Abstract
In the current era of knowledge explosion, many fields are witnessing a tremendous amount of research and practice reported on a regular basis. How to help people effectively and efficiently study state-of-the-art knowledge in a specific field has become an urgent task yet highly challenging. On top of the Internet as an unstructured knowledge base, this paper reports the design and development of a Body of Knowledge portal (BoK), which can be used as a novel learning environment. Leveraging the key technologies of services computing (Web 2.0, Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture), a BoK provides a uniform gateway for researchers and practitioners to seamlessly study and organize knowledge from heterogeneous data sources. A service-oriented knowledge delivery mechanism is key to a BoK centered on configurable delivery protocols. As services computing having evolved as the foundational discipline supporting modern services industry, the authors used the field as an example to illustrate the technical architecture that enables the establishment of BoK in services computing. Information dissemination of BoK on mobile delivery platform is explored as well. Performance data analysis is also reported on the BoK infrastructure.
Highlights
The Internet environment has triggered many disciplines and fields to emerge and evolve rapidly
Among all of our tests, we found that the page requiring the longest response time is the 2007 Web services conference homepage that comprises a significant number of graphical elements
We have presented our design and development of the technical architecture of the Body of Knowledge (BoK) in the field of services computing
Summary
The Internet environment has triggered many disciplines and fields to emerge and evolve rapidly. Services computing has evolved in the last decade as the foundational discipline to study how to leverage IT and Internet computing technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively (Zhang, Zhang et al 2007) These new fields gain significant momentum and a tremendous amount of research and practice has been reported on a regular basis. According to Wilson (Wilson 1996), an effective learning environment should be “a place where people can draw upon resources to make sense out of things and construct meaningful solutions to problems.” Toward this ultimate aim, this paper reports our design and development of the BoK portal 2.0. Our contributions can be summarized in the following three main perspectives: (1) knowledge delivery protocol, (2) system and process, and (3) time and place
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