Special Issue "Data Mashups"

Guest Editor
Dr. Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK
Website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/mnkamelboulos
E-Mail: mnkamelboulos@plymouth.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1752 586530
Interests: medical and health informatics; including telehealthcare/eHealth; geographic informatics; 3D virtual worlds and virtual globes (mirror worlds); web 2.0; e-learning

The term \'mashup\' refers to Web sites or services that weave data from different sources into a new data source or service. Mashups are becoming increasingly widespread, e.g., in the context of combining geographic and geo-tagged data about health-related issues or some disease and displaying such integrated data on Web maps.

Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Ph.D.
Guest Editor



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• data mashups
• data aggregation and integration
• application interfaces, API\'s
• web services

Title: Towards Collaborative Service Mashup Design
Author: Schahram Dustdar; Email: dustdar@infosys.tuwien.ac.at
Abstract: The high acceptance of RESTful Web services has impacts on today’s business process environment: Besides the heterogeneous nature of different Web services emerging lightweight RESTful Web services are gaining more and more importance for today’s business process landscape. With all their strengths and weaknesses: RESTful Web services are easy to develop and integrate but lack an elaborated interface definition. Common Web service infrastructures are complex to integrate but provide a structured approach even for challenging problems. Besides this conceptual diversity, composition concepts are intermingled: REST - and Service Oriented Architecture - styles are mixed in new Service Orchestration approaches and accommodate the risk of misuse. Things get even more complex when human participants are incorporated in business process design. Whereas Service Oriented Architectures provide with the BPEL4People specification a first try to standardize human business process integration, lightweight REST approaches miss comparable concepts completely. This work proposes an approach to integrate collaboration aspects in lightweight Service Mashup design and presents a prototype to design Service Mashups collaboratively. The prototype is implemented as a Rich Internet Application and enables dataflow analysis for Service Mashups. The introduced analysis framework supports the Service Mashup designer and eases the development of mashups integrating RESTful Web services and WS-* based Web services coequally.

Type of Paper: Article
Title: IT Governance in Platform as a Service (PaaS) Environments:
The Case of Enterprise Mashups
Author: Volker Hoyer; E-mail: volker.hoyer@sap.com