High costs for their infrastructure force IT service providers to move from delivering IT
services fully themselves to collaborating with other partners. In this case each party …

The increasing complexity of IT systems requires sophisticated management solutions.
Autonomic computing has been pointed as a possible solution for the management of this …

The composition of network management information is a feature widely required but not
properly supported in traditional management technologies. Web services technology has …

Event handling is a management mechanism that provides means for the network to react
on changes in the network conditions or performance. In the construction of a clean-slate …

Outsourcing--successful, and sometimes painful--has become one of the hottest topics in IT
service management discussions over the past decade. IT services are outsourced to …

This paper investigates the design of a network management solution that relies on the SOA
concepts to access low level network services. The intent is to reduce the gap between the …

QoS adaptation is an important process in inter-domain service management, since it can
guarantee the correct service provisioning when unexpected events occur. However, in inter …

The transport stratum in the ITU-T Next Generation Networks (NGN) is expected to provide
end-to-end connectivity according to the service requirements, the terminal capability and …

The outsourcing of IT services to dedicated providers has been a successful-and sometimes
painful-step for many enterprises in the past decade. More recently also IT services …

As the multiplicity of traditional network management models coexists, and each
management information language has a different level of semantic expressiveness, this …