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WIP: Web Service Initiation Protocol for Multimedia and Voice Communication over IP
In this paper, we present WIP - Web service initiation protocol for multimedia and voice communication over IP. WIP is an entirely Web service based communication protocol, consisting of a set of Web service operations for initiating and establishing converged (e.g. multimedia, IM, voice, etc.) communication services over IP. It inherits the principle of separation signaling and media transmission of SIP (session initiation protocol); but it relies on a single Web service stack to provide a full featured communication signaling protocol. WIP opens a new paradigm of Web service based VoIP communication, which is extensible and can be easily integrated in end-to-end SOA solutions. The generic Web service approach used in WIP overcomes many limitations which would be otherwise difficult to achieve in non-Web service based communication methods used today. WIP is based on two-way, full duplex Web service interaction. The communication signaling establishment in WIP is through Web service interactions, and the media negotiation in WIP is modeled as a special Web service "event" subscription, which is fully extensible for various media needs. The signaling messages of WIP are encoded in the standard based SOAP message envelops which can be carried by multiple transport protocols, including HTTP. WIP supports both P2P (peer-to-peer) and B2B (back-to-back) broker mode communication services. A prototype research system has been implemented, and the results indicate that WIP, as a full Web service based communication protocol, is both feasible and advantageous
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TARGET: Two-way Web Service Router Gateway
In this paper, we present the approach and architecture of TARGET: two-way Web service router gateway, for two-way Web service interaction crossing enterprise domain and firewall. It provides a full support for asynchronous outbound operation and event notification in communication services. TARGET addresses an acute issue for Internet applications that today's enterprise NATs and firewalls only allow outbound HTTP request from the inside to the outside and block any request from the outside to the inside, which is a serious problem for two-way Web services. TARGET is a generic solution to allow two-way Web service interaction to traverse legitimately through NATs and strictly configured firewalls; and it is based on two-way SOAP message tunneling, service local registry, and service routing to bridge two-way Web service interaction. A research TARGET system has been implemented and applied to real time communication services, e.g. conferencing. Extensive experiments on TARGET are performed, and its performance with various sizes of SOAP messages is studied. The applicability and feasibility of TARGET for two-way Web service interaction is verified
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Web Service for Tele-Communication
In this paper, we introduce WNET/WSIP, a web service enabled converged communication infrastructure that is integrated with VoIP SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). WNET/WSIP consists of a network of WSIP node and it is based on two-way, full duplex web service interaction. WSIP is a new class of IP communication endpoints. Each WSIP node is both a SIP endpoint that communicates in the SIP world through SIP signaling, and a web service SOAP node that provides an application protocol layer alternative to SIP and a generic service integration environment for binding SIP based communication in web services. From service perspective, WNET/WSIP is an application layer protocol overlay for resilient and versatile communication services over IP. It allows dynamic service discovery and binding that integrate SIP services as a SOA component in business transactions. It separates service integration/extension environment from SIP signaling. The ubiquitous service integration nature of web service provides a disciplined solution to monitor the WNET/WSIP network. It supports dynamic service monitoring, provisioning, endpoint discovery and update, etc. In particular, we introduce the approach of using WSSecurity [12] to provide end-to-end message level security over IP in WNET/WSIP. These new capabilities are essential to the success of reliable communication services. The proposed approach was implemented in a prototype research system. Advantages of WNET/WSIP were realized and observed.
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Web Services Methods for Communication over IP
In this paper, we study Web services methods and approaches to enable real-time communication services over IP. This approach extends Web services methodologies from service integration to a service-oriented approach for communication. In particular, we describe the generic Web service based application session management, WS-Session, the two-way full duplex Web service interaction framework, and most importantly, the development of Web service initiation protocol (WIP) which is a full featured Web service and SOA based communication framework for multimedia and voice communication over IP. We show that WIP provides a service oriented architecture which can be extended seamlessly from a P2P endpoint to an endpoint with advanced call control and switching capabilities typically requiring the assistance of a dedicated PBX. A prototype of WIP system is fully developed. Architectural design and system implementation of Web service based communication endpoints are studied and applied to realize service-oriented communication over IP. Advances of WIP indicate the beginning of a full Web service and SOA based communication paradigm that can reshape the converged communication over IP.
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An Extensible Three-tier XML Dialogue System Architecture for Multimodal Interaction and Automated Agent Services
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Web Service for Communication Service Management
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Environment Lighting for Point Sampled Geometry
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The Inconsistency in Rough Set Based Rule Generation
As the amount of information in the world is steadily increasing, there is a growing demand for tools for analyzing the information. The problem of data mining is investigated in this paper. It is very important and useful to generate decision rules and reason under inconsistency. Propositional default rules are generated in this paper. Based on analysis of inconsistency, Skowron's default rule generation algorithm is improved. A corresponding reasoning method with a rule-choosing stratagem of lower frequency first under inconsistency is also developed. A suitable decision can be generated for any yet unseen object including one with unknown attribute values and one that is even inconsistent (conflicting) with objects of the training decision table. The rule-choosing stratagem is shown to be valid by our experiments.
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WS-SLA: A Framework for Web Services Oriented Service Level Agreements
Service level agreements (SLA) becomes the prevailing business model for delivery of a large number of products and services in telecommunication and IT arenas. We presents an integrated service level agreement model applied to operating supporting system (OSS), on the basis of WfMC workflow reference model and service oriented architecture (SOA). And an application scenario instance of SLA system architecture is described by a set of operations models by Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
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Extending OpenMP for heterogeneous chip multiprocessors
The emergence of system-on-chip (SOC) design shows the growing popularity of the integration of multiple-processors into one chip. We propose that high-level abstraction of parallel programming like OpenMP is suitable for chip multiprocessors. For SOCs, the heterogeneity exists within one chip such that it may have different types of multiprocessors, e.g. RISC-like processors or DSP-like processors. Incorporating different processors into OpenMP is challenging. We present our solutions to extend OpenMP directives to tackle this heterogeneity. Several optimization techniques are proposed to utilize advanced architecture features of our target SOC, the software scalable system on chip (3SoC). Preliminary performance evaluation shows scalable speedup using different types of processors and performance improvement through individual optimization.
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Transform BPEL Workflow into Hierarchical CP-Nets to Make Tool Support for Verification
Availability of a wide variety of Web services over the Internet offers opportunities of providing new value added services by composing existing ones. Service composition poses a number of challenges. A composite service can be very complex in structure, containing many temporal and data-flow dependencies between the component services. It is highly desirable therefore to be able to validate that a given composite service is well formed: proving that it will not deadlock or livelock and that it respects the sequencing constraints of the constituent services. In this paper, we propose an approach of composition analysis and verification based on Colored Petri nets (CP-nets), which is an extended version of Petri Nets, which have a sound mathematical semantics and a number of existing analysis tools. We provide translation rules of web composition language into CP-nets and a technique to analyze and verify effectively the net to investigate several behavioral properties. Our translation technique is essentially independent of which language we describe composition. As an example, to show the effectiveness of our technique, we pick up BPEL and translate the BPEL specification into CP-nets in a constructive way. These nets are analyzed and verified as prototypes of the specification.