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| 2004S-0170 - Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, Section 1013: Suggest Priority Topics for Research
|FDA Comment Number :
|Submitter :
|Dr. Susan Payne
|Date & Time:
|05/11/2004 06:05:12
|Organization :
|Edmund S Muskie School of Public Service
|Health Professional
|Category :
|Issue Areas/Comments
| The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 encourages private drug plans with which Medicare will contract to use formularies and other strategies to negotiate better drug prices from manufacturers.
Many (c. 16) state pharmacy assistance programs (SPAPs) for low-income elderly and disabled persons have employed prior authorization to control costs. The use of prior authorization by SPAPs has been controversial for two reasons: First, prior authorization may interfere with continuity of care or access to needed medications, partcularly for the elderly, people with multiple chronic conditions, and people with mental health problems; second, savings realized by prior authorization may be negated by cost increases in other health care sectors if barriers to needed medications result in increased use of the emergency room, hospital, or physician services.
Systematic, rogorous evaluations of the impact of SPAP prior authorization programs on drug spending, beneficiaries, providers, and total system costs can provide Medicare with useful information of the extent to which these programs have met the twin objectives of controlling costs and maintaining quality of care. To date, there have not been rigorous evaluations of these programs. SPAPs are an ideal 'natural experiment' to study because their enrolles are low-income elderly and disabled persons, who are similar to the older Medicare beneficiaries without private or Medicaid coverage who are likely to enroll in a voluntary Medicare drug benefit. SPAPs are also very similar to the private drug plans (PDPs) that will be administering a sizeable portion of the Medicare drug benefit, in that they are stand-alone pharmacy benefit programs.
Prior to the implementation of the Medicare benefit in 2006, the impact of existing SPAP prior authorization policies on beneficiaries' well being should be studied to informa private drug plan design and Medicare quality assurance.
Rigorous evaluations are needed to provide important information to Medicare makers on the potential effects of prior authorization on Medicare beneficiaries, Medicare costs for non-medication services, and patient safety, especially for vulnerable enrolles (the oldest old and enrolles with mental health problems or multiple chronic physical conditions). This information can be used by Medicare to monitor the use of prior authorization and other cost control mechanisms by private plans.
This is a high priority in Medicare because of the need to monitor the impact on beneficiaries and non-drug costs of cost control mechanisms that may be used by private drug plans. It is important to do the evaluation before the medication claims data go into the private sector, outside of public oversight.


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Bolga Gambibgo Pot Basket- Folding Handle (BGPB915)
Size: 13" rim diameter x 14 1/2" middle diameter x 10" tall not including handle height. Color: Red, brown, purple and lighter green.
These baskets are made by the skilled weavers of Bolgatanga (Bolga for short) Ghana, Western Africa. They take the local grass called elephant grass to make this basket. The leather handle is braided adding to its beauty. This basket is strong and very durable. It can be hosed down if dirty or needs reshaping. Instructions included. Great for the market, holding newspapers and magazines, towels in the bathroom, unlimited uses. This is the basket you will receive.


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I saw my first UFO in 1966, about the time I turned 7. It was a dramatic close-up sighting, the darn thing was right over our car. I realized at the time that I was meant to see it.
In 2009 I was contacted by a group of "us" from the future, along with a Pleiadian, who implored me to teach young children how to meditate. Now I know why. Meditation would be much healthier, both for them, and for our society at large, than ritalin.


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Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution has upped Angela Galgani to SVP Publicity. She will take over day-to-day duties running the New York publicity office, a role previously held by Gigi Semone, who departed in September. The new tasks include overseeing the New York staff and developing East Coast-based PR campaigns for Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation releases. Her current workload includes The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, 21 Jump Street, The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, Men in Black 3, I Hate You Dad, and The Amazing Spider-Man, among others. She previously was VP Publicity and started at Sony Pictures as an intern in 1997.
Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing Unit Promotes Angela Galgani To SVP Publicity
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Good riddance Gigi Semone. She was the worst kind of person and Angela is definitely going to do amazing things with that department!
Whoo hoo. Go Galgani!!!
she's a class executive. Knows her stuff. And, most importantly she's hot. GOOD STUFF.
Gigi has enjoyed a long and successful career wIth her best years ahead of her. Sony has lost a valuabe asset which they can not replace.


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Pat yourself on the back Tucson. You made it through your first 100-degree days of the summer.
Now let's get out of this heat.
May we suggest a stroll through an air-conditioned gallery? Admission at most is free, and the artwork is more often than not intriguing, breathtaking and memorable.
Here are five not to be missed exhibits in Tucson, including a couple that close this weekend.
"Natural Seductions: Jim Waid, Jane Abrams, Robert Cocke"
Etherton Gallery, 135 S. Sixth Ave., 624-7370.
Brilliantly colorful paintings of each artist's take on nature closes Saturday.
• Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Details: ethertongallery.com
"Line of Sight"
The Drawing Studio, 33 S. Sixth Ave., 620-0947.
Drawings by faculty and students opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and runs through July 13.
• Gallery hours: Noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Details: thedrawingstudio.org
Photo exhibit
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, 4831 E. 22nd St., 748-1551.
Exhibit of photographs from church members and friends through Sept. 1. Opening reception is 11:45 a.m. Sunday.
• Gallery hours and more information: uuctucson.org
"These Trace Remains"
Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way, 326-9686, Ext. 10.
Jenny Day's large- and small-scale canvases depicting scenes of North America is up until June 28. Admission is $8; $7 for students and seniors, and $4 for children 4 to 12. Children 3 and younger and gardens members are free. It's $9 to attend the artist reception from 5 to 8 p.m. June 20.
• Gallery hours: 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Details: tucsonbotanical.org
"It's All About the Buildings"
WomanKraft Art Center, 388 S. Stone Ave., 629-9976.
Blazing cityscapes and memorable buildings under construction or in ruins anchor this architecture-centered exhibit that runs through July 27. A reception will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. July 6.
• Gallery hours: 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Details: womankraft.org
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at email@example.com or 573-4642.


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Private, First Class, U. S. Army. Home address: Big Cedar, LeFlore County. Mrs. Eunice Branscum, Wife, (Muse Route) Page, Oklahoma. Born September 6, 1924. Enlisted July 19, 1944. Decorations: Order of the Purple Heart; Combat Infantry Badge. Awarded Expert Rifleman Medal, also Machine Gun and Hand Grenade medals. Died June 19, 1945, in action on Okinawa, East China Sea.
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Tracey Adams
Tracey Adams
|Also known as:
|Tracy Adams, Tracy Roams, Debbie Blaisdell
|June 6, 1958[1]
Severna Park, Maryland
|Years active:
|Bra/cup size:
|38E (85E) (same as DD cup)
|5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
|145 lb (66 kg)
|Body type:
|Eye color:
Shoulder length, Curly
|Underarm hair:
|Pubic hair:
|Topless, Bush, Full frontal, Pink
|Softcore, Dildo
|Blowjob, Vaginal, Anal
|Personal pages
|IMDb IAFD AFDB
Tracey Adams (born in Severna Park, Maryland, U.S.) is an American pornographic actress and adult model.
Early adult life
Adams attended community college near Baltimore, Maryland and became a radio disc jockey. Uninterested in sex with men as a teenager, she did not lose her virginity until age twenty.[2] She moved to the West Coast in 1981, where she attended broadcasting school. Adams worked briefly at several small radio stations, including a midnight to six AM shift at the University of California at San Diego station.[3]
Unable to make ends meet in radio, Adams began 'straight' acting in 1983, and continued her schooling. Later she did various topless roles in B films like Lost Empire. Unable to pay her final semester tuition at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, she first posed nude in many adult magazines and then entered the adult industry. Adams first performed sex in 1985's Make My Night for which she appears on the box cover.[3]
Adult film career
Adams was active in the pornographic film industry for sixteen years, from 1983 until 1999. She performed in over 200 films, with many of the most famous pornographic performers of the time.
Porn director John Stagliano (a.k.a Buttman) has stated that a scene showing Adams' buttocks inspired him to make the Buttman series of films. The clip shows Adams on her hands and knees with her butt stuck high in the air. "The shot only lasted a couple of seconds," says Stagliano, "but I knew then what I wanted to do." [3] Adams won an AVN Award in 1990 in Stagliano's Adventures Of Buttman for "Best Tease Performance".[4][5] Other prominent adult film stars, such as Tori Welles and Porsche Lynn, had their first taste of lesbian sex on camera with Adams as their lover.
Adams was known for her acting ability and intelligence as well as for her voluptuous, carnal charms. As Adam Film World wrote about her in 1987, Adams can "handle characters that few porn actresses dare attempt: she is convincing as a woman of education, culture, breeding; she can play a successful author (Lust on the Orient Express); a rich socialite (Sins of the Wealthy 2); an Indian princess (Soft, Warm Rain); mother to a college-age lad (2002: A Sex Odyssey); a slick hooker (Jacqueline)." [3]
Adams left the pornography business in the late 1980s to try to break into the world of mainstream R-rated B-movies, but her attempted leap into a 'straight' career didn't pan out. Adams soon returned to the hard core arena where she was a star.[6]
In 1991, Adams was written about in an article in the Los Angeles Times. "Although she is free-thinking, Adams is anything but the free-spirited sexual athlete her fans like to imagine. She worries about crime and overpopulation and drinks two vodkas medicinally each night to help her sleep. She sponsors two poverty-stricken children in foreign countries. Her rented bungalow in West Los Angeles might be the home of any anxious, PBS-watching, middle-level executive except for the catalog of her sex tapes hidden behind a wood plank on an upper shelf in a back room."[7][3]
Adams is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.[8]
Retirement, personal life
Adams left the adult industry as a regular performer in 1992,[6] but continued to do the occasional film as late as 1999. Adams was involved in a long-term lesbian relationship with porn actress Amber Lynn, with whom she performed in strip shows in Canada. They are no longer a couple.[9]
Since leaving the adult industry, Adams has continued her education and training in Los Angeles. She completed UCLA's Film & TV Program, and has also trained in improvisational comedy at The Groundlings School of Improvisation and The Improv.
- AVN Hall of Fame inductee[10]
- XRCO Hall of Fame inductee[11]
- Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame inductee
- 1988 AVN Award – Best Couples Sex Scene, Video – Made In Germany[12]
- 1990 AVN Award – Best Tease Performance – Adventures of Buttman[12]
Partial Filmography
|Campus Cuties
|Caballero Home Video / Caballero Classics (for DVD release)
|Paul G. Vatelli
|Tracey Adams, Taija Rae, Mauvais DeNoir, Nikki Charm, Summer Rose
|Depraved Innocent
|Vidco Entertainment
|Jonathan Burroughs
|Carol Titian, Porsche Lynn, Tracey Adams, Trinity Loren
|Attack of the Monster Mammaries
|LA Video
|Candy Samples, Christy Canyon, Cyndee Summers, Morgan Lane, Renee Summers, Summer Rose, Tracey Adams and Trinity Loren
|Educating Kascha
|CDI Home Video
|Ron Jeremy
|Brandy Wine, Brittany Stryker, Dana Lynn, Ebony Ayes, Kascha Papillon, Tracey Adams, and Trinity Loren
|Dr. Hooters
|Pleasure Productions
|Duck Dumont
|Delta Force, Heather Hart, Missy Warner, Paula Price, Tracey Adams, Trinity Loren, Viviana
|Buttman's Big Tit Adventure
|Evil Angel
|Tianna, Tracey Adams, Heather Hart, Fawn Miller and Dee Dee Reeves
- Double Your Pleasure (1999)
- Double D Dykes 9 (1993)
- Starbangers 4 (1993)
- D-Cup Dating Service (1992)
- Sex Soviet Style 1 (1992)
- Best of Buttman (1991)
- Breakfast with Tiffany (1991)
- Playmate of the Mouth (1991)
- Porn on the 4th of July (1990)
- Beauty & The Beast Part 2 (1989)
- Adventures of Buttman (1989)
- Busted (1989)
- Deep Throat III (1989)
- Nasty Nights (1989)
- Soft, Warm Rain (1989)
- Addicted to Love (1988)
- Beauty and the Beast (1988)
- Girls of Double D 7 (1988)
- Made in Germany (1988)
- This is Your Sex Life (1988)
- Student Affairs (1987) (as Deborah Blaisdell) non-pornographic
- The Devil in Mr. Holmes (1987)
- Grafenberg Girls Go Fishing (1987)
- Pretty Peaches 2 (1987)
- Sex Machine (1987)
- Sins of the Wealthy 2 (1986)
- Jacqueline (1986)
- Lust on the Orient X-Press (1986)
- Nudes at Eleven (1986)
- Talk Dirty To Me 5 (1986)
- 2002: A Sex Odyssey (1985)
- Eaten Alive (1985)
- Visions of Jeannie (1985)
- The Lost Empire (1983) (as Debbie Blaisdell)
Big tit movies / pictures of Tracey Adams
- Pornstar Legends Tracey Adams (retro pornstar movies & pictures)
- ↑ Tracey Adams Biography. Retrieved on 2009-09-29.
- ↑ Tracey Adams; Jay Allen Sanford & Chuck Bordell (1995). Carnal Comics True Stories of Adult Film Stars: Tracey Adams. San Diego: Re-Visionary Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Tracey Adams. LukeFord.com (2000). Archived from the original on 2008-04-04.
- ↑ AVN Awards 1990. AllExperts.com. Retrieved on 2009-09-29.
- ↑ AVN Award - Winners 1990-1994. Wikipedia.org. Retrieved on 2009-09-29.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tracey Adams Porn Star. Porn Star Mall. Retrieved on 2009-09-29.
- ↑ John Johnson. "Demand Is Strong, but Police Crackdowns and a Saturated Market Spell Trouble for One of L.A.'s Biggest Businesses", 1991-02-17, p. 8. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
- ↑ AVN Awards Hall of Fame. AVNawards.com. Archived from the original on 2008-31-03. Retrieved on 2009-09-29.
- ↑ Tracey Adams Fanclub Main Page. TraceyAdamsXXX.com. Retrieved on 2009-09-29.
- ↑ 25th Annual AVN Awards Show
- ↑ XRCO. XRCO.com. Retrieved on 2010-07-19.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 AVN Awards Past Winners. AVN.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-25. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
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My weapons are intact and so are all their modifications, but I don't get it! I found it weird I had to accept the agreement when I logged on again just now, but still having many valuable things I can't tell whether I got strangely hacked or something went loose after they sent the rebate! >_<;
Did anyone else lose anything? Or should I go cry in a corner now? T^T
I left this thread hanging, but I'm updating it now since I wanted to let people know that if their accounts were really compromised and stripped of their belongings without having done anything against the ToS (Account sharing, using third-party apps, etc) they can recover their stuff through support. They will also take care of the issue fairly quick (It took me 5 days to get my items back, it's quite comprehensible since I'm positive I was among the first victims of these acts).
So as I've said, don't lose hope! It's frustrating and it's really worrying going through something like this, but in the end you'll have what belongs to you back, just don't panic, keep it polite and honest! P:
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Ubiquitous Computing makes it possible to determine in real time the location and situations of service requesters in a web service environment as it enables access to computers at any time and in any place. Though research on various aspects of ubiquitous commerce is progressing at enterprises and research centers, both domestically and overseas, analysis of a customer's personal preferences based on semantic web and rule based services using semantics is not currently being conducted. This paper proposes a Ubiquitous Computing Services System that enables a rule based search as well as semantics based search to support the fact that the electronic space and the physical space can be combined into one and the real time search for web services and the construction of efficient web services thus become possible.
The development of various ubiquitous computing service technologies with a new technological system which enables "the computing environment any time, any place and for anything" in which human centered interface application technologies are added on top of conventional web service technology is progressing. This research is aimed at establishing the fundamentals to implement in the future a Ubiquitous Computing Architecture by developing an intelligent algorithm which can integratedly manage and connectively operate individual applications which are composed of diverse platforms and components, in accordance with semantic web standards and web service standards, using intelligent web service technology. A Ubiquitous Computing Services System was also developed on the basis of a differentiated technology to complement the problem that most web service related research in the past was insufficient in suggesting the general and overall direction as it tended to focus on methodological aspects.
As potential breakthrough solutions to the problems of the current system we have InfoSleuth [
The proposed system solves the problematic point of existing UDDI by providing an Extended UDDI Search Module and can also provide a more exact examination of users' demands and reflect the demands in web searches by applying a new QoS Based Matchmaking Algorithm to perform quality evaluations. The proposed system also makes possible provision of a more credible service to users by reflecting the private preferences of respective service demanders through a Rule Based Search in which the services results generated from the Matchmaking engine and the users' preferences are reflected. This system is different from the existing Semantic Web Services Systems in the following aspects:
First, the meaning of the search keyword(s) used within the domain is defined accurately by constructing an ontology server. Additionally, based on the constructed ontology, similar words are searched for and interpreted.
Second, an extended UDDI search module is provided in order to solve problems with the existing UDDI. For this purpose, a matchmaking engine using the QoS based matchmaking algorithm was designed in this research.
Third, rule-based searching is executed in order to reflect the users' preferences. Rule-based searching is a method for converting rules in the user profile registry and each returned Web Services result is mapped into Jess script through XSLT.
Fourth, ranking is executed for more accurate information searches. The newly developed ranking algorithm was applied to rank search results and provide more accurate and reliable information.
Finally, Intelligent Web Services Integrated System was developed along with a step-by-step design method for efficient Web Services search and composition. Its efficiency and accuracy are verified by comparing it with the existing systems.
This paper is organized in the following order. In section 2 there will be an overview of the Semantic Web Services and Ubiquitous Computing Services. This is also analyzed and compared with current systems. In Section 3, the notion of an Intelligent Web Services Algorithm is suggested and in Section 4, the architecture and implementation of an improved Ubiquitous Computing Services System is explained, along with the functions, characteristics of its modules and execution results. It is also compared with current systems. Conclusions are provided in the final section, along with plans for further studies.
Clustering Semantic Web Services, which is the method purported for providing services for the users' convenience in the semantic web environment, is composed of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and DAML-S. SOAP, used for calling web services, is a quantitative protocol for sending data that is structuralized and standardized using XML. However, it is also a type of message format protocol, which is quite extensive and can actually be applied in many other fields other than that of a quantitative protocol. WSDL, used for web services description, contains information on the interface provided by the web services and the type of data that is to be used through the services. Despite many other related standards such as WSFL or RDF, presently WSDL plays the major role and is highly capable of extensively describing any type of sub-network or messaging protocol. UDDI is a directory service that can be used by an individual or company for registering and searching web services. In other words, UDDI allows one to register the service he/she is to provide on the web and the service user to find the service he/she wants from the registry. DAML-S(Semantic Markup for Web Service) is a key component for implementing Semantic Web Services, and at the same time, the ontology for web services. Thus, within the Semantic Web Services, the DAML supporting agent reads the service descriptions in WSDL format, sends the information to DAML and then DAML connects to the appropriate ontology and the information is provided through the search engine. The advantage of this is that the service consumers can search for and link to providers of the desired web service through any search engine supporting such a framework and in addition personalization related information and negotiation abilities are allowable. In result, the agent is capable of referring to the consumer and provider information and perceiving the conditions in order to automatically settle contracts through negotiation.
"Ubiquitous" is a Latin originated word which means 'the god exists everywhere'. Ubiquitous computing or the abbreviated expression 'Ubicom' has come to mean an information and telecommunication technology taken for granted, which became part of our daily lives while we are unaware. Ubiquitous computing has brought about a considerable change in the field of commercial customer service. In the past, web services were composed of portal sites where users could search for necessary information and mainstream price comparing sites, but currently, customized web services which provide information taking into account the users' personal requirements are emerging constantly. Hence, the concept of "ubiquitous commercial deal" appeared, which not only provides the service(s) which fit the context of particular customers at any time, in any place and through any device, but also infers the shopping and purchase information of customers using sensors. In particular "trigger marketing" systems which conduct immediate marketing for customers, are acting as the core infrastructures for ubiquitous commerce which stresses privatization of internet connection tools [
Representative semantic web models [
The new system suggested in this study contains the following improved or differentiated aspects. First of all, the matchmaking engine composed of DAML-S/UDDI Translator and Reasoner suggests a more specific methodology to allow semantic searching and ranking using DAML-S, as well as current UDDI searching. In addition, QoS function factors have been added to improve the existing matchmaking algorithm to provide more accurate and reliable Web Services.
In [
In [
This study suggests a rule based search method in which ontology and rules are combined to supplement the faults of the existing research, designs a search engine using the suggested method and established an operation system for the search engine. By doing this, our study intends to solve the problem that the existing web service models are inclined toward theoretical aspect and the research is conducted mainly on this segment. In addition to it, the suggested method can provide more exact and credible information to the users, as it actively reflects personalized preference in web service results by performing an analysis of various possible situations and searching with inference and service extraction rules.
Matchmaking is a process of finding a service provider that satisfies the service requester's requests [
First, the past research conducted matching by stressing certain partial elements as they failed to treat the identity elements in web services comprehensively. For [
First the web service identity elements were classified by item and algorithms for the respective items were proposed and next, the integrated matching algorithm was described. That is, this research classified the web service identity elements like in
Second, the reference values of the respective QoS elements were calculated after the respective QoS elements values were adjusted. Afterwards, all the QoS marks were counted and put into the Integrated Matching Algorithm for application. The algorithm measuring method for the respective identity elements are as shown in
The respective identity elements` values were standardized and formalized to a value between 0-1. The entire similarity value which is composed of the sum of the respective identity elements is like one given by the formula
The respective correspondence elements were standardized and normalized to a value between 0 to 1. The entire similarity value resulting from the sum of the respective correspondence elements can be expressed as formula
The most basic informations in a web service query are service name and service description information. For example, when a user of web service make a query with the service name "mobile phone sale" and the service description information is "a mobile phone sale service which permits paying by credit cards", the web service should find the appropriate service for the user by analyzing the similarity between the accessible service name and service description information, which are provided by character strings. This study calculated the similarity between service names and service description information by using TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency Weighting) where service name is titled as
■ Definition 1 When the service name is
In this study, the correspondence of input and output information is judged by the criteria of Input/Output Name, Input/Output Datatype, Input/Output Constraint and the similarity is measured by TF-IDF. The input and output information values can be expressed as in the formulas below:
■ Definition 2 When the service input information is
Whether or not a correspondence between service query and service advertisement is judged to exist relying on the correspondence of input and output in the functional aspect of service operation. In other words, if the elements from one side can be substituted with the elements from the other side when the two sides of the input of service query and the input of service advertisement are compared, it is regarded that the inputs of the two sides correspond. Viewing the opposition, if the elements from the two sides can be mutually satisfied when the output of service query and the output of service advertisement are compared, the outputs of the two sides are regarded to correspond. When both of the elements of input and output correspond in the result, the web service can treat the service query appropriately and provide a satisfactory service result to the user.
The correspondence of the functional expression information of web service is judged by the correspondence of
■ Definition 3 When the service input information is 0 ≤
For more accurate and reliable web service results, the provided matching method must reflect QoS factors such as time, price, reliability and performance. The current systems such as Larks [
For such reasons, this study classifies quality evaluation factors and suggests separate algorithms for each factor. After applying algorithms to each QoS measurement factor value, the adjusted value and standard value are calculated. Then, the QoS score is calculated by multiplying all the QoS measurement factors. The QoS measurement procedures are as shown in
The QoS measurement algorithm based on the sum of standard values (Definition 4) of each QoS factor is as indicated below.
■ Definition 4 The QoS measurement algorithm, the multiplication of the standard values of each QoS factor including Availability (
As a solution to the problems of the current Web Services, the present study suggests Ubiquitous Computing Services System based on a Matchmaking Engine and a Rule-based Search Engine. Section 4 will describe the overall structure of the suggested system, the functions of each module and the evaluation of its system.
John who is driving in a car, wants to find the most famous pasta restaurant in Manhattan. As the precondition, the restaurant should be located within 10 miles from his current location. With this situation and conditions, the analysis on the user should be conducted through the user information profiles in the user information registry first to satisfy the user's requirement. By analysis of the user information profiles using the privatized agent, the information that John ordinarily orders meals at restaurants within a 60$∼100$ price range and prefers restaurants which provide various services relative to the food price is gathered. Then, the web service system finds the restaurant best fitting these criteria and provides the information to John by comparing the fact that John prefers restaurants in the 60$∼100$ price range providing diverse services relative to the price, which is found out through the user profiles, and the service search result analyzed by the Matchmaking Engine. The web service also analyzes the location of John and guides him to a restaurant which is within the radius of 10 miles from his location. As above, it is necessary to find out the information which best fits the request of the service requester by analysis on the service search results and the user information profiles. For this, the technology to determine the user's preferences using a rule based search engine is needed and the service for context awareness and location awareness on the user should be provided simultaneously.
Matchmaking describes the processes by which parties that are interested in participating in an exchange of economic value are put in contact with potential counterparts [
First, the requester submits a request to the Search Manager. The Search Manager determines the current context and location information of the user using the Context Container and request answers from the Advertisement Database and UDDI Registry on the basis of the results. The Context Container provides the information on the context or the environment of a service requester, that is, the context based privatized information. Finally, the Search Manager retrieves all the advertisements from the Advertisement Database and UDDI Registry. Search Manager sends it to DAML-S/UDDI Translator that constructs a UDDI service description. Then Reasoner computes the match level and ranks the results. Search Manager sends results to the Web Service QoS checker using the QoS measurement algorithm to determine if it is verified or not. the system conducts a rule based search which compares the service result produced by the Matchmaking Engine and the user rules taken from the user profile registry and thereupon selects the appropriate information for service. Finally, Search Manager sends the final results to the requester.
First, the requester submits a request to the Search Manager.
The Search Manager determines the current context and location information of the user using the Context Container and request answers from the Advertisement Database and UDDI Registry on the basis of the results. The Context Container provides the information on the context or the environment of a service requester, that is, the context based privatized information. Finally, the Search Manager retrieves all the advertisements from the Advertisement Database and UDDI Registry.
Search Manager sends it to DAML-S/UDDI Translator that constructs a UDDI service description. Then Reasoner computes the match level and ranks the results.
Search Manager sends results to the Web Service QoS checker using the QoS measurement algorithm to determine if it is verified or not.
the system conducts a rule based search which compares the service result produced by the Matchmaking Engine and the user rules taken from the user profile registry and thereupon selects the appropriate information for service.
Finally, Search Manager sends the final results to the requester.
Web service requesters use the UDDI request Port to execute the questionnaire sequence which the UDDI registry provides. However this questionnaire mechanism has the fault that it can not execute the semantic information of web service advertisements and the capability description which are provided by DAML-S Profile. DAML-S/UDDI Translator solves the above problem by executing the extension of UDDI Registry through the mapping of UDDI Registry and DAML-S Profile. In DAML-S/UDDI Translator not only the input and output functions for web services are implemented, but also the web service search which uses the function of pre-condition and post-effect is available, as it supports capability functionality extensively on top of the existing UDDI method. The Reasoner takes the role of efficiently matching web service requests and web service advertisements using the Matchmaking Algorithm (Chapter 2) and provides prioritization.
The module executes rule based searches to compare produced results with the user's rules drawn from the user profile registry and selects only the appropriate service information. In this research, SweetJess [
The intelligent web service integrated system implemented in this study is a system that fetches the information based on keywords, keyword explanations, price keywords, QoS information (network speed, credibility, availability, accessibility) and enterprise related items from the databases of the four major domestic portal sites (Naver, Yahoo Korea, Daum, Empas) and displays the information.
This system includes in its internal structure all the items suggested in this study, that is, the Match-Making Algorithm, the Korean character (Hangeul) using search engine and the Ontology Server. With this implementation method, the real data which were being provided at the major portal sites were fetched and the information from the data were processed to fit the intelligent web service concept. In this system, a 'server program' which can contact the portal sites of Overture, Daum, Naver, Yahoo Korea and Empas and fetch keywords, price information and QoS information from the sites, is operating continually and this server contacts web pages accompanying the search engine programs and fetches web pages. Subsequently the system analyzes the fetched web pages and stores the analysis result in the database. In the process of web page analysis the system only takes highly related information using the Extraction Agent suggested in this study.
At this time the system utilizes 'analysis rules' according to the respective portals. The 'analysis rules' according to the respective portal sites are made to be modified in correspondence with the portal sites as the portal sites tend to modify the web pages of search results. Finally the system carries out analysis on the web pages by applying the the Ranking Measuring Algorithm and the Match-making Algorithm, and subsequently displays the analysis results.
The information in the search here are ones taken from the real data of four internet portal sites in Korea (Empas, Yahoo Korea, Naver, Daum) and processed, mainly on the basis of keywords, price information, demand frequencies and QoS information.
In this research the experiment was conducted after credible statistics were secured by pre-operation for 7 months. For the analysis on the performance of proposed system, the real data of NateOn, an ordinary internet portal site was taken and used for the comparison. The data described around NateOn is the result directly taken from the site, not via the server program of the proposed system. As experimental measured items, the service explanation information, input and output information, quality consistency rate for the collection of the keywords which users had used for searching, from February 26th, 2006 to Aug 12th, 2006 was used as standard, and the backup data was made into a statistical numeric by a server program developed with UNIX as standardized test marks do not exist as of now. The result of the experiment was as shown in
From the experimental result, it is found that the similarity marks of the "Matchmaking Factor" of the portal sites, Empas, Yahoo Korea, Naver, Daum, which is proposed in this research, is enhanced higher compared to the similarity marks of other sites.
"Ubiquitous" enables a computing environment which is accessible from any place, at any time while it also enables capturing of the user's location and provision of an optimal service. The ubiquitous computing services system suggested in this paper, in which "context awareness" and "location awareness" is available, enables searching and treating of information that users want, not being bound by the limitations of physical space. This paper also applied semantic web technology to web services and enabled the web to perform ubiquitous computing service composition and execution. The proposed system makes efficient matching between service requesters and providers possible through a system based on QoS. The proposed system also makes examining users' request and reflecting it to the service possible by the Rule Based Search Engine in which users' preferences are reflected. Finally, a quantitative experimental evaluation measuring the rate that service features such as information, input and output information, service function expression information and quality information corresponded to the users' demands based on the keyword collection selected by users, was conducted using a server program which was developed by us. In the result it was identified that the similarity marks of the proposed system was improved by 15-20% compared to that of ordinary internet sites. As a future research task, the adding of screen interface which can mirror demanding items by users and limitation conditions in more detailed divisions and the design of a methodology which can examine the efficiency and exactness of the proposed system objectively is needed.
This research was supported by the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the Chung-Ang University HNRC-ITRC (Home Network Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA-Institute of Information Technology Assessment.
Integrated Matching Algorithm Process.
QoS Measurement Process.
System Architecture.
System Architecture of the Matchmaking Engine.
System Architecture of Rule Based Search Module.
System Implementation method.
User Interface Screen (English Version 1.0).
Search Result Screen (English Version 1.0).
Total matching ratio.
Matching ratio of Service Description Information.
Matching ratio of Service Functional Description.
Matching ratio of Input/Output information.
Matching ratio QoS(Quality of Services).
Strong and Weak Points of Current Models.
|Strong Points
|Weak Points
Capable of flexible and efficient matching using LARKS language for service advertisement and request.
Supports matching for both phrases and queries using five different types of matching filters.
Semantic method practically impossible.
Multi broker agent plays role of meson.
Results provided through cooperation between brokers by applying peer-to-peer system method.
Does not use standardized service description language.
Semantic web system using OWL-S based broker.
Suggests new OWL-S to clarify broker function.
Bottlenecks may occur when transmitting data.
Semantic matching done with DAML-S.
Service grading method using matching algorithm.
Accurate service search difficult because specific ranking not provided within the same level/grade.
Matching Factors of Web Services.
|Service Description information
|Service Name
|Describe the introduction of Service
|Service Description
|Describe Service Characteristic and Description
|Input/Output information
|Input/Output Name
|Matching between Input/Output Name
|Input/Output Data type
|Matching between Input/Output Data type
|Input/Output Constraint
|Matching between Input/Output Constraint
|Service Functional Description
|Service Functional Description
|Describe the Service Functional information using (input, output, precondition, effect) Function
|Availability, Response Time, Throughput, Reliability, Accessibility, Price
The Algorithm of Web Services Matching Factors.
|Service Description information
|Input/Output information
|Service Functional Description
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Docket: 02N-0209 - Request for Comment on First Amendment Issues
Comment Number: EC -352
Accepted - Volume 6
Comment Record
Dr. Frann Michel
2002-09-06 14:42:56
Dr. Frann Michel
Comments for FDA General
1. Are there arguments for regulating speech about drugs more comprehensively than, for example, about dietary supplements? What must an administrative record contain to sustain such a position? In particular, could FDA sustain a position that certain promotional speech about drugs is inherently misleading, unless it complies with FDA requirements? Does anything turn on whether the speech is made to learned intermediaries or to consumers? What is the evidentiary basis of such a distinction?
The FDA's position should be that public health takes priority over commercial speech considerations, and the agency should do everything it can to defend its authority to restrict commercial speech in the effort to protect public health.
2. Is FDA's current position regarding direct-to-consumer and other advertisements consistent with empirical research on the effects of those advertisements, as well as with relevant legal authority? What are the positive and negative effects, if any, of industry's promotion of prescription drugs, biologics, and/or devices? Does the current regulatory approach and its implementation by industry lead to over-prescription of drugs? Do they increase physician visits or patient compliance with medication regimes? Do they cause patient visits that lead to treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry lead to adequate treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Do they lead to adequate patient understanding of the potential risks associated with use of drugs? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry create any impediments to the ability of doctors to give optimal medical advice or prescribe optimal treatment?
All good questions! The FDA should emphasize that commercial speech serves promotional purposes much more than educational ones. These promotional purposes do not deserve constitutional protection and -- even when not technically untruthful or misleading -- may by omission, emphasis or emotional appeal spur consumer purchasing with patterns that are contrary to public health goals.


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