The DMTF’s recent work on management information modeling in the IP world has highlighted that a number of problems are still unsolved in this important area of enterprise manage...
—Internet users interact with multiple Web Service Providers (WSP), and therefore, must remember and manage multiple passwords. Users try to overcome the burden of password manag...
Workspace awareness techniques have been proposed to enhance the effectiveness of software configuration management systems in coordinating parallel work. These techniques share i...
The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...
Today's data networks are surprisingly fragile and difficult to manage. We argue that the root of these problems lies in the complexity of the control and management planes--...