<font size=2 face="Calibri">The contents of the latest issue of:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>Journal of Database Management (JDM)</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Official Publication of the Information
Resources Management Association</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Volume 21, Issue 4, October-December 2010</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">ISSN: 1063-8016 EISSN: 1533-8010</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New
York, USA</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Editor-in-Chief: Keng Siau, University
of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>RESEARCH COMMENTARY</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Co-Creation and Collaboration in a Virtual
World: A 3D Visualization Design Project in Second Life</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Brian E. Mennecke, Iowa State University,
USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Shu Z. Schiller, Wright State University,
USA</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">One of the most successful and useful implementations
of 3D virtual worlds is in the area of education and training. This paper
discusses the use of virtual worlds in education and describes an innovative
3D visualization design project using one of the most popular virtual worlds,
Second Life. This ongoing project is a partnership between IBM and three
universities in the United States: the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Iowa State University, and Wright State University. More than 400 MBA students
have participated in this project by completing a creative design project
that involves co-creation and collaboration in Second Life. The MBA students
from the three universities worked in pairs to create designs to represent
concepts related to IBM Power Systems, a family of IBM servers. The paper
discusses observations and reflections on the 3D visualization design project.
The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions in
applying virtual worlds in education.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>RESEARCH PAPER ONE</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Transforming Activity-Centric Business
Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Rong Liu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Frederick Y. Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Santhosh Kumaran, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, USA</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Much of the prior work in business process
modeling is activity-centric. Recently, an information-centric approach
has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the interacting lifecycles
of business entities. The benefits of this approach are documented in a
number of case studies. In this paper, the authors formalize the information-centric
approach and derive the relationships between the two approaches. The authors
formally define the notion of a business entity, provide an algorithm to
transform an activity-centric model into an information-centric process
model, and demonstrate the equivalence between these two models. Further,
they show the value of transforming from the activity-centric paradigm
to the information-centric paradigm in business process componentization
and Service-Oriented Architecture design and also provide an empirical
evaluation.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>RESEARCH PAPER TWO</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">An Integrated Query Relaxation Approach
Adopting Data Abstraction and Fuzzy Relation</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Soon-Young Huh, Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology, Korea</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Kae-Hyun Moon, Samsung Electronics Co.,
Korea</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Jinsoo Park, Seoul National University,
Korea</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">This paper proposes a cooperative query
answering approach that relaxes query conditions to provide approximate
answers by utilizing similarity relationships between data values. The
proposed fuzzy abstraction hierarchy (FAH) represents a similarity relationship
based on the integrated notion of data abstraction and fuzzy relations.
Based on FAH, the authors develop query relaxation operators like query
generalization, approximation, and specialization of a value. Compared
with existing approaches, FAH supports more effective information retrieval
by processing various kinds of cooperative queries through elaborate relaxation
control and providing ranked query results according to fitness scores.
Moreover, FAH reduces maintenance cost by decreasing the number of similarity
relationships to be managed.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>RESEARCH PAPER THREE</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Accelerating Web Service Workflow Execution
via Intelligent Allocation of Services to Servers</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Konstantinos Stamkopoulos, University of
Ioannina, Greece</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina,
Greece</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina,
Greece</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Apostolos Zarras, University of Ioannina,
Greece</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">The appropriate deployment of web service
operations at the service provider site plays a critical role in the efficient
provision of services to clients. In this paper, the authors assume that
a service provider has several servers over which web service operations
can be deployed. Given a workflow of web services and the topology of the
servers, the most efficient mapping of operations to servers must then
be discovered. Efficiency is measured in terms of two cost functions that
concern the execution time of the workflow and the fairness of the load
distribution among the servers. The authors study different topologies
for the workflow structure and the server connectivity and propose a suite
of greedy algorithms for each combination.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>RESEARCH NOTE ONE</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Matching Attributes Across Overlapping
Heterogeneous Data Sources Using Mutual Information</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Huimin Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
USA</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Identifying matching attributes across
heterogeneous data sources is a critical and time-consuming step in integrating
the data sources. In this paper, the author proposes a method for matching
the most frequently encountered types of attributes across overlapping
heterogeneous data sources. The author uses mutual information as a unified
measure of dependence on various types of attributes. An example is used
to demonstrate the utility of the proposed method, which is useful in developing
practical attribute matching tools.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>RESEARCH NOTE TWO</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Disclosure Control of Confidential Data
by Applying PAC Learning Theory</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Ling He, Saginaw Valley State University,
USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Haldun Aytug, University of Florida, USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Gary J. Koehler, University of Florida,
USA</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">This paper examines privacy protection
in a statistical database from the perspective of an intruder using learning
theory to discover private information. With the rapid development of information
technology, massive data collection is relatively easier and cheaper than
ever before. The challenge is how to provide database users with reliable
and useful data while protecting the privacy of the confidential information.
This paper discusses how to prevent disclosing the identity of unique records
in a statistical database. The authors’ research extends previous work
and shows how much protection is necessary to prevent an adversary from
discovering confidential data with high probability at small error.</font>
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