Paper on Review of Web Service Specifications for Long-running Conversations accepted at the CONISAR 2014

Paper title: Review of Web Service Specifications for Long-running Conversations

Abstract:
Despite the growing number of standards and interest in web services, support for implementation of long-running conversations is inadequate. Most real world business transactions typically consists of series of business activities. Such transactions originate from different sources which have multiple web services running to achieve a specific result. In this paper, we provide an overview of long-running conversation properties, and a review of relevant web service specifications. Our analysis indicates that WS-Coordination and WS-BusinessActivity specifications are the best option for implementing long-running conversations using web services.

Authors: Chirag N. Rana and Karthikeyan Umapathy

Conference:
2014 Conference on Information Systems Applied Research (CONISAR)
Baltimore, Maryland, November 6-9, 2014

Link to the article:
http://proc.conisar.org/2014/pdf/3318.pdf

Link to the presentation:
https://prezi.com/lk1dthiwoh6v/review-of-web-service-specifications-for-long-running-conver/

Computer Magazine Column in November 2010 Issue

A column article on "Systems Integration and Web Services" was published in the Computer magazine November 2010 issues. This column provides overview of outstanding issues that remains to be solved for using Web services technology based solutions for systems integration problems.


See DOI: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2010.328

Position Paper accepted for publication at the ONISW 2008

Position paper titled "Toward Generic, Immersive, and Collaborative Solutions to the Data Interoperability Problem which Target End-Users" is accepted for publication in the 2nd International workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW 2008) to held along with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, California, October 26-30, 2008.

Authors: Arturo J. Sánchez-Ruíz, Karthikeyan Umapathy, and Pat Hayes

Abstract:
In this position paper we describe our vision of a “just-in-time” approach to the Data Interoperability Problem (a.k.a.INTEROP.) It empowers data stakeholders (e.g. data producers and data consumers) with integrated tools to interact and collaborate with each other while directly manipulating visual representations of their data in an immersive environment
(e.g. implemented via Second Life.) The semantics of these visual representations and the operations associated with the data are supported by ontologies defined using the Common Logic Framework (CL). Data operations gestured by the stakeholders, through their avatars, are translated to a variety of generated resources such as multi-language source code, visualizations, web pages, and web services. The generality of the approach is supported by a plug-in architecture which allows expert users to customize tasks such as data admission, data manipulation in the immersive world, and automatic generation of resources. This approach is designed with a mindset aimed at enabling stakeholders from diverse domains to exchange data and generate new knowledge.

Link to ONISW 2008: http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/hhan/ONISW2008/