This article presents an overview of standards and a survey of recent work on QoS control of next generation networks (NGNs). We outline primarily standardized QoS control architec...
—Many collaboration platforms are realized as service-oriented systems enabling flexible compositions of services and support of interactions. Interactions between entities in s...
Emerging trust and risk management systems provide a framework for principals to determine whether they will exchange resources, without requiring a complete definition of their ...
Credit card transactions are a popular and diffused means of payment over the network. Unfortunately, current technology does not allow us to technically solve disputes that may ...
The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessin...