"This book covers some of the hottest topics currently being debated by the Internet community at large, including Internet governance, privacy issues, service delivery automation, advanced networking schemes, and new approaches to Internet traffic-forwarding and path-computation...

"Convergence is undoubtedly revolutionizing communications technologies and businesses, merging networks of different types and origins. Hence, the future depends on the success of combining old and new solutions to serve new customer needs. Thus, this book addresses Intelligent- and IP-Networks...

The advances of the WWW have dramatically increased the need for efficient and flexible mechanisms to provide integration methods for multiple information sources, which has caused a need for a careful integration of the concepts and systems. It is of great importance for issues and concerns to...

Nach einer Beschreibung der bei der Gestaltung von Planungssystemen gegebenen Entscheidungssituation werden die wissenschaftlichen Methoden diskutiert, mit denen der Anwender in dieser Meta-Entscheidung unterstützt werden kann. Ein Uberblick über die bisherigen Anwendungsgebiete der dafür...