CALLAWAY, ROBERT DAVID. An Autonomic Service Delivery Platform for Service-Oriented Network Environments. (Under the direction of Michael Devetsikiotis and Yannis Viniotis.) Service-oriented architectures offer a more effective and flexible approach to integrating technology with business processes than traditional information technology (IT) architectures. Service-oriented architectures are the foundation for both next-generation telecommunications and middleware architectures, which are rapidly converging on top of commodity transport services. Services such as triple/quadruple play, multimedia messaging, and presence are enabled by the emerging service-oriented IP Multimedia Subsystem, and allow telecommunications service providers to maintain, if not improve, their position in the marketplace. Service-oriented architectures are aggressively leveraged in next-generation middleware systems as the system model of choice to interconnect service consumers and providers within and be...
Robert D. Callaway, Michael Devetsikiotis, Yannis