The discipline of enterprise application integration (EAI) enables the decoupled communication between (business) applications, and thus became a cornerstone of today’s IT architectures. In 2004, the book by Hohpe and Woolf on Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) provided a fundamental collection of messaging patterns, denoting the building blocks of many EAI system implementations. Since then...

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence demonstrates that text messaging-based programs (short message service [SMS]) on mobile phones can help people modify health behaviors. Most of these programs have consisted of automated and sometimes interactive text messages that guide a person through the process of behavior change. OBJECTIVE This paper provides guidance on how to develop text messagin...

This paper studies the problem of identifying an inhomogeneous interaction structure amongst social agents. We construct the social network by a random graph and model the messaging activities via a multi-channel self-exciting point process. We design a methodology that divides the agents into two disjoint groups so that members within each group are considered to be of similar attributes. Our ...

Instant messaging is defined in RFC2778 [12]. Today, numerous instant messaging protocols are in use, and little interoperability between services based on these protocols has been achieved. This specification defines common semantics and data formats for instant messaging to facilitate the creation of gateways between instant messaging services. Table of

Efficient emergency communication is of high practical importance, but has specific challenges: unpredictable local emergency situations harden the establishment of communication structures, legal requirements dictate the use of end-to-end secure and documentable approaches, while end users demand user-friendliness. Dealing with these challenges, the contribution of this paper is three-fold: fi...

The enabling of data produced by product embedded sensor devices for use in product development could greatly benefit manufactures, while opening up new business opportunities. Currently products such as cars already have embedded sensor devices, but the data is usually not available for analysis in real-time. We propose that a world-wide, inter-organizational network for product data gathering...

Although a number of new collaboration systems emerged of the last years, it is remarkable that email is still the most used collaboration application. However, this messaging based pattern of organizing collaboration causes a lot of problems like information and attachment overload and versioning problems. This paper discusses some of these problems as well as reasons why users are reluctant t...

Middleware technologies have been facilitating the communication between the distributed applications. Traditional messaging system’s are synchronous and have inherent weaknesses like – limited client connections, poor performance due to lack of resource pooling, no store-and-forward mechanism or load balancing, lack of guaranteed messaging and security as well as static client and server’s loc...