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+======= Quality Techniques Newsletter =======+
+======= August 2004 =======+
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Contents of This Issue
o eValid: Recent News and Updates
o International Workshop on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2004)
o International Journal Web Services Research (JWSR)
o 4th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2004)
o First International Workshop on Combining and Balancing
Techniques for Engineering Service Quality
o eValid: A Quick Summary
o Practice and Experience in Applied Enterprise Information
Assurance and Computer Security
o The Montreal Conference on e-Technologies
o QTN Article Submittal, Subscription Information
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eValid: Latest News & Updates
eValid is the premier WebSite Quality Testing & Analysis Suite.
eValid solutions help organizations maintain e-Business presence,
improve WebSite quality and performance, reduce down time, prevent
customer loss, and control your costs.
eValid's Web Analysis and Testing Suite is comprehensive, yet
scalable and easy to use, and applies to a wide range of web
applications. Built entirely inside an IE-compatible browser,
realistic viewer experience results are 100% guaranteed.
New Dashboard Status Displays
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As web pages grow in complexity it becomes more and more important
to have precise control of the eValid recording mode. Knowing the
kind of object you are recording is crucial to achieving a reliable,
repeatable, adaptable and robust test recording.
To help achieve the best possible recordings the eValid Recording
Mode Dashboard has been modified to show the current settings of
important recording options. See:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.40/GUI/dashboard.html#Record
Now you can see, in one location, the current states of absolute and
Element MouseOver recording, and of Left and Right Click recording
in absolute mode. In addition, the dashboard shows you when you are
recording in Application Mode.
Page Tuning Monitoring Expanded
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In addition to the CoreMetrics TopPage Monitor1 previously
announced, we have added monitoring displays that analyze two other
popular WebSites in the same way.
The new reports are the Keynote TopPage Monitor1 and Gomez TopPage
Monitor1.
In all three monitoring activities the results available are hourly,
24 x 7 measurements for last mile timing of top top page download
performance. For accuracy, the results are repeated in a script
that performs the download 10 times [after clearing the initial
cache contents and running with "Never Use" cache each time].
Each report shows the results of measurements every hour for the
last 24 hours in this format:
o Time. The hour (00, 01, ..., 23) during which the script was
run.
o Test Summary. The standard eValid Test Summary Report generated
by the run.
o Event Log. The HTML version of the complete eValid Event Log for
the run.
o Performance Chart. The performance chart shows the results of
the sequence of downloads. Each "stack chart" in the display
itemizes the complete download behavior for the page.
See all the data for yourself at:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Customers/USA/K/Keynote/Monitor1/summary.html
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Customers/USA/G/Gomez/Monitor1/summary.html
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Customers/USA/C/Coremetrics/Monitor1/summary.html
New 3D-SiteMap Update Introduces New Capabilities
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The 3D-SiteMap portrays page-to-page dependency information that the
eValid site analysis process obtains by systematically scanning a
WebSite and then analyzing the dependencies between all of the pages
it viewed.
A new release of the eValid 3D-SiteMap display engine is now
available. The new additions to the 3D-SiteMap engine include:
o A capability to limit the displayed dependencies to an
adjustable depth for children and/or parents of a chosen root
node.
o An option to show only the "immediate family" of a chosen root
(base) URL.
You can see a complete working example along with the updated 3D-
SiteMap Summary Documentation at:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.40/Mapping/3Dsitemap.html
Command Line Switches and Error Codes Expanded
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To support expanded use of eValid in monitoring applications and
other unattended operational roles, we have added a number of new
exit codes. The complete Playback Error Codes documentation gives
all of the details. See
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.40/Technical/error.codes.html
Of special note is the addition of error/exit codes for the new
eV.Manager batch-mode to automatically repeat application of an test
suite a fixed number of times in immediate succession.
See the eV.Manager Command Line Switches description at:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.40/Technical/interface.html#eV.Manager
KB40 Full-WebSite Scan Data Available
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We have completed detailed site analysis scans of the KB40 WebSites
as part of our program of providing complete documentation about
WebSite performance and quality. Each scan is accompanied with 14
separate eValid reports, including 3D-SiteMaps of the top portion of
each WebSite.
See: http://www.soft.com/eValid/Promotion/PublicScans/KB40.html
The 40 WebSites scans showed a ~30:1 variation in achieved download
speed, even when using a high-speed dedicated DSL connection. See
also the Top-Page Benchmark Comparisons and the KB40 Backup Data at:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Benchmarks/OnePage/comparison.html
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Benchmarks/OnePage/summary.html
Script Catalog Offered
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To help new and experienced users alike we have put together a
Script Catalog that shows typical eValid scripts in "ready to play"
mode. To facilitate better understanding all scripts shown are
reformatted and commented so that you can get a sense of what eValid
scripts look like and how they work. The initial list of scripts
includes those derived from the eValid "cookbook" script
instructions plus those used in for self-training AUTOPLAY scripts.
See:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Support/Scripts/catalog.html>
eValid users may click:
Help > Documentation > User Manual
and then navigate to the script catalog by clicking:
Basics > Interface > Scripts
Product Download Location, Details
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here is the URL for downloading eValid if you want to start [or re-
start] your evaluation:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Download.40/down.evalid.40.phtml?status=FORM
Contact Us With Your Questions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We welcome your questions about eValid and its applications. We
promise a response to every question in one business day if you use
the WebSite request form:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Information/info.request.html
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International Workshop on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2004).
http://www.websiteevolution.org/2004
WSE Program Details
Invited Address: "Web Application Testing Beyond Tactics" Hung Quoc
Nguyen (author of "Testing Applications on the Web" and "Testing
Computer Software")
Technical Session 1:
Harry M. Sneed & Stephan H. Sneed, "Testing a Web Application"
Paolo Tonella and Filippo Ricca, "A 2-Layer Model for the White-Box
Testing of Web Applications
Siddhartha Bedi and Pat Schroeder, "Observations on the
Implementation and Testing of Scripted Web Applications"
Technical Session 2:
Scott Tilley, Damiano Distante, Shihong Huang, "Web Site Evolution
via Transaction Reengineering"
Holger M. Kienle, Daniel German, and Hausi M, "Web Site Reverse
Engineering"
Scott Barber, "Creating Effective Load Models for Performance
Testing with Incomplete Empirical Data"
Technical Session 3:
Manpreet Sagoo, Miriam Capretz, Jagath Samarabandu, "PAWA: A Program
Analysis Tool for Web Based Intranet Applications"
G.A. Di Lucca, A. R. Fasolino, M. Mastroianni, an d P. Tramontana,
"Identifying Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Web
Applications"
Invited Address and Panel:
Hung Quoc Nguyen, "Web Application Testing Beyond Tactics"
Cem Kaner, Scott Tilley, Harry M. Sneed, Peter Zimmerer, Panel:
"Research Challenges in Testing Web Applications"
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International Journal Web Services Research (JWSR)
Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 1, Issue 4, October - December 2004
Editor-In-Chief:
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA <http://www.idea-group.com>
PREFACE
"First Wave of Web Services Adoption in Research"
Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Janming Ho,
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Liang-Jie
Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
The interest and the demand for the Web services technology and the
service-oriented architecture (SOA) are currently at an all-time
high. By all measures, the Web services technology is marching in
full force in the computer software industry.
Four of the distinguished papers on Web services from EEE 2004 and
the fifth one from a regular submission pool have been selected to
appear in this issue of International Journal on Web Services
Research. The papers cover important issues on: developing Web
services, matching Web services, admitting Web services, replicating
Web services, fine-tuning Web services, and composing Web services.
Indeed, these papers have covered most of the major system
engineering issues in using the Web service technology.
PAPER ONE:
"Model-Driven Web Service Development"
Roy Grenmo, SINTEF, Norway David Skogan, SINTEF, Norway Ida Solheim,
SINTEF, Norway Jon Oldevik, SINTEF, Norway
Web service technologies are becoming increasingly important for
integrating systems and services. There is much activity and
interest around standardization and usage of Web service
technologies. Contemporary Web services are described in the Web
Service Description Language (WSDL). However, WSDL documents can be
difficult to understand for service developers. This article
recommends a model-driven process for Web service development
combining the graphical modeling language UML with WSDL. The Unified
Modeling Language (UML) is developed by Object Management Group. In
the process, Web service descriptions (in WDSL) are converted to
UML; their UML models are integrated to form composite Web services;
and then the new Web service descriptions are exported. The main
contribution of this article is a "pure UML" modeling strategy
supported by implementation of two-way conversion rules between the
UML models and the WSDL documents.
PAPER TWO:
"Matchmaking for Business Processes Based on Choreographies"
Andreas Wombacher, Integrated Publication & Info. Systems Institute,
Germany Peter Fankhauser, Integrated Publication & Info. Systems
Institute, Germany Bendick Mahleko, Integrated Publication & Info.
Systems Institute, Germany Erich Neuhold, Integrated Publication &
Info. Systems Institute, Germany
Web services have a potential to enhance B2B e-commerce over the
Internet by allowing companies and organizations to publish their
business processes on service directories where potential trading
partners can find them. This can give rise to new business paradigms
based on ad-hoc trading relations as companies, particularly small
to medium scale, can cheaply and flexibly enter into fruitful
contracts, for example through subcontracting from big companies by
simply publishing their business processes and the services they
offer. More business process support by the Web service
infrastructure is however needed before such a paradigm change can
materialize. A service for searching and matchmaking of business
processes does not yet exist in the current infrastructure. We
believe that such a service is needed and will enable companies and
organizations to be able to establish ad-hoc business relations
without relying on manually negotiated interorganizational
workflows. This article gives a formal semantics to business process
matchmaking based on finite state automata extended by logical
expressions associated to states.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below:
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id
PAPER THREE:
"The Design of QoS Broker Algorithms for QoS-Capable Web Services"
Tao Yu, University of California, Irvine, USA Kwei-Jay Lin,
University of California, Irvine, USA
QoS (quality of service) support in Web services is an important
issue since it ensures service usability and utility for each client
and, in addition, improves server utilization. In this article, we
present a QoS-capable Web service architecture, QCWS, by introducing
a QoS broker module between service clients and providers (servers).
The functions of the QoS broker module include tracking QoS
information about servers, making selection decisions for clients,
and negotiating with servers to get QoS agreements. The authors
study two resource allocation algorithms (HQ and RQ) used by QoS
brokers acting as the front-end of servers. The goals of the
algorithms are to maximize the server resource usage while
minimizing the QoS instability for each client. The first algorithm,
HQ, assigns a homogeneous service level to all clients on the system
and adjusts the service level according to the number of active
clients. The second algorithm, RQ, assigns different service levels
to clients according to their needs. Both algorithms try to minimize
the resource reallocations for existing clients. The QoS performance
and instability trade-offs are studied by simulation.
PAPER FOUR:
"A Preliminary Study of Suppressing Redundant Nested Invocations
from a Web Service with Active Replication"
Chen-Liang Fang, Jin-Wen Institute of Technology, Taiwan & National
Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Deron Liang,
National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan &
National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan Chyouhwa Chen,
National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan PuSan
Lin, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
Zwass (1996) suggested that middleware and message service is one of
the five fundamental technologies used to realize electronic
commerce (EC). The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is
recognized as a more promising middleware for EC applications among
other leading candidates such as CORBA. We notice that the fault-
tolerance issue is somewhat neglected in the current standard, that
is, SOAP 1.1. The authors therefore found a fault tolerant Web
service called fault-tolerant SOAP or FT-SOAP through which Web
services can be built with higher resilience to failure. Active
replication is a common approach to building highly available and
reliable distributed software applications. The redundant nested
invocation (RNI) problem arises when servers in a replicated group
issue nested invocations to other server groups in response to a
client invocation. In this work, the authors find a mechanism to
perform auto-suppression of redundant nested invocation in an active
replication FT-SOAP system. The authors' approach ensures the
portability requirement of a middleware, especially for FT-SOAP. The
current design of the suppression mechanism itself does not consider
the fault-tolerance issue. In other words, it suffers from the
single-point of failure. Furthermore, the preliminary performance
results indicates significant performance penalty due to inefficient
SOAP invocations. More comprehensive experiments are needed to
further investigate the feasibility of the current approach in the
context of system performance.
PAPER FIVE:
"A Semi-Automatic Approach to Composite Web Services Discovery,
Description and Invocation"
Qianhui Liang, University of Florida, USA Lakshmi N. Chakarapani,
University of Florida, USA Stanley Y. W. Su, University of Florida,
USA Raman N. Chikkamagalur, University of Florida, USA Herman Lam,
University of Florida, USA
With the popularity of the Web services technology, more and more
software systems' functionalities become available by being
published and registered as Web services. Registered Web services
need to be dynamically combined to form "composite services" when
individual "simple services" fail to meet service requesters'
complex service needs. In this article, the authors use a semi-
automatic approach to composite Web services discovery, description
and invocation. They present an intelligent registry with constraint
matching capabilities to support composite service discovery and
description. It provides a user interface to interactively compose a
service request. It then uses a semi-automatic mechanism and a
search algorithm to construct a composite service template that
satisfies the request. The operations of the template are bound to
registered service operations by constraint matching subsequently.
The resulting composite service is specified in the Web Services
Flow Language. A composite service processor is designed to execute
composite services by invoking the component service operations of
various service providers.
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4th International Conference on Quality Software
QSIC 2004
http://qsic2004.tu-bs.de/
The 4th International Conference on Quality Software with a special
focus on information systems, will take place 8-9 September, 2004,
in Braunschweig, Germany
We are looking forward to a fine program with keynote speeches from
David Harel and Arne Solvberg, among others.
Hans-Dieter Ehrich
Program Co-Chair
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First International Workshop on
Combining and Balancing Techniques for Engineering Service Quality
http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/Events/COMBAT2004
September 27, 2004, Erfurt, Germany
In conjunction with Net.ObjectDays 2004
http://www.netobjectdays.org/
MOTIVATION
Over the last decades, numerous quality assurance techniques have
been proposed, building a broad spectrum from various kinds of
software inspections (peer reviews, walkthrough, desk checking) over
testing approaches (structural testing, specification-based testing,
boundary value testing, etc.) to formal methods (model checking,
formal notations). All these quality techniques are quite different
in the way they are applied in the software development cycle but
they have the same overall goal: producing high quality software
products. Thus, the different techniques could be perceived as a
portfolio of available approaches that serve the same goal and thus
can be combined into an integrated quality strategy to create the
desired quality of a product.
Even though single quality assurance techniques are well understood
and have proven to be beneficial as individual techniques, the
application of these techniques in combination has rarely been
addressed. Currently, quality assurance techniques are often planned
and applied in isolation without taking into account potential
synergies and relationships with other quality assurance techniques.
Moreover, the techniques are often planned and applied without
taking into account the organizational restrictions and the domain
context. If such factors are not considered, quality assurance gets
unnecessarily expensive due to inefficient planning and usage of the
techniques.
Service-orientation is a recent development paradigm in software
engineering. Developing such systems implies that the services are
the driving part of the engineering process; i.e. the required
services need to be analyzed and specified, system components need
to be defined that realize certain services and these components are
integrated in a service-oriented system architecture and implemented
accordingly. Services should, therefore, be also the driving factor
for quality assurance. The striking question is how to combine and
balance quality assurance techniques in such a way that high quality
of single services and high quality of the complete system can be
achieved in a most efficient way.
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for practitioners
and researchers to exchange experiences and discussing research
approaches on how to combine and balance different quality assurance
techniques in order to minimize costs and effort. The workshop will
provide an opportunity for exchanging views, experiences, and
lessons learned, and advancing ideas on topics dealing with the
planning of a combined use of different quality assurance techniques
and the definition of quality engineering strategies that take into
account all relevant factors (domain and market constraints,
organizational restrictions, quality needs).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Implications of the domain on the perception of quality aspects
- Planning and preparation of quality assurance activities in
order to reduce effort and cost for quality assurance; i.e. how
can the different techniques be balanced in an optimized way?
- Relationships between quality aspects and quality assurance
techniques, i.e. which quality assurance techniques should be
used to address which quality aspects?
- Experiences on organizational factors that influence the
effectiveness and efficiency of quality assurance activities
- Challenges of existing quality assurance techniques (especially
testing and inspections) in the context of service.ti -2
-oriented systems
- Lessons learned in applying quality assurance in different
domains
- Benefits and drawbacks of applying certain quality assurance
techniques in different domains
- Approaches to minimize the effort for quality assurance
activities
- Experiences on synergies between different quality assurance
techniques
- Comparing the costs and benefits of applying quality assurance
techniques
- Quality strategies that integrate/combine different quality
assurance technique
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
* Christian Denger, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
* Ronny Kolb, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
* Dirk Muthig, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
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eValid: A Quick Summary
http://www.e-valid.com
eValid technology incorporates virtually every quality and testing
functionality in a full-featured browser. Here is a summary of the
main eValid benefits and advantages.
o InBrowser(tm) Technology. All the test functions are built into
the eValid browser. eValid offers total accuracy and natural
access to "all things web." If you can browse it, you can test
it. And, eValid's unique capabilities are used by a growing
number of firms as the basis for their active services
monitoring offerings.
o Mapping and Site Analysis. The built-in WebSite spider travels
through your website and applies a variety of checks and filters
to every accessible page. All done entirely from the users'
perspective -- from a browser -- just as your users will see
your website.
o Functional Testing, Regression Testing. Easy to use GUI based
record and playback with full spectrum of validation functions.
The eV.Manager component provides complete, natural test suite
management.
o LoadTest Server Loading. Multiple eValid's play back multiple
independent user sessions -- unparalleled accuracy and
efficiency. Plus: No Virtual Users! Single and multiple
machine usages with consolidated reporting.
o Performance Tuning Services. Outsourcing your server loading
activity can surely save your budget and might even save your
neck! Realistic scenarios, applied from multiple driver
machines, impose totally realistic -- no virtual users! -- loads
on your server.
o Web Services Testing/Validation. eValid tests of web services
start begin by analyzing the WSDL file and creating a custom
HTML testbed page for the candidate service. Special data
generation and analysis commands thoroughly test the web service
and automatically identify a range of failures.
o Desktop, Enterprise Products. eValid test and analysis engines
are delivered at moderate costs for desktop use, and at very
competitive prices for use throughout your enterprise.
o HealthCheck Subscription. For websites up to 1000 pages, eValid
HealthCheck services provide basic detailed analyses of smaller
websites in a very economical, very efficient way.
o eValidation Managed Service. Being introduced soon. the
eValidation Managed WebSite Quality Service offers comprehensive
user-oriented detailed quality analysis for any size website,
including those with 10,000 or more pages.
Resellers, Consultants, Contractors, OEMers Take Note
We have an active program for product and service resellers. We'd
like to hear from you if you are interested in joining the growing
eValid "quality website" delivery team. We also provide OEM
solutions for internal and/or external monitoring, custom-faced
testing browsers, and a range of other possibilities. Let us hear
from you!
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Practice and Experience in
Applied Enterprise Information Assurance and Computer Security
Editors Professors Merrill Warkentin,
Rayford B. Vaughn, Mississippi State University
This book will bring together leading authoritative authors to
address arguably our most pressing challenge in the IT field - how
to create secure environments for the application of technology to
serve our future needs. It will bridge the gap between theory and
practice, between academia and industry, and between computer
science and MIS. Its chapters will provide an integrated, holistic
perspective on this complex set of challenges, combined with
practical experiences of leading figures in industry and the
military. Some of the chapters will provide rigorous research
results, while others will be in-depth reports from the field,
weaved into a practical collection of articles that will be valuable
to scholars and students of IA and Computer Security, as well as to
leaders of all organizations interested in creating and promoting
secure environments for their employees, customers, and
constituents. All chapters will be rigorously (blind) reviewed and
carefully edited. Chapters in this compendium may include, but are
not limited, to the following topics.
1. Proactive Computer System Security Management
2. Intrusion Detection Systems
3. Firewall Overview
4. Firewall Deployment
5. The DMZ/IPN
6. Security Engineering
7. Trusted Products and Assurance
8. The Application of Computing Forensics
9. The Law (Enforcement and Employment), including
Sarbanes-Oxley and new legislation
10. Emerging User Authentication Methods, including Biometrics
11. Database Security
12. eCommerce Security
13. Software Security
14. Office Automation Security (procedures and practices)
15. The Wireless problem
16. Corporate Security Policy and Implementation
17. Centralized and Decentralized Computer Security Management
Infrastructure
18. Leakage points in a Corporate environment
19. Hostile and Malicious Code
20. Vulnerability/Risk Assessments
21. Future Considerations
Contact:
Prof. Rayford B. Vaughn
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Center for Computer Security Research (CCSR)
PO Box 9637
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
[+1] (662) 325-7450 voice
[+1] (662) 325-8997 fax
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The Montreal Conference on e-Technologies
(www.latece.uqam.ca/mcetech2005/)
January 20th-21st, 2005, Montrial, Quibec, Canada
The internet pervades much of the activities of modern societies and
has become the preferred medium for the delivery of information and
services. All kinds of applications, ranging from eBusiness, to
eEducation or eGovernment, raise some of the same issues: the need
for an open, yet secure, flexible, yet high-performance, and inter-
operable, yet customizable infrastructure. The technologies of the
day provide much of the software plumbing required to make it all
work, but little of the software and methodological tools needed to
build complex, end to end, inter-organizational applications, i.e.
the sort of domain-independent, semantic middleware for the
internet!
This conference aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners interested in exploring the many facets of the
problem. Original and inter-disciplinary approaches to these
problems are highly encouraged. The conference also includes an
industrial track, providing a forum for industrial researchers to
present problems and case studies of the uses of Internet
technologies in their business.
Conference co-chairs:
Rachida Dssouli, CIISE
(Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering,
www.ciise.concordia.ca),
dssouli@ece.concordia.ca
Hafedh Mili, LATECE
(Laboratory for Technologies of eCommerce,
www.latece.uqam.ca),
hafedh.mili@uqam.ca
Conference web site:
www.latece.uqam.ca/mcetech2005/
Instructions to authors:
www.latece.uqam.ca/mcetech2005/instructions-authors.html
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