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International Journal Web Services Research (JWSR) Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4138 Volume 1, Issue 1, January-March 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Editor: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA FOREWORD Daniel Sabbah, Vice President A&IM Development and SWG Technology, IBM Software Daniel Sabbah introduces the inaugural issue of JWSR, which he see as a medium to provide a channel for industry professionals, academic researchers and decision makers in the field of web services to publish and share information with each other. He feels the readers will gain the explicit and up-to-date knowledge of Web services research activities and technologies from this journal, especially researchers and architects to identify the trends of the relevant R&D topics and coordinate their own positions in a more competitive approach. EDITORIAL PREFACE "Challenges and Opportunities for Web Services Research" Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Web services are becoming a major research topic for computer scientists, engineers and business consulting professionals. In this preface, the journal editor in chief outlines the challenges of the current Web services research topics from the modeling, interoperability, and mathematical foundations points of view. Zhang introduces some research opportunities and possible future directions for moving Web services forward via some illustrative ideas such as business semantic computing as well as killer application driven Web services research approaches. PAPERS PAPER ONE "A Spanning Tree Based Approach to Identifying Web Services" Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA Huimin Zhao, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA Nageswara R. Chinta, Tata Consultancy Services, India Web service has been envisioned as an important trend in application development and integration. It allows pre-built applications/application components wrapped as web services to interact with each other through standardized interfaces and to from larger application systems. This paper describes a formal approach to web services identification, which is a critical step in designing and developing effective web services. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=4250 PAPER TWO "Web Services Enabled E-Market Access Control Model" Harry J. Wang, University of Arizona, USA Hsing K. Cheng, University of Florida, USA J. Leon Zhao, University of Arizona, USA With the emergency of global e-markets, companies collaborate more and more in order to streamline their supply chains. Because of the complex relationships among companies, controlling the access to shared information found in e-markets is a vital but difficult task. In this paper the authors propose a process to integrate several known access control mechanisms such as role-based access control, coalition-based access control, and relationship driven access control into an E-Market Access Control model (EMAC). To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=4251 PAPER THREE "Integration of Business Event and Rule Management With the Web Services Model" Karthik Nagarajan, Herman Lam, Stanley Y.W. Su, University of Florida, USA While Web services technology provides a promising foundation for developing distributed applications for e-business, additional features are required to make this paradigm truly useful in the real world. In particular, interactions among business organizations need to follow the policies, regulations, security and other business rules of the organizations. In this paper, the authors focus on incorporating the business event and rule-management concepts into the Web services model at the service provider side. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=4252 PAPER FOUR "Implementation and Performance of WS-Security" Satoshi Makino, Kent Tamura, Takeshi Imamura, and Yuichi Nakamura, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan This article describes performance improvements for the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification. In the course of its development and performance measurement, the authors identified bottlenecks in the XML parsing and public key operations such as RSA signature and encryption. To minimize the impact of these bottlenecks, the authors implemented a stream-based WS-Security processor and showed its efficiency in XML parsing, in terms of both the processing time and the memory usage. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=4253 **************************************************************************** *************** For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of International Journal of Web Service Research (JWSR) in your Institution's library. **************************************************************************** *************** A complimentary copy of this inaugural first issue is available for download at www.idea-group.com. CALL FOR PAPERS Mission of JWSR: The International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) is a high-quality refereed journal on Web Services research and engineering that serves as an outlet for individuals in the field to publish their research as well as interested readers. As a research and engineering journal, the International Journal of Web Services Research, will facilitate communication and networking among Web Services/e-business researchers and engineers in a period where considerable changes are taking place in Web Services technologies innovation, and stimulate production of high-quality Web Services solutions and architectures. Coverage of IRMJ: JWSR covers topics with a major emphasis on the advancements in the state of the art, standards, and practice of Web Services, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of Web Services computing, including Web Services on Grid Computing, Web Services on Multimedia, Web services on Communication, Web Services on E-Business, etc. Some featured topics are: - Web Services architecture - Web Services security - Frameworks for building Web Service applications - Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures - Web Services discovery - Resource management for Web Services - Solution Management for Web Services - Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services - Quality of service for Web Services - Web Services modeling - Web Services performance - UDDI enhancements - SOAP enhancements - Case Studies for Web Services - E-Commerce applications using Web Services - Grid based Web Services applications (e.g. OGSA) - Business process integration and management using Web Services - Multimedia applications using Web Services - Mathematic foundations for service oriented computing - Communication applications using Web Services - Interactive TV applications using Web Services - Semantic services computing - Business Grid Interested authors should consult the Journal's manuscript submission guidelines at http://www.idea-group.com All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Liang-Jie Zhang, Ph.D. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
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