Location-based services (LBS) denote services provided to mobile users according to their geographic location. Such services are emerging as value-added services, and their implementation requires a secure and reliable wireless architecture. This paper identifies technical challenges related to LBS technologies, and presents a cost-effective wireless network architecture which can efficiently s...

The growing number of commercial Internet-based data mining service providers is indicative of the emerging trend of data mining application services. It validates the recognition that knowledge is a key resource in strategic organisational decision-making. The trend also establishes that the Application Service Provider (ASP) paradigm is seen as a cost-effective approach to meet the business i...

This paper focuses on deployment of voice over the Internet for the customers of a global services provider which needed to extend cost-effectively the portfolio of enhanced voice services including unified messaging, post paid and prepaid calling card services along with related validation, billing and payment systems. Key-words: VoIP, Internet, SS7, Compression, QoS

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in various academic and business domains in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to look into this term within a different proposition as a knowledge delivery ecosystem instead of being merely a model for technology deployment. This paper tries to explore various topics and resources in recent years which have appeared in both scientific and business ...

Over the past several years, mobile communications and architectures that support them have come into the mainstream for enabling businesses to communicate better with their customers. This chapter presents a mobile services design based on service oriented architecture (SOA) principles that was successfully used to implement mobile banking. The engineering methods used to design and deliver SM...

Very large data centers are very expensive (servers, power/cooling, networking, physical plant.) Newer, geo-diverse, distributed or containerized designs offer a more economical alternative. We argue that a significant portion of cloud services are embarrassingly distributed – meaning there are high performance realizations that do not require massive internal communication among large server p...

The Black Adoption Research and Placement Center is a nonprofit organization delivering culturally specific adoption and foster care services. The organization developed as a response to concerns in the African-American community about the high numbers of African-American children entering and not exiting the public foster care system. The organization has undergone significant transformations ...

The information services market, emerging from the convergence of telecommunications, information technology, entertainment and other industries, poses serious challenges for operational support systems. Historical ways of understanding and delivering operational support functions will no longer work. Business management functions will increasingly be a major commercial differentiator in the ne...