The need for modern enterprises and Web users to simply and rapidly develop and deliver platform-independent services to be accessed over the Web by the global community is growing. This is self-evident, when one considers the omnipresence of electronic services (e-services) on the Web. Accordingly, the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is commonly considered as one of the de facto standards for the provisioning of heterogeneous business functionalities on the Web. As the basis for SOA, Web Services (WS) are commonly preferred, particularly because of their ability to facilitate the integration of heterogeneous systems. However, WS only focus on syntactic descriptions when describing the functional and behavioural aspects of services. This makes it a challenge for services to be automatically discovered, selected, composed, invoked, and executed – without any human intervention. Consequently, Semantic Web Services (SWS) are emerging to deal with such a challenge. SWS represent the convergence of Semantic Web (SW) and WS concepts, in order to enable Web services that can be automatically processed and understood by machines operating with limited or no user intervention. At present, research efforts within the SWS domain are mainly concentrated on semantic services automation aspects, such as discovery, matching, selection, composition, invocation, and execution. Moreover, extensive research has been conducted on the conceptual models and formal languages used in constructing semantic services. However, in terms of the engineering of semantic services, a number of challenges are still prevalent, as demonstrated by the lack of development and use of semantic services in real-world settings. The lack of development and use could be attributed to a number of challenges, such as complex semantic services enabling technologies, leading to a steep learning curve for service developers; lack of unified service platforms for guiding and supporting simple and rapid engineering of semantic services, and the limited integration of semantic technologies with mature service-oriented technologies. vi In addition, a combination of isolated software tools is normally used to engineer semantic services. This could, however, lead to undesirable consequences, such as prolonged service development times, high service development costs, lack of services re-use, and the lack of semantics interoperability, reliability, and re-usability. Furthermore, available software platforms do not support the creation of semantic services that are intelligent beyond the application of semantic descriptions, as envisaged for the next generation of services, where the connection of knowledge is of core importance. In addressing some of the challenges highlighted, this research study adopted a qualitative research approach with the main focus on conceptual modelling. The main contribution of this study is thus a framework called iSemServ to simplify and accelerate the process of engineering intelligent semantic services. The framework has been modelled and developed, based on the principles of simplicity, rapidity, and intelligence. The key contributions of the proposed framework are: (1) An end-to-end and unified approach of engineering intelligent semantic services, thereby enabling service engineers to use one platform to realize all the modules comprising such services; (2) proposal of a model-driven approach that enables the average and expert service engineers to focus on developing intelligent semantic services in a structured, extensible, and platform-independent manner. Thereby increasing developers’ productivity and minimizing development and maintenance costs; (3) complexity hiding through the exploitation of template and rule-based automatic code generators, supporting different service architectural styles and semantic models; and (4) intelligence wrapping of services at message and knowledge levels, for the purposes of automatically processing semantic service requests, responses and reasoning over domain ontologies and semantic descriptions by keeping user intervention at a minimum. The framework was designed by following a model-driven approach and implemented using the Eclipse platform. It was evaluated using practical use case scenarios, comparative analysis, and performance and scalability experiments. In conclusion, the iSemServ framework is considered appropriate for dealing with the complexities and restrictions involved in engineering intelligent semantic services, especially because the amount of time required to generate intelligent semantic vii services using the proposed framework is smaller compared with the time that the service engineer would need to manually generate all the different artefacts comprising an intelligent semantic service. Keywords: Intelligent semantic services, Web services, Ontologies, Intelligent agents, Service engineering, Model-driven techniques, iSemServ framework. / Computing / D. Phil. (Computer science)

Atualmente o Brasil conta com um volume imenso de dados sobre o território nacional. Entretanto, grande parte dos dados existentes encontra-se dispersa, fragmentada, sem compatibilização cartográfica e, em alguns casos, duplicada em vários locais. O grande desafio é compartilhar dados geograficamente dispersos e comunicar conceitos importantes entre departamentos dentro da organização ou entre organizações diferentes usando, para isso, tecnologias de informação. Assim, esse trabalho tem como objetivo geral contribuir para o desenvolvimento de uma infra-estrutura para informação geográfica, que possa ser amplamente disseminada via Internet através de Web Services e que atenda os requisitos de interoperabilidade, de modo que diversos usuários possam usufruir dos dados disponíveis, integrando-os quando necessários. Este trabalho incidirá inicialmente nas necessidades de informação geográfica para o Zoneamento Ecológico e Econômico do Brasil. Entretanto, como se trata de um sistema de infra-estrutura de dados espaciais poderá, então, agregar dados para qualquer trabalho que envolva a informação espacial. / Currently Brazil has available an immense volume of data on its domestic territory. However, great part of the existing data is dispersed, fragmented, without cartographic compatibility, and, in some cases, duplicated in several places. The great challenge is to share these geographically dispersed data and to provide communication of important concepts between departments of the same organization or even between different organizations. For reaching this, the use of information technologies becomes necessary. The present work has for objective to contribute to develop a infrastructure for geographic information, that can be widely disseminated by the Internet through Web Services and that meets the requirements for interoperability so that several users may have the data available, integrating them when necessary. This work will focus initially on the need for geographic information to the Ecological and Economical Zoning of Brazil. However, as it is a system of infrastructure for spatial data can then add data to any work involving the spatial information.

Georreferenced information has been increasingly required for the planning and decision-making in different sectors of society. New ways of dissemination of data, such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services, have contributed to the ease of access to this information. Even with all the technological advances in the area of data distribution, there is still low availability of georreferenced data about the Amazon. The goal of the present work is the development of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI), that is, an environment of sharing and use of georreferenced data based on the technology of web services, metadata and interfaces that allow the user easy access to these data. The present work discussess the OGC patterns, the most relevant georeferrenced data servers, the main web clients, and the revolution in the dissemination of georeferrenced data which geobrowsers and web clients offered to regular users. Data to be released for the case study come from the project Exploitation of Non-wooden Forest Products-PFNM-in progress at the National Institute of Research in the Amazon-INPA-as well as from inventories of NGOs and other government bodies. Besides contributing to the enhancement of PFNM, this project aims at encouraging the use of GIS in the state of Amazonas offering tech support for the deployment of geographic databases and sharing between agencies, optimizing the resources applied in this area through the use of free software and integration of diffuse information currently available.

A área de gerência de redes encontra uma série de desafios desde seu príncipio. O protocolo que surgiu como padrão para gerência de redes, o SNMP, possui uma série de limitações, por exemplo, no tocante à segurança, configuração de equipamentos e composição de serviços. Por essa razão, tecnologias alternativas para o gerenciamento de redes têm sido pesquisadas. A tecnologia de Web Services surgiu como forte alternativa, por características como o uso de padrões amplamente suportados (HTTP e XML) e modelo de desenvolvimento orientado a serviços. Pesquisas iniciais demonstraram que os Web Services são uma alternativa viável em termos de desempenho. Assim, o uso de Web Services em áreas específicas de gerência de redes, como notificações e gerência por delegação, tem sido pesquisado. Porém, há carência de estudos sobre o uso de segurança no gerenciamento de redes via Web Services. Os Web Services trazem facilidade para uso de segurança, que é vital para a gerência de redes, e este é o foco deste trabalho. É proposta uma arquitetura de integração de segurança à comunicação de mensagens de gerenciamento de redes via Web Services. Para isso, foram utilizados o padrão WS-Security, para segurança em Web Services, e o padrão WS-Management, para gerenciamento de redes via Web Services. Também foi integrado controle de acesso à arquitetura, com uso do padrão XACML. Uma avaliação de desempenho foi realizada para verificar o impacto do uso de segurança, e comparações com SNMPv3 foram realizadas na solução de controle de acesso via XACML. Os testes mostram que, como é tradicional, a segurança tem impacto considerável no tempo de processamento e tráfego na rede. Porém, a arquitetura e implementação realizadas comprovam que, também na área de segurança, a tecnologia de Web Services tem aplicação eficaz para o gerenciamento de redes. / The network management field has several challenges since its beginning. The standard protocol for network management, SNMP, has many drawbacks, related to security, device configuration, and service composition. For these reason, alternative technologies for network management have been investigated. Web Services technology emerged as a strong solution, due to advantages such as employing widely supported standards (HTTP and XML) and service-oriented development model. The first performed investigations in the area showed that Web Services are a valid alternative to SNMP in terms of performance. Thus, Web Services usage in specific areas of network management, such as notifications and management by delegation, have been researched. However, there are currently no studies on security aspects of Web Services-based network management. Web Services enable easy integration of security, which is mandatory for network management, and this is the main goal of this work. An architecture is proposed for security integration in a network management message communication using Web Services. The standards used in this architecture were WSSecurity, which enables security in Web Services, and WS-Management, which targets Web Services-based network management. Access control integration was also developed, using XACML standard. A performance evaluation was carried out in order to verify security usage impact, and comparisons with SNMPv3 were performed in XACML access control solution. Tests showed that, as expected, security has a considerable impact in processing time and network traffic. However, the architecture and implementation show that, also in the security area, the Web Services technology has effective aplication in network management.

Atualmente o Brasil conta com um volume imenso de dados sobre o território nacional. Entretanto, grande parte dos dados existentes encontra-se dispersa, fragmentada, sem compatibilização cartográfica e, em alguns casos, duplicada em vários locais. O grande desafio é compartilhar dados geograficamente dispersos e comunicar conceitos importantes entre departamentos dentro da organização ou entre organizações diferentes usando, para isso, tecnologias de informação. Assim, esse trabalho tem como objetivo geral contribuir para o desenvolvimento de uma infra-estrutura para informação geográfica, que possa ser amplamente disseminada via Internet através de Web Services e que atenda os requisitos de interoperabilidade, de modo que diversos usuários possam usufruir dos dados disponíveis, integrando-os quando necessários. Este trabalho incidirá inicialmente nas necessidades de informação geográfica para o Zoneamento Ecológico e Econômico do Brasil. Entretanto, como se trata de um sistema de infra-estrutura de dados espaciais poderá, então, agregar dados para qualquer trabalho que envolva a informação espacial. / Currently Brazil has available an immense volume of data on its domestic territory. However, great part of the existing data is dispersed, fragmented, without cartographic compatibility, and, in some cases, duplicated in several places. The great challenge is to share these geographically dispersed data and to provide communication of important concepts between departments of the same organization or even between different organizations. For reaching this, the use of information technologies becomes necessary. The present work has for objective to contribute to develop a infrastructure for geographic information, that can be widely disseminated by the Internet through Web Services and that meets the requirements for interoperability so that several users may have the data available, integrating them when necessary. This work will focus initially on the need for geographic information to the Ecological and Economical Zoning of Brazil. However, as it is a system of infrastructure for spatial data can then add data to any work involving the spatial information.

Georreferenced information has been increasingly required for the planning and decision-making in different sectors of society. New ways of dissemination of data, such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services, have contributed to the ease of access to this information. Even with all the technological advances in the area of data distribution, there is still low availability of georreferenced data about the Amazon. The goal of the present work is the development of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI), that is, an environment of sharing and use of georreferenced data based on the technology of web services, metadata and interfaces that allow the user easy access to these data. The present work discussess the OGC patterns, the most relevant georeferrenced data servers, the main web clients, and the revolution in the dissemination of georeferrenced data which geobrowsers and web clients offered to regular users. Data to be released for the case study come from the project Exploitation of Non-wooden Forest Products-PFNM-in progress at the National Institute of Research in the Amazon-INPA-as well as from inventories of NGOs and other government bodies. Besides contributing to the enhancement of PFNM, this project aims at encouraging the use of GIS in the state of Amazonas offering tech support for the deployment of geographic databases and sharing between agencies, optimizing the resources applied in this area through the use of free software and integration of diffuse information currently available.

Le travail présenté dans ce mémoire de thèse apporte sa contribution à l'amélioration de la qualité des données échangées entre la production et les services d'ingénierie dédiés à la conception du produit et du système de production associé. Cette amélioration de la qualité des données passe par l'étude des interactions entre la gestion du cycle de vie du produit et la gestion de la production.Ces deux concepts étant supportés, tout ou partie, par des systèmes d'information industriels, l'étude de leurs interactions a ensuite conduit à l'intégration de ces systèmes d'information (PLM, ERP et MES). Dans un contexte de forte concurrence et de mondialisation, les entreprises sont obligées d'innover et de minimiser les coûts, notamment ceux de production. Face à ces enjeux, le volume des données de production et leur fréquence de modification ne cessent d'augmenter en raison de la réduction constante de la durée de vie et de mise sur le marché des produits, de la personnalisation accrue des produits et en n de la généralisation des démarches d'amélioration continue en production. La conséquence directe est alors la nécessité de formaliser et de gérer l'ensemble des données de production devant être fournies aux opérateurs de production et aux machines. Suite à une analyse du point de vue de la qualité des données pour chaque architecture existante démontrant ainsi leur incapacité à répondre à cette problématique, une architecture basée sur l'intégration des trois systèmes d'information directement impliqués dans la production (PLM, ERP et MES) a été proposée. Cette architecture nous a menés à deux sous-problématiques complémentaires qui sont respectivement la construction d'une architecture basée sur des Web Services permettant d'améliorer l'accessibilité, la sécurité et la complétude des données échangées, et la construction d'une architecture d'intégration, basée sur les ontologies, permettant d'offrir des mécanismes d'intégration basés sur la sémantique dans le but d'assurer la bonne interprétation des données échangées.Enfin, la maquette de l'outil logiciel supportant la solution proposée et permettant d'assurer l'intégration des données échangées entre ingénierie et production a été réalisée. / The research work contributes to improve the quality of data exchanged between the production and the engineering units which dedicated to product design and production system design. This improvement is qualified by studying the interactions between the product life cycle management and the production management. These two concepts are supported, wholly or partly by industrial information systems, the study of the interactions then lead to the integration of information systems (PLM, ERP and MES).In a highly competitive environment and globalization, companies are forced to innovate and reduce costs, especially the production costs. Facing with these challenges, the volume and frequency change of production data are increasing due to the steady reduction of the lifetime and the products marketing, the increasing of product customization and the generalization of continuous improvement in production. Consequently, the need to formalize and manage all production data is required. These data should be provided to the production operators and machines.After analysis the data quality for each existing architecture demonstrating the inability to address this problem, an architecture, based on the integration of three information systems involved in the production (PLM, ERP and MES) has been proposed. This architecture leads to two complementary sub-problems. The first one is the development of an architecture based on Web services to improve the accessibility, safety and completeness of data exchanged. The second is the integration architecture of integration based on ontologies to offer the integration mechanisms based on the semantics in order to ensure the correct interpretation of the data exchanged. Therefore, the model of the software tool supports the proposed solution and ensures that integration of data exchanged between engineering and production was carried out.

Au cours des dernières décennies, Internet a connu une révolution et une croissance exponentielle.A la suite de cette croissance, un grand nombre de services web et d’applications ont émergé pour répondre aux différents besoins des consommateurs. En même temps, l’industrie du réseau mobile est devenue omniprésente, ce qui rend la plupart des utilisateurs inséparables de leurs terminaux mobiles. La combinaison de la technologie mobile et des services web fournit un nouveau paradigme appelé services web mobiles. Ainsi, la consommation des services web a` partir des appareils mobiles émerge en proposant plusieurs facilites´ aux utilisateurs et en imposant plus de manipulations de ces services.En effet, afin que les utilisateurs trouvent des services répondant a` leurs besoins, un mécanisme de découverte est nécessaire, par ailleurs, les demandes sont devenues non seulement plus complexes mais aussi plus dynamiques, un service unique qui offre une fonctionnalité simple et primitive est devenu insuffisant pour satisfaire les besoins et les exigences complexes. Par conséquent, la combinaison de multiples services pour fournir un service composite est de plus en plus utilisée demandée. Nous parlons ainsi des mécanismes de découverte et de composition des services web mobiles. Ces deux paradigmes sont mutuellement liés et complémentaires.La découverte et la composition des services web dans un environnement mobile soulèvent plusieurs défis qui n’existent pas dans un environnement classique (non mobile). Parmi ces défis se trouve les contraintes limitées de l’appareil mobile, appelé dans ce travail contexte statique, ainsi que le changement de contexte qui est duˆ principalement a` la mobilité du dispositif, appelé contexte dynamique.Ainsi, l’objet de la présente thèse est de proposer un Framework de composition de services web mobile englobant deux approches complémentaires. Une première approche proposée est consacrée a` la découverte des services web mobiles appelée MobiDisc et une deuxième qui propose une solution a` la problématique de composition dans un contexte dynamique. Notre première approche exploite le contexte statique avec les propriétés de QoS et les préférences´ utilisateurs dans les descriptions sémantiques des services et de la requête utilisateur afin d’augmenter l’exactitude du processus de découverte. Quand a` l’approche de composition, elle met l’accent sur le contexte dynamique qui peut modifier le résultat de la composition. L’objectif est de déterminer la sensibilité des services au contexte dynamique et de générer des plans de composition pour l’utilisateur tries´ selon leurs valeurs de sensibilité globale lui permettant de choisir la meilleure composition. / Over the last two decades, Internet has grown exponentially. causing the emergence of web ser-vices and applications that meet the different needs of the consumers. During the same period, the mobile network industry has become ubiquitous, making most users inseparable from their mobile devices. So the combination of mobile technology and web services provides a new paradigm named mobile web services. Thus, the consumption of web services from mobile devices emerges by offering several facilities to users and requiring greater manipulation of these services such as discovery, composition and execution.Indeed, in order for users to find services that meet their requirements, a discovery mechanism is needed. Since requests have become not only more complex, but also more dynamic, a single service that offers simple and primitive functionality has become insufficient to satisfy the complex requirements. Therefore, the combination of multiple services to provide a composite service is more and more requested. We talk about mobile web service discovery and composition. These two paradigms are mutually linked and complementary.The discovery and composition of web services in a mobile environment raise several challenges that do not exist in a traditional (non-mobile) environment. Among these challenges are the limited constraints of the mobile device, called in this work static context, as well as the change of context which is due mainly to the mobility of the device which called dynamic context.In this thesis we propose a framework for the composition of mobile web services encompassing two complementary approaches. A first proposed approach called MobiDisc, speaking about the discovery of mobile web services and a second that proposes a solution to the problem of composition in a dynamic context. Our first approach uses the static context with QoS properties and user preferences in the semantic descriptions of services and the user query to increase the accuracy of the discovery process. As for the second compositional approach, it focuses on the dynamic context that can modify the composition result. The objective is to determine the sensitivity of the services to the dynamic context and to generate composition plans to the user ordered according to a sensitivity value.

Esta dissertação de mestrado aborda a Composição de Web services baseada em atributos de Qualidade de Serviço (CWSbQ). Foi selecionado o domínio de sistemas de e-commerce, por se tratar de uma área em franca expansão, tanto no cenário nacional como internacional. Além disso, os sistemas de e-commerce podem se beneficiar da CWSbQ devido à sua interoperabilidade e atendimento aos requisitos de qualidade de serviço de seus clientes. Foram implementados dez algoritmos para resolver esse problema, usando várias técnicas diferentes, sendo elas: busca aleatória, busca exaustiva, busca heurística, busca meta-heurística e um algoritmo híbrido. Foram realizados experimentos de avaliação de desempenho, considerando tamanhos de espaço de busca diferentes e dois deadlines estabelecidos. As principais contribuições deste trabalho foram o desenvolvimento de três novos algoritmos: Heurística Gulosa (HG), Heurística Gulosa 2 (HG2) e Algoritmo Genético Duplamente Híbrido (AGDH); o uso de planejamento de experimentos e avaliação de desempenho para aperfeiçoar Algoritmos Genéticos (AGs) usados no problema de CWSbQ; e o estudo de adequação dos algoritmos de CWSbQ para diferentes situações / This MSc dissertation addresses the QoS-aware Web services composition (QWSC) problem. The field of e-commerce systems was selected because it comprises an area in wide expansion, both in national and international scenarios. Furthermore, e-commerce systems can benefit from QWSC due to its interoperability and compliance to the requirements of quality of service of the customers. Ten algorithms were implemented to solve this problem by using several different techniques, namely: random search, exhaustive search, heuristic search, meta-heuristic and a hybrid algorithm. Performance evaluation was made considering different search space sizes for two different established deadlines. The main contributions of this work were the development of three new algorithms: Greedy Heuristic (GH), Greedy Heuristic 2 (GH2) and Doubly Hybrid Genetic Algorithm (DHGA); the use of planning of experiments and performance evaluation to improve the genetic algorithms (GAs) used in QWSC problem; and a suitability study of QWSC algorithms for different situations

A Engenharia de Software tem desenvolvido técnicas e métodos para apoiar o desenvolvimento de software confiável, flexível, com baixo custo de desenvolvimento e fácil manutenção. A avaliação da manutenibilidade contribui para fornecer meios para produzir software com alta qualidade. Este trabalho apresenta um experimento controlado para avaliar a manutenibilidade entre as abordagens de web services: RESTful e SOAP-WSDL. Esta avaliação foi conduzida usando 3 programas implementados na linguagem de programação Java e com a mesma arquitetura. Com base na arquitetura projetada, os web services desenvolvidos foram utilizados como objetos em estudos de caso, possibilitando avaliar e comparar a sua manutenibilidade. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram relações entre as informações sobre o custo e a qualidade dos serviços web, que contribuíram para esclarecer os critérios para a obtenção de uma boa relação entre o custo da manutenção e a evolução dos serviços web. Para concluir, os resultados indica que os web services RESTful são mais manuteníveis do lado do servidor, e os web services SOAP-WSDL são mais manuteníveis do lado do cliente. Os estudos realizados no experimento controlado são promissores e podem auxiliar na redução de custo na manutenção dos serviços web, melhorando dessa forma a qualidade do software no geral / Software Engineering has developed techniques and methods to support the development of reliable software, exible, low development cost and easy maintenance. The evaluation of maintainability contributes in this direction, providing the means to produce software with high quality. This paper presents an controlled experiment to evaluate the maintainability between the approaches of web services: RESTful and SOAP-WSDL. This evaluation was conducted using four programs implemented in the Java programming language, using the same architecture. Based on the designed architecture, Web services were developed as objects used in case studies, allowing to evaluate and compare its maintainability. The results showed relationships between the information on the cost and quality of web services, which contributed to clarify the criteria for obtaining a good relationship between the cost of maintenance and evolution of web services. In conclusion, the results indicate the RESTful web services are more maintainable server side in contrast to the SOAP-WSDL web services are more maintainable client side. Studies in controlled experiments are promising and may help reduce the maintenance cost of web services, thus improving overall software quality