WIPS IT 1 - Internet Services for Ship Technology

Projekt WIPS IT 1: Internet Services for Ship Technology (Schiffstechnische Dienste im Internet)

Project Summary
In the maritime industry, ship newbuilding classification and ship operation and fleet support are core domains of ship classification societies. These societies supply ship owners, shipping companies and operators with suites of IT-supported services, Internet-based and highly personalized. Access to such services is required worldwide and timely by ship owners, ship surveyors and society head-office staff. Depending on connectivity and context, a variety of different working environments has to be supported: offline and online, mobile and stationary, public and private etc. The WIPS IT 1 project reported here investigates suites of Internet services for several classes of ship technology-related use cases: web-based ship information and calculation services for classification society staff, web- and mobile interface-based ship status checking for ship owners, offline work support for ship surveyors onboard ships with mobile devices, and mobile information services for ship owners, shipping company staff. The service platform and online portal developed in the WIPS IT 1 project have proven to be suitable for provision of services and information to support mobile and stationary, offline and online work environments in the maritime industry. The results presented are the outcome of a joint national R&D project.
The WIPS-IT 1 Portal (NOTE: Access to the WIPS IT 1 Service Portal can be obtained upon request.) WIPS Project Slides Project motivation and overview slides.

Project Management
Software Systems Institute (STS), Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
	Dipl.-Inf. Patrick Hupe - Project Manager WIPS IT 1.1
	Prof. Dr. Joachim W. Schmidt - Head of Research Department
	M.Sc. Mubashir Aziz - Mobility Support
	Dipl.-Inf. Rainer Marrone - Portal Platform

Germanischer Lloyd, Research Department (ERC)
	Dipl.-Math. Uwe Langbecker - Project Manager WIPS IT 1.2 since 5/2002
	Dr.-Ing. Uwe Rabien - Head of Department and Project Manager WIPS IT 1.2 from 9/2000 until 4/2002
	Dr. Christian Cabos - Head of Department since 5/2002

Project Duration and Grant
Project Start:	October 1st, 2000
Project End:	September 30th, 2003
Grants:	German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, bmb+f), grant EUT 871a (WIPS IT 1.1) and 03SX166 (WIPS IT 1.2).

Selected Research Areas
Service Platform	Portal-centric service infrastructure designed, realized, evaluated, and tested in the ship newbuilding classification and ship operation and fleet support application domains.
Information and Knowledge Management	Focusing on ship classification regulation domain.
Service Integration	Expansion of web-based service platform to local offline work environments; integration of industry-specific services
Process Support	Process Support spanning mobile and stationary, online and offline work environments.
Personal Information Portals	Personal Information Portals providing local work contexts synchronized with the central portal at Germanischer Lloyd HQ.
Mobile Services in the Martime Industry	Mobile Ship Survey Support and Mobile Area Office Finder Service.

Online Material
	Mobile Service - Mobile Port Finder video presentation (mpeg; ca. 30MB)


Project Publications
[Ahm02]	Ahmed, Ayaz: Analysis and Design of Process Concepts for a Cooperative Information System, Student Project, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Februar 2002
[Ahm03]	Ahmed, Ayaz: Prototype of Software Components for Process Support in an Enterprise Information Portal, Master Thesis, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Februar 2003
[Aru03]	Arumugam, Mahendhran: Mapping and Relating XML Business Object Structures - A Case Study, Student Project, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Oktober 2003
[Aziz03]	Aziz, Mubashir: A model for mobility-aware information system services, Master Thesis, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, März 2003
[Chan04]	Chanda, Misumbi Sylvester: Integration of a Rule Engine Component With a Portal Platform, Master Thesis [presentation], Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Januar 2004
[Eelbo03]	Eelbo, Jan: Synchronisation von Besichtigungsinformationen, Studienarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Juli 2003
[Eelbo04]	Eelbo, Jan: Realisierung von Softwarekomponenten zur Definition und Ausführung von Geschäftsprozessen, Diplomarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Juni 2004
[Ge03a]	Ge, Jing: Einbindung des WebDAV-Dienstes in ein Informationsportal, Studienarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Mai 2003
[Ge03b]	Ge, Jing: A Web Services-based Interface for an Information Portal Platform, Diplomarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Dezember 2003
[Gich02]	Gichahi, Henry Kamau: Analysis and Design of a Rule-based System for Process Support in a Maritime Information Portal, Student Project, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Mai 2002
[Gich03]	Gichahi, Henry Kamau: Rule-based Process Support for an Enterprise Information Portal, Master Thesis, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Februar 2003
[HLAS04]	Hupe, Patrick, Langbecker, Uwe, Aziz, Mubashir, Schmidt, J.W.: Mobile and Web-based Services for Ship Operation and Survey: A Portal-centric Approach, In: Bertram. V.: Proceedings of COMPIT ’04, Siguenza, Spanien.
[Hupe04]	Hupe, Patrick: Prozessunterstützung in multimodalen Arbeitsumgebungen (Arbeitstitel), Dissertation, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, 2004. work in progress
[Kaya01]	Kaya, Atila: Workflow Interoperability, Master Thesis, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, April 2001
[Khan02]	Khan, Lateef Abdul: Multilinguality Support for a Maritime Online Portal, Master Thesis, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Dezember 2002
[Lehel01]	Lehel, Vanda: Entwurf und Realisierung eines Basisdienstes zur Unterstützung arbeitsteiliger Geschäftsvorgänge in einem Unternehmensportal, Studienarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Juli 2001
[Lehel02]	Lehel, Vanda: Synchronisation von Informationsobjekten zwischen Portalen, Diplomarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, September 2002
[Per03]	Perera-Antón, César: Eine Sicherheitsarchitektur für eine Informationssystem-Plattform, Diplomarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Dezember 2003
[Quin04]	Quintanilla Cabañero, Alberto: Mobile Internet Communities in WIPS Project, Diplomarbeit, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, März 2004
[Yaldiz04]	Yaldiz, Sunay: Evaluation of Web Application Development Frameworks and Object-Relational Mappers: A Case Study, Student Project, Arbeitsbereich Softwaresysteme, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Februar 2004

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Patrick Hupe, nov-2004