Glossary

Availability

Domain-based wiki

A wiki clone extended with ad-hoc services, useful for specific domains of knowledge (e.g., enterprise, university, public administration domains).

Ontology

QoS-aware Ontology-based framework, WikiFactory framework

A framework that produces QoS-enabled domain-based wiki. In order to realize the customization of the wiki services it makes use of domain ontologies. In addition, it provides the wiki with QoS management.

QoS-enabled domain-based wiki

A domain-based wiki which guarantees QoS requirements to be respected.

Scalability

Schema

Service

A module with a set of features; the service is created by using the WikiFactory and corresponds to a functionality the resulting domain-based wiki provides its users with. There are two types of services, basic services and composite services.

Wiki clone

A specific wiki-application, implemented in a specific language. Examples of wiki-clones are: TWiki, MediaWiki, PHPWiki, etc.

Wiki Engine

A component of the WikiFactory Application. It has the responsibility of tailoring the Wiki Instance Descriptor to the specific chosen Wiki clone. That is, given a Wiki Service Segmentation it maps the each service with a script of a specific Wiki clone.

Wiki Instance Descriptor

Wiki Services Segmentation

To indentify an abstract set of Wiki services in order to map eachservice, basic or composed, into a single operation or script of a specific wiki clone.
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