Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate different effects of three network externality factors, i.e. local network size, network strength, and total network size, ...
This paper focuses on two main areas. We first investigate various aspects of subscription and session Service Level Agreement (SLA) issues such as negotiating and setting up netwo...
All the new emerging QoS service architectures are motivated by the desire to improve the overall performance of IP networks. Integrated Services (Intserv), Differentiated Service...
The development of Web Services has transformed the World Wide Web into a more application-aware information portal. The various standards ensure that Web Services are interpretabl...
While online service providers are sometimes accused of forwarding identifying customer information as name and address to untrusted third parties, comparatively little attention ...