Web Service Interface Research Articles

Automatic segmentation of Potyviridae family polyproteins.

We describe an automatic segmentation method for polyproteins of the viruses belonging to the Potyviridae family. It uses machine learning techniques in order to predict the cleavage site which define the segments in which said polyproteins are cut in their process of functional maturation. The segmentation application is publicly available for use on a website and it can be accessed through the web service interface too. The prediction models have an average sensitivity of 0.79 and a Matthews correlation coefficient average of 0.23. This method is capable of predicting correctly (coinciding with previously published segmentation) the segmentation of sequences which come from Potyvirus and Rymovirus, genera. However accurate prediction capabilities are affected when faced with either atypical sequences or viruses belonging to less common genera in the Potyviridae family. Future work will focus on establishing greater flexibility in this sense.

Real Time Water Supply System Hydraulic and Quality Modeling – A Case Study

This paper presents a real time water supply system hydraulic and quality modeling framework that is applied in a case study. The simulated quality parameters include age, traced water source, temperature, pH, hardness and free chlorine.A full-scale and well-calibrated hydraulic model of the whole water supply system is built using an extended version of EPANET, allowing storing and restoring the state of plug flow in links. Once an hour, the simulator is updated with the previous hour's hydraulic and quality state from the utility's supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system and a simulation is performed. The results are stored both in GeoJSON format for geographic information systems (GIS) and in a relational database for later use. Some results are presented to the general public in a geographically aggregated form over a web user interface and as open data using Representational State Transfer (REST) web service interface.

Design and Implementation of Mobile Meter Reading System Based on SOA

This paper mainly studies the design and implement of mobile meter reading system based on SOA. The mobile terminal can save offline power reading data in its local database and communicate online recorded data with the server through Web service interface based on the internet. The Web service components perform interaction with the database server. This system is developed by using programming language Java and embedded database SQLite on Android platform. This mobile application can be available to download customers' data from the server or update new meter reading data to the server and then the operators can accomplish their works conveniently during the interviewing with the customers without going back to the office.

Web Service Composition Automation based on Timed Automata

Web service composition is a new direction in the research of service computing. To promote the portfolio, the key problem is to achieve efficient and automatic composition process. We propose the web service composition model based on timed automata. In the computing framework, we design the formal model and its construction algorithm; provide a web service interface description language and composition automation engine. In order to validate its performance, using UPPAAL as the service composition simulator, realized the automation process from independent web services into composite ones. The experimental results verify the feasibility of automatic service composition and the effectiveness of the proposed configuration.

A Flexible Monitoring Infrastructure for the Simulation Requests

Running and monitoring simulations usually involves several different aspects of the entire workflow: the configuration of the job, the site issues, the software deployment at the site, the file catalogue, the transfers of the simulated data. In addition, the final product of the simulation is often the result of several sequential steps. This project tries a different approach to monitoring the simulation requests. All the necessary data are collected from the central services which lead the submission of the requests and the data management, and stored by a backend into a NoSQL-based data cache; those data can be queried through a Web Service interface, which returns JSON responses, and allows users, sites, physics groups to easily create their own web frontend, aggregating only the needed information. As an example, it will be shown how it is possible to monitor the CMS services (ReqMgr, DAS/DBS, PhEDEx) using a central backend and multiple customized cross-language frontends.

Intelligent data acquisition and cloud services for apple orchard

An intelligent data acquisition and service system for orchard was developed for acquiring apple tree growth information in time and managing orchard production remotely. The data of fruit tree growth environment were collected by PDA (Portable Digital Assistant) through the ZigBee WSN (wireless sensors network) deployed in the apple orchard. The collected data were packaged and uploaded following the transportation protocol through the web service interface provided by the orchard server. After that the orchard data were parsed and stored using distributed mechanism. Finally, the data could be processed, analyzed and visualized by the cloud orchard server, and the orchard production decisions based on WebGIS technology could be made as well. Hence the users could access the services provided by the network platform via remote movable or fixed terminals. The system test run showed that the whole process was stable and reliable, during which intelligent data collection, storage, and cloud data processing and services were achieved. Keywords: orchard, PDA, WSN, WebGIS, distributed storage, web service DOI: 10.3965/j.ijabe.20140702.018 Citation: Guo X, Zheng L H, Li M Z, Zhang Y. Intelligent data acquisition and cloud services for apple orchard. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2014; 7(2): 146－153.

SN Network Service Model Based on Web Resources

Based on design thinking of web services network resources, this paper treated the organization and management of web resources as the purpose and built the mathematical model and algorithm of web network resources service. It designed the spiritual home network ideological and political education network system according to model and algorithm. Spiritual home network system achieved three functions. In order to improve the efficiency of network services, this paper matched the service of spiritual home and finally got a simple web service interface. Finally, the paper compared the service system in this paper with the general service system. The service system designed in this paper can search the service needed in a shorter time. Its accuracy is higher than general service system.

Agent reasoning on the web using web services?

In this paper we present an approach for reusing agent-based reasoning capabilities by making them available for invocation as Web services. In this way, we provide the missing link between the highly interoperable Web services and the autonomicity and intelligence of agent-based systems, so that the latter can be seamlessly integrated into the knowledge-rich SemanticWeb environment without being compromised by isolated communication platforms and languages or restricted to only one or just few reasoning formalisms. We have achieved this by extending the EMERALD framework for agent based reasoning with a Web service interface. Our approach is exemplified by the development of an online system for intelligent brokering of apartment rentals. The broker intelligence is captured as a defeasible knowledge base, while its problem solving process involves the invocation of third party defeasible reasoning Web services included into the EMERALD framework.

Universal Connector Framework for Pervasive Computing Using Cloud Technologies

Today, software architecture has a vital role in achieving quality goals for large scale distributed software systems which is made up of components and connectors. Especially, software development mainly consists of composing re-usable components. The main issue in this approach resides in the difficulty to make these heterogeneous components communicate with each other smoothly, especially in mobile and pervasive computing area. These components can be replaced, dropped or added easily using injection of control mechanism (IoC). In this work, we propose and validate a universal connector framework that allows, through a web service interface using cloud technologies, diverse software components and mobile devices communicate with each other. For example, components and devices in pervasive systems can exchange context information, and analyze them to deduce new rules. As a proof of concept, we apply this connector in a mobile messenger context and shows our results.

STEP: An ontology-based smart clinical document template editing and production system

Clinical documents are complex in nature and reflective of the knowledge, structured or otherwise, of physicians. A clinical document template (CDT) is that in which this knowledge manifests itself in various relations that exist among clinical concepts or entities. In this work, we present (1) CDT ontology, (2) A web-based knowledge management system called STEP (Smart Template Editing and Production), (3) Web Services Interfaces to STEP, and (4) A GUI-based CDT editor that uses the Web Services. The CDT ontology explicitly specifies clinical document constituents called template description entities (TDE), and their inter-relations in the CDT. STEP stores CDTs and their components in accordance with the CDT ontology. Web Service interfaces were developed for search, retrieval and storage for CDTs and TDEs. STEP holds entities and relations in use, spanning across different functions such as admission and discharge. A GUI-based CDT editor was developed that uses the Web Services to access data stored in STEP.

Research on the Information Interface at the Demand Side in Smart Grid

In this paper, with the information analysis at the demand side in smart grid, two interactive modes and four interface protocols in application layer have been proposed according whether the main station exists or not. With comprehensively reviewing the smart electricity businesses related with power consumers, this paper defined the requirement and interaction content and four kinds of Web Service interface protocols in the application layer. Meanwhile, examples of information exchange in the actual scenarios was carried out. The results in this paper can impel the construction of smart electricity service system, enhance the user QoS and comprehensively intelligentize the demand response to a certain extent.

Service oriented architecture for scientific analysis at W7-X. An example of a field line tracer

Service oriented architecture based on web-services is a universal method of combining software components. SOAP web-services chosen for W7-X are characterized by strong standards and readily available tools. In this paper the SOAP technology is explained and is illustrated with a new service for field line tracing.The field line tracing package consists of a C++ library and a web-service interface. It features a flexible structure and can handle a realistic machine geometry. The following problems can be solved: getting a field line; making Poincaré maps; calculating flux surface characteristics; calculating heat fluxes to the wall; constructing magnetic coordinates, etc. The service is applied to estimate W7-X divertor loads with an 1/1 error field.

REST 프로토콜 기반의 API 선별 기법 및 Open API 자동 합성 방안

With the development of web 2.0 and the rapid diffusion of smart devices, current web service, which only provides very limited information and service, has been transformed into user-friendly and comprehensive web service called mash-up service. Mash-up service is defined as comprehensive service that is created by combining variety of web services. When composing a mesh-up service, Open API is used as web service interface. Current mash-up service, however, has fundamental problem in that it could not satisfy the various needs of users who want I-centric personalized service because it is developed and provided by service developers. To overcome these obstacles, a lot of studies on mesh-up framework are being performed for improving mash-up proess though, it is still in beginning stage. In this paper, we introduce an API selection and compostion method as the key technology for mesh-up framework that support the automatic creation of mesh-up service.

Third Party Multimedia Streaming Control with Guaranteed Quality of Service in Evolved Packet System

This paper studies implementation issues of Parlay X “Multimedia Streaming Control” and “Application-driven Quality of Service” web services in the Evolved Packet System (EPS). EPS is defined as evolution of mobile communication networks with broadband radio interface and Internet Protocol (IP) based core. The main signalling protocols in EPS used for multimedia session management and quality of service control are respectively Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Diameter. The functional architecture for third party multimedia streaming control with guaranteed quality of service considers deployment of an application server which exposes web service interfaces toward applications and control protocols toward the network. In a role of mediation functionality, this application server is responsible for the translation between web services interface operations and control protocol messages. In addition, it needs to maintain synchronized state models that reflect both third party application view and protocol view. An approach to automated functional verification of such type of application server providing “Multimedia Streaming Control” and “Application-driven Quality of Service” web service interfaces is suggested. Use cases that illustrate the approach applicability are described.

BacillOndex: An Integrated Data Resource for Systems and Synthetic Biology

Summary BacillOndex is an extension of the Ondex data integration system, providing a semantically annotated, integrated knowledge base for the model Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. This application allows a user to mine a variety of B. subtilis data sources, and analyse the resulting integrated dataset, which contains data about genes, gene products and their interactions. The data can be analysed either manually, by browsing using Ondex, or computationally via a Web services interface. We describe the process of creating a BacillOndex instance, and describe the use of the system for the analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in B. subtilis Marburg. The Marburg strain is the progenitor of the widely-used laboratory strain B. subtilis 168. We identified 27 SNPs with predictable phenotypic effects, including genetic traits for known phenotypes. We conclude that BacillOndex is a valuable tool for the systems-level investigation of, and hypothesis generation about, this important biotechnology workhorse. Such understanding contributes to our ability to construct synthetic genetic circuits in this organism.

Remotely reconfigurable hardware–software platform with web service interface for automated video surveillance

This paper presents a reconfigurable hardware platform for general-purpose video processing. The proposed design is a step towards portable, web-enabled devices which, unlike most existing smart cameras, are to a large degree autonomous and have substantial intelligence embedded. The device is based on programmable logic, microcontrollers, and dedicated communication modules. It is able to acquire an input frame using a built-in camera, process the image in a massively parallel manner, and expose its functionality as a web service compliant with the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. Thanks to the FPGA technology used for main functionality implementation, the system's hardware can be locally or remotely reconfigured in order to optimize it on a very low level for user-defined tasks. Moreover, the image processing core is implemented using a C-to-HDL compiler to reduce time to market when deploying new functionalities. We demonstrate the capabilities of our device on two example applications: moving object detection and face recognition.

BacillOndex: an integrated data resource for systems and synthetic biology.

BacillOndex is an extension of the Ondex data integration system, providing a semantically annotated, integrated knowledge base for the model Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. This application allows a user to mine a variety of B. subtilis data sources, and analyse the resulting integrated dataset, which contains data about genes, gene products and their interactions. The data can be analysed either manually, by browsing using Ondex, or computationally via a Web services interface. We describe the process of creating a BacillOndex instance, and describe the use of the system for the analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in B. subtilis Marburg. The Marburg strain is the progenitor of the widely-used laboratory strain B. subtilis 168. We identified 27 SNPs with predictable phenotypic effects, including genetic traits for known phenotypes. We conclude that BacillOndex is a valuable tool for the systems-level investigation of, and hypothesis generation about, this important biotechnology workhorse. Such understanding contributes to our ability to construct synthetic genetic circuits in this organism.

Estimating Web Service interface quality through conventional object-oriented metrics

Historically, software engineers have conceived metric suites as valuable tools to estimate the quality of their software artifacts. Recently, a fresh computing paradigm called Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has emerged at the crossing of massively distributed and heterogeneous software.This paper presents a statistical correlation analysis showing that classic software engineering metrics can be used to predict the most relevant quality attributes of WSDL documents, the essential software artifact when materializing this novel computing paradigm withWeb-based technologies. For the experiments, two recent WSDL-level metrics catalogs and 154 real world WSDL documents have been employed.

The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names

BackgroundThe digitization of biodiversity data is leading to the widespread application of taxon names that are superfluous, ambiguous or incorrect, resulting in mismatched records and inflated species numbers. The ultimate consequences of misspelled names and bad taxonomy are erroneous scientific conclusions and faulty policy decisions. The lack of tools for correcting this ‘names problem’ has become a fundamental obstacle to integrating disparate data sources and advancing the progress of biodiversity science.ResultsThe TNRS, or Taxonomic Name Resolution Service, is an online application for automated and user-supervised standardization of plant scientific names. The TNRS builds upon and extends existing open-source applications for name parsing and fuzzy matching. Names are standardized against multiple reference taxonomies, including the Missouri Botanical Garden's Tropicos database. Capable of processing thousands of names in a single operation, the TNRS parses and corrects misspelled names and authorities, standardizes variant spellings, and converts nomenclatural synonyms to accepted names. Family names can be included to increase match accuracy and resolve many types of homonyms. Partial matching of higher taxa combined with extraction of annotations, accession numbers and morphospecies allows the TNRS to standardize taxonomy across a broad range of active and legacy datasets.ConclusionsWe show how the TNRS can resolve many forms of taxonomic semantic heterogeneity, correct spelling errors and eliminate spurious names. As a result, the TNRS can aid the integration of disparate biological datasets. Although the TNRS was developed to aid in standardizing plant names, its underlying algorithms and design can be extended to all organisms and nomenclatural codes. The TNRS is accessible via a web interface at http://tnrs.iplantcollaborative.org/ and as a RESTful web service and application programming interface. Source code is available at https://github.com/iPlantCollaborativeOpenSource/TNRS/.

BabeLO—An Extensible Converter of Programming Exercises Formats

In the last two decades, there was a proliferation of programming exercise formats that hinders interoperability in automatic assessment. In the lack of a widely accepted standard, a pragmatic solution is to convert content among the existing formats. BabeLO is a programming exercise converter providing services to a network of heterogeneous e-learning systems such as contest management systems, programming exercise authoring tools, evaluation engines and repositories of learning objects. Its main feature is the use of a pivotal format to achieve greater extensibility. This approach simplifies the extension to other formats, just requiring the conversion to and from the pivotal format. This paper starts with an analysis of programming exercise formats representative of the existing diversity. This analysis sets the context for the proposed approach to exercise conversion and to the description of the pivotal data format. The abstract service definition is the basis for the design of BabeLO, its components and web service interface. This paper includes a report on the use of BabeLO in two concrete scenarios: to relocate exercises to a different repository, and to use an evaluation engine in a network of heterogeneous systems.