1 Distributed and collaborative applications are rapidly converging towards the adoption of a computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures, according to which an appl...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time,...
David L. Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Sheila A. McIlr...
IMT-2000 has been developing in both cdma2000 and W-CDMA, and their convergence or harmonization has also been discussed in several standard organizations. Besides the most expert...
Telco providers are in the phase of migrating their services from PSTN to so called Next Generation Networks (NGNs) based on standard IP connectivity. This switch is expected to pr...