Intelligent Networking, Collaborative Systems and Applications

by Caballe, Santi; Xhafa, Fatos; Abraham, Ajith

• ISBN13: 9783642167928
• ISBN10: 3642167926
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-19
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book covers the latest advances in intelligent networking and collaborative systems that lead to gain competitive advantages in business and academia scenarios. Overall, the book contributes with the following:·         Social network analysis is a rapidly growing field to investigate the dynamics and structure of intelligent Web-based networking and collaborative systems. The book provides knowledge management and adaptive solutions to enhance the information shared among peers in well-known social networks.·         Virtual organizations strongly leverage intelligent networking and collaborative systems by a great variety of formal and informal electronic relations, such as business-to-business, peer-to-peer and many types of online collaborative interactions. The book proposes solutions for the resulting entangled systems that need to be managed efficiently and in an autonomous way. ·         Emerging powerful infrastructures based on Grid, Cloud and Wireless technologies are currently enhancing collaborative and networking applications a great deal but also facing new issues and challenges, some of them are addressed in the book. Also, the book provides solutions to virtual communities of practice that lack of full support for organization, management, mobility and security.·         Security and resilience are important and critical issues in networking and collaborative systems that the book covers extensively.