This paper's aim is to design and implement a tool transforming REST Web APIs into APIs which facilitate the integration process. The improvement of integration is mainly divided into two parts: The embedding of semantic data in order to establish a common understanding of objects, properties and relations and the possibility to navigate through the API structure in an easy and automated way. The theoretical part is dealing with the fundamentals of Web APIs, today's related trends and the API's shortages and points of improvement. Another objective of this paper is to compare current data standards of output formats for so called Hypermedia APIs, whereas the most suitable components will be chosen as the output format of this paper's resulting tool. The practical part is dealing with the design and implementation of the tool being developed. Included, there is the description of test scenarios, related benefits for the tool's users as well as a final evaluation of the resulting tool and a discussion of the tool's future potential. The benefits of the tool are evaluated in a case study.

Den här studien syftar till att undersöka och skapa en större förståelse för bakgrunden till val av integrationsplattform inom regionerna i Sverige. Integrationsplattformar inom hälso- och sjukvården är ett komplext område, delvis på grund av den politiska styrningen men även för att IT-hanteringen idag är decentraliserad. Författaren har tittat på valet som de olika regionerna har gjort utifrån strategiska, ekonomiska, tekniska, verksamhetsmässiga och kulturella egenskaper. Studien tittar även på skillnader beroende på om det är ett större respektive mindre landsting.   En integrationsplattform kan underlätta och agera en mellanhand samt låter systemen kommunicera med varandra utan att behöva en point-to-point koppling. Många av regionerna har en budget att förhålla sig till och vill bedriva sin verksamhet till så låg kostnad som möjlig utan att behöva påverka organisationen och deras processer. I dagsläget finns det ingen integrationsplattform som ligger i framkant till att stödja alla de olika behoven som de olika regionerna har och därav kommer varje region finna den lösning som är bäst för regionen.   I jämförelse med tidigare studier där de strategiska egenskaperna visas det att i den här studien att det främst de ekonomiska egenskaperna inom den offentliga verksamheten som är av störst betydelse. / This study aims to investigate and create a better understanding of why the different regions of Sweden have chosen their integration platform within the healthcare sector. Due to the decentralisation and political governance there is a complexity within the healthcare sector various integration platforms. The author has looked at the choices that the different regions have made based on strategic, economical, technical, operational and cultural characteristics. The various regions size is also investigated as a factor, making a distinction between higher and lower populated regions.   An integration platform acts as an intermediary, allowing the various systems to communicate with each other without having a point-to-point connection. At present there is no integration platform at the forefront of supporting all the different needs of the different regions, each region finds the solution that is best for itself.

Les systèmes dits Sensor Webs sont des middlewares informatiques assurant la communication entre les capteurs et les applications. En tant que véritables médiateurs, la popularité de ces systèmes n’a cessé de grandir depuis l’apparition des tout premiers capteurs. Plus récemment, l’émergence de nouveaux paradigmes tels que l’Internet des Objets (IoT) a complètement révolutionné les systèmes basés sur les capteurs en général. Parmi eux, les Sensor Webs ne dérogent pas à cette règle et doivent désormais répondre à de nouveaux défis, notamment en termes d’intégration, de Qualité des Observations (QoO) et d’adaptation système. Dans ce travail de recherche, nous proposons une nouvelle génération de Sensor Webs capables d’adapter la QoO distribuée de manière autonomique et de manière spécifique à chaque application (QASWS). Premièrement, nous introduisons un framework générique destiné aux chercheurs et développeurs souhaitant concevoir leur propre solution QASWS. Dans un deuxième temps, nous instancions ce framework et proposons un prototype de plateforme d’intégration pour l’évaluation de la QoO à la demande (iQAS). Après avoir évalué ses performances, nous présentons trois cas d’utilisation pour la plateforme iQAS. Finalement, nous concluons cette étude en imaginant l’apport de certains paradigmes transverses vis-à-vis de la QoO dans un futur proche. / Sensor Web systems are computer middlewares that aim at bridging the gap between sensors and applications. As true mediators, the popularity of such systems has steadily grown since the appearance of the very first sensors. More recently, the emergence of new paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT) has completely revolutionized the sensing research field. As a consequence, Sensor Webs should now cope with new challenges pertaining to integration, Quality of Observation (QoO) and system adaptation. In this research work, we propose a novel generation of Sensor Webs able to adapt the delivered QoO in an autonomic and application-specific manner (QASWS). First, we introduce a generic framework intended for researchers and developers who want to conceive their own QASWS solution. Then, we instantiate this framework and propose a prototype of an integration platform for QoO assessment as a service (iQAS). After evaluating its performances, we present three use cases for the iQAS platform. Finally, we conclude this work by foreseeing the benefits of some transverse paradigms with regard to QoO in the near future.

This thesis covers the theme of cloud integration platforms as a service with Ida Infronts information and task management system iipax one. The premise of this thesis is to research the most optimal cloud integration platform and find what cloud-based functions that are useful for iipax one. Using a cloud integration platform with iipax one could be beneficial for the users as it allows them to automate simple repetitive tasks. But choosing an integration platform is not a simple undertaking as there are many available platforms, all with their own unique features. To find a suitable platform first we investigated potential platforms which revealed Power Automate, Zapier and IFTTT as candidates. Our comparison based on a literature study showed that Power Automate is most suitable for iipax one. Finally, we created a prototype implementation to integrate iipax one with Power Automate. The conclusion is that Power Automate is the best suited platform for iipax one. Although Zapier is a close second. For the useful functions we concluded that it is more important with templates that users can adopt rather than a multitude of triggers and actions.

This diploma thesis is covering topics of customer's loyalty, loyalty programs in banking and mainly topic is loyalty programs of payment cards in banking industry. First theoretical parts is guiding us though concept of customer's loyalty in banking industry and is describing specifics of this loyalty compared to loyalty to sales businesses. Further, this thesis is trying to show opportunities to be used to support customer's loyalty in bank with participation of credit and debit cards. In this sense, these payment cards are those that enable client's entry into the loyalty program and into the advantages that is loyalty program offering. Further, this thesis is describing interesting concept of loyalty program that is closely coupled with business partners that give opportunities to make the program very variable and interesting for customers. Practical part of this thesis is describing basis for technologies to be used while deploying the loyalty program and is discussing two main technical concepts regarding loyalty system integration with current bank information systems. One of those is further discussed and described from the point of view technical realization in common data warehouse systems. Main contribution of this work is preview of approaches to payment card loyalty programs and also preview of possibilities in way the loyalty program can be integrated with data warehouse currently deployed in the bank.

La construction d’interfaces homme-machine au dessus d’applications complexes soulève aujourd’hui des problèmes importants et requiert des efforts de recherche conséquents et soutenus. Il s’agit en effet d’aborder des technologies de plus en plus diverses et complexes de façon à construire des interfaces modulaires, évolutives et tirant profits des récents progrès dans les domaines de la programmation et des intergiciels. Il s’agit également de permettre à des non informaticiens, spécialistes de l’ergonomie, de définir et de mettre en place des interfaces appropriées. L’approche orientée service (Service-oriented Computing - SOC) constitue une avancée récente en Génie Logiciel. Cette approche promeut la mise en place de solutions modulaires et dynamiques permettant de faire évoluer, possiblement à l’exécution, les interfaces. L’approche orientée service est très prometteuse et de nombreux projets de recherche sont en cours dans les domaines de l’intégration d’entreprise, des équipements mobiles ou encore de l’informatique pervasive. L’approche orientée service demeure néanmoins complexe et demande un haut niveau d’expertise. Elle est difficilement accessible par des informaticiens non formés et totalement hors de portée des ingénieurs d’autres métiers, ergonomes par exemple. L’approche proposée dans cette thèse est de construire un atelier manipulant des services IHM abstraits. Ces services abstraits décrivent leurs fonctionnalités et leurs dépendances à un haut niveau d’abstraction. Ils peuvent ainsi être composés de façon plus aisée par des ingénieurs non experts en SOC. Le rôle de l’atelier est ensuite d’identifier des services concrets, implantant les services abstraits, de les composer en générant le code nécessaire (glue code) et de les déployer sur une plate-forme d’exécution. Un deuxième point concerne la spécialisation de l’atelier. Il est effet important de proposer un langage de composition de services proches des concepts métiers manipulés par les experts, notamment les ergonomes. Un tel langage se base sur les concepts métiers et intègre les contraintes de composition propres au domaine. L’approche actuelle passe par l’utilisation de méta-modèles, exprimant les connaissances métier, pour la spécialisation de l’atelier. / N pervasive environments, with the proliferation of communicating devices in the environments (e.g., remoter controller, gamepad, mobile phone, augmented object), the users will express their needs or desires to an enormous variety of services with a multitude of available interaction modalities, expecting concurrently the environment and its equipment to react accordingly. Addressing the challenge of dynamic management at runtime of multimodal interaction in pervasive environments, our contribution is dedicated to software engineering of dynamic multimodal interfaces by providing: a specification language for multimodal interaction, an autonomic manager and an integration platform. The autonomic manager uses models to generate and maintain a multimodal interaction adapted to the current conditions of the environment. The multimodal interaction data-flow from input devices to a service is then effectively realized by the integration platform. Our conceptual solution is implemented by our DynaMo platform that is fully operational and stable. DynaMo is based on iPOJO, a dynamic service-oriented component framework built on top of OSGi and on Cilia, a component-based mediation framework.