Network Control is currently carried out mainly by means of signalling protocols. Although these protocols are robust and facilitate standardisation, they present several drawback...
The emerging standards for the publication of Web Services are focused on the specification of the static interfaces of the operations to be invoked, or on the service composition...
This paper introduces monitoring applications, which we will show differ substantially from conventional business data processing. The fact that a software system must process and...
There are many underlying hardware architectures for execution of parallel applications. One of these is the Network of Workstations (NOW) which is an interesting solution for use...
In open systems, independent services exist in administrative domains outside that of the consumers of those services. Current standards exist to create management interfaces to a...