Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081828
Bipin Upadhyaya, Ying Zou, Hua Xiao, J. Ng, Alex Lau
Web services are designed to provide rich functionality for organizations and support interoperable interactions over a network. Web services are mainly realized in two ways: 1) SOAP-based services and 2) RESTful services. For the service providers, RESTful services can improve system flexibility, scalability, and performance as compared to the SOAP-based Web services. It is equally attractive to end users as it is consume less resources (i.e., battery, processor speed, and memory). Additionally, REST-based services do not include complex standards and heterogeneous operations; and hence are easier to consume and compose as compared to SOAP-based Web services. We provide an approach to migrate SOAP-based services to RESTful services. We identify resources from a SOAP-based Web service by analyzing its service description and mapping the contained operations to resources and HTTP methods. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we conduct a case study on a set of publicly available SOAP-based Web services. The results of our case study show that our approach can achieve high accuracy of identifying RESTful services from the interfaces of SOAP-based services. Our approach can improve the performance for invoking Web services after SOAP-based services are migrated to RESTful services.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081831
Mikko Hartikainen, Markku Laitkorpi, A. Ruokonen, Tarja Systä
REST has become a popular architectural style among service providers. It is considered as an easy way to design and consume Web services. REST can be realized as using HTTP PUT, POST, and GET operations. However, the focus on the implementation technique often leads to ignoring the original REST constraints and definitions proposed by R. Fielding. Thus, this way of thinking might result in misuse of REST. In addition, less emphasis is put on designing good REST APIs, which indeed is not a trivial task. In this paper, we propose a questionnaire-based method, motivated by speech-act theory, to harvest the essential API concepts and their relationships from the functional service requirements. We present our pattern-based implementation of the method. We define a reusable REST API pattern, which can be applied in different contexts to produce an API model according to the REST design principles. The main benefit of the questionaire-based method is on shifting the focus from an operation-based to a resource-oriented mindset. The paper includes an empirical evaluation.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081827
H. Kienle, Porfirio Tramontana, S. Tilley, D. Bolchini
At WSE 2001 the theme was Access for All. A decade later, this theme is revisited for WSE 2011. We take this opportunity to discuss the past, present, and future of Web accessibility. Five representative categories of Web accessibility are considered: accommodating disabilities, Web literacy, user interfaces, lingual barriers, and open data.
{"title":"Ten years of access for all from WSE 2001 to WSE 2011","authors":"H. Kienle, Porfirio Tramontana, S. Tilley, D. Bolchini","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2011.6081827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2011.6081827","url":null,"abstract":"At WSE 2001 the theme was Access for All. A decade later, this theme is revisited for WSE 2011. We take this opportunity to discuss the past, present, and future of Web accessibility. Five representative categories of Web accessibility are considered: accommodating disabilities, Web literacy, user interfaces, lingual barriers, and open data.","PeriodicalId":414937,"journal":{"name":"2011 13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE)","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121103813","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 : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081813
Shane McIntosh, Bram Adams, A. Hassan, Ying Zou
AJAX is an asynchronous client-side technology that enables feature-rich, interactive Web 2.0 applications. AJAX applications and technologies are very complex compared to classic web applications, having to cope with asynchronous communication over (unstable) network connections. Yet, AJAX developers still rely on the ad hoc development processes and techniques of the early '00s. To determine how the inherent complexity of AJAX impacts the design and maintenance of AJAX applications, this paper studies the amount of code reuse across the different features of an AJAX application. Furthermore, we analyze how the design of existing AJAX systems deal with AJAX-specific crosscutting concerns, such as handling the loss of network connectivity. We use dynamic analysis to recover the run-time behaviour of AJAX applications in the form of sequence diagrams that are indexed by the different asynchronous communication states that the application can be in. Exploratory case studies on three AJAX applications show that (1) a majority (60–90%) of the run-time behaviour is shared, theoretically simplifying maintenance, and (2) that the studied projects seem unprepared for loss of network connectivity, often presenting the user with an incorrect view of the application state.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081815
Rene Stiegler, S. Tilley, T. Parveen
In the aftermath of any major disaster, people are desperate to find information about their family and friends. The Internet has proven an invaluable tool in this quest. Search engines, social networking sites, government websites, non-governmental organizations' (NGO) websites, and citizen volunteer websites have all proven to be valuable resources. The primary problem for people searching for their family and friends is figuring out where to find information. A secondary issue is that the search mechanism must be accessible to all, including novice users more concerned with answering the simple question, “Are you OK?” and less concerned with learning how to use idiosyncratic technology (such as hashtags) facilitating the search. This paper describes a search system called Family and Friends Finder (F3) that provides a federated search against disparate data sources. The system integrates structured data coming from government and NGO websites along with unstructured data coming from social networks. A prototype system was developed for tropical cyclone Yasi with promising results.
在任何重大灾难之后，人们都不顾一切地寻找有关家人和朋友的信息。在这方面，互联网已被证明是一个无价的工具。搜索引擎、社交网站、政府网站、非政府组织网站和公民志愿者网站都被证明是有价值的资源。人们寻找家人和朋友的主要问题是找出在哪里可以找到信息。第二个问题是搜索机制必须对所有人开放，包括更关心回答“你还好吗?”这个简单问题的新手用户。而不太关心学习如何使用特殊技术(如标签)来促进搜索。本文描述了一个名为Family and Friends Finder (F3)的搜索系统，它提供了针对不同数据源的联合搜索。该系统集成了来自政府和非政府组织网站的结构化数据以及来自社交网络的非结构化数据。为热带气旋“雅西”研制了一个原型系统，并取得了令人满意的结果。
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081822
Lauri Paimen, P. Pohjalainen
QML is a declarative programming language for defining user interfaces with advanced animation effects. A QML application consists of element declarations for structuring the user interface, and Javascript code for defining the application and animation logic. QML is used mainly for defining user interfaces of Qt applications, but it can be used also for writing standalone applications. This paper presents an approach that allows QML applications to run in a standard web browser. The chosen approach was to reimplement the QML execution engine by writing a QML parser and execution engine in Javascript to render the application to a HTML5 Canvas element. We discuss our implementation techniques for QML property bindings and for redefining variable scope in Javascript. For demonstrating the results, we executed two simple QML applications in a web browser, and gathered preliminary performance benchmark of the engine. In our measurements we found that with a good Javascript-engine, it is possible to achieve reference 60 fps speed of QML applications in a non-trivial case.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081814
Domenico Amalfitano, A. R. Fasolino, Porfirio Tramontana
The relevance of end user documentation for improving usability, learnability and operability of software applications is well known. However, software processes often devote little effort to the production of end user documentation due to budget and time constraints, or leave it not up-to-date as new versions of the application are produced. In particular, in the field of Web applications, due to their quick release time and the rapid evolution, end user documentation is often lacking, or it is incomplete and of poor quality. In this paper a semi-automatic approach for user documentation generation of Web 2.0 applications is presented. The approach exploits dynamic analysis techniques for capturing the user visible behaviour of a web application and, hence, producing end user documentation compliant with known standards and guidelines for software user documentation. A suite of tools support the approach by providing facilities for collecting user session traces associated with use case scenarios offered by the Web application, for abstracting a Navigation Graph of the application, and for generating tutorials and procedure descriptions. The obtained documentation is provided in textual and hypertextual formats. In order to show the feasibility and usefulness of the approach, an example of generating the user documentation for an existing Web application is presented in the paper.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081830
C. Walgampaya, M. Kantardzic
Nowadays, almost every task involving Web traversing and information retrieval recurs to Web robots. Web robots are software programs that automatically traverse the Web's hypertext structure. They proliferate rapidly aside with the growth of the Web and are extremely valuable and important means not only for the large search engines, but also for many specialized services such as investment portals, competitive intelligence tools, etc. While many web robots serve useful purposes, recently, there have been cases linked to fraudulent activities committed by these Web robots. Click fraud, which is the act of generating illegitimate clicks, is one of them. This paper details the architecture and functionality of the Smart ClickBot, a sophisticated software bot that is designed to commit click fraud. It was first detected and reported by NetMosaics Inc. in March, 2010, a real time click fraud detection and prevention solution provider. We discuss the machine learning algorithms used, to identify all clicks exhibiting Smart ClickBot like patterns. We constructed a Bayesian classifier that automatically classifies server log data as being Smart ClickBot or not. We also introduce a Benchmark data set for Smart ClickBot. We disclose the results of our investigation of this bot to educate the security research community and provide information regarding the novelties of the attack.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081816
Romisa Rohani Ghahari, D. Bolchini
People use mobile web applications in a variety of contexts, typically on-the-go, while engaged in other tasks, such as walking, jogging or driving. Conventional visual user interfaces are efficient for supporting quick scanning of a page, but they can easily cause distractions and accidents. This problem is intensified when web information services are richer and highly structured in content and navigation architectures. To support a graceful evolution of web systems from a conventional to an aural experience, we introduce ANFORA (Aural Navigation Flows On Rich Architectures), a framework for designing mobile web systems based on automated, semi-controlled aural navigation flows that can be listened to by the user while engaged in a secondary activity (e.g., walking). We demonstrate a set of design rules that could govern salient aural interactions with large web architectures. Our approach opens a new paradigm for aural web systems which can complement existing visual interfaces, and has the potential to inform new technologies, navigation models, design tools, and methods in the area of aural web information access. As case study, we are applying ANFORA to the domain of web-based news casting.
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Pub Date : 2011-11-18DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2011.6081829
Reihaneh Rabbany, Eleni Stroulia, Osmar R Zaiane
There is a growing number of web services available on the Internet, providing a wide range of functionalities. This diversity introduces a variety of new challenges in the field of software engineering — service discovery, integration, and composition, all of which require, to some extent, “service matching”. Web-service matching (or alignment) is the task of mapping the functionalities of two web services, assuming that these functionalities overlap somewhat. In this paper we propose a novel graph-theoretic approach, called Semantic Flow Matching (SFM), for matching REST web services, specified in WADL (Web Application Description Language). The method builds a heterogeneous network of WADL elements and semantically related terms, and uses this network to match similar functionalities of different web services. The method is implemented in a prototype tool that consists of two modules: a converter and a mapper; where the converter wraps the REST web services in WADL format and the mapper module matches web services based on their semantics extracted from the WADL interface build by the converter. We demonstrate the potential of the approach with a small case study.
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