Pub Date : 2016-12-17DOI: 10.20894/IJWT.104.005.002.004
T. Dhanalakshmy, R. Manikandan
The cloud resource allocation is a cumbersome process which doesn’t work on constant resource allocation it has to be dynamically allocated with respect to the requirements. Unlike other software’s the cloud instances does not provide a platform to predict a resource need in advance. The present system relays on a centralized resource allocation service running some ware in the cloud which periodically checks in some fashion, so the clients with resource need have to wait till its turn arrives. In our previous phase we had tried to decentralize the resource reallocation process using gossip protocol. Now in this phase we try to add more features to it so that the resource allocation is much better. We will be categorizing the different virtual environments based on their requirements like CPU or ram or storage space, etc. And we will make sure that the time taken to find out the eligible resource provider is reduced to the bare minimum. Based on the preference list collected by the machines requiring resources the gossip protocol will connect with the resource provider randomly to get the resource allocated.
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Pub Date : 2013-04-01DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2013.053335
E. Keramopoulos, Ignatios S. Deligiannis, Georgios Spanos, Achilleas Pliakas, Konstantinos Tsekos
The study presented in this paper is a controlled experiment, aiming at investigating the understandability and correctness in two query languages, namely KINISIS against XQuery. XQuery is the W3C standard query language for XML documents. KINISIS is a graphical query language which is designed and implemented upon XQuery, using metaphors extracted from the European Road Traffic Act. We conducted a controlled experiment in order to assess users' performance, with respect to understanding and correctness, in developing queries in KINISIS and in XQuery. The findings, from the collected and statistically analysed data, showed that users performing on KINISIS had significantly better results comparing to those using XQuery. As an output of this study, is that a graphical XQuery language that is based on successful metaphors is more appropriate for novice users in XQuery technology, instead of textual XQuery.
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Pub Date : 2009-09-01DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2009.028620
S. Srirama, M. Jarke
Mobile data services in combination with profluent web services are seemingly the path-breaking domain in current information systems research. In the Mobile Web Service (MWS) sphere, resource-constrained mobile terminals are used as both web service clients and providers (mobile hosts). Mobile hosts enable seamless integration of user-specific services into the enterprise. This paper addresses several technical aspects of the MWS provisioning domain, such as providing proper Quality of Service (QoS), especially in terms of security and reasonable scalability, and discovery aspects of the huge number of services possible with each mobile host that provides some services. The paper also discusses the features, components and realisation details of our enterprise service-bus-technology-based integration framework, which ensures QoS and discovery of MWS and helps in providing a bird's-eye view of the mobile enterprise.
{"title":"Mobile hosts in enterprise service integration","authors":"S. Srirama, M. Jarke","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2009.028620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2009.028620","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile data services in combination with profluent web services are seemingly the path-breaking domain in current information systems research. In the Mobile Web Service (MWS) sphere, resource-constrained mobile terminals are used as both web service clients and providers (mobile hosts). Mobile hosts enable seamless integration of user-specific services into the enterprise. This paper addresses several technical aspects of the MWS provisioning domain, such as providing proper Quality of Service (QoS), especially in terms of security and reasonable scalability, and discovery aspects of the huge number of services possible with each mobile host that provides some services. The paper also discusses the features, components and realisation details of our enterprise service-bus-technology-based integration framework, which ensures QoS and discovery of MWS and helps in providing a bird's-eye view of the mobile enterprise.","PeriodicalId":39662,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology","volume":"49 1","pages":"1-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83260878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9663.2006.368_3.X
F. Boekema
Bespreking van: R.B. Le Heron,New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies, The Dynamics of Economic Space. Aldershot:Ashgate ,2005 0-7546-4450-2
《新经济空间:新经济地理学》,《经济空间动力学》,R.B. Le Heron著。Aldershot:Ashgate,2005 0-7546-4450-2
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The research questions in this study were: Is a fear appeal more effective in persuading a target group when it capitalizes on fears that live within that target group, and what role do emotions play in the persuasion process? In an experiment, the effects of capitalizing on fears within a target group of teenagers are studied. Furthermore, the role of smoking behavior on the persuasive power of fear appeals is taken into account. The results indicate that capitalizing on genuine fears did not result in more effective fear appeals. Emotions, however, play an important role in the persuasion process.
{"title":"Images as anti-smoking fear appeals. The effect of emotion on the persuasion process","authors":"R. Timmers, P. Wijst","doi":"10.1075/IDJ.15.1.04TIM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IDJ.15.1.04TIM","url":null,"abstract":"The research questions in this study were: Is a fear appeal more effective in persuading a target group when it capitalizes on fears that live within that target group, and what role do emotions play in the persuasion process? In an experiment, the effects of capitalizing on fears within a target group of teenagers are studied. Furthermore, the role of smoking behavior on the persuasive power of fear appeals is taken into account. The results indicate that capitalizing on genuine fears did not result in more effective fear appeals. Emotions, however, play an important role in the persuasion process.","PeriodicalId":39662,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/IDJ.15.1.04TIM","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58621810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-35484-0_10
R. Rutten, F. Boekema
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Ronald M. Aarts, Simsek Demir, J. Kurvers, M. Laghzaoui, Lotte Henrichs
Academic or school language is a specific register of language that involves the use of language for cognitively complex, decontextualised communication. When children enter school they are expected to be able to participate in situations where this kind of language use is demanded. Some children may be well prepared for this, whereas others are not. In this article the design and first findings of the DASH-project (Development of Academic language in School and at Home) are presented, focusing on interactions between Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan-Berber mothers and their three-year-old children. To enable the analysis of the language use of mothers and children, a coding protocol was developed for this project. The coding protocol is based on functional grammar (Halliday) and focuses on characteristics of academic language (Schleppegrell). The aim of the first analyses presented here is to find out if the coding protocol makes it possible to find differences in the language use of mothers and young children - from different backgrounds and in different languages - related to academic language use. First the dimensions of field, mode and tenor in the coding protocol are being described, as well as the variables that are coded in each field. Subsequently, some preliminary analyses and findings are presented of the language data of two Turkish and two Moroccan-Berber mothers of different socio-economic backgrounds with their three-year old children on a picture task. The results of this analysis show differences in the language use of the mothers and children on each of the dimensions. These differences seem to be related to the concept of academic language in the sense that the language input of higher educated mothers show more characteristics of academic language than that of mothers with a lower educational level.
{"title":"Ontluikende schooltaalvaardigheid in interacties tussen moeders en driejarigen. Op zoek naar schooltaalkenmerken in Nederlandse, Berber en Turkse gezinnen","authors":"Ronald M. Aarts, Simsek Demir, J. Kurvers, M. Laghzaoui, Lotte Henrichs","doi":"10.1075/TTWIA.76.04AAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/TTWIA.76.04AAR","url":null,"abstract":"Academic or school language is a specific register of language that involves the use of language for cognitively complex, decontextualised communication. When children enter school they are expected to be able to participate in situations where this kind of language use is demanded. Some children may be well prepared for this, whereas others are not. In this article the design and first findings of the DASH-project (Development of Academic language in School and at Home) are presented, focusing on interactions between Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan-Berber mothers and their three-year-old children. To enable the analysis of the language use of mothers and children, a coding protocol was developed for this project. The coding protocol is based on functional grammar (Halliday) and focuses on characteristics of academic language (Schleppegrell). The aim of the first analyses presented here is to find out if the coding protocol makes it possible to find differences in the language use of mothers and young children - from different backgrounds and in different languages - related to academic language use. First the dimensions of field, mode and tenor in the coding protocol are being described, as well as the variables that are coded in each field. Subsequently, some preliminary analyses and findings are presented of the language data of two Turkish and two Moroccan-Berber mothers of different socio-economic backgrounds with their three-year old children on a picture task. The results of this analysis show differences in the language use of the mothers and children on each of the dimensions. These differences seem to be related to the concept of academic language in the sense that the language input of higher educated mothers show more characteristics of academic language than that of mothers with a lower educational level.","PeriodicalId":39662,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59140602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-12-15DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2007.012050
R. Béra, Christophe Claramunt
The World Wide Web constitutes a large information space and a promising support for the development of data inference, analysis and mining mechanisms. The research presented in this paper introduces a modelling approach that derives a social network and computes some of its emerging properties, from the semantics exhibited from a domain knowledge embedded in a series of web pages. The framework is applied to the research communities related to a series of conferences in a given domain, and the university connections materialised by the researcher trajectories over time. The properties of the social network are analysed using graph-based measures, and a novel geographical dispersion coefficient.
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Pub Date : 2005-12-15DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2007.012053
Hae-Kyong Kang, Ki-Joune Li, Min-Soo Kim
Stored map services in mobile devices are being commercialized for mobile and wireless environment such as cellular phones. In order to ensure the quality and accuracy of map, the update on the source map must be reflected automatically to mobile devices. Due to the expensive communication cost and lack of hardware capacity of mobile devices, we should find a compromising solution between the transmission of an entire map and the transmission of only update logs to mobile devices. The transmission of the completely processed whole map results in an expensive communication cost, while simple transfer of update logs requires a large amount of processing to maintain geometric and topological consistency between multiple LODs(Level of Details). In this paper, we first propose a framework of update mechanism in mobile environments where the map data is stored on each mobile device. This framework provides an efficient strategy for processing an update and its propagation to multiple LODs without an expensive cost of communication and large amount of processing at mobile devices. Secondly, several methods are introduced to maintain topological consistency between LODs depending on the type of generalization operators. Finally, we propose an extended SVG(Simple Vector Graphics) to be used as a transfer format of update message to mobile devices.
在移动设备上存储的地图服务正在向移动电话等移动和无线环境商用化。为了保证地图的质量和准确性,源地图上的更新必须自动反映到移动设备上。由于移动设备的通信成本昂贵,硬件容量不足,我们应该在传输整个地图和仅传输更新日志到移动设备之间找到一个折衷的解决方案。传输处理完整的全图会导致昂贵的通信成本,而简单的更新日志传输需要大量的处理来保持多个lod (Level of Details)之间的几何和拓扑一致性。在本文中,我们首先提出了一种移动环境中的更新机制框架,其中地图数据存储在每个移动设备上。该框架提供了一种有效的策略,用于处理更新并将其传播到多个lod,而无需昂贵的通信成本和移动设备上的大量处理。其次,根据泛化算子的类型,介绍了几种保持lod之间拓扑一致性的方法。最后,我们提出了一种扩展的SVG(简单矢量图形),作为更新消息到移动设备的传输格式。
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Valid models of the WWW are important for creating WWW-like representations upon which new algorithms and applications for searching, indexing, compression etc. can be tested, and mostly for predic...
{"title":"Modelling and simulation of the web graph: evaluating an exponential growth copying model","authors":"KogiasAntonios, NikolaidouMara, AnagnostopoulosDimosthenis","doi":"10.5555/1358583.1358585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/1358583.1358585","url":null,"abstract":"Valid models of the WWW are important for creating WWW-like representations upon which new algorithms and applications for searching, indexing, compression etc. can be tested, and mostly for predic...","PeriodicalId":39662,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71114548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}