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Development of the Efficient OWL Document Management System for the Embedded Applications
To provide ontology-based context understanding services in the embedded application areas, efficient ontology document management schemes are required. Even though some related systems have been developed, they are not appropriate for the embedded system environment with some limitations on memory, disk space and computing power, such as home networking, telematics and intelligent robotics. In this regard, we have developed the embedded system-oriented OWL semantic document management system using the relational databases. We first design a relational data schema appropriate for the OWL documents and then develop a transformation mechanism to store OWL documents. Additionally, the RDQL semantic query processor is additionally implemented for the experiments.
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Ontology Modeling and Storage System for Robot Context Understanding
A mobile robot that interacts with its environment needs a machine-understandable representation of objects and their usages. We present an ontology of objects, with generic shape representations obtained through form-function reasoning. Sets of objects are associated with typical human activities, which supports context understanding. We describe an efficient ontology document storage system, which is based on stable and well-known relational databases. We first design a relational data schema appropriate for Web Ontology Language (OWL) documents, and then develop a transformation mechanism from OWL documents to the relational schema.
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Mapping from BPMN-Formed Business Processes to XPDL Business Processes
In the business process management, many business process execution languages such as XPDL, BPML, BPEL4WS have been specified with different origins and goals. Most of all, XPDL proposed by WfMC has been widely used in the related applications, especially workflows whose concepts are currently interchangeable with those of business processes. On the other hand, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) driven by BPMI has recently been specified as a standardized graphical notation for a business process. We can therefore commonly design and analyze various business processes using the design tools to support BPMN. Notice that a BPMN-formed business process should be converted to its semantically equivalent business process languages such as XPDL which can consequently be executed by business process engines. In this regard, we propose a transformation mechanism from BPMN-formed business processes to corresponding XPDL processes.
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Wrong Path Events: Exploiting Unusual and Illegal Program Behavior for Early Misprediction Detection and Recovery
Control and data speculation are widely used to improve processor performance. Correct speculation can reduce execution time, but incorrect speculation can lead to increased execution time and greater energy consumption. This paper proposes a mechanism to leverage unexpected program behavior, called wrong-path events, that occur during periods of incorrect speculation. A wrong-path event is an instance of illegal or unusual program behavior that is more likely to occur on the wrong path than on the correct path, such as a NULL pointer dereference. When a wrong-path event occurs, the processor can predict that it is on the wrong path and speculatively initiate misprediction recovery. The purpose of the proposed mechanism is to improve the effectiveness of speculative execution in a processor by helping to insure that the processor remain "on the correct path" throughout periods of speculative execution. We describe a set of wrong-path events which can be used as strong indicators of misprediction. We find that on average 5% of the mispredicted branches in the SPEC2000 integer benchmarks produce a wrong-path event an average of 51 cycles before the branch is executed. We show that once a wrong-path event occurs, it is possible to accurately predict which unresolved branch in the processor is mispredicted using a simple, novel prediction mechanism. We discuss the advantages and shortcomings of wrong-path events and propose new areas for future research.
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XKMS-Based Key Management for Open LBS in Web Services Environment
As the killer application of the wireless internet, the LBS (Location-based Services) has reconsidered technology about location determination technology, LBS middleware server for various application, and diverse contents processing technology. For this kind of LBS, the role of security service is very important in the LBS that store and manage the location information of mobile devices and support various application services using those location information. And in all phases of these functions that include acquisition of location information, storage and management of location information, user management including authentication and information security, and management of the large-capacity location information database, safe security service must be provided. This paper describes a key management architecture based on XML standards for securing access to location based information and services. The main characteristic of the approach is that it build on a number of XML-based standards.
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Open Location-Based Service Using Secure Middleware Infrastructure in Web Services
Location-based services or LBS refers to value-added service by processing information utilizing mobile user location. For this kind of LBS, the role of security service is very important in the LBS that store and manage the location information of mobile devices and support various application services using those location information. And in all phases of these functions that include acquisition of location information, storage and management of location information, user management including authentication and information security, and management of the large-capacity location information database, safe security service must be provided. We show the security methods for open LBS in this paper.
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Semantics and implementation of schema evolution in object-oriented databases
Object-oriented programming is well-suited to such data-intensive application domains as CAD/CAM, AI, and OIS (office information systems) with multimedia documents. At MCC we have built a prototype object-oriented database system, called ORION. It adds persistence and sharability to objects created and manipulated in applications implemented in an object-oriented programming environment. One of the important requirements of these applications is schema evolution, that is, the ability to dynamically make a wide variety of changes to the database schema. In this paper, following a brief review of the object-oriented data model that we support in ORION, we establish a framework for supporting schema evolution, define the semantics of schema evolution, and discuss its implementation.
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WIPI Mobile Platform with Secure Service for Mobile RFID Network Environment
Recently, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology is practically applied to a number of logistics processes as well as asset management, and RFID is also expected to be permeated in our daily life with the name of ’Ubiquitous Computing’ or ‘Ubiquitous Network’ within the near future. The R&D groups in global now have paid attention to integrate RFID with mobile devices as well as to associate with the existing mobile telecommunication network. Such a converged technology and services would lead to make new markets and research challenges. However, the privacy violation on tagged products has become stumbling block. We propose light-weight security mechanism which is constructed by mobile RFID security mechanism based on WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability). WIPI-based light-weight mobile RFID security platform can be applicable to various mobile RFID services that required secure business applications in mobile environment.