International audienceFailures during the execution of Transactional Composite Web Services (TCWSs) can be repaired by forward or back–ward recovery processes, according to the component WSs transactional properties. In previous works, we presented TCWS fault tolerant execution approaches relying on WSs replacement, on a compensation protocol, and on unrolling processes of Colored Petri-Nets (CPNs) to support forward and backward recovery. We represent a TCWS and its corresponding backward recovery process by CPNs. Even though these recovery processes ensure system consistency, backward recovery means that users do not get the desired answer to their queries and forward recovery could imply long waiting time for users to finally get the desired response. In this paper, we present an alternative fault tolerant approach in which, in case of failures, the unrolling process of the CPN controlling the execution of a TCWS is check–pointed and the execution flow goes on as much as it is possible. In this way, users can have partial responses as soon as they are received and can re-submit the checkpointed CPN to re-start its execution from an advanced point of execution (checkpoint). We present the checkpointing algorithm integrated to our previous work
Abstract-Computer-mediated communication can be defined as any form of human communication achieved through computer technology. From its beginnings, it has been shaping the way humans interact with each other, and it has influenced many areas of society. There exist a plethora of communication services enabling computer-mediated social communication (e.g., Skype, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Slack, etc.). Based on personal preferences, users may prefer a communication service rather than another. As a result, users sharing same interests may not be able to interact since they are using incompatible technologies. To tackle this interoperability barrier, we propose the Social Communication Bus, a middleware solution targeted to enable the interaction between heterogeneous communication services. More precisely, the contribution of this paper is threefold: (i), we propose a survey of the various forms of computer-mediated social communication, and we make an analogy with the computing communication paradigms; (ii), we revisit the eXtensible Service Bus (XSB) that supports interoperability across computing interaction paradigms to provide a solution for computer-mediated social communication interoperability; and (iii), we present Social-MQ, an implementation of the Social Communication Bus that has been integrated into the AppCivist platform for participatory democracy.
Social media is an amazing platform for enhancing public exposure. Anyone, even social bots, can reach out to a vast community and expose one's opinion. But what happens when fake news is (un)intentionally spread within a social media? This paper reviews techniques that can be used to fabricate fake news and depicts a scenario where social bots evolve in a fully semantic Web to infest social media with automatically generated deceptive information.
CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → World Wide Web; Social networks; Internet communications tools; • Human-centered computing → Social content sharing;
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