Complex Intelligent Systems and Their Applications

286 Pages·2010·5.97 MB·English

by  Thomas Moser, Richard Mordinyi (auth.), Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli, Petraq J. Papajorgji (eds.)

COMPLEX INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND THEIR
APPLICATIONS
Springer Optimization and Its Applications
VOLUME41
ManagingEditor
PanosM.Pardalos(UniversityofFlorida)
Editor–CombinatorialOptimization
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COMPLEX INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND THEIR
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EditedBy
FATOSXHAFA
Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon
London,UK
LEONARDBAROLLI
FukuokaInstituteofTechnology
Fukuoka,Japan
PETRAQJ.PAPAJORGJI
UniversityofFlorida
Florida,USA
Editors
FatosXhafa PetraqJ.Papajorgji
TechnicalUniversityofCatalonia UniversityofFlorida
NorthCampus,Ed.Omega DepartmentofIndustrial&
DepartmentofLanguages& SystemsEngineering
InformaticsSystems 303WeilHall
C/JordiGirona1-3 Gainesville,Florida32611
08034Barcelona USA
Spain [email protected]fl.edu
[email protected]
LeonardBarolli
FukuokaInstituteofTechnology
Fac.InformationEngineering
Dept.Information&
CommunicationEngineering
Wajiro-higashi3-30-1
811-0214Fukuoka
Higashi-ku
Japan
barolli@fit.ac.jp
ISSN1931-6828
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DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-1636-5
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Preface
Nowadays IT enterprises, networking, and business processes are becoming ex-
tremely demanding due to the ever-increasing complexity of systems and real-life
applications.Complexintelligentsystemsarecallingforadvanceddecisionsupport
systemstodealwiththehugeamountsofinformation,manipulationofcomplexdata
aswellasefficiency,scalability,andsecurityissuestosupportmodernbusinessesin
anautonomous,intelligentandadaptivemanner.
ThebookComplexIntelligentSystemsandTheirApplicationsbringsacompre-
hensiveviewofthemostrecentadvancesincomplexintelligentsystemsandtheir
application to the resolution of real-life problems from networking, finance, engi-
neering, production processes, IT enterprises, and business security. The selected
chapterscoverabroadspectrumofissuesandapplicationsinthefieldofcomplex
intelligentsystemsandstate-of-the-artresultsfortheoreticandpracticalapproaches
insuchsystems.
Among the many features of Complex Intelligent Systems highlighted in the
book,wecoulddistinguishthefollowingonesbychapter:
InChap.1,Moseretal.presentanapproachforintegratingcomplexinformation
systems in the ATM domain. The large-scale and the critical issues in integration
of various complex information systems in the ATM domain are real challenges
tackled in the chapter. The approach presents software engineering and intelligent
solutions to the integration of complex information systems in the ATM domain.
Anindustrycaseisusedtoevaluatetheapproachanditscomparisontotraditional
systemintegrationapproachesintheATMdomain.
Chapter 2 by Veres et al. addresses the use of semantic technologies in align-
mentofITwithbusinessstrategyfromarequirementsengineeringperspective.The
proposedapproachisshowntobeveryusefulinITbusiness.Datamodelsandse-
mantics are explored to achieve the goals of the proposed approach by extending
BSCP(BusinessStrategy,Context,andProcess)framework.Seven–ElevenJapanis
usedasacasestudytovalidateinpracticetheapproach.
Goebel et al. in Chap. 3 use RFID-based inter-organizational system architec-
ture for decision support in modern business environments such as supply chain
event management. By using standardized formats for event and context data, the
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approachsupportstheinteroperabilityofinformationsystemsindifferentorganiza-
tionsandfacilitatestheintegrationofevent-basedapplicationsintoenterprisearchi-
tectures.Bothpull-andpush-basedarchitecturesareanalyzedregardingefficiency
andreliability.
InChap.4,HussainandDillonreportadecision-makingapproachfordemand-
drivenproductionprocesses.Withtheeverincreasingcomplexityoftheproduction
processesandthedemandingqualityofservicesofcostumers,theenterprisesneed
advanceddecisionsupportsystems.Theproposeddecisionsupportsystemisaimed
tohedgewiththirdpartyproducerstoassistmanufacturersinthecost-benefitanal-
ysis.
Chapter 5 by Tashi and Ghernaouti-Hélie proposes a security assurance model
forinformationsecurityinorganizations.Asinformationsecurityisbecomingvery
complexandcritical,modelsforassessingassuranceofsecurityinITenterprisesis
becomingimperative.Inthischaptertheauthorsbringaframeworkandanin-depth
analysisofassurancemodels.Also,issuesofefficiencyandefficacyoftheassessing
theassurancearetackled.
Jakoubietal.inChap.6dealwithissuesarisinginrisk-awarebusinessprocess
managementaimingatestablishingthelinkbetweenbusinessandsecurity.Theau-
thorspresentasurveyofexistingapproachesintheliteraturetacklingthechallenge
of integratingeconomic,risk, and security aspects. Then, a methodologyenabling
therisk-awaremodelingandsimulationofbusinessprocessesispresented.
In Chap. 7, Pournaraset al.present AETOS(AdaptiveEpidemicTree Overlay
Service), a self-organization approach for maintaining the hierarchical structures
inlarge-scaledistributedsystems.Theapproachisshownusefulinmanycomplex
applications arising in energy optimization, Internet-based multicast applications,
etc.Theexperimentalstudyrevealsthecomplexityoftheapproachandhighlights
thefindings,namely,ATEOSprovideshighconnectivityintreeoverlaysoptimized
accordingtoapplicationrequirements.
Chapter8byKitajimaetal.proposesanintelligenttechniqueforefficientlyfil-
tering data in broadcasting systems based on the biological metaphor of attractor
selection from living organisms. The approach is shown useful in many complex
large-scale applications with particular focus on complex applications from net-
working domain. The feasibility of the proposed approach is validated by experi-
mentalstudyandsimulations.
InChap.9,GorawskiandChrószczintroduceanewquerysystemfortemporal
dataanalysis.Withtheincreasingcomplexityofapplicationsandthelargeamounts
ofdatatostoreandprocess,advancedquerysystemsareamusttoefficientlycope
with the various challenges raised in temporal data analysis. The authors present
StreamAPASsystemanditsdeclarativequerylanguagethatenablesuserstodefine
temporaldataanalysis.
Chapter 10 by Pllana et al. deals with agent-supported programming of multi-
corecomputingsystems.Theauthorsarguethatanintelligentprogramdevelopment
environment that proactively supports the user helps a mainstream programmer to
overcome the difficulties of programming multicore computing systems. Then, a
programming environment is proposed using intelligent software agents. An ex-
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ample to illustrate how the best practices from HPC combined with agent-based
programdevelopmentcanobtainefficientsolutionsisalsogiven.
InChap.11,GentileandVitabilebringthestate-of-the-artapproachesinHuman
Computer Interaction (HCI). HCI is gaining new momentumdue to the increasing
useofalargevarietyofcomputationaldevices.Theauthorspresentacomprehen-
siveviewofHCIapproachesandhaveexemplifiedthepresentationbyusingagents
for HCI approaches. The applicabilityof the approachis shown for context-aware
complexdistributedapplicationsfromeBusiness,CulturalHeritage,etc.forprovid-
ingservicesandcontentstocostumers.
The last chapter by Doncescu et al. introduces new operators for advanced
knowledge-based systems. Clustering has become central not only to data mining
butmorebroadlytoknowledge-basedsystems.Theauthorspresentnovelreinforced
operators that allow for using different sources of information. The approach is
shownusefulforadvanceddecisionmakingincomplexintelligentsystems.
Allinall,thechapterscollectedinthisbookprovidenewinsightsandapproaches
on the analysis and the development of Complex Intelligent Systems aiming to
greatly support modern businesses in an autonomous, intelligent, and adaptable
manner. Researchers, academics, developers, practitioners, and students will find
inthisbookthelatesttrendsintheseresearchanddevelopmenttopics.
Wehopethereadersofthisbookwillshareourjoyandfinditavaluableresource
intheirresearch,development,andacademicactivities.
December2009 Theeditors
Acknowledgements Theeditorsofthebookwouldliketothanktheauthorsofthe
chaptersfortheircontributions.Weareverygratefultotherefereesfortheirfeed-
backandconstructivecritique,whichgreatlyhelpedimprovingthemanuscripts.We
wouldliketogratefullyacknowledgethesupportandencouragementreceivedfrom
Prof. Panos Pardalos, the editor in chief of Springer series Springer Optimization
and Its Applications, and Ms Elizabeth Loew (Springer, USA) for her assistance
duringtheeditorialwork.
Fatos Xhafa’s work is done at Birkbeck, University of London (on leave from
TechnicalUniversityofCatalonia,Barcelona,Spain).Hisresearchissupportedby
a grant from the General Secretariat of Universities of the Ministry of Education,
Spain.

Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
ListofContributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Efficient Integration of Complex Information Systems in the ATM
DomainwithExplicitExpertKnowledgeModels . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ThomasMoser,RichardMordinyi,AlexanderMikula,andStefanBiffl
AnOntology-BasedApproachforSupportingBusiness-ITAlignment . . 21
CsabaVeres,JenniferSampson,KarlCox,StevenBleistein,andJune
Verner
EPCIS-BasedSupplyChainEventManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ChristophGoebel,SergeiEvdokimov,ChristophTribowski,andOliver
Günther
Cost-Benefit Analysis to Hedge with Third-Party Producers in
Demand-DrivenProduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
OmarHussainandTharamDillon
ASecurityAssuranceModelto HolisticallyAssess the Information
SecurityPosture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
IgliTashiandSolangeGhernaouti-Hélie
Risk-Aware Business Process Management—Establishing the Link
BetweenBusinessandSecurity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
StefanJakoubi,SimonTjoa,SigrunGoluch,andGerhardKitzler
Self-OptimisedTreeOverlaysUsingProximity-DrivenSelf-Organised
Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
EvangelosPournaras,MartijnWarnier,andFrancesM.T.Brazier
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