Policies have been adopted for many reasons within web services and Service-oriented Architecture in general. However, while they are a favoured method of management, this only oc...
Consistency criteria adopted for the transactional management of shared objects define the degree of allowable interleaving between concurrent transactions. This paper presents an...
: Despite some deficiencies, the Internet management framework is widely deployed and thousands of Management Information Base (MIB) modules have been defined thus far. These modul...
Business Process Management (BPM) is often a key component of the business change. Business rules, whether embedded within BPM or on their own, have begun playing an ever-increasi...
Over recent years, the need to introduce rapidly new telecommunications services has led to the development of the Intelligent Network (IN). These services and the increasingly com...