and several kinds of connectable services. This distributed architecture has many similarities with ...

The improving performance of inference engine in expert system has become an important research in recent years; as it is not realistic to search through all production rules during each cycle using an exhaustive search. Expert systems with a large set ...

Traditional CASE tools are desktop-based, so they do not support online software collaboration. That is, they do not allow members of software project teams who are geographically distributed to collaborate and work together on software projects. This ...

Service-based systems are becoming the dominating technology for providing and combining functionality in distributed systems. They also can be a viable solution to address E-Government aspects. A typical citizen engages with governmental agencies at ...

Component-based software development (CBSD) aims at building software systems by searching, selecting and integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. The effective selection of COTS components that meet the user's requirements and ...

Integration is a difficult task. This research focuses on the SOA approach to integration of applications, using web services, and will be implemented using Java Business Integration (JBI). The JBI platform allows software vendors to provide services ...

With the growing capability of mobile devices, platforms, and wireless communication technologies, Web browsing on mobile devices is made possible and receives more and more attentions. However, environment of mobile device varies; traditionally, Web ...

Over the past few years, traditional software products, sales and licensing schemes have declined, whereas business value and revenues have shifted to SaaS-based schemes. Even so, most research has focused primarily on the technical layer (i.e. service ...

Ontology matching can be defined as the process of discovering similarities between two ontologies and it can be processed exploiting a number of different techniques. To provide a common conceptual basis, researchers have started to develop ...

This paper presents an application framework for ubiquitous communication management. The framework -- called HERMES after the messenger of gods in Greek mythology -- is to provide a solid foundation for applications that are aware of users' ...

Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) as a core concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a key success factor for enterprises today. Frequently, choreography models are used for agreeing about the overall message exchanges among integration ...

Web services usually have functional as well as non-functional properties. Functional properties, such as the WSDL description, are usually static, whereas non-functional properties are often dynamic and thus vary over time. One of these non-functional ...

Web services are increasingly behaving as nodes in a digital, dynamic ecosystem. On the one hand, this new situation requires flexible, spontaneous and opportunistic collaboration activities to be identified and established among (business) parties. On ...