Web Service Paradigms(สถาปัตยกรรมเว็บเซอร์วิส)

   Evolving from traditional software components, Web services have received extensive studies within the software engineering community. Web services transcend traditional distributed object technologies (e.g. RPC, CORBA, DCOM, etc.) in that programming interfaces are described, published, discovered, executed, and composed using open standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL, etc. Standardisation represents ‘a shared understanding towards implementation independence’, a key element for building loosely-coupled distributed applications through interoperability. However, with the recent development of Web services specifications, some scholars argue that “Web services do not have much in common with the Web”. It appears that Web services technology offers far more advantages in a non-Web environment.
   Moreover, the current Web has undergone a radical change towards a highly user-centred platform where end users can easily participate and collaborate for their own benefits and profits. The great success of Web2.0 applications (e.g. Flickr, Youtube, Del.icio.us, etc.) indicates that the Web community has already adapted itself to accommodate massive user participation, which in turn provides astonishing reward. Nevertheless, Web services communities that enable services “on the Web”, appear reluctant (if not unaware) of these radical changes. Industry vendors and standards organisations continue pushing complex WS-* specifications. Researchers have applied much existing work – ontology engineering, artificial intelligence, workflow theory, agent technology, peer-to-peer infrastructure, etc., – to facilitate dynamic service discovery, execution, orchestration and coordination. However, to our best knowledge, little research has been formally carried out to justify or utilise the ‘Web’ part of ‘Web services’.
   In this tutorial, we will review contemporary research that aims to ‘align’ the Web services with the modern Web in two significant aspects – Web services architectural styles and Web services discovery mechanism. Based on a comprehensive survey, we will identify several critical open issues that need to be addressed when incorporating Web (2.0) techniques and philosophies into the Web services practice. These key issues and their associated solutions give rise to our proposed research framework – An Alternative Web Services Paradigms. This tutorial will also introduce our recent work in this direction: (1) An evolution trend driven by engineering principles for Internet-scaled Web services architectural design. (2) A Web services discovery platform built on top of Web 2.0 techniques and attitude. In summary, this tutorial demonstrates how to move towards creating an alternative Web services paradigm that aligns itself with the modern Web.

Biography of Tharam Dillon :
  Professor Dillon is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACS and IE(aust). He is Chairman of the Technical Committee of IEEE IES on Industrial Informatics, and ADCOM member for IEEE IES. He is also Chair of IFIP working Group in Web Semantics. His current research interests include Web semantics, ontologies, Internet computing, e-commerce, hy-brid neurosymbolic systems, neural nets, software engineering, database systems, and data mining. He has more than 650 papers published in international conferences and journals and is the author of five books and has another 5 edited books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering as well as the Engineering Intelligent Systems. He is the Co-Editor of the Journal of  Electric Power and Energy Systems.

  Business Intelligence(ความสามารถในการหยั่งถึงทางธุรกิจ) (back to Top)

   Business Intelligence (BI) has been defined in many ways. Some believe that Business Intelligence (BI) is about the bottom line, or about the customers, or about the competitors; some believe that BI is about making the organizational wide strategic decisions or long term planning; some are defined as the way of using technologies to help decision making; some regard that BI is about the organizational data, information and knowledge; some are thought  that BI is about Data Warehouse, data mart, data mining or business analytics; Some others regard BI is a solution for risk prediction, information security, privacy, fraud detection etc.
   In this talk, we give a clear definition of BI and the distinction between Data Warehouse, Business Analytics, Data mining, KPI, BI tools and all of above concepts, theories and practice. We will give an overview of 40 years of business intelligence technology in the business and service oriented environment. We also give the comparison and contrast between new BI tools such as Trust, Reputation and Recommendation systems and the existing well known BI tools such as ERP, CRM, CPM, BPM, etc. We will demonstrate that today’s BI tools not only help business intelligence and but also for consumer confidence, not only for organizational to use, but also for customer to use, not only for organizational benefit, but also for and end-user benefit such as quality of service and products. We describe why BI is a science, a methodology and Technology, a business mindset, and a social science.  We will also give detailed methods and approaches on how to adopt BI, how to implement BI, how to choose best BI and how to assess BI results. The session is concluded with a bigger picture, the mage trends in BI over the next 5-20 years.
    The session will run in 3 parts, part 1: the plenary talk, part 2: Invitation to audiences’ questions, and interactive discussions, part 3: panel discussions with invited domain experts from the DEST 2008 conference.

Biography of Elizabeth Chang :
  Elizabeth Chang is a Research Professor and Director of Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, a Tier 1 Centre of Research Excellence in Curtin University (Tier 1 = highest ranking). She is also a Director for Centre for the Frontier Technology for Extended Enterprise. She has been awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Performance Award for 2005, and the Dean’s Best Researcher of Year Award for 2005 and 2004. She has coauthored 3 books and has published over 300 scientific papers as book chapters, refereed international journals and refereed conferences as well as given numerous invited Keynote papers and obtained over 4 million dollar research and development funds from ARC, industry, local governments and other internal funds. Professor Chang has an extensive background, knowledge and skills in Academia, commerce and industry. Over the last 17 years, she has worked in 4 different universities in Australia namely Curtin, Newcastle, La Trobe and Swinburne Universities. She has been a CIO for Seapower Resources International, incorporating 40 warehouses in Asia, a multi-national logistics operator in Hong Kong and coordinate e-Logistics and e-Warehouse projects for 2 years and few years as a Senior Software Engineer for Philips Public Communication Limited on the Cable TV projects, Animal Research Institute on Farming project and Australian Airlines. Professor Chang has a PhD and research Master in IT and Software Engineering from La Trobe University, Australia.

Digital Ecosystems: the next Generation of Service Oriented Internet(ดิจิตอลอีโคซิสเท็ม : อินเืทอร์เน็ตเทคโนโลยีเชิงบริการยุคใหม่) (back to Top)

   In analogy to ecological system environment, biological species in analogy with digital species ‘create and conserve resources that humans find valuable’ [4]. It is a “business model innovation in the Digital Economy” [3]. Therefore, Digital ecosystems is a multidisciplinary collaborative environment, which bringing together of human endeavour, business, government, and ICT to generate practical solutions for the domain rich industries, and through their close interaction, generate world-class products and services and trusted environment that every party find valuable.
   Digital ecosystem transcends the traditional rigorously defined collaborative environments, such as centralised (client-server) or distributed (such as peer-to-peer) models into agents-based, loosely coupled, domain-specific and demand driven interactive communities which offer cost-effective digital services and value-creating activities that attract agents to participate and benefit from it.  Session topics include

• Digital Ecosystems concepts and definitions
• Digital Ecosystem is the Next Generation of Service Oriented Internet
• Digital Ecosystem foundation, theory, architecture and frameworks
• Digital Ecosystem for Business, Health, Education, Government and Industry

Biography of Elizabeth Chang :
  Elizabeth Chang is a Research Professor and Director of Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, a Tier 1 Centre of Research Excellence in Curtin University (Tier 1 = highest ranking). She is also a Director for Centre for the Frontier Technology for Extended Enterprise. She has been awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Performance Award for 2005, and the Dean’s Best Researcher of Year Award for 2005 and 2004. She has coauthored 3 books and has published over 300 scientific papers as book chapters, refereed international journals and refereed conferences as well as given numerous invited Keynote papers and obtained over 4 million dollar research and development funds from ARC, industry, local governments and other internal funds. Professor Chang has an extensive background, knowledge and skills in Academia, commerce and industry. Over the last 17 years, she has worked in 4 different universities in Australia namely Curtin, Newcastle, La Trobe and Swinburne Universities. She has been a CIO for Seapower Resources International, incorporating 40 warehouses in Asia, a multi-national logistics operator in Hong Kong and coordinate e-Logistics and e-Warehouse projects for 2 years and few years as a Senior Software Engineer for Philips Public Communication Limited on the Cable TV projects, Animal Research Institute on Farming project and Australian Airlines. Professor Chang has a PhD and research Master in IT and Software Engineering from La Trobe University, Australia.

Biography of Ernesto Damiani :
  Professor Ernesto Daminai, is a professor of Information Technology at the University of Milan, Italy, where he leads the Software Architecture lab. Ernesto Damiani holds/has held visiting positions at several international institutions, including George Mason University, Fairfax (VA), US, LaTrobe University, Melbourne (Australia) and University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). He is also a faculty member and advisor at the e-Business Management School, University of Lecce, Italy. Prof. Damiani has authored several books and more than two hundred scientific papers on secure technological platforms, semi-structured information processing, software engineering and knowledge-based systems. He coordinates a number of research projects funded by the European Union, the Italian Ministry of Research and by private companies such as Siemens Mobile, BT Exact (formerly British Telecom Research) and ST Microelectronics. More info on him can be found at http://olaf.crema.unimi.it.

Tele-medicine and its Application(ระบบวินิจฉัยโรคทางไกลและการประยุกต์) (back to Top)

    The term telemedicine, mentioned a few years earlier, was consolidated only in the late 1990s. Telemedicine’s aim is to bring healthcare electronically (i.e. e-health) over the mobile Internet to every corner of the globe. The realization of this idealism, however, is more an art than conformity because there are many issues that need to be satisfactorily addressed. The mobile Internet supports both wireline and wireless communication technologies in a seamless and reliable manner. Only in this way, can the interacting agents on the web migrate freely, as exemplified by Nong’s TCM telemedicine system, which we are going to demonstrate. A telemedicine system is a digital ecosystem, consisting of collaborating species including physicians, surrogate servers, mobile clinics, and ambience-intelligent agents which enhance channel fault tolerance for dependable client/server interactions. Higher channel reliability yields shorter inter-agent communication roundtrip time and better thus system response. Agent mobility is the basis of success of any web-based telemedicine system, and this requires the solid support of a location aware capability.  

The agenda of this special session is as follows:

1. From a conceptual client/server point of view, a telemedicine system is introduced, and its pervasive computing nature will be explained. We will use examples from the Nong’s to clarify necessary issues. Nong’s is a subsidiary company of the PuraPharm Group, which is the sole supplier of herbal drugs to the hospitals under the control of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority.
2. The architectural view of the Nong’s telemedicine system will be introduced. This will be compared to the popular UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) developed by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) to resolve differences in medical terminology due to regional/national disparities.
3. We will walk you through the TCM diagnosis&prescription (D/P) process, using the D/P interface already deployed in the telemedicine system of the mobile clinics of Yan Oi Tong (YOT); a client of Nong’s. YOT is a large local charitable institution, supported by the Hong Kong Government and the Hong Kong Jockey Club. It runs many hospitals and clinics. 
4. The concept of semantic TCM in a TCM telemedicine system is introduced, using the Nong’s TCM ontology core (or TCM onto-core) as the example. How TCM onto-core can serve as the basis of TCM telemedicine success will then be demonstrated.
   

Biography of Allan K. Y. Wong:
A/Professor Allan Wong's main research activities currently concentrate on the Telemedicine, which focuses on developing an Internet-based prototype for telemedicine in the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) diagnostic perspective.
The research findings not only enrich the bodies of knowledge in Internet Computing and Data Mining, but also contribute to applying IT to telemedicine, which brings health care, in terms of TCM, to the local community and every corner of the world that may need it. In this aspect A/Professor Wong combines his IT expertise and his experience as a listed TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practitioner by the Hong Kong TCM Medical Council.

 Information Security(ความปลอดภัยของสารสนเทศ) (back to Top)

   Information security refers to protecting information from unauthorized access, modification and destruction. The field of information security is growing at amazingly rapid pace to keep up with the cutting edge technological advances in the information technology field. With the adoption of Internet in day to day life the threat to information loss and privacy concern is even becoming more obvious. In such a cut throat environment access to latest technologies for information security will put any organization ahead of their competitors and hence this tutorial attempts to introduce new technologies for information security. These include

1. Digital Steganography
2. Steganographic Intrusion Detection Systems
3. Information Hiding for Secret Communication
4. Tamper Detection and Prevention
5. Sensor Network Security
6. Digital Rights Management
7. Database Watermarking
8. Text Watermarking
9. Image, Audio & Video Watermarking
10. Digital Forensic Technologies
11. Social Software Security and Anti-fraud
    

Biography of Vidyasagar Potdar:
   Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar is Head of Research Commercialization at Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. He works on a number of cutting edge research projects with an aim to transform a concept to a commercial grade product. His key research interest includes Information Security, Wireless Sensor Networks, RFID, and Social Software. At DEBII he also supervises number of PhD graduates on bleeding edge technologies like Steganography, Digital Watermarking, Anti-Fraud, Tamper Detection & Prevention etc. He regularly reviews several International Journals including IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics, Journal of Systems and Software, International Journal of Informatics and Computer Science Intelligent Systems Applications, International Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. He has acted as organiser and chair of the special session of a several IEEE international conferences and also served as member of the international program committee for several international conferences.

Trust and Reputation(ความเชื่อมั่นการบริการทางอินเทอร์เน็ต) (back to Top)

  In the tutorial, we present a detailed explanation on Trust, Reputation and Recommendation System and its impact to the next generation of the Internet. We will also provide several practical examples.

Biography of  Farookh Khadeer Hussain:
   Dr. Farookh Khadeer Hussain is currently the leader of research training at the Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence (DEBI) Institute. He has a PhD degree in Information Systems, a Masters degree in Information Technology and a Bachelors engineering degree in Computer Science. His research interests are trust and reputation modelling and management, semantic web, ontologies, digital ecosystems and frontier technologies.

Biography of Elizabeth Chang :
  Elizabeth Chang is a Research Professor and Director of Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, a Tier 1 Centre of Research Excellence in Curtin University (Tier 1 = highest ranking). She is also a Director for Centre for the Frontier Technology for Extended Enterprise. She has been awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Performance Award for 2005, and the Dean’s Best Researcher of Year Award for 2005 and 2004. She has coauthored 3 books and has published over 300 scientific papers as book chapters, refereed international journals and refereed conferences as well as given numerous invited Keynote papers and obtained over 4 million dollar research and development funds from ARC, industry, local governments and other internal funds. Professor Chang has an extensive background, knowledge and skills in Academia, commerce and industry. Over the last 17 years, she has worked in 4 different universities in Australia namely Curtin, Newcastle, La Trobe and Swinburne Universities. She has been a CIO for Seapower Resources International, incorporating 40 warehouses in Asia, a multi-national logistics operator in Hong Kong and coordinate e-Logistics and e-Warehouse projects for 2 years and few years as a Senior Software Engineer for Philips Public Communication Limited on the Cable TV projects, Animal Research Institute on Farming project and Australian Airlines. Professor Chang has a PhD and research Master in IT and Software Engineering from La Trobe University, Australia.

Biography of Maja Hadzic is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Lab for Digital Health Ecosystems of Curtin University of Technology. She obtained a Masters degree in Biochemistry from Belgium in 1999 and PhD in Health Information Systems from Curtin University of Technology in 2006.  Dr Hadzic has been a Medical Research Fellow for 3.5 years at the University of Newcastle.  Her research interests include the application of cutting-edge information technologies within the health domain, integration of ontology, multi-agent system and data mining technology, methodologies for Digital Ecosystems inspired by biological ecosystems, using ontologies for standardization of Electronic Health Records and application of data mining technologies in the analysis of multi-factorial phenomena. Her area of research is ground breaking in the area of health informatics and will revolutionize the way the services and research is performed within the health domain.  It is in line with the current trend of health services and research which is increasingly moving towards the use of intelligent information systems within the health domain.