The evolution of IT and network technologies has generated far-reaching opportunities for
complex service innovation in future Internet. This has resulted in an increase in the …

The advent of new Internet applications and services has seen an increase in heterogeneity
and complexity in service provisioning. These services require high-end non-network …

New generation network services must be deployed and managed according to the
customers' specific requirements. In this context, service providers must devise a way to …

Semantic Web Services, one of the most significant research areas within the Semantic Web
vision, has attracted increasing attention from both the research community and industry …

In this paper, a new service oriented networking paradigm is presented, where network
nodes (peers) are self-organized into individual service entities. The key idea relies on the …

Optical networks continue to provide the highperformance, high-bandwidth substrate of the
planetary communication networks. The rapidly increasing and changing variety of demands …

The new and emerging IT services require very high network capacities and specific IT
resources that cannot be intrinsically delivered by the current Best Effort Internet. In …

The implementation of service oriented architecture (SOA) has proven to be one of the main
initiatives for organizations in gaining necessary agility in the area of information technology …

The service oriented optical network is a project committed to introduce the concept of
service virtualization in optical metro/core networks, by improving the automatic switched …

GEYSERS aims at defining an end-to-end network architecture that offers a novel planning,
provisioning and operational framework for optical network and IT infrastructure providers …