Tharam S. Dillon

Visual Modeling of Ontology Views for e-Sciences Using XSemantic Nets (2008)

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Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon

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Ontology Extraction Using Views for Semantic Web (2008)

Rajugan Rajagopalapillai, Tharam S. Dillon

The emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and the related technologies promise to make the Web a meaningful experience. Conversely, success of SW and its applications depends largely on utilization and...

Index Terms- Biomedical Ontologies, Biomedical Systems, (2008)

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

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Mining Substructures in Protein Data (2008)

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

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Ontology Algebra for Composition of Protein Data Sources (2008)

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

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Tree Mining Application to Matching of Heterogeneous Knowledge Representations (2008)

Fedja Hadzic, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang

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GRIDSpace: Semantic Grid Services on the Web — Evolution towards a SoftGrid (2008)

Tharam S. Dillon, Chen Wu, Elizabeth Chang

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Engineering Trustworthy Ontologies: Case Study of Protein Ontology (2008)

Farookh K. Hussain, Eep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon

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Knowledge Analysis with Tree Patterns (2008)

Fedja Hadzic, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang

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...

A Methodology for Determining the Creditability of Recommending Agents (2008)

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

Abstract. 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Designing Websites with EXtensible Web (xWeb) Methodology (2008)

William Gardner, Tharam S. Dillon, Email Add

Abstract — Today, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is fast emerging as the dominant standard for storing, describing, representing and interchanging data among various enterprises systems and...

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

OWL, Proteins and Data Integration (2008)

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...

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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induced subtrees using TMG (2008)

Fedja Hadzic, Henry Tan, Tharam S. Dillon

efficient algorithm for mining unordered

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

A Fuzzy Approach to Risk Based Decision Making (2008)

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

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,...

A Novel Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) for Shortening the TCP (2008)

Channel Roundtrip Time, Tharam S. Dillon

The proposed Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) is a novel approach for dynamic buffer tuning at the user/server level. It eliminates buffer overflow by ensuring that the buffer length always cover the...

A Hybrid Case-Based Reasoner for Footwear (2008)

Design Julie Main, Julie Main, Tharam S. Dillon

This paper details the way case-based reasoning has been used to aid footwear designers in creating new designs while maximizing component reuse. A hybrid system was created which uses an...

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...

Rule optimizing technique motivated by human concept formation (2008)

In this paper we present a rule optimizing technique motivated by the psychological studies of human concept learning. The technique allows for reasoning to happen at both higher levels of...

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...

Rule optimizing technique motivated by human concept formation (2008)

Mining of health information from ontologies (2008)

In this paper we present a rule optimizing technique motivated by the psychological studies of human concept learning. The technique allows for reasoning to happen at both higher levels of...

Hadzic, Maja, Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam S.

Data mining techniques can be used to efficiently analyze semi-structured data. Semi-structured data are predominantly used within the health domain as they enable meaningful representations of the...

Knowledge analyisis with tree patterns (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...

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...

Using competitive learning between symbolic rules as a knowledge learning method (2008)

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

We present a new knowledge learning method suitable for extracting symbolic

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)

Rule optimizing technique motivated by human concept formation (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...

Dynamic buffer tuning: an ambience-intelligent way for digital ecosystem success (2008)

In this paper we present a rule optimizing technique motivated by the psychological studies of human concept learning. The technique allows for reasoning to happen at both higher levels of...

Wong, Jackei H.K., Wong, Allan K. Y., Lin, Wilfred W. K., Dillon, Tharam S.

Ambient intelligence is an important element for the success of digital ecosystems which usually are made up of many collaborating distributed nodes. The operations of these nodes affect one another...

Mining of health information from ontologies (2008)

Hadzic, Maja, Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam S.

Data mining techniques can be used to efficiently analyze semi-structured data. Semi-structured data are predominantly used within the health domain as they enable meaningful representations of the...

Knowledge analyisis with tree patterns (2008)

Dynamic buffer tuning: an ambience-intelligent way for digital ecosystem success (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...

Wong, Jackei H.K., Wong, Allan K. Y., Lin, Wilfred W. K., Dillon, Tharam S.

Ambient intelligence is an important element for the success of digital ecosystems which usually are made up of many collaborating distributed nodes. The operations of these nodes affect one another...

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

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...

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)

Rule optimizing technique motivated by human concept formation (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...

Ontology support for biomedical information resources (2008)

In this paper we present a rule optimizing technique motivated by the psychological studies of human concept learning. The technique allows for reasoning to happen at both higher levels of...

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...

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...

Mining unordered distance-constrained embedded subtrees (2008)

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

Frequent subtree mining is an important problem in the area of association rule mining from semi-structured or tree structured documents, often found in many commercial, web and scientific domains....

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...

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...

Application of digital ecosystems in health domain (2008)

Hadzic, Maja, Dillon, Tharam S.

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

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...

Thinking PubMed: an innovative system for mental health domain (2008)

Hadzic, Maja, D'Souza, Russel, Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam S.

Information regarding mental illness is dispersed over various resources but even within a specific resource, such as PubMed, it is difficult to link this information, to share it and find specific...

Modelling volatility with mixture density networks (2008)

Mostafa, Fahed, Dillon, Tharam S.

Volatility is an important variable in financial forecasting. Forecasting volatility requires a development of a suitable model for it. In this paper, we examine different time series models for...

A self-healing key distribution scheme based on vector space secret sharing and one way hash chains (2008)

Tian, Biming, Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S., Das, S.

An efficient self-healing key distribution scheme with revocation capability is proposed for secure group communication in wireless networks. The scheme bases on vector space secret sharing and one...

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...

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...

An efficient self-healing key distribution scheme (2008)

Tian, Biming, Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S.

Self-healing key distribution schemes enable a group user to recover session keys from two broadcast messages he received before and after those sessions, even if the broadcast messages for the...

Using competitive learning between symbolic rules as a knowledge learning method (2008)

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

We present a new knowledge learning method suitable for extracting symbolic

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...

Towards the mental health ontology (2008)

Hadzic, Maja, Chen, Meifania, Dillon, Tharam S.

Lots of research have been done within the mental health domain, but exact causes of mental illness are still unknown. Concerningly, the number of people being affected by mental conditions is...

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...

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

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...

Conjoint data mining of structured and semi-structured data (2008)

Pan, Qi H., Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam S.

With the knowledge management requirement growing, enterprises are becoming increasingly aware of the significance of interlinking business information across structured and semi-structured data...

A self-healing and mutual-healing key distribution scheme using bilinear pairings for wireless networks (2008)

Tian, Biming, Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S.

Self-healing key distribution mechanism can be used to establish session keys within a large and dynamic groups of users over an unreliable wireless network. Mutual-healing key distribution mechanism...

Synergy on ontology and data mining: increasing value of the mental health (2008)

Hadzic, Maja, D'Souza, R, Hadzic, Fedja, Dillon, Tharam S.

Increase in mental health research has lead to an accumulation of mental health information. This information covers different aspects of mental health domain and provides a huge range of results....

U3 - mining unordered embedded subtrees using TMG candidate generation (2008)

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

In this paper we present an algorithm for mining of unordered embedded subtrees. This is an importantproblem for association rule mining from semistructured documents, and it has important...

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...

Semantic web support for open-source software development (2008)

Dillon, Tharam S., Simmons, Gregory

Open-source software is unique in that the development of the product is performed in public over the Internet by developers who elect to contribute to the project and rarely if ever meet...

A λ-cut approximate algorithm for goal-based bilevel risk management systems (2008)

Gao, Y., Zhang, G., Lu, J., Dillon, Tharam S., Zeng, X.

Bilevel programming techniques a re developed for decentralised decision problems with decision makers located in two levels. Both upper and lower decision makers, termed as leader and follower, try...

Effective pruning strategies for sequential pattern mining (2008)

Xu, Y., Ma, Z., Li, L., Dillon, Tharam S.

In this paper, we systematically explore the search space of frequent sequence mining and present two novel pruning strategies, S E P (Sequence Extension Pruning) and I EP (Item Extension Pruning),...

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)

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

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...

Mining frequent sequences using itemset-based extension (2008)

Ma, Zhixin, Xu, Yusheng, Dillon, Tharam S., Chen, Xiaoyun

In this paper, we systematically explore an itemset-based extension approach for generating candidate sequence which contributes to a better and more straightforward search space traversal...

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...

A modern approach to total wellbeing (2008)

Hadzic, Maja, Chen, Meifania, Brouwer, R., Dillon, Tharam S.

The events of the last decades have impacted our lives and our health significantly. We expected that the technology boom will improve our lives. While this may be true in a specific context,...

Towards ontology as knowledge representation for intellectual capitals measurement (2008)

Zadjabbari, B., Wongthongtham, Pornpit, Dillon, Tharam S.

For many years, physical asset indicators were the main evidence of an organisation's successful performance. However, the situation has changed after information technology revolution in the...

Fuzzy multi-objective bilevel decision making by an approximation Kth-best approach (2008)

Lu, J., Zhang, G., Dillon, Tharam S.

Many industrial decisions problems are decentralized in which decision makers are arranged at two levels, called bilevel decision problems. Bilevel decision making may involve uncertain parameters...

Quantum packet for the next generation network/ISDN3 (2008)

Lam, R., Chan, H., Chen, H., Dillon, Tharam S., Li, V., Leung, V.

This paper proposes a novel method for transporting various types of user traffic effectively over the next generation network called integrated services digital network 3 (ISDN3) (or quantum...

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...

Conceptual modeling of knowledge based systems for digital ecosystems (2008)

Dillon, Darshan, Dillon, Tharam S.

The agents or entities frequently require intelligence in the form of knowledge based systems(KBS) to support many of their functions. In this Paper we discuss how these KBSs are conceptual are...

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

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

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...

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...

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

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 algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

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...

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

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

No abstract available.

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Application of tree mining to matching of knowledge structures of decision tree type (2007)

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.

Application of tree mining to matching of knowledge structures of decision tree type (2007)

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Main, Julie, Dillon, Tharam S., Witten, Mary

Case adaptation continues to be one of the more difficult aspects of case-based reasoning to automate. This paper looks at several techniques for utilising the implicit knowledge contained in a case...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

Sidhu S, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S, 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...

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...

Application of tree mining to matching of knowledge structures of decision tree type (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...

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...

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

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...

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...

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...

Main, Julie, Dillon, Tharam S., Witten, Mary

Case adaptation continues to be one of the more difficult aspects of case-based reasoning to automate. This paper looks at several techniques for utilising the implicit knowledge contained in a case...

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

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.

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

Main, J., Dillon, Tharam S., Witten, M.

Case adaptation continues to be one of the more difficult aspects of case-based reasoning to automate. This paper looks at several techniques for utilising the implicit knowledge contained in a case...

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...

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...

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.

Application of tree mining to matching of knowledge structures of decision tree type (2007)

Reference architectural styles for service oriented computing (2007)

Abstract: Matching of knowledge structures is generally important for scientific knowledge management, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, etc. With the desire of knowledge sharing and...

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

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

No abstract available.

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...

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.

Ontology modelling notations for software engineering knowledge representation (2007)

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Converged voice access to data (CVAD) (2007)

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...

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...

Protein Ontology Project: 2007 (2007)

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Secure mobile VoIP (2007)

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...

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

Current status of biomedical ontologies: developments in 2006 (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...

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

No abstract available.

Main, J., Dillon, Tharam S., Witten, M.

Case adaptation continues to be one of the more difficult aspects of case-based reasoning to automate. This paper looks at several techniques for utilising the implicit knowledge contained in a case...

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...

Ontology algebra for composition of protein data sources (2007)

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...

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.

Application of tree mining to matching of knowledge structures of decision tree type (2007)

Reference architectural styles for service oriented computing (2007)

Abstract: Matching of knowledge structures is generally important for scientific knowledge management, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, etc. With the desire of knowledge sharing and...

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

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

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.

Ontology modelling notations for software engineering knowledge representation (2007)

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

No abstract available.

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

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

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...

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...

Converged voice access to data (CVAD) (2007)

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Secure mobile VoIP (2007)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Protein Ontology Project: 2007 (2007)

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

Protein Ontology (PO) provides integration of heterogeneous protein and

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...

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

Fuzzy trust evaluation and credibility development in multi-agent systems (2007)

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.

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...

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...

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...

Ontology views: A theoretical perspective (2006)

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, ontology views hold the promise of; (a) provide a manageable portion of a larger...

A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach (2006)

Trust and reputation for service-oriented environments: Technologies for building business intelligence and consumer confidence (2006)

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...

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

Comparative analysis of trust and security (2006)

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

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...

A methodology for risk measurement in e-transactions (2006)

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

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...

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...

A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach (2006)

Comparative analysis of trust and security (2006)

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...

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

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...

A methodology for risk measurement in e-transactions (2006)

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

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...

Trustworthiness measurement methodology for e-business (2006)

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

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...

Ontology views: A theoretical perspective (2006)

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, ontology views hold the promise of; (a) provide a manageable portion of a larger...

Trust and reputation for service-oriented environments: Technologies for building business intelligence and consumer confidence (2006)

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

Modeling Views in the Layered View Model for XML Using UML (2006)

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

Abstract — 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....

A methodology for risk measurements in e-transactions (2006)

Omar Khadeer Hussain, Tharam S. Dillon

Abstract—- 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...

SEQUEST: mining frequent subsequences using DMA (2006)

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

Sequential patterns exist in data such as DNA string databases, occurrences of recurrent illness, etc. In this study, we are proposing an algorithm, SEQUEST, to mine frequent subsequences from...

IMB3 Miner: Mining Induced/Embedded Subtrees by Constraining the Level of Embedding (2006)

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

Abstract. 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...

Integration of Protein Data Sources through PO," presented at (2006)

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

Abstract. 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...

Trust issues in a service oriented environment (2006)

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

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...

Engineering trustworthy ontologies: case study of protein ontology (2006)

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., 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...

Advances in protein ontology project (2006)

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

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...

Comparative analysis of trust and security (2006)

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

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...

Defining trustworthiness in service oriented environment (2006)

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

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...

Aspects influencing trustworthiness in service oriented environments (2006)

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

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...

Trust onology for service-oriented environment (2006)

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

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...

Accomplishments and challenges of protein ontology (2006)

Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, 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...

IMB3-Miner: Mining induced/embedded subtrees by constraining the level of embedding (2006)

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

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...

Trustworthiness measurement methodology for e-business (2006)

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

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...

Protein data sources management using semantics (2006)

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

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...

Declarive web form design for XForms in e-business applications (2005)

Gardner, William, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.

In e-Business Applications, 'web form' plays an important role in providing advance interaction between the user and the system. XForms is the new web form standard recommendation by the World Wide...

Towards defining risk in decentralised communications (2005)

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

Risk is associated with almost every activity undertaken in daily life. Analyzing the risk involved in a transaction is important to decide whether to proceed with the transaction or not. Until now,...

Risk in decentralised communications (2005)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Kadeer, Dillon, Tharam S., Soh, Ben

Risk is associated with almost every activity that is done in daily life. Analyzing the Risk involved in a transaction is important to decide whether to proceed with the transaction or not. Till now,...

Trust and reputation relationships in service-oriented environments (2005)

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

Trust and trustworthiness plays a major role in conducting business o the internet in service-oriented environments. In defining Trust for service-oriented environments, one needs to capture the...

Conceptual design of an XML FACT repository for dispersed XML document warehouses and XML marts (2005)

Conceptual design of an XML-driven, global XML FACT repository for XML document warehouses (2005)

Since the introduction of eXtensible Markup Language (XML), XML repositories have gained a foothold in many global (and government) organizations, where, e-Commerce and e-business models have...

A layered view model for XML repositories and XML data warehouses (2005)

In this paper, we propose a view-driven, architectural construct for modelling and designing of a Global XML FACT (GxFACT) repository using logically grouped, geographically dispersed, XML document...

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

The 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 users....

Fuzzy nature and dynamic trust modeling in service oriented environments (2005)

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

In this paper, we propose and describe the six characteristics of trust. Based on the six proposed characteristics, we determine why trust is fuzzy. The term "fuzzy" in this paper not in the sense of...

Extensible Web: An XML-view based web engineering methodology (2005)

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

XML is becoming increasingly a popular medium in industrial informatics for (a) storing and representing unstructured and semi-structured information such as web content and (b) messaging between...

A three-layered XML view model: A practical approach (2005)

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

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

Formalizing a grammar for reputation in peer-to-peer communication (2005)

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

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 (2005)

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

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

Designing websites with eXtensible web (xWeb) methodology (2005)

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

Today, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is fast emerging as the dominant standard for storing, describing, representing and interchanging data among various enterprises systems and databases in the...

MB3-Miner: Efficient mining eMBedded subTREEs using tree model guided candidate generation (2005)

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

Tree mining has many useful applications in areas such as Bioinformatics, XML mining, Web mining, etc. In general, most of the formally represented information in these domains is a tree structured...

Modeling the risk relationships and defining the risk set (2005)

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

In a peer-to-peer financial transaction there is a possibility of the trusted peer engaging in an untrustworthy manner and in a negative behaviour on the buyer's expense resulting in the loss of the...

Alternative representations for visual constrainst specification in the layered view model (2005)

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

Extensible Markup Language (XML), with its rich set of semantics and constraints, is becoming the dominant standard for storing, describing and interchanging data among various Enterprises...

Modeling views for semantic web using eXtensible semantic (XSemantic) nets (2005)

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

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

Modeling views for the semantic web: As a mechanism for modeling sub-ontologies (2005)

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

The emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and related technologies promise to make the web a meaningful experience. Web services (WS) enable distributed access and discovery of internal, Enterprise...

Protein ontology: Vocabulary for protein data (2005)

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

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...

OWL, proteins and data integration (2005)

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

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 infrastructure...

Protein ontology development using OWL (2005)

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

To efficiently represent the protein annotation framework and to integrate all the existing data representations into a standardized protein data specification for the bioinformatics community, the...

Ontological foundation for protein data models (2005)

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

In this paper, we proposed a Protein Ontology to integrate protein data and information from various Protein Data Sources. Protein Ontology provides the technical and scientific infrastructure and...

Towards defining risk in decentralised communications (2005)

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

Risk is associated with almost every activity undertaken in daily life. Analyzing the risk involved in a transaction is important to decide whether to proceed with the transaction or not. Until now,...

Risk in decentralised communications (2005)

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

Risk is associated with almost every activity that is done in daily life. Analyzing the Risk involved in a transaction is important to decide whether to proceed with the transaction or not. Till now,...

Trust and reputation relationships in service-oriented environments (2005)

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

Trust and trustworthiness plays a major role in conducting business o the internet in service-oriented environments. In defining Trust for service-oriented environments, one needs to capture the...

Conceptual design of an XML-driven, global XML FACT repository for XML document warehouses (2005)

A layered view model for XML repositories and XML data warehouses (2005)

In this paper, we propose a view-driven, architectural construct for modelling and designing of a Global XML FACT (GxFACT) repository using logically grouped, geographically dispersed, XML document...

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

The 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 users....

Conceptual design of an XML FACT repository for dispersed XML document warehouses and XML marts (2005)

A three-layered XML view model: A practical approach (2005)

Since the introduction of eXtensible Markup Language (XML), XML repositories have gained a foothold in many global (and government) organizations, where, e-Commerce and e-business models have...

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

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

Formalizing a grammar for reputation in peer-to-peer communication (2005)

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

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 (2005)

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

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

Fuzzy nature and dynamic trust modeling in service oriented environments (2005)

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

In this paper, we propose and describe the six characteristics of trust. Based on the six proposed characteristics, we determine why trust is fuzzy. The term "fuzzy" in this paper not in the sense of...

Extensible Web: An XML-view based web engineering methodology (2005)

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

XML is becoming increasingly a popular medium in industrial informatics for (a) storing and representing unstructured and semi-structured information such as web content and (b) messaging between...

Designing websites with eXtensible web (xWeb) methodology (2005)

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

Today, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is fast emerging as the dominant standard for storing, describing, representing and interchanging data among various enterprises systems and databases in the...

MB3-Miner: Efficient mining eMBedded subTREEs using tree model guided candidate generation (2005)

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

Tree mining has many useful applications in areas such as Bioinformatics, XML mining, Web mining, etc. In general, most of the formally represented information in these domains is a tree structured...

Modeling views for the semantic web: As a mechanism for modeling sub-ontologies (2005)

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

The emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and related technologies promise to make the web a meaningful experience. Web services (WS) enable distributed access and discovery of internal, Enterprise...

Protein ontology: Vocabulary for protein data (2005)

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

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...

OWL, proteins and data integration (2005)

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

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 infrastructure...

Protein ontology development using OWL (2005)

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

To efficiently represent the protein annotation framework and to integrate all the existing data representations into a standardized protein data specification for the bioinformatics community, the...

Ontological foundation for protein data models (2005)

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

In this paper, we proposed a Protein Ontology to integrate protein data and information from various Protein Data Sources. Protein Ontology provides the technical and scientific infrastructure and...

Modeling the risk relationships and defining the risk set (2005)

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

In a peer-to-peer financial transaction there is a possibility of the trusted peer engaging in an untrustworthy manner and in a negative behaviour on the buyer's expense resulting in the loss of the...

Alternative representations for visual constrainst specification in the layered view model (2005)

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

Extensible Markup Language (XML), with its rich set of semantics and constraints, is becoming the dominant standard for storing, describing and interchanging data among various Enterprises...

Modeling views for semantic web using eXtensible semantic (XSemantic) nets (2005)

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

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

Trustworthiness Measure for e-Service (2005)

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

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

Trustworthiness Measure for e-Service (2005)

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

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

Risk in Trusted Decentralized Communications (2005)

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

Risk is associated with almost every activity that is undertaken on a daily life. Risk is associated with Trust, Security and Privacy. Riskis associated with transactions, businesses,information...

Risk in Trusted Decentralized Communications (2005)

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

Risk is associated with almost every activity that is undertaken on a daily life. Risk isassociated with Trust, Security and Privacy. Riskis associated with transactions, businesses,information...

Towards defining risk in decentralised communications (2005)

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

Risk is associated with almost every activity undertaken in daily life. Analyzing the risk involved in a transaction is important to decide whether to proceed with the transaction or not. Until now,...

Risk in decentralised communications (2005)

Hussain, Omar Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Hussain, Farookh Kadeer, Dillon, Tharam S., Soh, Ben

Risk is associated with almost every activity that is done in daily life. Analyzing the Risk involved in a transaction is important to decide whether to proceed with the transaction or not. Till now,...

Trust and reputation relationships in service-oriented environments (2005)

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

Trust and trustworthiness plays a major role in conducting business o the internet in service-oriented environments. In defining Trust for service-oriented environments, one needs to capture the...

Conceptual design of an XML-driven, global XML FACT repository for XML document warehouses (2005)

A layered view model for XML repositories and XML data warehouses (2005)

In this paper, we propose a view-driven, architectural construct for modelling and designing of a Global XML FACT (GxFACT) repository using logically grouped, geographically dispersed, XML document...

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

The 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 users....

Conceptual design of an XML FACT repository for dispersed XML document warehouses and XML marts (2005)

A three-layered XML view model: A practical approach (2005)

Since the introduction of eXtensible Markup Language (XML), XML repositories have gained a foothold in many global (and government) organizations, where, e-Commerce and e-business models have...

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

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

Formalizing a grammar for reputation in peer-to-peer communication (2005)

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

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 (2005)

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

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

Fuzzy nature and dynamic trust modeling in service oriented environments (2005)

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

In this paper, we propose and describe the six characteristics of trust. Based on the six proposed characteristics, we determine why trust is fuzzy. The term "fuzzy" in this paper not in the sense of...

Extensible Web: An XML-view based web engineering methodology (2005)

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

XML is becoming increasingly a popular medium in industrial informatics for (a) storing and representing unstructured and semi-structured information such as web content and (b) messaging between...

Designing websites with eXtensible web (xWeb) methodology (2005)

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

Today, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is fast emerging as the dominant standard for storing, describing, representing and interchanging data among various enterprises systems and databases in the...

MB3-Miner: Efficient mining eMBedded subTREEs using tree model guided candidate generation (2005)

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

Tree mining has many useful applications in areas such as Bioinformatics, XML mining, Web mining, etc. In general, most of the formally represented information in these domains is a tree structured...

Modeling views for the semantic web: As a mechanism for modeling sub-ontologies (2005)

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

The emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and related technologies promise to make the web a meaningful experience. Web services (WS) enable distributed access and discovery of internal, Enterprise...

Protein ontology: Vocabulary for protein data (2005)

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

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...

OWL, proteins and data integration (2005)

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

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 infrastructure...

Protein ontology development using OWL (2005)

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

To efficiently represent the protein annotation framework and to integrate all the existing data representations into a standardized protein data specification for the bioinformatics community, the...

Modeling the risk relationships and defining the risk set (2005)

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

In a peer-to-peer financial transaction there is a possibility of the trusted peer engaging in an untrustworthy manner and in a negative behaviour on the buyer's expense resulting in the loss of the...

Alternative representations for visual constrainst specification in the layered view model (2005)

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

Extensible Markup Language (XML), with its rich set of semantics and constraints, is becoming the dominant standard for storing, describing and interchanging data among various Enterprises...

Modeling views for semantic web using eXtensible semantic (XSemantic) nets (2005)

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

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

Risk in Trusted Decentralized Communications (2005)

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

Risk is associated with almost every activity that is undertaken on a daily life. Risk is associated with Trust, Security and Privacy. Riskis associated with transactions, businesses,information...

Trustworthiness Measure for e-Service (2005)

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

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

Secure electronic commerce with mobile agents (2005)

Secure electronic commerce with mobile agents (2005)

Online transactions using mobile agents need secure protocols to help the mobile agents to accomplish the transactions initiated by a client in an electronic commerce. However, the mobile agent could...

MB3 Miner: mining eMBedded sub-TREEs using Tree Model Guided candidate generation (2005)

Online transactions using mobile agents need secure protocols to help the mobile agents to accomplish the transactions initiated by a client in an electronic commerce. However, the mobile agent could...

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

Tree mining has many useful applications in areas such as Bioinformatics, XML mining, Web mining, etc. In general, most of the formally represented information in these domains is a tree structured...

Risk in Trusted Decentralized Communications (2005)

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

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Alternate Representations for Visual Constraint Specification in the Layered View Model (2005)