Trends in Distributed Systems : Towards a Universal Service Market : Third International Ifip/Gi Working Conference, Usm 2000, Munich, Germany, September 12-14, 2000 : Proceedings

Usm 200 (2000 Munich, Germany); Linnhoff-Popien, Claudia (EDT); Hegering, Heinz-Gerd (EDT); Hegering, Heinz-Gerd

ISBN 10: 3540410244 / ISBN 13: 9783540410249

Published by Springer, 2000

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• Title: Trends in Distributed Systems : Towards a Universal Service Market : Third International Ifip/Gi Working Conference, Usm 2000, Munich, Germany, September 12-14, 2000 : Proceedings
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540410244
• ISBN 13: 9783540410249
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

USM 2000 is the third event in a series of international IFIP/GI conferences on Trends in Distributed Systems. Following the venues in Aachen, Germany (1996) and Hamburg, Germany (1998), this event in Munich considers the trend towards a Universal Service Market – USM 2000. The trend towards a universal service market has many origins, e.g., the integration of telecom and data communications, the deregulation e?orts with respect to telco markets, the globalization of information, the virtualization of companies, the requirement of a short time-to-market, the advances in network technologies, the increasing acceptance of e-commerce, and the increase in - bility. This leads to new business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) environments that o?er both challenges and opportunities to enterprises and end-users. There is the need for ubiquitous services, trading, brokering and information management, for service market and business models, and for ?e- ble infrastructures for dynamic collaboration. Researchers, service vendors, and users must cooperate to set up the app- priate requirements for a universal service market and to ?nd solutions with respect to supporting platforms, middleware, distributed applications, and m- agement. The basis for these solution is a common understanding of means for de?ning, creating, implementing, and deploying the service market. Then, s- vice market makers, service aggregators, service auctioneers, ISP, ASP, BPO, and customers can freely interact in a dynamic, open, and universal market place.

Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International IFIP/GI Working Conference on Trends Towards a Universal Service Market, USM 2000, held in Munich, Germany in September 2000. The 28 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic auctions and trading, Internet-based service markets, quality of service, mobile and distributed services, middleware architectures, service management, mobile agents and applications, and trends in data- and telecommunications.