WS-Agreement offers a general language and protocol to establish agreements between two parties. In principle, this generality enables a wide variety of domains to be covered. Yet...
Wilfried Jouve, Julien Lancia, Charles Consel, Cal...
Abstract. The new wireless technologies for telecommunications networks and devices will enable new kinds of mobile services [7] and create enormous business opportunities [2]. Eff...
Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) systems use the object-oriented information modelling techniques and communication facilities provided by OSI Systems Management (SM). ...
The emergence of high-speed communication systems has enabled the support of complex multimedia applications. The traffic patterns generated by such applications are likely to be ...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...