A Web Services-Oriented Approach to Unlock Information

A Web Services-Oriented Approach to Unlock Information

This work proposes to use Web services to turn information into actions by leveraging and unlocking the informational assets of an organization. Indeed, Web services allow costeffective composition and re-engineering of business processes because of their ability to connect applications, systems, and organization partners through the Internet-based standards (XML, SOAP, UDDI). The work consists...

user-oriented approach in library services re-visited: a link to information literacy

library standardization is mainly concerned with technical services, space and equipments, and information content of library collection with little or no regards to the user. given every country's certain social, economical and cultural conditions, specialized libraries should engage increasingly in developing information literate users on the basis of standards, rather than standardizing tech...

Aspect-Oriented Techniques for Web Services: a Model-Driven Approach

In order to tackle the entire web service life cycle, it is necessary to face how to model systems based on service functionality and also how to add extra-functional properties to modelled services. In this regard, we propose first of all to use UML for modelling services based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification, in order to provide a model environment in which extra-fun...

How to Model Aspect-Oriented Web Services

Web Services provide a new and successful way of enabling interoperability among different web applications. In this paper, an MDA approach to modelling Web Services, in which aspect-oriented techniques are also applied, is provided. The UML profiles required to model aspects and Web Services independently from the platform (PIM) are presented. Once the system is modeled at this level of abstra...

Collaborative Urban Information Systems: A Web Services approach