Large complex systems (such as Enterprise systems) are often composed of several interacting, independent components. In many such systems, although the behavior of the constituen...
This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
With the growth of mobile computing, users will have simultaneous access to multiple overlaid networks, each with Zdifferent characteristics, services and costs. This paper introd...
The third generation of mobile networks aims to offer services diversified to users, while guaranteeing acceptable QoS. This results in the setting up of strategies of increasingl...
Web services have greatly leveraged the world of Business-to-Business (B2B) communication and promise a lot more through dynamic service composition. In order to compose Web servi...