Faced with the rapid increase in smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and the high demand
for new business-oriented services in the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond network, the …

Software systems dealing with distributed applications in changing environments normally
require human supervision to continue operation in all conditions. These (re-) configuring …

In previous chapters we have discussed the architecture of information systems (Chapter 1),
middleware and enterprise application integration (Chapters 2 and 3), and the basics of …

Abstract Service-oriented architectures (SOA) is an emerging approach that addresses the
requirements of loosely coupled, standards-based, and protocol-independent distributed …

Autonomic Computing is a concept that brings together many fields of computing with the
purpose of creating computing systems that self-manage. In its early days it was criticised as …

The Ponder language provides a common means of specifying security policies that map
onto various access control implementation mechanisms for firewalls, operating systems …

We propose a new objective for network research: to build a fundamentally different sort of
network that can assemble itself given high level instructions, reassemble itself as …

The state-of-the-art in the area of modelling of organisations is based on fixed metamodels.
Due to rapid changing business requirements the complexity in develo** applications …

We describe a policy language designed for pervasive computing applications that is based
on deontic concepts and grounded in a semantic language. The pervasive computing …

Modern distributed systems contain a large number of objects and must be capable of
evolving, without shutting down the complete system, to cater for changing requirements …