A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems

A digital ecosystem is a widespread type of ubiquitous computing environment comprised of ubiquitous, geographically dispersed, and heterogeneous species, technologies and services. As a subdomain of the digital ecosystems, digital health ecosystems are crucial for the stability and sustainable deve...

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Main Authors: Dong, Hai, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth
Other Authors: F. Xhafa
Format: Journal Article
Published: Academic Press, Inc 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45725
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author Dong, Hai
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Chang, Elizabeth
author2 F. Xhafa
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Dong, Hai
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Chang, Elizabeth
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description A digital ecosystem is a widespread type of ubiquitous computing environment comprised of ubiquitous, geographically dispersed, and heterogeneous species, technologies and services. As a subdomain of the digital ecosystems, digital health ecosystems are crucial for the stability and sustainable development of the digital ecosystems. However, since the service information in the digital health ecosystems exhibits the same features as those in the digital ecosystems, it is difficult for a service consumer to precisely and quickly retrieve a service provider for a given health service request. Consequently, it is a matter of urgency that a technology is developed to discover and classify the health service information obtained from the digital health ecosystems. A survey of state-of-the-art semantic service discovery technologies reveals that no significant research effort has been made in this area. Hence, in this paper, we present a framework for discovering and classifying the vast amount of service information present in the digital health ecosystems. The framework incorporates the technology of semantic focused crawler and social classification. A series of experiments are conducted in order to respectively evaluate the framework and the employed mathematical model.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-457252023-02-02T07:57:34Z A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems Dong, Hai Hussain, Farookh Khadeer Chang, Elizabeth F. Xhafa L. Barolli semantic service classification semantic service discovery digital health ecosystems ontology digital ecosystems semantic focused crawlers A digital ecosystem is a widespread type of ubiquitous computing environment comprised of ubiquitous, geographically dispersed, and heterogeneous species, technologies and services. As a subdomain of the digital ecosystems, digital health ecosystems are crucial for the stability and sustainable development of the digital ecosystems. However, since the service information in the digital health ecosystems exhibits the same features as those in the digital ecosystems, it is difficult for a service consumer to precisely and quickly retrieve a service provider for a given health service request. Consequently, it is a matter of urgency that a technology is developed to discover and classify the health service information obtained from the digital health ecosystems. A survey of state-of-the-art semantic service discovery technologies reveals that no significant research effort has been made in this area. Hence, in this paper, we present a framework for discovering and classifying the vast amount of service information present in the digital health ecosystems. The framework incorporates the technology of semantic focused crawler and social classification. A series of experiments are conducted in order to respectively evaluate the framework and the employed mathematical model. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45725 10.1016/j.jcss.2010.02.009 Academic Press, Inc fulltext
spellingShingle semantic service classification
semantic service discovery
digital health ecosystems
ontology
digital ecosystems
semantic focused crawlers
Dong, Hai
Hussain, Farookh Khadeer
Chang, Elizabeth
A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
title A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
title_full A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
title_fullStr A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
title_full_unstemmed A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
title_short A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
title_sort framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
topic semantic service classification
semantic service discovery
digital health ecosystems
ontology
digital ecosystems
semantic focused crawlers
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45725