[AISWorld] International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) | contents of the latest issue

[Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha]

The contents of the latest issue of:

*International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) *

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 4, Issue 1, January - March 2012

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1938-0194 EISSN: 1938-0208

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijwp <http://www.igi-global.com/ijwp>

Editors-in-Chief: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Insitute of 
Cavado and Ave, Portugal) and João Varajão (University of Trás-os-Montes 
e Alto Douro, Portugal)

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*EDITORIAL PREFACE*


Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal

João Varajão, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

*PAPER ONE*


The Perceived Potential of Business Social Networking Sites

Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha (Polytecnic Institute of Cávado and Ave & 
CITEPE Research Centre, Portugal), João Varajão (University of 
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro & ALGORITMI Research Centre, Portugal), 
Patrícia Gonçalves (Polytecnic Institute of Cávado and Ave & CITEPE 
Research Centre, Portugal), Cecília Alvarenga (Polytechnic Institute of 
Cávado and Ave, Portugal), Aida Martins (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado 
and Ave, Portugal), and Maria Teresa Martins (Polytechnic Institute of 
Cávado and Ave, Portugal)

Business social networking is a facilitator of several business 
activities, such as market studies, communication with clients, and 
identification of business partners. This paper traduces the results of 
a study undertaken with the purpose of getting to know how the potential 
of networking is perceived in the promotion of business by participants 
of the LinkedIn network, and presents two main contributions: (1) to 
disseminate within the business community which is the relevance given 
to social networking; and (2) which are the social networks best 
suitable to the promotion of business, to support the definition of 
strategies and approaches accordingly. The results confirm that LinkedIn 
is the most suitable network to answer the needs of those that look for 
professional contacts and for the promotion of business, while 
innovation is the most recognized factor in the promotion of business 
through social networking. This study contributes to a better 
understanding of the potential of different business social networking 
sites, to support organizations and professionals to align their 
strategies with the perceived potential of each network.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/perceived-potential-business-social-networking/72132

To read a PDF sample of this article, please visit

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=72132&ptid=59242&t=The%20Perceived%20Potential%20of%20Business%20Social%20Networking%20Sites

*PAPER TWO*

*A Conceptual Model of SOA-Enabled Business Process and its Empirical Study*

Serdal Bayram (Siemens Turkey, Turkey), Özalp Vayvay (Marmara University 
Göztepe Campus, Turkey), and Süleyman Serdar Yörük (Marmara University 
Göztepe Campus, Turkey)

In today's strong competitive environment, business processes that 
answer customer needs are required to be flexible and agile so as not to 
miss business opportunities and to adopt new market requirements and new 
trends easily so business activity monitoring is becoming more crucial 
for enterprises. Although obstacles of the mass of hybrid and complex 
distributed systems make it an effortful issue, SOA researchers 
investigate solutions to eliminate them. This study proposes a 
conceptual model for SOA-enabled business process frameworks to identify 
components of such systems. The model consists of entities and their 
relationships represented by UML. The proposed model was tested in an 
international company where its business processes are well-defined and 
IT is seen as an important necessity for their implementation.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/conceptual-model-soa-enabled-business/72133

To read a PDF sample of this article, please visit

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=72133&ptid=59242&t=A%20Conceptual%20Model%20of%20SOA-Enabled%20Business%20Process%20and%20its%20Empirical%20Study

*PAPER THREE*

*Web Personalization Based on Fuzzy Aggregation and Recognition of User 
Activity*

Alexander Alfimtsev (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia), 
Sergey Sakulin (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia), and 
Vladimir Devyatkov (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia)

This article addresses Web personalization based on the analysis of 
individual user activity. However, human behavior is characterized by 
uncertainties that should be considered in the personalization 
algorithms. Fuzzy logic allows taking into account different types of 
uncertainty. Therefore, the paper presents a method for Web 
personalization based on fuzzy aggregation and recognition of user 
activity. The advantages of this approach are (1) the ability to use two 
types of fuzzy integrals without using the necessary expert set of fuzzy 
measures and (2) covering all stages of the personalization from 
aggregation of a single user's query parameters to aggregation of an 
individual user's profiles in a single parameter of group of users.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/web-personalization-based-fuzzy-aggregation/72134

To read a PDF sample of this article, please visit

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=72134&ptid=59242&t=Web%20Personalization%20Based%20on%20Fuzzy%20Aggregation%20and%20Recognition%20of%20User%20Activity

*PAPER FOUR*

*An Analysis on SAWSDL and its Implementation Tools***

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Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia), Abdul 
Azim Abd Ghani (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia), Wan Nurhayati Wan 
Ab. Rahman (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia), and Rodziah Atan 
(Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)

Recently, Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL) standard emerged as a 
W3C recommendation to add semantics to WSDL components. SAWSDL annotates 
WSDL components with different semantics in order to automate Web 
service tasks, such as service discovery, composition, mediation, and 
invocation. In fact, certain service task requires a specific service 
semantic that semantically describes the service. As a result, several 
tools and techniques have emerged to allow users to get maximum 
advantage of semantic Web service by implementing SAWSDL. This paper 
analyzes SAWSDL standard. The relationships between SAWSDL and WSDL 
components were revealed. The direct relationships between SAWSDL 
components and service tasks through service semantics were investigated 
and reported. This paper also reviews some well-known tools that are 
used for SAWSDL implementation.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/analysis-sawsdl-its-implementation-tools/72135

To read a PDF sample of this article, please visit

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=72135&ptid=59242&t=An%20Analysis%20on%20SAWSDL%20and%20its%20Implementation%20Tools

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PAPER FIVE*

*Web Portal: Total Challenge*

Tiago Martins (University of Minho, Portugal), Vítor Carvalho 
(University of Minho & IPCA, Portugal), and Filomena Soares (University 
of Minho, Portugal)

The Web is an extraordinary success, for its simplicity. This simplicity 
has brought disadvantages, because with vast amounts of information 
available, the search is a difficult, time-consuming and sometimes 
inefficient task, creating the need for a strategic information 
management. To overcome this need came the portals. The characteristics 
of portals differ from each other, which made them appear different 
definitions. Also arose several classifications of portals, one of which 
considers three dimensions to classify them: the scope of content, the 
aim of the portal and the range of its intended users. With this work, 
the authors intend to build a Web Portal to support one or more serious 
games. A database is shared with the Web Portal. This portal will serve 
to make an interface between the user and the games, for the 
dissemination and support of these and as a platform for managing and 
monitoring results.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/web-portal-total-challenge/72136

To read a PDF sample of this article, please visit

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=72136&ptid=59242&t=Web%20Portal:%20Total%20Challenge

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the 
*International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) *in your institution's 
library.This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated 
"*InfoSci-Journals*" database: 
http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx.**

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Mission of IJWP:

The *International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP)* focuses on enterprise 
integration strategy that deals with the exchange of messages as the 
basic component of the solution architecture enabling the integration of 
people, information, applications and business processes. Portals are 
expected to care more about the infrastructure services they consume, 
which is a key architectural difference between the past and the future 
generations of portals and represent the paradigm shift in enterprise 
integration strategy. This paradigm shift focuses on identifying core 
integration components, assets, enterprise portals and encourages the 
reuse and refinement of these assets for integration projects. However, 
these topics are rarely discussed among the practitioners or in the 
international journals without primarily encouraging use of the 
solutions from particular vendors. It is important to establish a 
sounding board (international journal) which provides readers with an 
independent view of models for enterprise integration strategies, vendor 
independent tool sets, and the experience with the development of 
strategic solutions carried out within the context and rules of the 
enterprise's integration architecture. The readers are expected to 
benefit from having access to the latest practical solutions, as well as 
research papers in the field of integration approaches, the review of 
tools which can effectively and proactively support integration 
objectives across the enterprise.

Coverage of IJWP:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include, but are not limited to, 
the following:

Business process integration and management using SOA and portals

Case studies for using portals with content management systems

Composite Web service in portal frameworks (creation and enabling 
infrastructure)

Customization and portal user interface issues, multilingual portals

E-commerce applications based on portals and SOA

Evolution of B2E & B2B portals as windows into the enterprise, on demand 
services in portals

Frameworks for building portal applications, development tooling, and 
development environments (e.g Portlet Factory, NetBean portal plug-in, 
and other tools)

Frameworks for designing SOA solution with portal platforms, models, and 
modeling tools usage, efficiency, and usability

Grid portals

Managing development of portals & SOA solutions

Mobile portals, mobile portal platform, and content management systems 
applied to mobile portals

Portal architecture, research, and practical issues in portals, 
including mobile portal initiatives

Portal security issues and single sigh-on

Resource management in portals, performance issues, and administration 
issues

Semantic Web services & federated portal architectures

Web services for remote portlets (WSRP), performance, security, 
standards, WSRP extensions, and enhancements in UDDI

WSRP role in business integration

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission 
guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijwp <http://www.igi-global.com/ijwp>

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