Incorporating Nonfiction into Readers’ Advisory Services

Incorporating Agent Behavior into Web Services

Current e-commerce systems require substantial human intervention in almost all phases of a business transaction. Software agent technology can be used to alleviate the problem and try to automate the business process as much as possible. This paper intends to combine the autonomous behavior of software agents and the interoperability of Web Services across heterogeneous and self-interested env...

Agricultural Advisory Services

Incorporating proxy services into wide area cellular IP networks

Performance enhancing proxies have drawn considerable interests from the network community as an e ective approach to improve user experience in cellular networks. However, previous research has been focusing on the design of proxy servers as well as the functions that these servers provide. In this paper, we study the placement of proxy servers, especially the approach of incorporating proxies...

Incorporating Data Concerns into Query Languages for Data Services

More and more organizations provide their data on the web via data services – also referred to as Data as a Service (DaaS). Data services combine the strength of database systems and query languages on the one hand with the benefits of service-oriented architecture on the other hand. Data services are increasingly used for data integration. The data provided via data services is often associate...

Towards Shrink-Wrapped Security: Practically Incorporating Context Into Security Services

The mobile workforce is rapidly increasing, and technological advances make it feasible for these workers to have ubiquitous access to a variety of resources with various protection requirements. The dynamic computing environment of these workers mandates a security paradigm in which security is tightly coupled with a user’s current situation. We have proposed a security paradigm to achieve thi...