A Service Design Oriented Web Services Composite Platform

In order to realize flexible, adaptable, extensible, efficient, and user-friendly service composition, we propose a service design oriented Web Service composite platform （SDOWSCP） and a service composition mechanism called composed-service-requestor-orient ed service composition （OBSDOSC）. SDOWSCP imports ontology into UDDI to define and annotate services in a flexible and intuitive manner and employs a concept of bond as a solution to the process heterogeneity. OBSDOSC is proposed in order to do some efforts to overcome some defects which current design tools usually have such as not user friendly and too professional. This paper proposes a pattern which describes the basic features of semi-automatic composite mode, discusses the whole lifetime of composed service and highlights how to lessen the descriptive heterogeneity and process heterogeneity and how to facilitate the design of composing a service.

An Efficient Grid Service Discovery Mechanism Based on the Locality Principle

With the explosion of services in grid environment, it＇s necessary to develop a mechanism which has the ability of discovering suitable grid services efficiently. This paper attempts to establish a layered resource management model based on the locality principle which classifies services into different domains and virtual organizations （VOs） according to their shared purposes. We propose an ontologybased search method applying the ontology theory for characterizing semantic information. In addition, we extend the UD- D1 in querying, storing, and so on. Simulation experiments have shown that our mechanism achieves higher performance in precision, recall and query response time.

Design and Evaluation of SIMpliLife, an NFC Platform to Ease Day-to-Day Actions of People＇s Life

In this paper the authors describe the design, prototyping and evaluation of SIMpliLife, a framework for mobile phones with the aim of making people＇s life easier, providing day-to-day services such as payment, ticketing and information retrieval by means of NFC （Near Field Communication） technology. It was developed via the collaboration between two research labs of Sapienza University of Rome： the RFID （Radio Frequency Identification） Lab and the Usability and Accessibility Lab （LUA）, both belonging to CATTID （Centre for Applications of Teleservices and of Technologies for Innovation in Digital world） research centre. Technically, SIMpliLife is a SIM-based platform for NFC mobile phones that interfaces several applications able to manage the abovementioned services. The high-level User Interface has been developed by means of Smart Card Web Server （SCWS） technology, thus providing enhanced user experience if compared to traditional SIM-based implementations based on SIM Toolkit.

Process Monitoring Based on Independent Component Contribution

Independent component analysis( ICA) has been widely applied to the monitoring of non-Gaussian processes. Despite lots of applications,there is no universally accepted criterion to select the dominant independent components( ICs). Moreover, how to determine the number of dominant ICs is still an open question. To further address this issue,a novel process monitoring based on IC contribution( ICC) is proposed from the perspective of information storage. Based on the ICC with each variable,the dominant ICs can be obtained and the number of dominant ICs is determined objectively. To further preserve the process information, the remaining ICs are not useless. As a result,all the ICs are regarded to be divided into dominant and residual subspaces. The monitoring models are established respectively in each subspace, and then Bayesian inference is applied to integrating monitoring results of the two subspaces. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are illustrated through a numerical example and the Tennessee Eastman process.

The Establishment of the Faculty of Integrative Medicine of the Capital Medical University

For the purpose of promoting the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine on teaching, clinical and fundamental study, a tablet unveiled ceremony and academic congress was held in Beijing on April 12, 2008.

Development of Integrative Medicine in Hong Kong,China

Upon reflection on the experience of integration of Chinese medicine（CM）and Western medicine（integrative medicine）in the China's Mainland in recent decades,this paper aims to review the recent developments of CM and integrative medicine in Hong Kong,and to explore the way forward for further development in the Hong