Semantics Enhanced Services: METEOR-S, SAWSDL and SA-REST (2009)
Amit P. Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Ranabahu
Services Research Lab at the Knoesis center and the LSDIS lab at University of Georgia have played a significant role in advancing the state of research in the areas of workflow management, semantic...
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories A Semantic Web Services Architecture (2008)
Mark Burstein, Christoph Bussler, Michal Zaremba, Tim Finin, Michael N. Huhns, Massimo Paolucci, ...
The Semantic Web Services Initiative Architecture (SWSA) committee has created a set of architectural and protocol abstractions that serve as a foundation for Semantic Web service technologies. This...
Security in Web-Based Workflow Management Systems (2008)
John A. Miller, Mei Fan, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut
Web-based workflows are increasingly becoming a viable choice for workflows that span multiple organizations. Until recently, Web technology has not been terribly secure. However, by utilizing...
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller
With the rising popularity of Web services, both academia and industry have invested considerably in Web service description standards, discovery, and composition techniques. The standards based...
Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Mahmood Hossain, Susan Bridges, Yong Wang, ...
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version) Framework for Semantic Web Process Composition (2008)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma
Web services have been recognized to have the potential to revolutionize ecommerce. The potential for businesses to be able to interact with each other on the fly is very appealing. To date, however,...
Predicting Domain Specific Entities with Limited Background Knowledge (2008)
Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth
This paper proposes a framework for automatic recognition of domain-specific entities from text, given limited background knowledge, e.g. in form of an ontology. The algorithm exploits several...
Security for the METEOR Work ow Management System Abstract (2008)
John A. Miller, Mei Fan, Shengli Wu, Ismailcem B. Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut
actment services, WebWork which is purely Web-based and ORBWork, which usesbothWeb and
Supporting Complex Thematic, Spatial and Temporal Queries over Semantic Web Data * (2008)
Matthew Perry, Amit P. Sheth, Farshad Hakimpour, Prateek Jain
Abstract. Spatial and temporal data are critical components in many applications. This is especially true in analytical domains such as national security and criminal investigation. Often, the...
Semantics and Services Relationship Web: Blazing Semantic Trails between Web Resources (2008)
Amit P. Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan
and receiving documents as responses has been the prevalent way of accessing information on the Web. Although a shift toward entity awareness is a fairly recent trend in information access, such...
Satya S. Sahoo, Olivier Bodenreider, Kelly Zeng, Amit P. Sheth
Modern biomedical research is increasingly supported by information technologies. Bi-ologists and physicians rely not only on the biomedical literature (e.g., MEDLINE), but also on the many knowledge...
Abstract. We seek to elevate autonomic computing from infrastructure to process level. Different aspects of autonomic computing – self configuring, self healing, self optimizing and self aware are...
Ontologies for Modeling and Simulation: An Initial Framework (2008)
John A. Miller, Gregory T. Baramidze, Amit P. Sheth, A. Silver, Paul A. Fishwick
Many fields have or are developing ontologies for their subdomains. The Gene Ontology (GO) is now considered to be a great success in biology, a field that has already developed several extensive...
A Semantic Framework for Identifying Events in a Service Oriented Architecture (2008)
Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Ranabahu, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma
We propose a semantic framework for automatically identifying events as a step towards developing an adaptive middleware for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Current related research focuses on...
Demonstrating Dynamic Configuration and Execution of Web processes (2008)
Karthik Gomadam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller
Abstract. Web processes are next generation workflows on the web, created using Web services. In this paper we demonstrate the METEOR-S Configuration and Execution Environment (MCEE 1) system. It...
Nagarajan Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit P. Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar
In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers various...
IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS: FROM SYSTEM, SYNTAX, STRUCTURE TO SEMANTICS (2008)
M J Egenhofer, R Fegeas, Amit P. Sheth
Interoperability has been a basic requirement for the modern information systems environment for over two decades. How have key requirements for interoperability changed over that time? How can we...
GlycO and ProPreO: Deep Domain Life Sciences ontologies 1 (2008)
Satya S. Sahoo, Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York
A case study of two deep domain life sciences ontologies
User-Centered Incremental Data Exploration and Visualization (2008)
Leonidas Deligiannidis, Krzysztof J. Kochut, Amit P. Sheth
In this paper we present Paged Graph Visualization (PGV), a new user-centered, semi-autonomous visualization tool for RDF data exploration, validation and examination. PGV consists of two main...
Conflict of Interest • Should Arpinar review Verma’s paper? (2008)
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
• Situation(s) that may bias a decision • Why it is important to detect COI? – for transparency in circumstances such as contract allocation, IPOs, corporate law, and peer-review of scientific...
The Carnot Heterogenous Database Project: Implemented Applications (2007)
Munindar P. Singh, Philip E. Cannata, Michael N. Huhns, Nigel Jacobs, Tomasz Ksiezyk, Kayliang Ong, ...
The Carnot project was an ambitious research project in heterogeneous databases. It integrated a variety of techniques to address a wide range of problems in achieving interoperation in heterogeneous...
L. Boyd, Ken A. Murdison, Jeanne M. Baffa, Michael Brumund, Amit P. Sheth, Ph. D, ...
This pilot project explored the effectiveness of using a web-based tool to provide a clinically relevant, secure, low-cost and low-bandwidth means of pediatric echocardiographic consultation. Methods...
Security in Web-Based Workflow Management Systems (2007)
John A. Miller, Mei Fan, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut
Web-based workflows are increasingly becoming a viable choice for workflows that span multiple organizations. Until recently, Web technology has not been terribly secure. However, by utilizing...
IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS: FROM SYSTEM, SYNTAX, STRUCTURE TO SEMANTICS (2007)
M J Egenhofer, R Fegeas, Amit P. Sheth
Interoperability has been a basic requirement for the modern information systems environment for over two decades. How have key requirements for interoperability changed over that time? How can we...
Munindar P. Singh, Philip E. Cannata, Michael N. Huhns, Nigel Jacobs, Tomasz Ksiezyk, Kayliang Ong, ...
The Carnot project was an ambitious research project in heterogeneous databases. It integrated a variety of techniques to address a wide range of problems in achieving interoperation in heterogeneous...
Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services using Process Mediation (2007)
Zixin Wu, Ajith Ranabahu, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller
Web service composition has quickly become a key area of research in the services oriented architecture community. One of the challenges in composition is the existence of heterogeneities across...
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Farshad Hakimpour, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth
Abstract. SwetoDblp is a large populated ontology with a shallow schema yet a large number of real-world instance data. We describe how such ontology is built from an XML source and how it can be...
Role of semantics in Autonomic and Adaptive Web Services & Processes (2007)
The emergence of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) has created a new paradigm of loosely coupled distributed systems. In the METEOR-S project, we have studied the comprehensive role of semantics...
07061 Abstracts Collection -- Autonomous and Adaptive Web Services (2007)
Koehler, Jana, Pistore, Marco, Sheth, Amit P., Traverso, Paolo, Wirsing, Martin
From 4.2.2007 to 9.2.2007, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07061 ``Autonomous and Adaptive Web Services'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the...
A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from Unstructured text (2006)
Cartic Ramakrishnan, Krys J. Kochut, Amit P. Sheth
Abstract. We address the issue of extracting implicit and explicit relationships between entities in biomedical text. We argue that entities seldom occur in text in their simple form and that...
Modular Ontology Design Using Canonical Building Blocks in the Biochemistry Domain (2006)
Christopher J. Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York
The field of BioInformatics has become a major venue for the development and application of computational ontologies. Ranging from controlled vocabularies to annotation of experimental data to...
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...
Configuration and Adaptation of Semantic Web Processes (2006)
Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam, Prashant Doshi, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth
In this paper, we present the METEOR-S framework for configuration and adaptation of Semantic Web processes. This paper shows how semantic descriptions of Web services can be used to facilitate Web...
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...
Semantic Interoperability of Web Services - Challenges and Experiences (2006)
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John Miller, Jon Lathem
With the rising popularity of Web services, both academia and industry have invested considerably in Web service description standards, discovery, and composition techniques. The standards based...
Modular Ontology Design Using Canonical Building Blocks in the Biochemistry Domain (2006)
Christopher J. Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York
The field of BioInformatics has become a major venue for the development and application of computational ontologies. Ranging from controlled vocabularies to annotation of experimental data to...
Richard Scott Patterson, Richard Scott Patterson, Maureen Grasso, Committee Dr, Amit P. Sheth
Semantic Web services are the next generation of Web services, offering the possibility of an automated Service Oriented Architecture. Much work has been done in the areas of Semantic discover of...
Semantic Analytics Visualization (2006)
Leonidas Deligiannidis, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza
Abstract. In this paper we present a new tool for semantic analytics through 3D visualization called “Semantic Analytics Visualization ” (SAV). It has the capability for visualizing ontologies...
Modular Ontology Design Using Canonical Building Blocks in the Biochemistry Domain (2006)
Christopher J. Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York
The field of BioInformatics has become a major venue for the development and application of computational ontologies. Ranging from controlled vocabularies to annotation of experimental data to...
A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from Unstructured text (2006)
Cartic Ramakrishnan, Krys J. Kochut, Amit P. Sheth
Abstract. We address the issue of extracting implicit and explicit relationships between entities in biomedical text. We argue that entities seldom occur in text in their simple form and that...
The METEOR-S approach for configuring and executing dynamic web processes (2005)
Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller, Zixin Wu
Web processes are the next generation workflows created using Web services. This paper addresses research issues in creating a framework for configuring and executing dynamic Web processes. The...
OntoQA: Metric-based ontology quality analysis (2005)
Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza
As the Semantic Web gains importance for sharing knowledge on the Internet this has lead to the development and publishing of many ontologies in different domains. When trying to reuse existing...
Amit P. Sheth, Major Advisor, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, ...
In most contemporary approaches to pattern discovery in graphs, either quantitative anomalies or frequency of substructure is used to measure the relevance of a pattern. In this thesis, we address...
OntoQA: Metric-based ontology quality analysis (2005)
Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza
As the Semantic Web gains importance for sharing knowledge on the Internet this has lead to the development and publishing of many ontologies in different domains. When trying to reuse existing...
Discovering and ranking semantic associations over a large rdf metabase (2004)
Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth
Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful relationships among this...
Christian Halaschek-wiener, Amit P. Sheth, Christian Halaschek-wiener, Maureen Grasso, Amit P. Sheth, ...
The focus of contemporary Web information retrieval systems has been to provide efficient support for the querying and retrieval of relevant documents. More recently, information retrieval over...
Ontology-Driven Web Services Composition (2004)
Ruoyan Zhang, Ruoyan Zhang, Maureen Grasso, Amit P. Sheth
Discovering and assembling individual Web Services into more complex yet new and more useful Web Processes is an important challenge. In this thesis, we present techniques for automatically and...
Discovering and ranking semantic associations over a large rdf metabase (2004)
Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth
Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful relationships among this...
Christian Halaschek-wiener, Amit P. Sheth, Christian Halaschek-wiener, Maureen Grasso, Amit P. Sheth, ...
The focus of contemporary Web information retrieval systems has been to provide efficient support for the querying and retrieval of relevant documents. More recently, information retrieval over...
Performance Analysis and Simulation of Composite Web Services (2003)
Senthilanand Chandrasekaran, John A. Miller, Gregory S. Silver, Budak Arpinar, Amit P Sheth
The new paradigm for distributed computing over the Internet is that of Web services. They are Web accessible software components, which can be combined and linked together to create new...
Framework for semantic web process composition (2003)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma
Web services have been recognized to have the potential to revolutionize ecommerce. The potential for businesses to be able to interact with each other on the fly is very appealing. To date, however,...
Web Service Technologies and their Synergy with Simulation (2002)
Senthilanand Chandrasekaran, Gregory Silver, John A. Miller, Jorge Cardoso, Amit P. Sheth
The World Wide Web has had an huge influence on the computing field in general as well as simulation in particular (e.g., Web-Based Simulation). A new wave of development based upon XML has started....
Composition, performance analysis and simulation of web services (2002)
Senthilanand Chandrasekaran, John A. Miller, Gregory S. Silver, Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth
Abstract The new paradigm for distributed computing over the Internet is that of Web services. They are Web accessible software components which can be combined and linked together to create new...
An efficient data extraction and storage utility for XML documents (2001)
Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, John Miller, Amit P. Sheth
Abstract. A flexible filtering technique and data extraction mechanism for XML documents are presented. A relational database schema is created on the fly to store filtered and extracted XML elements...
John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut
Abstract. Development of today’s advanced applications is increasingly being accomplished using multi-faceted modeling. For example, the areas of simulation and workflow modeling generally need...
Krys J. Kochut, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller
Second generation workflow management systems need to deal with heterogeneity of platforms within and across cooperating enterprises along with legacy applications and data. At the same time, there...
A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System (1999)
Myong H. Kang, Judith N. Froscher, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut, John A. Miller
Abstract. The Department of Defense (DoD) needs multilevel secure (MLS) workflow management systems to enable globally distributed users and applications to cooperate across classification levels to...
Security for the METEOR Workflow Management System (1999)
John A. Miller, Mei Fan, Shengli Wu, Ismailcem B. Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut
Processes Driving the Networked Economy (1999)
Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem B. Arpinar
This article proposes that an organic workflow-process technology will power the evolution of information system architecture. The authors outline three likely stages of architectural evolution in...
IEEE IEEE Concurrency Processes Driving the (1999)
Networked Economy Together, Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem B. Arpinar
This article focuses on the second issue. An organizational, or business, process is any multistep activity that supports the organization's mission, such as providing a service or manufacturing...
A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System (1999)
Myong H. Kang, Judith N. Froscher, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut, John A. Miller
. The Department of Defense (DoD) needs multilevel secure (MLS) workflow management systems to enable globally distributed users and applications to cooperate across classification levels to achieve...
A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System (1999)
Myong H. Kang, Judith N. Froscher, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut, John A. Miller
Abstract. The Department of Defense (DoD) needs multilevel secure (MLS) workflow management systems to enable globally distributed users and applications to cooperate across classification levels to...
A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System (1999)
Myong H. Kang, Judith N. Froscher, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut, John A. Miller
Abstract. The Department of Defense (DoD) needs multilevel secure (MLS) workflow management systems to enable globally distributed users and applications to cooperate across classification levels to...
Munindar P. Singh, Philip E. Cannata, Michael N. Huhns, Tomasz Ksiezyk, Kayliang Ong, Amit P. Sheth, ...
The Carnot project was an ambitious research project in heterogeneous databases. It integrated a variety oftechniques to address a wide range of problems in achieving interoperation in heterogeneous...
The Future of Web-Based Workflows (1997)
John Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut
In this position paper, we discuss the suitability of the Web as the primary infrastructure for supporting advanced workflows in heterogeneous, distributed environments in which security,...
Prof Amit Sheth, Amit P. Sheth, Amit P. Sheth, Sigmod Multidatabase Interoperation, Sigmod Multidatabase Interoperation, Sigmod Multidatabase Interoperation
This talk will emphasize Workflow Management for Mission Critical and Enterprise-wide Applications involving heterogeneous information systems.... We will only look at some of the issues under the...
Simulation Modeling Within Workflow Technology (1995)
John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut, Xuzhong Wang, Arun Murugan
This paper presents an approach for integrating simulation modeling and analysis capabilities within the Workflow Management System (WFMS) being developed in the Large Scale Distributed Information...
Simulation Modeling Within Workflow Technology (1995)
John Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut, Xuzhong Wang, Arun Murugan
This paper presents an approach for integrating simulation modeling and analysis capabilities within the Workflow Management System (WFMS) being developed in the Large Scale Distributed Information...
Multidatabase Interdependencies in Industry (1993)
Amit P. Sheth, George Karabatis
In this paper we address the problem of data consistency between interrelated data. In industrial environments,lack of consistent data creates difficulties in interoperation between systems and often...
Multidatabase Interdependencies in Industry (1993)
Amit P. Sheth, Bellcore I, George Karabatis
george @ cs. uh. edu In this paper we address the problem of data consistency between interrelated data. In industrial environments, lack of consistent data creates difficulties in interoperation...
Using Tickets to Enforce the Serializability of Multidatabase Transactions (1993)
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Amit P. Sheth
To enforce global serializability in a multidatabase environment the multidatabase transaction manager must take into account the indirect (transitive) conflicts between multidatabase transactions...
Using Polytransactions to Manage Interdependent Data (1992)
Amit P. Sheth, Marek Rusinkiewicz, George Karabatis
Introduction Many large companies use multiple databases to serve the needs of various application systems. One of the significant problems in managing these databases is maintaining the consistency...
Specifying Interdependent Data: A Case Study At Bellcore (1992)
George Karabatis And, George Karabatis, Amit P. Sheth
Poor specification of consistency causes related (target) data to be compromised. Lack of data consistency results in poor service because it hampers interoperability and results in wasted...
Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases (1990)
Amit P. Sheth, James A. Larson
A federated database system (FDBS) is a collection of cooperating database systems that are autonomous and possibly heterogeneous. In this paper, we define a reference architecture for distributed...