Research Areas

Research Area:

Mashups and lightweight composition on the Web

Description:

Information integration, application integration and component-based software development have been among the most important research areas for decades. The aim of integration is that of creating new software products by integrating existing components and data, rather than entirely re-doing development from scratch. The last years in this area have been characterized by a particular focus on Web services, the very recent years by the advent of web mashups, a new and user-centric form of integration on the Web. My current research in this area especially focuses on mashups, lightweight integration on the Web and an approach that we call "universal integration", where we aim to provide knowledge workers or skilled Web users with data, application, and UI integration capabilities.

• Florian Daniel, Stefano Soi, Stefano Tranquillini, Fabio Casati, Chang Heng, Li Yan. MarcoFlow: Modeling, Deploying, and Running Distributed User Interface Orchestrations. Proceedings of the BPM'10 Demo Track, September 2010. (to appear - paper will be added soon for download)
• Florian Daniel, Stefano Soi, Stefano Tranquillini, Fabio Casati, Chang Heng, Li Yan. From People to Services to UI: Distributed Orchestration of User Interfaces. Proceedings of BPM'10, LNCS, Volume 6336, September 2010, Springer, Pages 310-326. (to appear - paper will be added soon for download)
• Cinzia Cappiello, Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera, Cesare Pautasso. Information Quality in Mashups. Internet Computing, Volume 14, Number 4, July/August 2010, IEEE Press, Pages 14-22.
• Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera. Quando l'utente guida l'innovazione: Il web mashup. Mondo Digitale, Number 34, June 2010, AICA - Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico, Pages 29-38. (in Italian)
• Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Stefano Soi, Jonny Fox, David Zancarli, Ming-Chien Shan. Hosted Universal Integration on the Web: the mashArt Platform. Proceedings of ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009, November 2009, Springer Verlag, Stockholm, Sweden, Pages 647-648.
• Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Boualem Benatallah, Ming-Chien Shan. Hosted Universal Composition: Models, Languages and Infrastructure in mashArt. Proceedings of ER'09, November 2009, Pages 428-443.
• Florian Daniel and Maristella Matera. Turning Web Applications into Mashup Components: Issues, Models, and Solutions. Proceedings of ICWE'09, June 2009, Springer, Pages 45-60.
• Cinzia Cappiello, Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera. A Quality Model for Mashup Components. Proceedings of ICWE'09, June 2009, Springer, Pages 236-250.
• Florian Daniel, Sven Casteleyn, Geert-Jan Houben (Eds.). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web (ComposableWeb'09), June 2009. CEUR workshop proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-470
• Florian Daniel, Stefano Soi, Fabio Casati. From Mashup Technologies to Universal Integration: Search Computing the Imperative Way. Search Computing - Challenges and Directions, edited by Stefano Ceri and Marco Brambilla, LNCS, Volume 5950, June 2009, Springer, Pages 72-93.
• Daniele Braga, Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, and Davide Martinenghi. Mashing up search services. Internet Computing, Volume 12, Number 5, September-October 2008, IEEE Press, Pages 16-23.
• Jin Yu, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, and Florian Daniel. Understanding Mashup Development and its Differences with Traditional Integration. Internet Computing, Volume 12, Number 5, September-October 2008, IEEE Press, Pages 44-52.
• Florian Daniel and Maristella Matera. Mashing Up Context-Aware Web Applications: A Component-Based Development Approach. WISE'08, LNCS 5175, September 2008, Springer Verlag, Auckland, New Zealand, Pages 250-263.
• Yanchun Zhang, Florian Daniel, Santiago Melia, Katsumi Tanaka, Athman Bouguettaya, Daniela Nicklas. Engineering Issues for the Web 2.0. WISE Workshops 2008, September 2008, Pages 183-184. (Panel)
• Daniele Braga, Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, Davide Martinenghi. Optimization of Multi-Domain Queries on the Web. VLDB'08, August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, Pages 562-573.
• Daniele Braga, Diego Calvanese, Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, Davide Martinenghi, Paolo Merialdo, Riccardo Torlone. NGS: A New Generation Search Engine Supporting Cross Domain Queries. Proceedings of SEBD'08, June 2008, Mondello, Italy.
• Daniele Braga, Diego Calvanese, Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, Davide Martinenghi, Paolo Merialdo, Riccardo Torlone. NGS: a Framework for Multi-Domain Query Answering. ICDE Workshops 2008, April 2008, Cancun, Mexico, Pages 254-261.
• Jin Yu, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera and Regis Saint-Paul. Mixup: a Development and Runtime Environment for Integration at the Presentation Layer. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'07), LNCS, Volume 4607, July 2007, Springer Verlag, Como, Italy, Pages 479-484. The paper was awarded the "Best Demonstration Award".
• Jin Yu, Boualem Benatallah, Regis Saint-Paul, Fabio Casati, Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera. A Framework for Rapid Integration of Presentation Components. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web, May 2007, ACM Press, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Pages 923 - 932.
• Florian Daniel, Jin Yu, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Maristella Matera, Regis Saint-Paul. Understanding UI Integration: A survey of problems, technologies and opportunities. Internet Computing, Volume 11, Number 3, May/June 2007, IEEE, Pages 59-66.