concept originator & author: joanna ng head of cas, ibm canada lab, toronto
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End User Controlled Web Interaction Flow Using Service Oriented Architecture Model The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling the Future Service-Oriented Internet. Concept Originator & Author: Joanna Ng Head of CAS, IBM Canada Lab, Toronto - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
End User Controlled Web Interaction Flow
Using Service Oriented Architecture Model
The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling the Future Service-Oriented Internet
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Concept Originator & Author: Joanna Ng
Head of CAS, IBM Canada Lab, TorontoAn IBM Software Group Senior Technical Staff Member and
Master Inventor
Team Members & Co-authors: CAS Research Staff Members
Leho Nigul Elena Litani
Diana Lau
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Today’s ProblemIndividual End Users has little control over Web
InteractionProgrammers are in charge
• Web user interface and interaction flows are controlled by software programs deployed on the server
• These server side software programs are designed and implemented by software programmers
• Individual end user has no or very limited control over web interface nor interaction
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Today’s ProblemWhat you see is what you get
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Related Work
• Server Side Approach– User Categorization:
• Profile: user characteristics (e.g. roles, organization etc.)
• Behavior (e.g. Page-Ranking)References: A. Datta et al, M. Vazirgiannis, M. Eirinaki
– Portal• User customized content • E.g. iGoogle
Major Limitations:– Small degree of customization – Not on an individual level
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Related Work
• Client Side Approach– Customized rendered web pages with browser
extension• GreaseMonkey• Chickenfeet
– Web Clipping
Major Limitations:– Customization on rendered content that
bears no correspondence to units of functionality from the server side
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mySOA: It’s All About “ME”
Individual user:• chooses from units of functionalities • let the corresponding units of interaction artifacts and Flows be computed
Result: individualized web interaction experience
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An SOA Enabled Alternative• Leverage the SOA model of a “Service” as units of
measure for server side functionality
• Build an abstract visualization finite state machine as the general model for web interaction with services
• Individual end user controls selection of units of server side functionalities using service interfaces as units of measure
• Corresponding individualized web interaction artifacts & flows are computed and generated by the client side plug-in
• This results in a truly individualized web interaction artifacts & flow that does not contain unwanted server side functionalities
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The Model of a Generic Service
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Mapping of the Generic Service Model
to Create an Abstract Visualization Model
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Abstract Visualization Model
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The Enabling System
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Enabling System
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Service based Finite State Machine
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It’s all about me – mySOA and ‘Me’ Object
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Travel Services has:
Three Operations:
1. The bookHotel interface
2. The reserveFlight interface
3. rentACar
An Example:
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Summary• SOA model of a “Service” as units of measure for server
side functionality
• Build an abstract visualization finite state machine as the general model for web interaction with services
• Individual end user controls selection of units of server side functionalities using service interfaces as units of measure
• Corresponding individualized web interaction artifacts & flows are computed and generated by the client side plug-in
• This results in a truly individualized web interaction artifacts & flow that does not contain unwanted server side functionalities
