– Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are a popular and cost-effective means to build wide-area corporate networks, since they provide bandwidth, privacy and security for a fraction ...
Web services are modular web applications that can be independently deployed and invoked by other software or services on the web. This offers enterprises the capability to integr...
—The third-generation partnership project (3GPP) and 3GPP2 have standardized the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) to provide ubiquitous and access network-independent IP-based servi...
—The timely and efficient management of faults that affect the quality of services delivered to customers is an important issue for service providers with respect to their busin...
Current composite web service development and management solutions, e.g. BPEL, do not cater for assessing and maintaining comparability of business partners during business collab...