Elizabeth Chang

Defining and Protecting Meta Privacy: A New Conceptual Framework Within Information Privacy (2008)

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Modeling Views for Semantic Web Using eXtensible Semantic (XSemantic) Nets (2008)

When considering information security and privacy issues most of the attention has previously focused on data protection and the privacy of personally identifiable information (PII). What is often...

Elizabeth Chang, Ling Feng, Tharam S. Dillon

Abstract. The emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and the related technologies promise to make the web a meaningful experience. Yet, high level modeling, design and querying techniques proves to be a...

A New Conceptual Framework within Information Privacy: Meta Privacy (2008)

Merging Application Models in a MDA Based Runtime Environment for (2008)

Abstract. When considering information security and privacy issues most of the attention has previously focussed on data protection and the privacy of personally identifiable information (PII). What...

Jon Davis, Andrew Tierney, Elizabeth Chang

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XML Descriptor based approach for Real Time (2008)

Tharam S Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, Ling Feng

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XML VIEWS, PART III An UML Based Design Methodology for XML Views (2008)

Rajugan R, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, Ling Feng

Abstract: Object-Oriented (OO) conceptual models have the power in describing and modelling real-world data semantics and their inter-relationships in a form that is precise and comprehensible to...

Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2008)

Formalizing a Grammar for Reputation in Peer-to-Peer Communication Abstract (2008)

Information privacy is a very subjective and context sensitive area of research open to many interpretations. As such it has seen an increasing number of solutions proposed that address the issue of...

Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon

Trust between communicating peers is increasingly catching the attention of the research community. Several methods have been proposed to assist the task of establishing trust between communicating...

MODELING ONTOLOGY VIEWS: An Abstract View Model for Semantic Web (2008)

Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon, Ling Feng

Abstract: The emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and the related technologies promise to make the web a meaningful experience. However, high level modeling, design and querying techniques proves to be a...

A Conceptual Architecture of Distributed Web Services for Service Ecosystems (2008)

Chen Wu, Elizabeth Chang

The classical nature of centralized web services client/server architecture brings about many associated problems such as performance, bottlenecks, and scalability. Meanwhile some peer-to-peer...

OWL, Proteins and Data Integration (2008)

Eep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, Baldev S. Sidhu

Abstract. In this paper we propose an approach to integrate protein information from various data sources by defining a Protein Ontology. Protein Ontology provides the technical and scientific...

21-23). Engineering XML solutions using views (2008)

Rajugan R, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon, Ling Feng

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New Framework for Authentication and Authorization for e-Health Service Systems (2008)

Song Han, Geoff Skinner, Vidyasagar Potdar, Elizabeth Chang, Chen Wu

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Secret Information Retrieval (2008)

Vidyasagar M. Potdar, Muhammad A. Khan, Elizabeth Chang, Mihaela Ulieru, Paul R. Worthington

Abstract — Steganography is the art and science of hiding information. This paper introduces e-Forensics as a novel technique for extracting secret information electronically encoded in most...

A New Conceptual Framework within Information Privacy: Meta Privacy (2008)

Applications of RFID in Pharmaceutical Industry (2008)

Abstract. When considering information security and privacy issues most of the attention has previously focussed on data protection and the privacy of personally identifiable information (PII). What...

Manohar Potdar, Elizabeth Chang, Vidyasagar Potdar

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A Three-Layered XML View Model: A Practical Approach (2008)

Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon, Ling Feng

Abstract. Since the early software models, abstraction and conceptual semantics have proven their importance in software engineering methodologies. For example, Object-Oriented conceptual modeling...

A Fuzzy Approach to Risk Based Decision Making (2008)

Omar Khadeer Hussain, Elizabeth Chang, Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Tharam S. Dillon

Abstract. Decision making is a tough process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting what the final outcome might be. Depending on the projection of the uncertain outcome, a...

Conceptual Design of an XML-View Driven, Global XML FACT Repository for XML Document Warehouses (2008)

Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon

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Trustworthiness Measure for e-Service (2008)

Elizabeth Chang, Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Tharam S. Dillon

Traditionally, transactions were carried out face-toface, now, they are carried out over the Internet. The infrastructure for the above business and information exchange could be client-server,...

Hecker, Michael, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

Privacy is becoming increasingly important due to the advent of e-commerce. E-commerce applications frequently require customers to divulge many personal details about themselves that must be...

A critical analysis of RFID security protocols (2008)

Sharif, Atif, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth

RFID, Radio Frequency Identification Systems, have gains its popularity for automated identification and supply chain applications. This paper describes the technical fundamentals of RFID systems,...

Checklist inspections and modifications: applying Bloom's taxonomy to categorise developer comprehension (2008)

McMeekin, David A., Von Konsky, Brian R., Chang, Elizabeth

Software maintenance can consume up to 70% of the effort spent on a software project, with more than half of this devoted to understanding the system. Performing a software inspection is expected to...

Differentiating conceptual modelling from data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling and a notation for ontology modelling (2008)

Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Hadzic, Maja, Wongthongtham, Pornpit

This paper considers conceptual modelling for three purposes namely data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling. It differentiates between the nature of the conceptual models for these...

Pairing-based public-key encryption schemes with backward-and-forward security (2008)

Tree-structured knowledge representations are increasingly being used since the relationships between data objects can be represented in a more meaningful way. A number of tree mining algorithms were...

Onto-ontology methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2008)

Identity-based cryptosystems utilize some arbitrary strings as the participants' public key in the underlying system. The encryptioner will not need to obtain the decryptioner's certificate. That...

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

Hecker, Michael, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

Privacy is becoming increasingly important due to the advent of e-commerce. E-commerce applications frequently require customers to divulge many personal details about themselves that must be...

A critical analysis of RFID security protocols (2008)

Sharif, Atif, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth

RFID, Radio Frequency Identification Systems, have gains its popularity for automated identification and supply chain applications. This paper describes the technical fundamentals of RFID systems,...

Checklist inspections and modifications: applying Bloom's taxonomy to categorise developer comprehension (2008)

McMeekin, David A., Von Konsky, Brian R., Chang, Elizabeth

Software maintenance can consume up to 70% of the effort spent on a software project, with more than half of this devoted to understanding the system. Performing a software inspection is expected to...

Differentiating conceptual modelling from data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling and a notation for ontology modelling (2008)

Tree-structured knowledge representations are increasingly being used since the relationships between data objects can be represented in a more meaningful way. A number of tree mining algorithms were...

Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Hadzic, Maja, Wongthongtham, Pornpit

This paper considers conceptual modelling for three purposes namely data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling. It differentiates between the nature of the conceptual models for these...

Pairing-based public-key encryption schemes with backward-and-forward security (2008)

Onto-ontology methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2008)

Identity-based cryptosystems utilize some arbitrary strings as the participants' public key in the underlying system. The encryptioner will not need to obtain the decryptioner's certificate. That...

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

Tree-structured knowledge representations are increasingly being used since the relationships between data objects can be represented in a more meaningful way. A number of tree mining algorithms were...

Hecker, Michael, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Privacy is becoming increasingly important due to the advent of e-commerce. E-commerce applications frequently require customers to divulge many personal details about themselves that must be...

Checklist inspections and modifications: applying Bloom's taxonomy to categorise developer comprehension (2008)

McMeekin, D., Von Konsky, Brian, Chang, Elizabeth, Cooper, D.

Software maintenance can consume up to 70% of the effort spent on a software project, with more than half of this devoted to understanding the system. Performing a software inspection is expected to...

Knowledge conceptualization and software agent based approach for OWL modelling issues (2008)

Zhao, Shuxin, Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

In this paper, we address the issues and solutions of using OWL to model the knowledge captured in relational databases. Some types of knowledge in databases cannot be modeled directly using OWL...

Differentiating conceptual modelling from data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling and a notation for ontology modelling (2008)

Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Hadzic, Maja, Wongthongtham, Pornpit

This paper considers conceptual modelling for three purposes namely data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling. It differentiates between the nature of the conceptual models for these...

Mapping relational data model to OWL ontology: knowledge conceptualization in OWL (2008)

Zhao, Shuxin, Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper, we introduce the issues and solutions of using OWL ontology to model extra restriction on 'Properties' of 'Classes' that are not provided by OWL specifications and to represent...

Pairing-based public-key encryption schemes with backward-and-forward security (2008)

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Identity-based cryptosystems utilize some arbitrary strings as the participants' public key in the underlying system. The encryptioner will not need to obtain the decryptioner's certificate. That...

A critical analysis of RFID security protocols (2008)

Sharif, A., Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth

RFID, Radio Frequency Identification

Onto-agent methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2008)

Checklist inspections and modifications: applying Bloom's taxonomy to categorise developer comprehension (2008)

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

McMeekin, David, Von Konsky, Brian, Chang, Elizabeth, Cooper, David

Software maintenance can consume up to 70% of the effort

Onto-ontology methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2008)

Overview of a media convergence centre (MC2) (2008)

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2007 (2008)

Organizational alliances are rapidly being formed as a means for effective cooperation with a common goal within a targeted value chain. The combination of such communication, coordination and...

Developing a conceptual framework of semantic search engine to promote the collaborations between SMEs in the digital ecosystem environment (2008)

The goal of this paper is to survey existing biomedical ontologies and their developments in 2007. This paper discusses features of biomedical ontologies that allow true information integration in...

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

The research with regards to digital ecosystems emerged in the end of last century, and has developed in this century. Due to its immaturity, some fields within it are deemed to be blank. This...

A survey in semantic search technologies (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper, we make a survey over the primary literature regarding semantic search technologies. By classifying the literature into six main categories, we review their characteristics...

Ontological framework for trust and reputation for DBE (2008)

Hammadi, Adil, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam, Ali, S.

Today's e-Businesses rely heavily on trust and reputation systems. These systems are key indicators for businesses performance. Businesses that interact with each other for their business needs form...

Re-configurable VoiP interactive response (2008)

State of the art in metadata abstraction crawlers (2008)

Organizational alliances are rapidly being formed as a means for effective cooperation with a common goal within a targeted value chain. The combination of such communication, coordination and...

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Nowadays, the research of crawlers moves closer to the semantic web, along with the appearance of increasing XML/RDF/OWL files and the rapid development of ontology mark-up languages. As an emerging...

Quantifying the numeric and linguistic magnitude of perceived risk in e-commerce interactions for RDSS (2008)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam

In an e-commerce business interaction, the risk assessing agent by analyzing the possible level of perceived risk beforehand can make an informed decision of its future course of interaction with an...

A survey in traditional information retrieval models (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

As a matter of fact, many so-called semantic search algorithms are derived friom the traditional index-term-based search models. In this paper, we survey the traditional information retrieval models...

State of the art in metadata abstraction crawlers (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Nowadays, the research of crawlers moves closer to the semantic web, along with the appearance of increasing XML/RDF/OWL files and the rapid development of ontology mark-up languages. As an emerging...

Overview of a media convergence centre (MC2) (2008)

Tree-structured knowledge representations are increasingly being used since the relationships between data objects can be represented in a more meaningful way. A number of tree mining algorithms were...

Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Organizational alliances are rapidly being formed as a means for effective cooperation with a common goal within a targeted value chain. The combination of such communication, coordination and...

Hecker, Michael, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Privacy is becoming increasingly important due to the advent of e-commerce. E-commerce applications frequently require customers to divulge many personal details about themselves that must be...

Checklist inspections and modifications: applying Bloom's taxonomy to categorise developer comprehension (2008)

McMeekin, D., Von Konsky, Brian, Chang, Elizabeth, Cooper, D.

Software maintenance can consume up to 70% of the effort spent on a software project, with more than half of this devoted to understanding the system. Performing a software inspection is expected to...

Knowledge conceptualization and software agent based approach for OWL modelling issues (2008)

Zhao, Shuxin, Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

In this paper, we address the issues and solutions of using OWL to model the knowledge captured in relational databases. Some types of knowledge in databases cannot be modeled directly using OWL...

Differentiating conceptual modelling from data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling and a notation for ontology modelling (2008)

Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Hadzic, Maja, Wongthongtham, Pornpit

This paper considers conceptual modelling for three purposes namely data modelling, knowledge modelling and ontology modelling. It differentiates between the nature of the conceptual models for these...

Pairing-based public-key encryption schemes with backward-and-forward security (2008)

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Identity-based cryptosystems utilize some arbitrary strings as the participants' public key in the underlying system. The encryptioner will not need to obtain the decryptioner's certificate. That...

A critical analysis of RFID security protocols (2008)

Sharif, A., Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth

RFID, Radio Frequency Identification

Developing a conceptual framework of semantic search engine to promote the collaborations between SMEs in the digital ecosystem environment (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

The research with regards to digital ecosystems emerged in the end of last century, and has developed in this century. Due to its immaturity, some fields within it are deemed to be blank. This...

A survey in semantic search technologies (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper, we make a survey over the primary literature regarding semantic search technologies. By classifying the literature into six main categories, we review their characteristics...

Onto-agent methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2008)

Checklist inspections and modifications: applying Bloom's taxonomy to categorise developer comprehension (2008)

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

McMeekin, David, Von Konsky, Brian, Chang, Elizabeth, Cooper, David

Software maintenance can consume up to 70% of the effort

A survey in traditional information retrieval models (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

As a matter of fact, many so-called semantic search algorithms are derived friom the traditional index-term-based search models. In this paper, we survey the traditional information retrieval models...

Onto-ontology methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2008)

Ontology support for biomedical information resources (2008)

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Hadzic, Maja

The increasing body of distributed and heterogeneous information and the autonomous, heterogeneous and dynamic nature of information resources are important issues hindering effective and efficient...

XML profile for distributed real time systems (2008)

Poon, P., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, L.

In this paper. we describe a XML based profile for modeling the semantics of real time systems. We aim to use Real Time Markup Language (RTML) to provide a comprehensive description oftemporal...

Checklist based reading's influence on a developer's understanding (2008)

McMeekin, David, Von Konsky, Brian, Chang, Elizabeth, Cooper, David

This paper addresses the influence the Checklist Based Reading inspection technique has on a developer's ability to modify inspected code. Traditionally, inspections have been used to detect defects...

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2007 (2008)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

The goal of this paper is to survey existing biomedical ontologies and their developments in 2007. This paper discusses features of biomedical ontologies that allow true information integration in...

Using UML 2.1 to model multi-agent systems (2008)

Dillon, Darshan, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

The use of UML 2.1 to model a broad range of systems is evident from the variety of UML diagrams in academia and in the marketplace. One class of systems currently gaining popularity are Multi-Agent...

Transport service ontology and its application in the field of semantic search (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Transport is a crucial component in logistics, which joints each activity in the logistics chain. The performance of logistics heavily relies on the efficiency of transport services. However, until...

Quantifying the numeric and linguistic magnitude of perceived risk in e-commerce interactions for RDSS (2008)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In an e-commerce business interaction, the risk assessing agent by analyzing the possible level of perceived risk beforehand can make an informed decision of its future course of interaction with an...

A software engineering ontology as software engineering knowledge representation (2008)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Kasisopha, Natsuda, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

This paper aims to present software engineering ontology as software engineering knowledge representation for a multi-site software development. It will not only facilitate the capturing of software...

Mapping relational data model to OWL ontology: knowledge conceptualization in OWL (2008)

Zhao, Shuxin, Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper, we introduce the issues and solutions of using OWL ontology to model extra restriction on 'Properties' of 'Classes' that are not provided by OWL specifications and to represent...

Re-configurable VoiP interactive response (2008)

Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Organizational alliances are rapidly being formed as a means for effective cooperation with a common goal within a targeted value chain. The combination of such communication, coordination and...

Determining the Level of Perceived Risk in e-business Web 2.0 Interactions (2008)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

While making an interaction-based decision in the domain of e-commerce business interactions, it is important for the initiating agent of the interaction to analyze and consider the level of...

Ascertaining the semantic and linguistic level of perceived risk in e-business interactions (2008)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Hussain, Farookh Khadeer

By analyzing the level of perceived risk in the domain of e-business, the interaction initiating agent can determine beforehand whether or not it will achieve its desired outcomes and the associated...

A work-in-progress platform for solving knowledge sharing issues in organizations (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper, we propose a knowledge sharing platform based on the technology of ontology and agent, in order to solve the issues in the knowledge sharing activities within organizations. Based on...

Knowledge extraction from web based application source code: an approach to database reverse engineering for ontology development (2008)

Zhao, Shuxin, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

This paper presents a novel approach for extracting knowledge from web-based application source code in supplementing and assisting ontology development from database schemas. The structure of...

Use of protein ontology to enable data exchange for complex proteomic experiments (2008)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Ontologies and controlled vocabularies are being established by many groups to provide roadmaps through the confused mass of data currently being generated from increasingly large-scale experimental...

Developing a semantic service transaction system in the DE environment (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital Ecosystem (DE), which is an emerging service environment beyond the service-oriented architecture (SOA), is increasingly attracting researchers? interest. However, current literature reveals...

State of the art in negotiation ontologies for enhancing business intelligence (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Negotiation is defined as two or more agents making agreement on the common interests, which provides an efficient approach for companies to gain business intelligence from suppliers and customers....

Ontological framework for trust and reputation for DBE (2008)

Hammadi, Adil, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Ali, S.

Today's e-Businesses rely heavily on trust and reputation systems. These systems are key indicators for businesses performance. Businesses that interact with each other for their business needs form...

A semantic crawler based on an extended CBR algorithm (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

A semantic (web) crawler refers to a series of web crawlers designed for harvesting semantic web content. This paper presents the framework of a semantic crawler that can abstract metadata from...

Use of UML 2.1 to model multi-agent systems based on a goal-driven software engineering ontology (2008)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Dillon, Darshan, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper, we present the use of UML 2.1 to model multi-agent systems based on a goal-driven software engineering ontology. The lack of an efficient standardized modeling language is evident. The...

A survey in semantic web technologies-inspired focused crawlers (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Crawlers are software which can traverse the internet and retrieve webpages by hyperlinks. In theface of the inundant spam websites, traditional web crawlers cannot function well to solve this...

A survey of RFID authentication protocols based on hash-chain method (2008)

Syamsuddin, I, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Han, Song

Security and privacy are the inherent problems in RFID communications. There are several protocols have been proposed to overcome those problems. Hash chain is commonly employed by the protocols to...

TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems (2008)

Multi-site software engineering ontology instantiations management using reputation based decision making (2008)

The issues of distributed and heterogeneous information, lack an underlying knowledge base, autonomy of the information resources, dynamic nature of the information retrieval process and dramatically...

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

In this paper we explore the development of systems for software engineering ontology instantiations management in the methodology for multi-site distributed software development. Ultimately the...

Determining the failure level for risk analysis in an e-commerce interaction (2008)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

Before initiating a financial e-commerce interaction over the World Wide Web, the initiating agent would like to analyze the possible Risk in interacting with an agent, to ascertain the level to...

Latent semantic analysis - The dynamics of semantics web services discovery (2008)

Wu, Chen, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth

Semantic Web Services (SWS) have currently drawn much momentum in both academia and industry. Most of the solutions and specifications for SWS rely on ontology building, a task needs much human (e.g....

Web semantics for intelligent and dynamic information retrieval illustrated within the mental health domain (2008)

A transport service ontology-based focused crawler (2008)

Much of the available information covering various knowledge domains is distributed across various information resources. The issues of distributed and heterogeneous information that often come...

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Ontology is a technology for conceptualizing specific domain knowledge, which can provide machine-readable definitions to the severed domain. Therefore, ontology can be utilized to enhance the...

Human system interaction with confident computing (2008)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Calder, David

This keynote will give an overview of the last 30 years of human system interaction and the key elements of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and its transition from traditional HCI into the frontier...

Quality of service (QoS) based service retrieval engine (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

It is observed that there are few service evaluation and ranking methodologies currently available in the SOE. In this paper, we propose an innovative service evaluation and ranking strategy, based...

A methodology for quality-based mashup of data sources (2008)

Raza, Muhammad, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

The concept of mashup is gaining tremendous popularity and its application can be seen in a large number of domains. Enterprises using and relying upon mashup have improved their mass collaboration...

Highlighting the issues in making an informed interaction-based decision in industrial ecosystems (2008)

Hussain, Omar, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer

In the literature, the notion of trust has been widely discussed and various approaches have been proposed to assess and quantify it, in order to take it into consideration when making an...

An abstract layered model for web inclusive distributed computing leading to enhancing GRIDSpace with Web 2.0 (2008)

A robust methodology for prediction of trust and reputation values (2008)

Service Oriented Computing (SOC), Grid computing, and Web2.0 computing have increasingly received momentum in both research and industry. In this paper, we propose an abstract Web Inclusive...

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar

In this paper, we present the FC direct trust value-based decision making methodology, for making direct trust value based decisions regarding interactions in (a) a given context and during the...

An empirically supported contingent method for the usability evaluation of web-based learning systems (2008)

Nguyen, T., Jacob, Carl, Chang, Vanessa, Chang, Elizabeth, Turk, A.

The research was conducted with the aim to develop a customizable, user-centred method for formative usability evaluation of such systems. The method can be used for usability evaluation of Web-based...

An empirical approach for semantic Web services discovery (2008)

Wu, Chen, Chang, Elizabeth, Aitken, Ashley

Component retrieval/discovery is a well-established research direction in Software Enginecring. With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service discovery has become increasingly...

Tree model guided candidate generation for mining frequent subtrees from XML (2008)

Tan, Henry, Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling, Feng, L.

Due to the inherent flexibilities in both structure and semantics, XML association rules mining faces few challenges, such as: a more complicated hierarchical data structure and ordered data context....

Development of a software engineering ontology for multi-site software development (2008)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Sommerville, I.

This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating to software engineering is well described in the textbook titled...

Using coalgebra and coinduction to define ontology-based multi-agent systems (2008)

An empirical approach for semantic Web services discovery (2008)

In the past, algebra has been predominantly used to define computer systems. However, computer systems are becoming more dynamic nowadays and algebra is not suitable any more to define such systems....

Wu, Chen, Chang, Elizabeth, Aitken, Ashley

Component retrieval/discovery is a well-established research direction in Software Engineering. With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture(SOA), service discovery has become increasingly...

State of the art of data mining of tree structured information (2008)

Tan, H., Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

This paper presents the current state-of-the-art of the existing work in the area of tree mining with association rule mining as the case in point and XML mining as one applicable example. We discuss...

Paradox in applications of semantic similarity models in information retrieval (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Semantic similarity models are a series of mathematical models for computing semantic similarity values among nodes in a semantic net. In this paper we reveal the paradox in the applications of these...

Semantic service search, service evaluation and ranking in service oriented environment (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

The theory of Service Oriented Environment (SOE) emerges with advanced connectivity of the Internet technologies, openness of business environment and prosperousness of business activities. Service,...

Quality measures for digital business ecosystems formation (2008)

Raza, Muhammad, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

To execute a complex business task, business entities may need to collaborate with each other as individually they may not have the capability or willingness to perform the task on its own. Such...

Measuring cognition levels in collaborative processes for software engineering code inspections (2008)

McMeekin, D., Von Konsky, B., Chang, Elizabeth, Cooper, D.

This paper demonstrates that different software code inspection techniques have the potential to improve developer understanding of code being inspected to varying extents. This suggests that some...

State of the art in negotiation ontologies for multi-agent systems (2008)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

In a multi-agent system, a business may start by two agents that have the desire of trading, in which negotiation is an inevitable procedure for building the business relationship. In the context of...

Ontology based software engineering - software engineering 2.0 (2008)

Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Wongthongtham, Pornpit

This paper describes the use of ontologies in different aspects of software engineering. This use of ontologies varies from support for software developers at multiple sites to the use of an ontology...

A digital ecosystem for ICT educators, ICT industry and ICT students (2008)

Chin, Kum, Chang, Elizabeth, Atkinson, Doug

Worldwide ICT education (Information Communication Technology) is facing a major challenge of declining student enrolments; battling to keep its curriculum relevant and up-to-date while trying to...

Using non-commutative monoids for construct three-party key establishment (2008)

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Three-party key establishment protocol can help three participants to establish a shared secret key through interactions via public channels. In this paper, a novel three-party key agreement protocol...

Extraction process specification for materialized ontology views (2008)

Wouters, C., Dillon, Tharam, Rahayu, W., Meersman, Robert, Chang, Elizabeth

The success of the semantic web relies heavily on ontologies. However, using ontologies for this specific area poses a number of new problems. One of these problems, extracting a high quality...

Advances in web semantics I (2008)

Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Meersman, R., Sycara, Katia

No Abstract available.

Sub-ontologies and ontology views: a theoretical perspective (2008)

Rajugan, Rajagopal, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

The success of the Semantic Web (SW) relies heavily on formulation and interoperability of well-defined ontologies and their utilisation. Thus, in this context, it is interesting to investigate...

Multi-site project organisation knowledge sharing ontology (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

The implementation of ontology starts to step into the field of project organizations. With the appearance of project outsourcing, the location of project workplace becomes increasingly multiple,...

Intelligent web services selection based on AHP and Wiki (2007)

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

Web Service selection is an essential element in Service-Oriented Computing. How to wisely select appropriate Web services for the benefits of service consumers is a key issue in service discovery....

Sidhu, Amandeep S, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

These Huge amounts of Protein Structure Data make it difficult to create explanatory and predictive models that are consistent with huge volume of data. Difficulty increase when large variety of...

Anonymous mutual authentication protocol for RFID tag without back-end database (2007)

Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

Abstract. RFID, as an emerging technology, has very huge potential in today?s social and business developments. Security and Privacy are one of the important issues in the design of practical RFID...

Multi-site project organisation knowledge sharing ontology (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

The implementation of ontology starts to step into the field of project organizations. With the appearance of project outsourcing, the location of project workplace becomes increasingly multiple,...

Intelligent web services selection based on AHP and Wiki (2007)

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

Web Service selection is an essential element in Service-Oriented Computing. How to wisely select appropriate Web services for the benefits of service consumers is a key issue in service discovery....

Sidhu, Amandeep S, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

These Huge amounts of Protein Structure Data make it difficult to create explanatory and predictive models that are consistent with huge volume of data. Difficulty increase when large variety of...

Anonymous mutual authentication protocol for RFID tag without back-end database (2007)

Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

Abstract. RFID, as an emerging technology, has very huge potential in today?s social and business developments. Security and Privacy are one of the important issues in the design of practical RFID...

Ontology instantiations for software engineering knowledge management (2007)

A method for service quality assessment in a service ecosystem (2007)

In this paper, we explore the development of systems for software engineering knowledge management. Software engineering knowledge is represented in the software engineering ontology whose...

An analysis of web services mediation architecture and pattern in synapse (2007)

the increasing proliferation of independent application service providers is making traditional IT infrastructure insufficient when dealing with new issues that appear in a dynamic outsourcing...

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2006 (2007)

No abstract available.

Sidhu S, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Ontology instantiations for software engineering knowledge management (2007)

A method for service quality assessment in a service ecosystem (2007)

In this paper, we explore the development of systems for software engineering knowledge management. Software engineering knowledge is represented in the software engineering ontology whose...

An analysis of web services mediation architecture and pattern in synapse (2007)

the increasing proliferation of independent application service providers is making traditional IT infrastructure insufficient when dealing with new issues that appear in a dynamic outsourcing...

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2006 (2007)

No abstract available.

Sidhu S, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Quantifying the loss in resource benefit for risk based decision in a digital business ecosystem (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

An integrative view of the concept of digital ecosystem (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Application of protege and SPARQL in the field of project knowledge management (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Prot駩 is a set of open-source ontology design software developed in Stanford Medical Informatics. SPARQL (Protocol and RDF Query Language) is recommended by W3C, to represent the RDF (Resource...

Tree mining application to matching of hetereogeneous knowledge (2007)

A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry (2007)

Matching of heterogeneous knowledge sources is of increasing importance in areas such as scientific knowledge management, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, and many emerging Semantic...

Visual modeling of ontology views for e-sciences using Xsemantic nets (2007)

Image Retrieval (IR) is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research domains in the field of multimedia technology. And in the industrial ecosystems, images of products, activities,...

Rajugan, R, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Ontologies are the foundation of the Semantic Web (SW) and one of the keys necessary to its success. Conversely, e-Science domains are usually characterized by heterogeneous semi-structured data...

Quantifying the possible financial consequences of failure for making a risk based decision (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a financial e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to analyze beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the initiating agent an...

State of the art review of the existing bayesian-network based approaches to trust and reputation computation. (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review of the bayesian-network based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the bayesian network based approaches for trust and...

State of the art review of the existing soft computing based approaches to trust and reputation computation (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review of the soft computing based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the soft computing based approaches for trust and reputation...

State of the art review of the existing PageRankTM based algorithms for trust and reputation computation (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review of PageRankTM based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the approaches that make use of PageRankTM method for trust and...

Voice over internet protocol on mobile devices (2007)

Mao, Guo Fang, Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth

Voice over Internet Protocol (VolP) is a way to carry out a telephone conversation over a data network. VoIP products promise converged telecommunications and data services that are cheaper, more...

Determining the loss of investment probability for risk based decision support system (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S

In a financial digital business ecosystem, the trusting agent can analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand enabling a better decision regarding the future...

Contemporary cultural researches on knowledge sharing (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Knowledge sharing, as an essential component in the field of knowledge management research, attracts increasing researchers into this discipline. Current researches on KS can be categorized as two...

Compare and contrast of contemporary technical knowledge sharing technologies (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Many methodologies have been proposed, which aims to exploit the embodied knowledge in practice and transform them to a...

A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry (2007)

Quantifying the loss in resource benefit for risk based decision in a digital business ecosystem (2007)

Image Retrieval (IR) is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research domains in the field of multimedia technology. And in the industrial ecosystems, images of products, activities,...

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

An integrative view of the concept of digital ecosystem (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Visual modeling of ontology views for e-sciences using Xsemantic nets (2007)

Rajugan, R, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Ontologies are the foundation of the Semantic Web (SW) and one of the keys necessary to its success. Conversely, e-Science domains are usually characterized by heterogeneous semi-structured data...

Quantifying the possible financial consequences of failure for making a risk based decision (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a financial e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to analyze beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the initiating agent an...

State of the art review of the existing bayesian-network based approaches to trust and reputation computation. (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review ofthe bayesian-network based approaches for trust andreputation computation. We divide the bayesiannetwork based approaches for trust and...

State of the art review of the existing soft computing based approaches to trust and reputation computation (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review ofthe soft computing based approaches for trust andreputation computation. We divide the soft computingbased approaches for trust and reputation...

State of the art review of the existing PageRankTM based algorithms for trust and reputation computation (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review ofPageRankTM based approaches for trust and reputationcomputation. We divide the approaches that make useof PageRankTM method for trust and...

Voice over internet protocol on mobile devices (2007)

Mao, Guo Fang, Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth

Voice over Internet Protocol (VolP) is a way to carry out a telephone conversation over a data network. VoIP products promise converged telecommunications and data services that are cheaper, more...

Determining the loss of investment probability for risk based decision support system (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S

In a financial digital business ecosystem, the trusting agent can analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand enabling a better decision regarding the future...

Application of protege and SPARQL in the field of project knowledge management (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Prot駩 is a set of open-source ontology design software developed in Stanford Medical Informatics. SPARQL (Protocol and RDF Query Language) is recommended by W3C, to represent the RDF (Resource...

Tree mining application to matching of hetereogeneous knowledge (2007)

Contemporary cultural researches on knowledge sharing (2007)

Matching of heterogeneous knowledge sources is of increasing importance in areas such as scientific knowledge management, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, and many emerging Semantic...

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Knowledge sharing, as an essential component in the field of knowledge management research, attracts increasing researchers into this discipline. Current researches on KS can be categorized as two...

Compare and contrast of contemporary technical knowledge sharing technologies (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Many methodologies have been proposed, which aims to exploit the embodied knowledge in practice and transform them to a...

Project track and trace methodology in the environment of digital ecosystem (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

An environmentally adaptive conceptual framework for addressing information privacy issues in digital ecosystems (2007)

Skinner, Geoff D., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Use of digital ecosystem and ontology technology for standardization of medical records (2007)

Ontology-based solutions for knowledge sharing issues in project organisations (2007)

No abstract available.

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Ascertaining risk in financial terms in digital business ecosystem environments (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a digital business ecosystem environment the trusting agent, by analysing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent, can make a better decision of its future course...

A methodology to quantify failure for risk-based decision support system in digital business ecosystems (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In digital business ecosystem architecture it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk according to its demand before interacting with a probable trusted agent. Doing so would...

Aligning with the web: an atom-based architecture for web services discovery (2007)

A methodology to quantify failuire for risk-based decision support system in digital business ecosystems (2007)

During the past three years, the Web has undergone a radical change towards a highly user-centred cyberspace where end users can easily participate and collaborate for their own benefits and profits....

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In digital business ecosystem architecture it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk according to its demand before interacting with a probable trusted agent. Doing so would...

Aligning with the web: an atom-based architecture for web services discovery (2007)

Project track and trace methodology in the environment of digital ecosystem (2007)

During the past three years, the Web has undergone a radical change towards a highly user-centred cyberspace where end users can easily participate and collaborate for their own benefits and profits....

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

An environmentally adaptive conceptual framework for addressing information privacy issues in digital ecosystems (2007)

Skinner, Geoff D., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Use of digital ecosystem and ontology technology for standardization of medical records (2007)

Ontology-based solutions for knowledge sharing issues in project organisations (2007)

No abstract available.

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Ascertaining risk in financial terms in digital business ecosystem environments (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a digital business ecosystem environment the trusting agent, by analysing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent, can make a better decision of its future course...

Detection of fractal breakdowns by the novel real-time pattern detection model (enhanced-RTPD + holder exponent) for web applications (2007)

Lin, Wilfred W. K., Wong, Allan K. Y., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Quantifying failure for risk based decision making in digital business ecosystem interactions (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

Ontology-based digital ecosystem conceptual representation (2007)

Dong, Han, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Subjective and objective watermark detection using a novel approach - bar-code watermarking (2007)

Potdar, Vidyasagar, Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

No abstract available.

Ontology modelling notations for software engineering knowledge representation (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

No abstract available.

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

It is well-known that ontology is utilized as an effective methodology to share domain-specific knowledge in multidisciplinary fields. In the field of project management, due to the characteristic of...

Reconfigurable software architecture for voice access to data services (2007)

Mediating databases and the semantic web: a methodology for building domain ontologies from databases and existing ontologies (2007)

No abstract available.

Exploring the conceptual model of digital ecosystem (2007)

Ontologies play a vital role in the Semantic Web. However, ontologies are hard to construct due to high cost in the manual development process and difficulty in reaching agreement. While there are...

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital Ecosystem, as a neoteric terminology, has emerged along with the appearance of Business Ecosystem which is a form of naturally existing business network of small and medium enterprises....

A Methodology to ascertain the level of failuer in an e-commerce interaction (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam

To ascertain the possible level of risk in an e-commerce interaction, the initiating agent needs to determine beforehand the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure to its...

Software engineering ontology for software engineering knowledge management in multi-site software development environment (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Sommerville, Ian

No abstract available.

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

Detection of fractal breakdowns by the novel real-time pattern detection model (enhanced-RTPD + holder exponent) for web applications (2007)

Lin, Wilfred W. K., Wong, Allan K. Y., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Quantifying failure for risk based decision making in digital business ecosystem interactions (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

Ontology-based digital ecosystem conceptual representation (2007)

Dong, Han, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Subjective and objective watermark detection using a novel approach - bar-code watermarking (2007)

Potdar, Vidyasagar, Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

No abstract available.

Ontology modelling notations for software engineering knowledge representation (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

No abstract available.

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

It is well-known that ontology is utilized as an effective methodology to share domain-specific knowledge in multidisciplinary fields. In the field of project management, due to the characteristic of...

Reconfigurable software architecture for voice access to data services (2007)

Mediating databases and the semantic web: a methodology for building domain ontologies from databases and existing ontologies (2007)

No abstract available.

Exploring the conceptual model of digital ecosystem (2007)

Ontologies play a vital role in the Semantic Web. However, ontologies are hard to construct due to high cost in the manual development process and difficulty in reaching agreement. While there are...

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital Ecosystem, as a neoteric terminology, has emerged along with the appearance of Business Ecosystem which is a form of naturally existing business network of small and medium enterprises....

A Methodology to ascertain the level of failuer in an e-commerce interaction (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam

To ascertain the possible level of risk in an e-commerce interaction, the initiating agent needs to determine beforehand the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure to its...

Software engineering ontology for software engineering knowledge management in multi-site software development environment (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Sommerville, Ian

No abstract available.

Amandeep, S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

Mutual authentication protocol for RFID tags based on synchronised secret information with monitor (2007)

Multi-site distributed software development: issues, solutions and challenges (2007)

RFID, as an anti-conterfeiting technology, is pushing huge potential industrial, medical, business and social applications. RFID-based identification is an example of emerging technology which...

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Tackling the disadvantages associated with remote communication is a challenge in multi-site software development. The challenge includes all these factors: awareness of the work that is being done...

Reference architectural styles for service oriented computing (2007)

Implications of frequent subtree mining using hybrid support definition (2007)

Abstract. Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns...

Hadzic, Fedja, Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

See Alterntive Locations for link to abstract.

Mutual authentication protocol for RFID tags based on synchronised secret information with monitor (2007)

Multi-site distributed software development: issues, solutions and challenges (2007)

RFID, as an anti-conterfeiting technology, is pushing huge potential industrial, medical, business and social applications. RFID-based identification is an example of emerging technology which...

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Tackling the disadvantages associated with remote communication is a challenge in multi-site software development. The challenge includes all these factors: awareness of the work that is being done...

Reference architectural styles for service oriented computing (2007)

Implications of frequent subtree mining using hybrid support definition (2007)

Abstract. Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns...

Hadzic, Fedja, Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

See Alterntive Locations for link to abstract.

Towards Social Network based Approach for Software Engineering Ontology Sharing and Evolution (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Aseeri, Ahmed A.

In this paper, we present a multi-agent social network approach that integrates the software engineering ontology and expert recommendation facilities for communities of software engineers remotely...

From database to semantic web ontology: an overview (2007)

This paper intends to provide an overview of automated knowledge extraction and transformation from relational databases and their related sources into Semantic Web ontologies. Issues and challenges...

The rapid growth of computing, the Internet and telecommunications systems have resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a...

The rapid growth of the Internet and widespread use of mobile computing and telephony has resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Data and telecommunications...

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein and biological data sources. PO converts the enormous amounts of data collected by geneticists and molecular biologists into...

Towards Social Network based Approach for Software Engineering Ontology Sharing and Evolution (2007)

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein andbiological data sources. PO converts the enormous amounts of data collected bygeneticists and molecular biologists into...

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Aseeri, Ahmed A.

In this paper, we present a multi-agent social network approach that integrates the software engineering ontology and expert recommendation facilities for communities of software engineers remotely...

From database to semantic web ontology: an overview (2007)

This paper intends to provide an overview of automated knowledge extraction and transformation from relational databases and their related sources into Semantic Web ontologies. Issues and challenges...

The rapid growth of computing, the Internet and telecommunications systems have resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a...

Reference architecture styles for service-oriented computing (2007)

The rapid growth of the Internet and widespread use of mobile computing and telephony has resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Data and telecommunications...

GRIDSpace: semantic grid services on the web - evolution towards a softgrid (2007)

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by...

Reference architecture styles for service-oriented computing (2007)

This paper advances the notion of software in existing Grid services as discussed in OGSA, which provides software middleware or wrappers for accessing hardware resources towards the notion that the...

GRIDSpace: semantic grid services on the web - evolution towards a softgrid (2007)

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by...

Privacy-preserving transactions protocol using mobile agents with mutual authentication (2007)

This paper advances the notion of software in existing Grid services as discussed in OGSA, which provides software middleware or wrappers for accessing hardware resources towards the notion that the...

Han, Song, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

This article introduces a new transaction protocol using mobile agents in electronic commerce. The authors first propose a new model for transactions in electronic commerce mutual authenticated...

Ontology-based IT pedagogical knowledge framework (2007)

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID transponders, RFID readers, RFID middleware, and RFID labels....

Chin, Kum Leng, Chang, Elizabeth, Atkinson, Douglas, Parker, Kevin R.

Prospective students often have trouble differentiating between many computer-related programs of study such as computer science (CS), information systems (IS), information engineering (IE), software...

Trustworthiness measurement methodology (TMM) for assessment purposes (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Quality assessment process is a very complex process. At the same time quality assessment is very vital and crucial for many business processes. In this paper we propose and explain trustworthiness...

Illustrative example of determining quality of service (QoS) using trustworthiness measurement methodology (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper we make use of a case study comprising of an interaction between a service provider and a service requestor to determine the quality of service (QoS) provided by the service provider....

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Trust based decision making approach for protein ontology (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Hussain, Farookh K., Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

From database to semantic web ontology: an overview (2007)

This paper intends to provide an overview of automated knowledge extraction and transformation from relational databases and their related sources into Semantic Web ontologies. Issues and challenges...

Onto-agent methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2007)

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Service syndication - towards a service value chain over the web (2007)

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

Conceptual representation of digital ecosystem theory (2007)

No abstract available.

Searching services "on the web": A public web services discovery approach (2007)

No abstract available.

With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services, service discovery has become increasingly crucial. Public Web services that are available "on the Web" provide unlimited values...

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID Transponders, RFID Readers, RFID Middleware, and RFID Labels....

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Traditional approaches to integrate protein data generally involved keyword searches, which immediately excludes unannotated or poorly annotated data. An alternative protein annotation approach is to...

Knowledge discovery in biomedical data facilitated by domain ontologies (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Kennedy, Paul J., Simoff, Simeon, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

In some real-world areas, it is important to enrich the data with external background knowledge so as to provide context and to facilitate pattern recognition. These areas may be described as data...

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Two factors dominate current developments in structural bioinformatics, especially in protein informatics and related areas: (1) the amount of raw data is increasing, very rapidly; and (2) successful...

Detection of fractal breakdowns by the novel real-time pattern detection model (enhanced-RTPD + holder exponent) for web applications (2007)

Lin, Wilfred W. K., Wong, Allan K. Y., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Quantifying failure for risk based decision making in digital business ecosystem interactions (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

A methodology to quantify failuire for risk-based decision support system in digital business ecosystems (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In digital business ecosystem architecture it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk according to its demand before interacting with a probable trusted agent. Doing so would...

Privacy-preserving transactions protocol using mobile agents with mutual authentication (2007)

Han, Song, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

This article introduces a new transaction protocol using mobile agents in electronic commerce. The authors first propose a new model for transactions in electronic commerce mutual authenticated...

Aligning with the web: an atom-based architecture for web services discovery (2007)

During the past three years, the Web has undergone a radical change towards a highly user-centred cyberspace where end users can easily participate and collaborate for their own benefits and profits....

Ontology-based digital ecosystem conceptual representation (2007)

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID transponders, RFID readers, RFID middleware, and RFID labels....

Dong, Han, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Subjective and objective watermark detection using a novel approach - bar-code watermarking (2007)

Potdar, Vidyasagar, Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

No abstract available.

Ontology modelling notations for software engineering knowledge representation (2007)

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein and biological data sources. PO converts the enormous amounts of data collected by geneticists and molecular biologists into...

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

No abstract available.

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

It is well-known that ontology is utilized as an effective methodology to share domain-specific knowledge in multidisciplinary fields. In the field of project management, due to the characteristic of...

Reconfigurable software architecture for voice access to data services (2007)

Quantifying the loss in resource benefit for risk based decision in a digital business ecosystem (2007)

No abstract available.

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

An integrative view of the concept of digital ecosystem (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Mediating databases and the semantic web: a methodology for building domain ontologies from databases and existing ontologies (2007)

Visual modeling of ontology views for e-sciences using Xsemantic nets (2007)

Ontologies play a vital role in the Semantic Web. However, ontologies are hard to construct due to high cost in the manual development process and difficulty in reaching agreement. While there are...

Rajugan, R, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Ontologies are the foundation of the Semantic Web (SW) and one of the keys necessary to its success. Conversely, e-Science domains are usually characterized by heterogeneous semi-structured data...

Quantifying the possible financial consequences of failure for making a risk based decision (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a financial e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to analyze beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the initiating agent an...

State of the art review of the existing bayesian-network based approaches to trust and reputation computation. (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review of the bayesian-network based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the bayesian network based approaches for trust and...

State of the art review of the existing soft computing based approaches to trust and reputation computation (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review of the soft computing based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the soft computing based approaches for trust and reputation...

State of the art review of the existing PageRankTM based algorithms for trust and reputation computation (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Omar Khadeer

In this paper we present a state of the art review of PageRankTM based approaches for trust and reputation computation. We divide the approaches that make use of PageRankTM method for trust and...

Exploring the conceptual model of digital ecosystem (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital Ecosystem, as a neoteric terminology, has emerged along with the appearance of Business Ecosystem which is a form of naturally existing business network of small and medium enterprises....

A Methodology to ascertain the level of failuer in an e-commerce interaction (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam

To ascertain the possible level of risk in an e-commerce interaction, the initiating agent needs to determine beforehand the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure to its...

Voice over internet protocol on mobile devices (2007)

Mao, Guo Fang, Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth

Voice over Internet Protocol (VolP) is a way to carry out a telephone conversation over a data network. VoIP products promise converged telecommunications and data services that are cheaper, more...

Determining the loss of investment probability for risk based decision support system (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S

In a financial digital business ecosystem, the trusting agent can analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand enabling a better decision regarding the future...

Software engineering ontology for software engineering knowledge management in multi-site software development environment (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Sommerville, Ian

No abstract available.

Application of protege and SPARQL in the field of project knowledge management (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Prot駩 is a set of open-source ontology design software developed in Stanford Medical Informatics. SPARQL (Protocol and RDF Query Language) is recommended by W3C, to represent the RDF (Resource...

Mutual authentication protocol for RFID tags based on synchronised secret information with monitor (2007)

Multi-site distributed software development: issues, solutions and challenges (2007)

RFID, as an anti-conterfeiting technology, is pushing huge potential industrial, medical, business and social applications. RFID-based identification is an example of emerging technology which...

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Tackling the disadvantages associated with remote communication is a challenge in multi-site software development. The challenge includes all these factors: awareness of the work that is being done...

Reference architectural styles for service oriented computing (2007)

Ontology instantiations for software engineering knowledge management (2007)

Abstract. Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns...

A method for service quality assessment in a service ecosystem (2007)

In this paper, we explore the development of systems for software engineering knowledge management. Software engineering knowledge is represented in the software engineering ontology whose...

An analysis of web services mediation architecture and pattern in synapse (2007)

the increasing proliferation of independent application service providers is making traditional IT infrastructure insufficient when dealing with new issues that appear in a dynamic outsourcing...

Implications of frequent subtree mining using hybrid support definition (2007)

No abstract available.

Hadzic, Fedja, Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

See Alterntive Locations for link to abstract.

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2006 (2007)

Sidhu S, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Project track and trace methodology in the environment of digital ecosystem (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

An environmentally adaptive conceptual framework for addressing information privacy issues in digital ecosystems (2007)

Skinner, Geoff D., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Tree mining application to matching of hetereogeneous knowledge (2007)

Use of digital ecosystem and ontology technology for standardization of medical records (2007)

Matching of heterogeneous knowledge sources is of increasing importance in areas such as scientific knowledge management, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, and many emerging Semantic...

Ontology-based solutions for knowledge sharing issues in project organisations (2007)

No abstract available.

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Towards Social Network based Approach for Software Engineering Ontology Sharing and Evolution (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Aseeri, Ahmed A.

In this paper, we present a multi-agent social network approach that integrates the software engineering ontology and expert recommendation facilities for communities of software engineers remotely...

Ascertaining risk in financial terms in digital business ecosystem environments (2007)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a digital business ecosystem environment the trusting agent, by analysing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent, can make a better decision of its future course...

Reference architecture styles for service-oriented computing (2007)

GRIDSpace: semantic grid services on the web - evolution towards a softgrid (2007)

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by...

This paper advances the notion of software in existing Grid services as discussed in OGSA, which provides software middleware or wrappers for accessing hardware resources towards the notion that the...

Amandeep, S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

Multi-site project organisation knowledge sharing ontology (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

The implementation of ontology starts to step into the field of project organizations. With the appearance of project outsourcing, the location of project workplace becomes increasingly multiple,...

Intelligent web services selection based on AHP and Wiki (2007)

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

Web Service selection is an essential element in Service-Oriented Computing. How to wisely select appropriate Web services for the benefits of service consumers is a key issue in service discovery....

Sidhu, Amandeep S, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

These Huge amounts of Protein Structure Data make it difficult to create explanatory and predictive models that are consistent with huge volume of data. Difficulty increase when large variety of...

Anonymous mutual authentication protocol for RFID tag without back-end database (2007)

Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S, Chang, Elizabeth

Abstract. RFID, as an emerging technology, has very huge potential in today?s social and business developments. Security and Privacy are one of the important issues in the design of practical RFID...

Contemporary cultural researches on knowledge sharing (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Knowledge sharing, as an essential component in the field of knowledge management research, attracts increasing researchers into this discipline. Current researches on KS can be categorized as two...

Compare and contrast of contemporary technical knowledge sharing technologies (2007)

Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Many methodologies have been proposed, which aims to exploit the embodied knowledge in practice and transform them to a...

From database to semantic web ontology: an overview (2007)

This paper intends to provide an overview of automated knowledge extraction and transformation from relational databases and their related sources into Semantic Web ontologies. Issues and challenges...

The rapid growth of computing, the Internet and telecommunications systems have resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a...

Ontology-based IT pedagogical knowledge framework (2007)

The rapid growth of the Internet and widespread use of mobile computing and telephony has resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Data and telecommunications...

Chin, Kum Leng, Chang, Elizabeth, Atkinson, Douglas, Parker, Kevin R.

Prospective students often have trouble differentiating between many computer-related programs of study such as computer science (CS), information systems (IS), information engineering (IE), software...

Trustworthiness measurement methodology (TMM) for assessment purposes (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

Quality assessment process is a very complex process. At the same time quality assessment is very vital and crucial for many business processes. In this paper we propose and explain trustworthiness...

Illustrative example of determining quality of service (QoS) using trustworthiness measurement methodology (2007)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth

In this paper we make use of a case study comprising of an interaction between a service provider and a service requestor to determine the quality of service (QoS) provided by the service provider....

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Trust based decision making approach for protein ontology (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Hussain, Farookh K., Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

From database to semantic web ontology: an overview (2007)

Conceptual representation of digital ecosystem theory (2007)

This paper intends to provide an overview of automated knowledge extraction and transformation from relational databases and their related sources into Semantic Web ontologies. Issues and challenges...

Service syndication - towards a service value chain over the web (2007)

No abstract available.

No abstract available.

Onto-agent methodology for design of ontology-based multi-agent systems (2007)

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Multi-agent system provides a distributed collaborative platform and characterizes the system dynamics. Ontologies represent the domain knowledge and can be used to support various processes within a...

Searching services "on the web": A public web services discovery approach (2007)

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID Transponders, RFID Readers, RFID Middleware, and RFID Labels....

With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services, service discovery has become increasingly crucial. Public Web services that are available "on the Web" provide unlimited values...

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Two factors dominate current developments in structural bioinformatics, especially in protein informatics and related areas: (1) the amount of raw data is increasing, very rapidly; and (2) successful...

Knowledge discovery in biomedical data facilitated by domain ontologies (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep S., Kennedy, Paul J., Simoff, Simeon, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

In some real-world areas, it is important to enrich the data with external background knowledge so as to provide context and to facilitate pattern recognition. These areas may be described as data...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Traditional approaches to integrate protein data generally involved keyword searches, which immediately excludes unannotated or poorly annotated data. An alternative protein annotation approach is to...

A method for service quality assessment in a service ecosystem (2007)

the increasing proliferation of independent application service providers is making traditional IT infrastructure insufficient when dealing with new issues that appear in a dynamic outsourcing...

Chaotic map based key agreement with/out clock synchronization (2007)

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID transponders, RFID readers, RFID middleware, and RFID labels....

Song, Han, Chang, Elizabeth

In order to address Bergamo et al.'s attack, Xiao et al. proposed a key agreement protocol using chaotic maps. Han then presented three attacks on Xiao et al.'s protocol. To enhance the security of...

Reconfigurable software architecture for voice access to data services (2007)

Mutual authentication protocol for RFID tags based on synchronised secret information with monitor (2007)

No abstract available.

GRIDSpace: semantic grid services on the web - evolution towards a softgrid (2007)

RFID, as an anti-conterfeiting technology, is pushing huge potential industrial, medical, business and social applications. RFID-based identification is an example of emerging technology which...

Searching services "on the web": A public web services discovery approach (2007)

This paper advances the notion of software in existing Grid services as discussed in OGSA, which provides software middleware or wrappers for accessing hardware resources towards the notion that the...

With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services, service discovery has become increasingly crucial. Public Web services that are available "on the Web" provide unlimited values...

Sidhu, A., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Traditional approaches to integrate protein data generally involved keyword searches, which immediately excludes unannotated or poorly annotated data. An alternative protein annotation approach is to...

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2006 (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

An analysis of web services mediation architecture and pattern in synapse (2007)

State of the art review of the existing soft computing based approaches to trust and reputation computation (2007)

No abstract available.

Ontology-based solutions for knowledge sharing issues in project organisations (2007)

In this paper we present a state of the art review of

Software engineering ontology for software engineering knowledge management in multi-site software development environment (2007)

No abstract available.

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Sommerville, I.

No abstract available.

From database to semantic web ontology: an overview (2007)

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

This paper intends to provide an overview of automated knowledge extraction and transformation from relational databases and their related sources into Semantic Web ontologies. Issues and challenges...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

These Huge amounts of Protein Structure Data make it difficult to create explanatory and predictive models that are consistent with huge volume of data. Difficulty increase when large variety of...

Multi-site project organisation knowledge sharing ontology (2007)

The implementation of ontology starts to step into the field of project organizations. With the appearance of project outsourcing, the location of project workplace becomes increasingly multiple,...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Two factors dominate current developments in structural bioinformatics, especially in protein informatics and related areas: (1) the amount of raw data is increasing, very rapidly; and (2) successful...

State of the art review of the existing PageRankTM based algorithms for trust and reputation computation (2007)

Voice over internet protocol on mobile devices (2007)

In this paper we present a state of the art review of

Mao, G, Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth

Voice over Internet Protocol (VolP) is a way to carry out a telephone conversation over a data network. VoIP products promise converged telecommunications and data services that are cheaper, more...

Quantifying failure for risk based decision making in digital business ecosystem interactions (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

Contemporary cultural researches on knowledge sharing (2007)

Knowledge sharing, as an essential component in the field of knowledge management research, attracts increasing researchers into this discipline. Current researches on KS can be categorized as two...

Exploring the conceptual model of digital ecosystem (2007)

It is well-known that ontology is utilized as an effective methodology to share domain-specific knowledge in multidisciplinary fields. In the field of project management, due to the characteristic of...

Reference architectural styles for service oriented computing (2007)

Digital Ecosystem, as a neoteric terminology, has emerged along with the appearance of Business Ecosystem which is a form of naturally existing business network of small and medium enterprises....

Ontology instantiations for software engineering knowledge management (2007)

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by...

An integrative view of the concept of digital ecosystem (2007)

In this paper, we explore the development of systems for software engineering knowledge management. Software engineering knowledge is represented in the software engineering ontology whose...

Project track and trace methodology in the environment of digital ecosystem (2007)

No abstract available.

Compare and contrast of contemporary technical knowledge sharing technologies (2007)

No abstract available.

Detection of fractal breakdowns by the novel real-time pattern detection model (enhanced-RTPD + holder exponent) for web applications (2007)

Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Many methodologies have been proposed, which aims to exploit the embodied knowledge in practice and transform them to a...

Lin, W., Wong, A., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Subjective and objective watermark detection using a novel approach - bar-code watermarking (2007)

Potdar, Vidyasagar, Song, Han, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

No abstract available.

Protein Ontology Project: 2007 updates (2007)

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID Transponders, RFID Readers, RFID Middleware, and RFID Labels....

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein and biological data sources. PO converts the enormous amounts of data collected by geneticists and molecular biologists into...

Methodology framework for the design of digital ecosystems (2007)

Hadzic, Maja, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Digital Ecosystems have recently been introduced into the computer and information societies. Digital Ecosystem (DES) is the dynamic and synergetic complex of digital communities consisting of...

Tree mining application to matching of hetereogeneous knowledge (2007)

Quantifying the loss in resource benefit for risk based decision in a digital business ecosystem (2007)

Matching of heterogeneous knowledge sources is of increasing importance in areas such as scientific knowledge management, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, and many emerging Semantic...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

State of the art review of the existing bayesian-network based approaches to trust and reputation computation. (2007)

Ontology modelling notations for software engineering knowledge representation (2007)

In this paper we present a state of the art review of

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

Ontology-based IT pedagogical knowledge framework (2007)

Chin, Kum L., Chang, Elizabeth, Atkinson, Douglas, Parker, K.

Prospective students often have trouble differentiating between many computer-related programs of study such as computer science (CS), information systems (IS), information engineering (IE), software...

Towards Social Network based Approach for Software Engineering Ontology Sharing and Evolution (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Aseeri, Ahmed A.

In this paper, we present a multi-agent social network approach that integrates the software engineering ontology and expert recommendation facilities for communities of software engineers remotely...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Conceptual representation of digital ecosystem theory (2007)

Knowledge discovery in biomedical data facilitated by domain ontologies (2007)

No abstract available.

Sidhu, Amandeep, Kennedy, P., Simoff, S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

In some real-world areas, it is important to enrich the data with external background knowledge so as to provide context and to facilitate pattern recognition. These areas may be described as data...

Visual modeling of ontology views for e-sciences using Xsemantic nets (2007)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Ontologies are the foundation of the Semantic Web (SW) and one of the keys necessary to its success. Conversely, e-Science domains are usually characterized by heterogeneous semi-structured data...

A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry (2007)

A methodology to quantify failure for risk-based decision support system in digital business ecosystems (2007)

Image Retrieval (IR) is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research domains in the field of multimedia technology. And in the industrial ecosystems, images of products, activities,...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In digital business ecosystem architecture it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk according to its demand before interacting with a probable trusted agent. Doing so would...

Ontology-based digital ecosystem conceptual representation (2007)

Implications of frequent subtree mining using hybrid support definition (2007)

No abstract available.

Hadzic, Fedja, Tan, Henry, Dillon, T., Chang, Elizabeth

See Alterntive Locations for link to abstract.

Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

The rapid growth of the Internet and widespread use of mobile computing and telephony has resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Data and telecommunications...

Illustrative example of determining quality of service (QoS) using trustworthiness measurement methodology (2007)

Intelligent web services selection based on AHP and Wiki (2007)

In this paper we make use of a case study comprising of an interaction between a service provider and a service requestor to determine the quality of service (QoS) provided by the service provider....

An environmentally adaptive conceptual framework for addressing information privacy issues in digital ecosystems (2007)

Web Service selection is an essential element in Service-Oriented Computing. How to wisely select appropriate Web services for the benefits of service consumers is a key issue in service discovery....

Skinner, Geoffrey, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Use of digital ecosystem and ontology technology for standardization of medical records (2007)

Hadzic, Maja, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Implications of frequent subtree mining using hybrid support definitions (2007)

Hadzic, Fedja, Tan, H., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Frequent subtree mining has found many useful applications in areas where the domain knowledge is presented in a tree structured form, such as bioinformatics, web mining, scientific knowledge...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein and

Reference architecture styles for service-oriented computing (2007)

Trust based decision making approach for protein ontology (2007)

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Service syndication - towards a service value chain over the web (2007)

Software engineering ontology - the instance knowledge (Part I) (2007)

No abstract available.

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Sommerville, I.

The software engineering ontology defines common sharable software engineering knowledge including particular project information. Reaching a consensus of understanding is of benefit in a distributed...

Anonymous mutual authentication protocol for RFID tag without back-end database (2007)

Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Abstract. RFID, as an emerging technology, has very huge potential in today's social and business developments. Security and Privacy are one of the important issues in the design of practical RFID...

Software engineering ontology - the instance knowledge (Part II) (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Sommerville, I.

Software engineering ontology provides software engineering concepts ? what they are, how they are related, and can be related to one another ? for representing and communicating over software...

Application of protege and SPARQL in the field of project knowledge management (2007)

Determining the loss of investment probability for risk based decision support system (2007)

Protg is a set of open-source ontology design software developed in Stanford Medical Informatics. SPARQL (Protocol and RDF Query Language) is recommended by W3C, to represent the RDF (Resource...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a financial digital business ecosystem, the trusting agent can analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand enabling a better decision regarding the future...

Quantifying the possible financial consequences of failure for making a risk based decision (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a financial e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to analyze beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the initiating agent an...

Privacy-preserving transactions protocol using mobile agents with mutual authentication (2007)

Han, Song, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

This article introduces a new transaction protocol using mobile agents in electronic commerce. The authors first propose a new model for transactions in electronic commerce mutual authenticated...

Ascertaining risk in financial terms in digital business ecosystem environments (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a digital business ecosystem environment the trusting agent, by analysing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent, can make a better decision of its future course...

Aligning with the web: an atom-based architecture for web services discovery (2007)

During the past three years, the Web has undergone a radical change towards a highly user-centred cyberspace where end users can easily participate and collaborate for their own benefits and profits....

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

Multi-site distributed software development: issues, solutions and challenges (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Tackling the disadvantages associated with remote communication is a challenge in multi-site software development. The challenge includes all these factors: awareness of the work that is being done...

Mediating databases and the semantic web: a methodology for building domain ontologies from databases and existing ontologies (2007)

Ontologies play a vital role in the Semantic Web. However, ontologies are hard to construct due to high cost in the manual development process and difficulty in reaching agreement. While there are...

Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

The rapid growth of computing, the Internet and telecommunications systems have resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a...

A Methodology to ascertain the level of failure in an e-commerce interaction (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

To ascertain the possible level of risk in an e-commerce interaction, the initiating agent needs to determine beforehand the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure to its...

Trustworthiness measurement methodology (TMM) for assessment purposes (2007)

A method for service quality assessment in a service ecosystem (2007)

Quality assessment process is a very complex process. At the same time quality assessment is very vital and crucial for many business processes. In this paper we propose and explain trustworthiness...

Reconfigurable software architecture for voice access to data services (2007)

the increasing proliferation of independent application service providers is making traditional IT infrastructure insufficient when dealing with new issues that appear in a dynamic outsourcing...

Mutual authentication protocol for RFID tags based on synchronised secret information with monitor (2007)

No abstract available.

GRIDSpace: semantic grid services on the web - evolution towards a softgrid (2007)

RFID, as an anti-conterfeiting technology, is pushing huge potential industrial, medical, business and social applications. RFID-based identification is an example of emerging technology which...

Searching services "on the web": A public web services discovery approach (2007)

This paper advances the notion of software in existing Grid services as discussed in OGSA, which provides software middleware or wrappers for accessing hardware resources towards the notion that the...

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2006 (2007)

With the surge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services, service discovery has become increasingly crucial. Public Web services that are available "on the Web" provide unlimited values...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

An analysis of web services mediation architecture and pattern in synapse (2007)

State of the art review of the existing soft computing based approaches to trust and reputation computation (2007)

No abstract available.

Ontology-based solutions for knowledge sharing issues in project organisations (2007)

In this paper we present a state of the art review of

Software engineering ontology for software engineering knowledge management in multi-site software development environment (2007)

No abstract available.

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Sommerville, I.

No abstract available.

From database to semantic web ontology: an overview (2007)

Multi-site project organisation knowledge sharing ontology (2007)

This paper intends to provide an overview of automated knowledge extraction and transformation from relational databases and their related sources into Semantic Web ontologies. Issues and challenges...

The implementation of ontology starts to step into the field of project organizations. With the appearance of project outsourcing, the location of project workplace becomes increasingly multiple,...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Two factors dominate current developments in structural bioinformatics, especially in protein informatics and related areas: (1) the amount of raw data is increasing, very rapidly; and (2) successful...

State of the art review of the existing PageRankTM based algorithms for trust and reputation computation (2007)

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

In this paper we present a state of the art review of

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

These Huge amounts of Protein Structure Data make it difficult to create explanatory and predictive models that are consistent with huge volume of data. Difficulty increase when large variety of...

Voice over internet protocol on mobile devices (2007)

Mao, G, Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth

Voice over Internet Protocol (VolP) is a way to carry out a telephone conversation over a data network. VoIP products promise converged telecommunications and data services that are cheaper, more...

Quantifying failure for risk based decision making in digital business ecosystem interactions (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

Contemporary cultural researches on knowledge sharing (2007)

Knowledge sharing, as an essential component in the field of knowledge management research, attracts increasing researchers into this discipline. Current researches on KS can be categorized as two...

Exploring the conceptual model of digital ecosystem (2007)

It is well-known that ontology is utilized as an effective methodology to share domain-specific knowledge in multidisciplinary fields. In the field of project management, due to the characteristic of...

Reference architectural styles for service oriented computing (2007)

Digital Ecosystem, as a neoteric terminology, has emerged along with the appearance of Business Ecosystem which is a form of naturally existing business network of small and medium enterprises....

Ontology instantiations for software engineering knowledge management (2007)

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by...

An integrative view of the concept of digital ecosystem (2007)

In this paper, we explore the development of systems for software engineering knowledge management. Software engineering knowledge is represented in the software engineering ontology whose...

Project track and trace methodology in the environment of digital ecosystem (2007)

No abstract available.

Compare and contrast of contemporary technical knowledge sharing technologies (2007)

No abstract available.

Detection of fractal breakdowns by the novel real-time pattern detection model (enhanced-RTPD + holder exponent) for web applications (2007)

Knowledge sharing is not a new topic in knowledge management research field. Many methodologies have been proposed, which aims to exploit the embodied knowledge in practice and transform them to a...

Lin, W., Wong, A., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Subjective and objective watermark detection using a novel approach - bar-code watermarking (2007)

Potdar, Vidyasagar, Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

No abstract available.

Methodology framework for the design of digital ecosystems (2007)

Hadzic, Maja, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Digital Ecosystems have recently been introduced into the computer and information societies. Digital Ecosystem (DES) is the dynamic and synergetic complex of digital communities consisting of...

Tree mining application to matching of hetereogeneous knowledge (2007)

Quantifying the loss in resource benefit for risk based decision in a digital business ecosystem (2007)

Matching of heterogeneous knowledge sources is of increasing importance in areas such as scientific knowledge management, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, and many emerging Semantic...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

State of the art review of the existing bayesian-network based approaches to trust and reputation computation. (2007)

Ontology modelling notations for software engineering knowledge representation (2007)

In this paper we present a state of the art review of

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

No abstract available.

Ontology-based IT pedagogical knowledge framework (2007)

Chin, Kum L., Chang, Elizabeth, Atkinson, Douglas, Parker, K.

Prospective students often have trouble differentiating between many computer-related programs of study such as computer science (CS), information systems (IS), information engineering (IE), software...

Towards Social Network based Approach for Software Engineering Ontology Sharing and Evolution (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Aseeri, Ahmed A.

In this paper, we present a multi-agent social network approach that integrates the software engineering ontology and expert recommendation facilities for communities of software engineers remotely...

Visual modeling of ontology views for e-sciences using Xsemantic nets (2007)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Ontologies are the foundation of the Semantic Web (SW) and one of the keys necessary to its success. Conversely, e-Science domains are usually characterized by heterogeneous semi-structured data...

A practical image retrieval framework for tourism industry (2007)

A methodology to quantify failure for risk-based decision support system in digital business ecosystems (2007)

Image Retrieval (IR) is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research domains in the field of multimedia technology. And in the industrial ecosystems, images of products, activities,...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In digital business ecosystem architecture it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk according to its demand before interacting with a probable trusted agent. Doing so would...

Ontology-based digital ecosystem conceptual representation (2007)

No abstract available.

Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

The rapid growth of the Internet and widespread use of mobile computing and telephony has resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Data and telecommunications...

Illustrative example of determining quality of service (QoS) using trustworthiness measurement methodology (2007)

Intelligent web services selection based on AHP and Wiki (2007)

In this paper we make use of a case study comprising of an interaction between a service provider and a service requestor to determine the quality of service (QoS) provided by the service provider....

An environmentally adaptive conceptual framework for addressing information privacy issues in digital ecosystems (2007)

Web Service selection is an essential element in Service-Oriented Computing. How to wisely select appropriate Web services for the benefits of service consumers is a key issue in service discovery....

Skinner, Geoffrey, Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Use of digital ecosystem and ontology technology for standardization of medical records (2007)

Hadzic, Maja, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

No abstract available.

Reference architecture styles for service-oriented computing (2007)

Trust based decision making approach for protein ontology (2007)

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

Anonymous mutual authentication protocol for RFID tag without back-end database (2007)

Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Abstract. RFID, as an emerging technology, has very huge potential in today's social and business developments. Security and Privacy are one of the important issues in the design of practical RFID...

Software engineering ontology - the instance knowledge (Part I) (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Sommerville, I.

The software engineering ontology defines common sharable software engineering knowledge including particular project information. Reaching a consensus of understanding is of benefit in a distributed...

Software engineering ontology - the instance knowledge (Part II) (2007)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Sommerville, I.

Software engineering ontology provides software engineering concepts ? what they are, how they are related, and can be related to one another ? for representing and communicating over software...

Application of protege and SPARQL in the field of project knowledge management (2007)

Determining the loss of investment probability for risk based decision support system (2007)

Protg is a set of open-source ontology design software developed in Stanford Medical Informatics. SPARQL (Protocol and RDF Query Language) is recommended by W3C, to represent the RDF (Resource...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a financial digital business ecosystem, the trusting agent can analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand enabling a better decision regarding the future...

Quantifying the possible financial consequences of failure for making a risk based decision (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a financial e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to analyze beforehand the possible risk in interacting with any other agent. Doing so would give the initiating agent an...

Ascertaining risk in financial terms in digital business ecosystem environments (2007)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

In a digital business ecosystem environment the trusting agent, by analysing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent, can make a better decision of its future course...

Mediating databases and the semantic web: a methodology for building domain ontologies from databases and existing ontologies (2007)

A Methodology to ascertain the level of failure in an e-commerce interaction (2007)

Ontologies play a vital role in the Semantic Web. However, ontologies are hard to construct due to high cost in the manual development process and difficulty in reaching agreement. While there are...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam S.

To ascertain the possible level of risk in an e-commerce interaction, the initiating agent needs to determine beforehand the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure to its...

Talevski, Alex, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

The rapid growth of computing, the Internet and telecommunications systems have resulted in a broad range of ways to communicate and access information. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a...

Trustworthiness measurement methodology (TMM) for assessment purposes (2007)

Privacy-preserving transactions protocol using mobile agents with mutual authentication (2007)

Quality assessment process is a very complex process. At the same time quality assessment is very vital and crucial for many business processes. In this paper we propose and explain trustworthiness...

Han, Song, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

This article introduces a new transaction protocol using mobile agents in electronic commerce. The authors first propose a new model for transactions in electronic commerce mutual authenticated...

Aligning with the web: an atom-based architecture for web services discovery (2007)

Multi-site distributed software development: issues, solutions and challenges (2007)

During the past three years, the Web has undergone a radical change towards a highly user-centred cyberspace where end users can easily participate and collaborate for their own benefits and profits....

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

Tackling the disadvantages associated with remote communication is a challenge in multi-site software development. The challenge includes all these factors: awareness of the work that is being done...

Implications of frequent subtree mining using hybrid support definition (2007)

Hadzic, Fedja, Tan, Henry, Dillon, T., Chang, Elizabeth

See Alterntive Locations for link to abstract.

Service syndication - towards a service value chain over the web (2007)

No abstract available.

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Conceptual representation of digital ecosystem theory (2007)

No abstract available.

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID Transponders, RFID Readers, RFID Middleware, and RFID Labels....

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Bioinformatics researchers have long identified the need for interoperation among protein databases, knowledge bases and other information sources. Despite advances, interoperation among knowledge...

Knowledge discovery in biomedical data facilitated by domain ontologies (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Kennedy, P., Simoff, S., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

In some real-world areas, it is important to enrich the data with external background knowledge so as to provide context and to facilitate pattern recognition. These areas may be described as data...

Chaotic map based key agreement with/out clock synchronization (2007)

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth

In order to address Bergamo et al.'s attack, Xiao et al. proposed a key agreement protocol using chaotic maps. Han then presented three attacks on Xiao et al.'s protocol. To enhance the security of...

Implications of frequent subtree mining using hybrid support definitions (2007)

Hadzic, Fedja, Tan, H., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Frequent subtree mining has found many useful applications in areas where the domain knowledge is presented in a tree structured form, such as bioinformatics, web mining, scientific knowledge...

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein and

In this chapter we provide an introduction to RFID technology. We discuss the main components of the RFID technology, which includes RFID transponders, RFID readers, RFID middleware, and RFID labels....

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Knowledge of Proteomics Domain is represented in the Protein Ontology, whose instantiations, which are undergoing evolution, need a good management and maintenance system. Protein Ontology...

Sidhu, A., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Traditional approaches to integrate protein data generally involved keyword searches, which immediately excludes unannotated or poorly annotated data. An alternative protein annotation approach is to...

Protein Ontology Project: 2007 updates (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein and biological data sources. PO converts the enormous amounts of data collected by geneticists and molecular biologists into...

Exploring a digital ecosystem conceptual model and its simulation prototype (2007)

Improving RFID read rate reliability by a systemic error detection approach (2007)

Digital ecosystems (DES) transcend the traditional rigorously defined collaborative environments from centralised or distributed or hybrid models into an open, flexible, domain cluster, demand-driven...

Potdar, Vidyasagar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hayati, P.

Reliability, security and privacy are the key concerns with RFID (radio frequency identification) adoption. While the mainstream RFID research is focused on solving the security and privacy issues,...

Fuzzy decision support for service selection in e-business environments (2007)

Schmidt, S., Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Steele, R.

The emergence of semantic overlay networks as instruments to improve security, trust and stability in distributed virtual communities is recognized widely in the research community. We propose a...

Trust ontologies for e-service environments (2007)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S., Hussain, Farookh

Ontology for automated multi-site project management (2007)

Fuzzy trust evaluation and credibility development in multi-agent systems (2007)

One characteristic of multi-site project organizations is that people in the organizations are geographically dispersed and from different cultural background, which challenges the senior management...

Schmidt, S., Steele, R., Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth

E-commerce markets can increase their efficiency through the usage of intelligent agents which negotiate and execute contracts on behalf of their owners. The measurement and computation of trust to...

Editorial: Ontologies for Bioinformatics (2007)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth, Chen, J.

No Abstract available.

Soft computing agents for e-health applied to the research and control of unknown diseases (2006)

Hadzic, Maja, Chang, Elizabeth, Ulieru, Mihaela

This paper presents an Ontology-based Holonic Diagnostic System (OHDS) that combines the advantages of the holonic paradigm with multi-agent system technology and ontology design, for the...

A methodology for risk based decision making in a service oriented environment (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

Decision making is a complex process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting in mind what the final outcome might be at the end. Based on the projection of the final outcome a...

Modeling views in the layered view model for XML using UML (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Rajugan, R., Dillon, Tharam, Feng, Ling

In data engineering, view formalisms are used to provide flexibility to users and user applications by allowing them to extract and elaborate data from the stored data sources. Conversely, since the...

A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Usability of software should measure both the user preference and user performance. The notion of usability involves several dimensions. These dimensions include: system feedback, consistency, error...

A methodology for risk based decision making in a service oriented environment (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

Decision making is a complex process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting in mind what the final outcome might be at the end. Based on the projection of the final outcome a...

Trust and reputation for service-oriented environments: Technologies for building business intelligence and consumer confidence (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam, Hussain, Farookh

Trust has played a central role in human relationships and hence has been the subject of study in many fields including business, law, social science, philosophy and psychology. It has played a...

Trust and reputation for service-oriented environments: Technologies for building business intelligence and consumer confidence (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam, Hussain, Farookh

Trust has played a central role in human relationships and hence has been the subject of study in many fields including business, law, social science, philosophy and psychology. It has played a...

Soft computing agents for e-health applied to the research and control of unknown diseases (2006)

Hadzic, Maja, Chang, Elizabeth, Ulieru, Mihaela

This paper presents an Ontology-based Holonic Diagnostic System (OHDS) that combines the advantages of the holonic paradigm with multi-agent system technology and ontology design, for the...

Modeling views in the layered view model for XML using UML (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Rajugan, R., Dillon, Tharam, Feng, Ling

In data engineering, view formalisms are used to provide flexibility to users and user applications by allowing them to extract and elaborate data from the stored data sources. Conversely, since the...

A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Usability of software should measure both the user preference and user performance. The notion of usability involves several dimensions. These dimensions include: system feedback, consistency, error...

Ontological manifestations of trust for service oriented environment (2006)

Representing real time semantics for distributed application integration (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In the literature however there has been no effort in proposing ontology for trust. The trusted agent in service oriented environment...

Poon, Polly, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling

Traditional real time system design and development are driven by technological requirements. With the ever growing complexity of requirements and the advances in software design, the alignment of...

A digital ecosystem for extended logistics enterprises (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, West, Martin, Hadzic, Maja

The connectivity and information richness arising from the advent of the web has contributed to an increasingly dynamic business environment and marketplace, forcing a change in traditional business...

Quantifying risk in financial terms in an e-transaction. (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

An outcome of Risk is the possible loss that could incur in an interaction. In a peer-to-peer financial interaction, the possible loss that could incur is usually the financial loss in the resources...

Subjective and objective watermark detection using a novel approach: Bar-coded watermarking (2006)

Potdar, Vidysagar, Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

Many digital watermarking algorithms are proposed in the literature. Broadly these watermarking algorithms can be classified into two main categories. The first category of algorithms uses a pseudo...

Fuzzy service quality review in service oriented architectures (2006)

Schmidt, S., Steele, Robert, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth

The benefits of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) start to be recognized and implemented across distributed enterprise businesses. As SOAs promise to accomplish more dynamic and collaborative...

SEQUEST: Mining frequent subsequences using DMA strips (2006)

Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam, Hadzic, Fedja, Chang, Elizabeth

Sequential patterns exist in data such as DNA string databases, occurrences of recurrent illness, etc. In this study, we present an algorithm, SEQUEST, to mine frequent subsequences from sequential...

Protein Ontology Project: 2006 updates (2006)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam, Sidhu, Baldev, Chang, Elizabeth

Protein Ontology (PO) is a means of formalizing protein data and knowledge; protein ontology includes concepts or terms relevant to the domain, definitions of concepts, and defined relationships...

IMB3-Miner: Mining induced/embedded subtrees by constraining the level of embedding (2006)

Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam, Hadzic, Fedja, Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling

Tree mining has recently attracted a lot of interest in areas such as Bioinformatics, XML mining, Web mining, etc. We are mainly concerned with mining frequent induced and embedded subtrees. While...

Subjective and objective watermark detection using a novel approach: Bar-coded watermarking (2006)

Potdar, Vidysagar, Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

Many digital watermarking algorithms are proposed in the literature. Broadly these watermarking algorithms can be classified into two main categories. The first category of algorithms uses a pseudo...

A digital ecosystem for extended logistics enterprises (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, West, Martin, Hadzic, Maja

The connectivity and information richness arising from the advent of the web has contributed to an increasingly dynamic business environment and marketplace, forcing a change in traditional business...

Quantifying risk in financial terms in an e-transaction. (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

An outcome of Risk is the possible loss that could incur in an interaction. In a peer-to-peer financial interaction, the possible loss that could incur is usually the financial loss in the resources...

Ontological manifestations of trust for service oriented environment (2006)

Fuzzy service quality review in service oriented architectures (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In the literature however there has been no effort in proposing ontology for trust. The trusted agent in service oriented environment...

Schmidt, S., Steele, Robert, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth

The benefits of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) start to be recognized and implemented across distributed enterprise businesses. As SOAs promise to accomplish more dynamic and collaborative...

SEQUEST: Mining frequent subsequences using DMA strips (2006)

Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam, Hadzic, Fedja, Chang, Elizabeth

Sequential patterns exist in data such as DNA string databases, occurrences of recurrent illness, etc. In this study, we present an algorithm, SEQUEST, to mine frequent subsequences from sequential...

Representing real time semantics for distributed application integration (2006)

Poon, Polly, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling

Traditional real time system design and development are driven by technological requirements. With the ever growing complexity of requirements and the advances in software design, the alignment of...

Protein Ontology Project: 2006 updates (2006)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam, Sidhu, Baldev, Chang, Elizabeth

Protein Ontology (PO) is a means of formalizing protein data and knowledge; protein ontology includes concepts or terms relevant to the domain, definitions of concepts, and defined relationships...

IMB3-Miner: Mining induced/embedded subtrees by constraining the level of embedding (2006)

Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam, Hadzic, Fedja, Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling

Tree mining has recently attracted a lot of interest in areas such as Bioinformatics, XML mining, Web mining, etc. We are mainly concerned with mining frequent induced and embedded subtrees. While...

An information privacy taxonomy for collaborative environments (2006)

AtomServ architecture: Towards internet-scaled service, publish, subscription, and discovery (2006)

Purpose: Information Privacy is becoming an increasingly important field of research with many new definitions and terminologies. Along similar rates of increase are the use, uptake and expansion of...

Use of anti-terrorism digital ecosystem in the fight against terrorism (2006)

With the surge of SOA-based infrastructure and applications, increasingly end users and small-medium-enterprises directly participate in the service publish and discovery across the Internet. The...

Secure e-transactions protocol using intelligent mobile agents with fair privacy (2006)

In this paper, we propose an Anti-terrorist Digital Ecosystem (ATDES) that enables efficient terrorist identification and protection against terrorist attacks. An Anti-terrorist Digital Environment...

An information privacy taxonomy for collaborative environments (2006)

Electronic commerce has pushed and benefited from the development of intelligent mobile agents technology. One of the reasons is electronic commerce needs remote searching and negotiating between one...

AtomServ architecture: Towards internet-scaled service, publish, subscription, and discovery (2006)

Purpose: Information Privacy is becoming an increasingly important field of research with many new definitions and terminologies. Along similar rates of increase are the use, uptake and expansion of...

Use of anti-terrorism digital ecosystem in the fight against terrorism (2006)

With the surge of SOA-based infrastructure and applications, increasingly end users and small-medium-enterprises directly participate in the service publish and discovery across the Internet. The...

Secure e-transactions protocol using intelligent mobile agents with fair privacy (2006)

In this paper, we propose an Anti-terrorist Digital Ecosystem (ATDES) that enables efficient terrorist identification and protection against terrorist attacks. An Anti-terrorist Digital Environment...

A conceptual framework for information privacy and security in collaborative environments (2006)

Electronic commerce has pushed and benefited from the development of intelligent mobile agents technology. One of the reasons is electronic commerce needs remote searching and negotiating between one...

A projection of the future effects of quantum computation on information privacy and information security (2006)

There are numerous information privacy approaches based on the four major models of privacy protection. That is, Comprehensive Privacy Laws, Sectoral Privacy Laws, Privacy Self-Regulation, and...

Integration of situational and reward elements for fair privacy principles and preferences (F3P) (2006)

Many of the current issues with Information Privacy have been the result of inadequate consideration for privacy during the planning, design and implementation of Information Systems and...

New framework for authentication and authorization for e-health service systems (2006)

It is widely acknowledged that Information Privacy is subjective in nature and contextually influenced. Individuals value their personal privacy differently with many willing to trade-off of privacy...

Han, Song, Skinner, G., Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

The development of information technology has eased the medical services and provided the electronic health service in a way that a doctor can keep the records of patients in an information system...

Use of ontology technology for standardization of medical records and dealing with associated privacy issues (2006)

Recovering and restoring tampered RFID data using steganographic principles (2006)

Our goal is to move towards efficient and secure use of medical records for the purpose of correct patient identification, diagnosis, appointments scheduling and the like in everyday life as well as...

Mohan, Madan, Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

Security is one major issue with RFID technology. Mainstream research in RFID security addresses the following security properties i.e. anonymity, confidentiality and authenticity, however it does...

Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry (2006)

Potdar, Manohar, Chang, Elizabeth, Potdar, Vidysagar

Security and safety are two important features desired in pharmaceutical supply chain and achieving the same is a challenging task. The need to secure and authenticate pharmaceutical products has...

Tamper detection in RFID tags, using, fragile watermarking (2006)

Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

Security and privacy are one of the two primary concerns with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) adoption. While the mainstream RFID research is focused on solving the privacy issues, this paper...

Defining trustworthiness in service oriented environment (2006)

New proxy signatures with message recovery using pairing (2006)

In the existing literature we note that there has been no effort in proposing a definition of trustworthiness. In this paper, we propose a definition of trustworthiness with focus on service oriented...

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wang, Jie, Liu, Wan-quan

Digital signature is a useful primitive to attain the integrity and authenticity in various wire or wireless communications. Proxy signature is one type of the digital signatures. It helps the proxy...

A methodology for risk measurement in e-transactions (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

Risk is present in almost every activity. Alternately speaking, almost every activity may have some undesired outcomes which the person doing the activity hopes that they do not occur when it...

Ontology-based multi-site software development methodology and tools (2006)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam, Sommerville, Ian

The disadvantages associated with remote communication rather than face-to-face communication is a key problem in the multi-site distributed software development environment. Awareness of what work...

A methodology for determining the creditability of recommending agents (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

The trusting agent in order to analyze the Risk that could be present in its future interaction with a trusted agent might solicit for its recommendations from other agents. Based on the...

Modelling dynamic properties in the layered model for XML using Xsemantic nets (2006)

Rajugan, R., Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling, Dillon, Tharam

Object-Oriented (OO) conceptual modelling offers the power in describing and modelling real-word data semantics and their inter-relationships in a form that is precise and comprehensible to users...

A conceptual framework for information privacy and security in collaborative environments (2006)

A projection of the future effects of quantum computation on information privacy and information security (2006)

There are numerous information privacy approaches based on the four major models of privacy protection. That is, Comprehensive Privacy Laws, Sectoral Privacy Laws, Privacy Self-Regulation, and...

Ontology-based multi-site software development methodology and tools (2006)

Many of the current issues with Information Privacy have been the result of inadequate consideration for privacy during the planning, design and implementation of Information Systems and...

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam, Sommerville, Ian

The disadvantages associated with remote communication rather than face-to-face communication is a key problem in the multi-site distributed software development environment. Awareness of what work...

New proxy signatures with message recovery using pairing (2006)

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Wang, Jie, Liu, Wan-quan

Digital signature is a useful primitive to attain the integrity and authenticity in various wire or wireless communications. Proxy signature is one type of the digital signatures. It helps the proxy...

Visual modeling of behavioural properties in the LVM for XML using XSemantic nets (2006)

Rajugan, R., Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling, Dillon, Tharam

Due to the increasing dependency on self-describing, schema-based, semi-structured data (e.g. XML), there exists a need to model, design and manipulate semi-structured data and the associated...

Enhancing software engineering project information through software engineering ontology instantiations (2006)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Software engineering project information is frequently evolving and queried to reflect project development changes in the software requirements or in the design process, to incorporate additional...

Integration of situational and reward elements for fair privacy principles and preferences (F3P) (2006)

New framework for authentication and authorization for e-health service systems (2006)

It is widely acknowledged that Information Privacy is subjective in nature and contextually influenced. Individuals value their personal privacy differently with many willing to trade-off of privacy...

Han, Song, Skinner, G., Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth, Wu, Chen

The development of information technology has eased the medical services and provided the electronic health service in a way that a doctor can keep the records of patients in an information system...

Use of ontology technology for standardization of medical records and dealing with associated privacy issues (2006)

Recovering and restoring tampered RFID data using steganographic principles (2006)

Our goal is to move towards efficient and secure use of medical records for the purpose of correct patient identification, diagnosis, appointments scheduling and the like in everyday life as well as...

Mohan, Madan, Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

Security is one major issue with RFID technology. Mainstream research in RFID security addresses the following security properties i.e. anonymity, confidentiality and authenticity, however it does...

Applications for RFID in pharmaceutical industry (2006)

Potdar, Manohar, Chang, Elizabeth, Potdar, Vidysagar

Security and safety are two important features desired in pharmaceutical supply chain and achieving the same is a challenging task. The need to secure and authenticate pharmaceutical products has...

Tamper detection in RFID tags, using, fragile watermarking (2006)

Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

Security and privacy are one of the two primary concerns with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) adoption. While the mainstream RFID research is focused on solving the privacy issues, this paper...

Software design process ontology development (2006)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Software design process has been followed and widely used to describe logical organisation of software using different types of models. However, when it comes to remote communication over software...

A fuzzy approach to risk based decision making (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

Decision making is a tough process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting what the final outcome might be. Depending on the projection of the uncertain outcome, a decision has...

Reputation ontology for reputation systems (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

The growing development of web-based reputation systems in the 21st century will have a powerful social and economic impact on both business entities and individual customers, because it makes...

Ontology views: A theoretical perspective (2006)

Rajugan, R., Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Ontologies are the foundation of the Semantic Web (SW) and one of the keys necessary to its success. Conversely, ontology views hold the promise of; (a) provide a manageable portion of a larger...

Towards semantic interoperability of protein data sources (2006)

A methodology for determining the creditability of recommending agents (2006)

Several approaches for data interoperation identified by Karp have been implemented for biological databases. We extend Karp's approach for interoperation not only to protein databases but also to...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

The trusting agent in order to analyze the Risk that could be present in its future interaction with a trusted agent might solicit for its recommendations from other agents. Based on the...

Unification of protein data and knowledge sources (2006)

Integration of protein data sources through PO (2006)

Advances in technology and the growth of life sciences are generating ever increasing amounts of data. High-throughput techniques are regularly used to capture thousands of data points in an...

Management of dynamic and adaptive workflow business processes (2006)

Resolving heterogeneity among various protein data sources is a crucial problem if we want to gain more information about proteomics process. Information from multiple protein databases like PDB,...

A methodology for risk measurement in e-transactions (2006)

Collaborative and dynamic workflow management systems in logistic companies require strong information systems and computer support. Business processes in such industries generally compose of several...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

Risk is present in almost every activity. Alternately speaking, almost every activity may have some undesired outcomes which the person doing the activity hopes that they do not occur when it...

Trust issues in a service oriented environment (2006)

Comparative analysis of trust and security (2006)

Service Oriented Environment (SOE) is a new paradigm for carrying out business activities on the internet. In this paper, I give an introduction to the concept of service oriented environment and...

Services management in component based collaborative workflow processes (2006)

In the literature, there is a lot of confusion regarding the relationship between the 'trust' and 'security'. Most of the times, these terms are regarded as being synonymous with each other. The...

The computational view of information privacy enhancing technologies (2006)

Collaborative and dynamic workflow management systems in logistic companies require strong information systems and computer support. Business processes in such industries generally compose of several...

Defining trustworthiness in service oriented environment (2006)

Information privacy is a very subjective and context sensitive area of research open to many interpretations. As such it has seen an increasing number of solutions proposed that address the issue of...

Aspects influencing trustworthiness in service oriented environments (2006)

In the existing literature we note that there has been no effort in proposing a definition of trustworthiness. In this paper, we propose a definition of trustworthiness with focus on service oriented...

Quantifying risk in financial terms according to context and time (2006)

Transactions have moved away from face-to-face encounters to more being on the Internet. The infrastructure for the business and information exchange activities could be client-server, peer-to-peer...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

One of the characteristic of Risk is the possible loss that could be incurred in an interaction. In a peer-to-peer financial interaction the loss incurred is usually the financial loss to the...

Modelling dynamic properties in the layered model for XML using Xsemantic nets (2006)

Rajugan, R., Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling, Dillon, Tharam

Object-Oriented (OO) conceptual modelling offers the power in describing and modelling real-word data semantics and their inter-relationships in a form that is precise and comprehensible to users...

Accomplishments and challenges of protein ontology (2006)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam, Hussain, Farookh, Chang, Elizabeth

Recent progress in proteomics, computational biology, and ontology development has presented an opportunity to investigate protein data sources from unique perspective that is, examining protein data...

Protein data sources management using semantics (2006)

A framework of authentication and authorization for e-health services (2006)

Presently, organizations make significant investments in biomedical data and information sources. These investments are expected to produce reduction of errors and quality improvements in data...

Han, Song, Skinner, G., Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

This article introduces a framework for authentication and authorization in e-health services. It aims to build the architecture for authentication and authorization within an e-health service...

Defining and protecting meta privacy: A new conceptual framework within information privacy (2006)

Visual modeling of behavioural properties in the LVM for XML using XSemantic nets (2006)

When considering information security and privacy issues most of the attention has previously focused on data protection and the privacy of personally identifiable information (PII). What is often...

Rajugan, R., Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling, Dillon, Tharam

Due to the increasing dependency on self-describing, schema-based, semi-structured data (e.g. XML), there exists a need to model, design and manipulate semi-structured data and the associated...

Enhancing software engineering project information through software engineering ontology instantiations (2006)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Software engineering project information is frequently evolving and queried to reflect project development changes in the software requirements or in the design process, to incorporate additional...

Software design process ontology development (2006)

Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Software design process has been followed and widely used to describe logical organisation of software using different types of models. However, when it comes to remote communication over software...

A fuzzy approach to risk based decision making (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

Decision making is a tough process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting what the final outcome might be. Depending on the projection of the uncertain outcome, a decision has...

Reputation ontology for reputation systems (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

The growing development of web-based reputation systems in the 21st century will have a powerful social and economic impact on both business entities and individual customers, because it makes...

Ontology views: A theoretical perspective (2006)

Rajugan, R., Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Ontologies are the foundation of the Semantic Web (SW) and one of the keys necessary to its success. Conversely, ontology views hold the promise of; (a) provide a manageable portion of a larger...

Towards semantic interoperability of protein data sources (2006)

Unification of protein data and knowledge sources (2006)

Several approaches for data interoperation identified by Karp have been implemented for biological databases. We extend Karp's approach for interoperation not only to protein databases but also to...

Integration of protein data sources through PO (2006)

Advances in technology and the growth of life sciences are generating ever increasing amounts of data. High-throughput techniques are regularly used to capture thousands of data points in an...

Management of dynamic and adaptive workflow business processes (2006)

Resolving heterogeneity among various protein data sources is a crucial problem if we want to gain more information about proteomics process. Information from multiple protein databases like PDB,...

Trust issues in a service oriented environment (2006)

Collaborative and dynamic workflow management systems in logistic companies require strong information systems and computer support. Business processes in such industries generally compose of several...

Comparative analysis of trust and security (2006)

Service Oriented Environment (SOE) is a new paradigm for carrying out business activities on the internet. In this paper, I give an introduction to the concept of service oriented environment and...

Services management in component based collaborative workflow processes (2006)

In the literature, there is a lot of confusion regarding the relationship between the 'trust' and 'security'. Most of the times, these terms are regarded as being synonymous with each other. The...

The computational view of information privacy enhancing technologies (2006)

Collaborative and dynamic workflow management systems in logistic companies require strong information systems and computer support. Business processes in such industries generally compose of several...

Aspects influencing trustworthiness in service oriented environments (2006)

Information privacy is a very subjective and context sensitive area of research open to many interpretations. As such it has seen an increasing number of solutions proposed that address the issue of...

Quantifying risk in financial terms according to context and time (2006)

Transactions have moved away from face-to-face encounters to more being on the Internet. The infrastructure for the business and information exchange activities could be client-server, peer-to-peer...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

One of the characteristic of Risk is the possible loss that could be incurred in an interaction. In a peer-to-peer financial interaction the loss incurred is usually the financial loss to the...

Accomplishments and challenges of protein ontology (2006)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam, Hussain, Farookh, Chang, Elizabeth

Recent progress in proteomics, computational biology, and ontology development has presented an opportunity to investigate protein data sources from unique perspective that is, examining protein data...

Protein data sources management using semantics (2006)

A framework of authentication and authorization for e-health services (2006)

Presently, organizations make significant investments in biomedical data and information sources. These investments are expected to produce reduction of errors and quality improvements in data...

Han, Song, Skinner, G., Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

This article introduces a framework for authentication and authorization in e-health services. It aims to build the architecture for authentication and authorization within an e-health service...

Defining and protecting meta privacy: A new conceptual framework within information privacy (2006)

A conceptual framework for information security and privacy (2006)

When considering information security and privacy issues most of the attention has previously focused on data protection and the privacy of personally identifiable information (PII). What is often...

An introduction to a taxonomy of information privacy in collaborative environments (2006)

There are numerous information privacy approaches based on the four major models of privacy protection. That is, Comprehensive Privacy Laws, Sectoral Privacy Laws, Privacy Self-Regulation, and...

Trust ontology for service-oriented environment (2006)

Information Privacy is becoming an increasingly important field of research with many new definitions and terminologies. Along similar rates of increase are the use, uptake and expansion of...

Predicting the dynamic nature of risk (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In the literature however there has been no effort in proposing ontology for trust. The trusted agent in service oriented environment...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam, Soh, Ben

The trusting peer in order to determine the likelihood of the loss in its resources might analyze the Risk before engaging in an interaction with any trusted peer. This likelihood of the loss in the...

Reputation relationship and its inner relationships for service oriented environments (2006)

Trust relationships and reputation relationships for service oriented environment (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In this paper, we propose a definition of trust relationship. Additionally we discuss in depth the concept of trust relationship. A...

Improvement of a convertible undeniable partially blind signature scheme (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In this paper, we propose a definition of trust relationship. Additionally we discuss in depth the concept of trust relationship. A...

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam, Wang, Jie

Undeniable signatures are the digital signatures that should be verified with the help of the signer. A signer may disavow a genuine document, if the signature is only verifiable with the aid of the...

Context and time dependent risk based decision making (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam, Soh, Ben

As there is a lack of central management in an ecommerce interaction carried out based on peer-to-peer architecture, it is obvious for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk beforehand that could be...

Context and time based riskiness assessment for decision making (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam, Soh, Ben

In an e-commerce interaction carried out in a Peer-to-Peer environment it is rational for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk that could be involved in dealing with a trusted peer as there is a...

Defining reputation in service oriented environment (2006)

Multiple image watermarking using the SILE approach (2006)

Reputation has a profound impact on the Trusting Agent and Trusted Agent in business interactions. Moral, ethical and legal guidelines are implemented as a result of the promotion of fair trading...

Potdar, Vidysagar, Jones, Christopher, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital copyright protection has attracted a great spectrum of studies. One of the optimistic techniques is digital watermarking. Many digital watermarking algorithms were proposed in recent...

Razor: Mining distance-constrained embedded subtrees (2006)

Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam, Hadzic, Fedja, Chang, Elizabeth

Our work is focused on the task of mining frequent subtrees from a database of rooted ordered labelled subtrees. Previously we have developed an efficient algorithm, MB3 [12], for mining frequent...

Mining substructures in protein data (2006)

Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam, Sidhu, Amandeep, Chang, Elizabeth, Tan, Henry

In this paper we consider the 'Prions' database that describes protein instances stored for Human Prion Proteins. The Prions database can be viewed as a database of rooted ordered labeled subtrees....

Towards ascertaining risk in digital business ecosystem interactions (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

In digital business ecosystems architecture, it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand. Doing so would assist the...

A conceptual framework for privacy policy negotiation in web services (2006)

Wu, Chen, Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

Research into privacy in web services based service-oriented environment gained attention in recent years. Business Transaction Level Data (TLD) privacy is important because in web services the...

XML descriptor based approach for real time data messaging (2006)

Poon, Polly, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling

This paper presents an overview of the Real Time Markup Language (RTML). RTML is an XML profile which provides the syntactic representation for describing the semantics of real time data for exchange...

Advances in protein ontology project (2006)

Engineering trustworthy ontologies: Case study of protein ontology (2006)

Advances in proteomics and protein expression techniques have lead to the elucidation of large amounts of protein data. Various data mining algorithms and mathematical models provide methods for...

Hussain, Farookh, Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Ontologies are huge. It is not possible for any one person to manage and engineer a complete ontology. They would need the help of Research Assistants and other people to develop and...

Shield privacy: A conceptual framework for information privacy and data access controls (2006)

Digital ecosystems and comparison to existing collaboration environment (2006)

With the increasing number of proposals and approaches to privacy protection, it has become very difficult to build information systems that provide comprehensive protection for a very broad range of...

Chang, Elizabeth, West, Martin

Digital ecosystems transcend the traditional rigorously defined collaborative environments from centralised, or distributed or hybrid models into an open, flexible, domain cluster, demand-driven...

A taxonomy for information privacy in virtual collaborations (2006)

Trustworthiness measurement methodology for e-business (2006)

Privacy is a very diverse field of research and due to its subjective nature, open to many interpretations and representations. Information Privacy forms a key component of Privacy related to...

Multiple image watermarking using the SILE approach (2006)

The purpose of the Trustworthiness Measure is to (a) to determine the quality of the Trusted Agents and (b) once the trusting agent has determined and recorded the trustworthiness of the trusted...

Potdar, Vidysagar, Jones, Christopher, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital copyright protection has attracted a great spectrum of studies. One of the optimistic techniques is digital watermarking. Many digital watermarking algorithms were proposed in recent...

Shield privacy: A conceptual framework for information privacy and data access controls (2006)

Digital ecosystems and comparison to existing collaboration environment (2006)

With the increasing number of proposals and approaches to privacy protection, it has become very difficult to build information systems that provide comprehensive protection for a very broad range of...

Chang, Elizabeth, West, Martin

Digital ecosystems transcend the traditional rigorously defined collaborative environments from centralised, or distributed or hybrid models into an open, flexible, domain cluster, demand-driven...

Razor: Mining distance-constrained embedded subtrees (2006)

Tan, Henry, Dillon, Tharam, Hadzic, Fedja, Chang, Elizabeth

Our work is focused on the task of mining frequent subtrees from a database of rooted ordered labelled subtrees. Previously we have developed an efficient algorithm, MB3 [12], for mining frequent...

Mining substructures in protein data (2006)

Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam, Sidhu, Amandeep, Chang, Elizabeth, Tan, Henry

In this paper we consider the 'Prions' database that describes protein instances stored for Human Prion Proteins. The Prions database can be viewed as a database of rooted ordered labeled subtrees....

Towards ascertaining risk in digital business ecosystem interactions (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

In digital business ecosystems architecture, it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand. Doing so would assist the...

A taxonomy for information privacy in virtual collaborations (2006)

Multiple image watermarking using the SILE approach (2006)

Privacy is a very diverse field of research and due to its subjective nature, open to many interpretations and representations. Information Privacy forms a key component of Privacy related to...

Potdar, Vidysagar, Jones, Christopher, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital copyright protection has attracted a great spectrum of studies. One of the optimistic techniques is digital watermarking. Many digital watermarking algorithms were proposed in recent...

Trustworthiness measurement methodology for e-business (2006)

Multiple image watermarking using the SILE approach (2006)

The purpose of the Trustworthiness Measure is to (a) to determine the quality of the Trusted Agents and (b) once the trusting agent has determined and recorded the trustworthiness of the trusted...

Potdar, Vidysagar, Jones, Christopher, Chang, Elizabeth

Digital copyright protection has attracted a great spectrum of studies. One of the optimistic techniques is digital watermarking. Many digital watermarking algorithms were proposed in recent...

A conceptual framework for privacy policy negotiation in web services (2006)

Wu, Chen, Potdar, Vidysagar, Chang, Elizabeth

Research into privacy in web services based service-oriented environment gained attention in recent years. Business Transaction Level Data (TLD) privacy is important because in web services the...

XML descriptor based approach for real time data messaging (2006)

Poon, Polly, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling

This paper presents an overview of the Real Time Markup Language (RTML). RTML is an XML profile which provides the syntactic representation for describing the semantics of real time data for exchange...

Improvement of a convertible undeniable partially blind signature scheme (2006)

Han, Song, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam, Wang, Jie

Undeniable signatures are the digital signatures that should be verified with the help of the signer. A signer may disavow a genuine document, if the signature is only verifiable with the aid of the...

Context and time dependent risk based decision making (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam, Soh, Ben

As there is a lack of central management in an ecommerce interaction carried out based on peer-to-peer architecture, it is obvious for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk beforehand that could be...

A conceptual framework for information security and privacy (2006)

An introduction to a taxonomy of information privacy in collaborative environments (2006)

There are numerous information privacy approaches based on the four major models of privacy protection. That is, Comprehensive Privacy Laws, Sectoral Privacy Laws, Privacy Self-Regulation, and...

Trust ontology for service-oriented environment (2006)

Information Privacy is becoming an increasingly important field of research with many new definitions and terminologies. Along similar rates of increase are the use, uptake and expansion of...

Predicting the dynamic nature of risk (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In the literature however there has been no effort in proposing ontology for trust. The trusted agent in service oriented environment...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam, Soh, Ben

The trusting peer in order to determine the likelihood of the loss in its resources might analyze the Risk before engaging in an interaction with any trusted peer. This likelihood of the loss in the...

Reputation relationship and its inner relationships for service oriented environments (2006)

Trust relationships and reputation relationships for service oriented environment (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In this paper, we propose a definition of trust relationship. Additionally we discuss in depth the concept of trust relationship. A...

Context and time based riskiness assessment for decision making (2006)

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In this paper, we propose a definition of trust relationship. Additionally we discuss in depth the concept of trust relationship. A...

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam, Soh, Ben

In an e-commerce interaction carried out in a Peer-to-Peer environment it is rational for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk that could be involved in dealing with a trusted peer as there is a...

Defining reputation in service oriented environment (2006)

Advances in protein ontology project (2006)

Reputation has a profound impact on the Trusting Agent and Trusted Agent in business interactions. Moral, ethical and legal guidelines are implemented as a result of the promotion of fair trading...

Engineering trustworthy ontologies: Case study of protein ontology (2006)

Advances in proteomics and protein expression techniques have lead to the elucidation of large amounts of protein data. Various data mining algorithms and mathematical models provide methods for...

Hussain, Farookh, Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth

Biomedical Ontologies are huge. It is not possible for any one person to manage and engineer a complete ontology. They would need the help of Research Assistants and other people to develop and...

Quantifying risk in financial terms according to context and time for decision making (2006)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

One of the characteristic of Risk is the possible loss that could be incurred in an interaction. In a peer-topeer financial interaction the loss incurred is usually the financial loss to the...

Quantifying risk in financial terms according to context and time for decision making (2006)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

One of the characteristic of Risk is the possible loss that could be incurred in an interaction. In a peer-topeer financial interaction the loss incurred is usually the financial loss to the...

New technologies in mature gulf basins - multidimensional modeling of ontologically derived historical petroleum exploration data properties for effective basin knowledge mapping (2006)

Nimmagadda, Shastri, Dreher, Heinz, Chang, Elizabeth, Rajab, Mohammad

Resources data warehouse is usually constructed by integrating multiple heterogeneous sources such as relational databases, flat files and OLTP files. When data reside in many separate applications...

New technologies in mature gulf basins - multidimensional modeling of ontologically derived historical petroleum exploration data properties for effective basin knowledge mapping (2006)

Nimmagadda, Shastri, Dreher, Heinz, Chang, Elizabeth, Rajab, Mohammad

Resources data warehouse is usually constructed by integrating multiple heterogeneoussources such as relational databases, flat files and OLTP files. When data reside in manyseparate applications in...

Modeling Dynamic Properties in the Layered View Model for XML Using XSemantic Nets (2006)

Rajugan, R., Chang, Elizabeth, Feng, Ling, Dillon, Tharam S.

Due to the increasing dependence on semi-structured data, there exists a requirement to model, design, and manipulate self-describing, schema-based, semi-structured data models (e.g. XML) and the...

Soft computing agents for e-health applied to the research and control of unknown diseases (2006)

Hadzic, Maja, Chang, Elizabeth, Ulieru, Mihaela

This paper presents an Ontology-based Holonic Diagnostic System (OHDS) that combines the advantages of the holonic paradigm with multi-agent system technology and ontology design, for the...

A methodology for risk based decision making in a service oriented environment (2006)

Hussain, Omar, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh, Dillon, Tharam

Decision making is a complex process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting in mind what the final outcome might be at the end. Based on the projection of the final outcome a...

Modeling views in the layered view model for XML using UML (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Rajugan, R., Dillon, Tharam, Feng, Ling

In data engineering, view formalisms are used to provide flexibility to users and user applications by allowing them to extract and elaborate data from the stored data sources. Conversely, since the...

A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach (2006)

Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam

Usability of software should measure both the user preference and user performance. The notion of usability involves several dimensions. These dimensions include: system feedback, consistency, error...

Shield privacy: A conceptual framework for information privacy and data access controls (2006)

An information privacy taxonomy for collaborative environments (2006)

With the increasing number of proposals and approaches to privacy protection, it has become very difficult to build information systems that provide comprehensive protection for a very broad range of...

A conceptual framework for information privacy and security in collaborative environments (2006)

Purpose: Information Privacy is becoming an increasingly important field of research with many new definitions and terminologies. Along similar rates of increase are the use, uptake and expansion of...

A projection of the future effects of quantum computation on information privacy and information security (2006)

There are numerous information privacy approaches based on the four major models of privacy protection. That is, Comprehensive Privacy Laws, Sectoral Privacy Laws, Privacy Self-Regulation, and...