Active Technologies for Network and Service Management: Report on DSOM'99
DSOM’99, the Tenth IFIP/ IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management followed a series of annual meetings, the latest of which took place in Delaware, (DSOM’98) [1], Sydney, Australia (DSOM’97) [2], and L’Aquila, Italy (DSOM’96) [3]. DSOM is a single-track workshop of the management research community. The workshop traditionally stresses interaction and encourages active participation. DSOM’99 was hosted by the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich from October 11–13 in Zürich, Switzerland. Ninety participants attended the event. DSOM’99 was supported by Ascom, BT, IBM, GTE, Lucent, and Swisscom. For technical paper sessions, 55 submissions had been received, out of which 20 were selected for presentation and are published in the workshop proceedings [4]. Ten papers in the program came from Europe, eight papers from the Americas, and two papers from Asia. About half of the contributions originated from industry labs, the other half from academia. The program was structured into seven paper sessions, with a panel at the end of each day. A keynote speech opened up the program.
An Integrated Framework for Implementing Quality of Network Concepts
This paper presents an integrated framework for describing and implementing quality of network (QoN) concepts. It focuses on identifying a systems engineering framework for better understanding how to specify and implement QoN concepts. We demonstrate, by means of several examples, that the quality of service interfaces between the end user and the underlying network are very important. Finally, we provide insights as to future development efforts needed to realize the goal of high quality networks.
Russian Imperialism from Ivan the Great to the Revolution
Chapter 1 Preface to the Paperback Edition Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 The Origins of Russian Imperialism Chapter 5 Pan-Slavism or Pan-Russianism Chapter 6 Russia and the Baltic Chapter 7 Russo-Polish Confrontation Chapter 8 The Ukraine and Muscovite Expansion Chapter 9 Russian Domination in the Balkans Chapter 10 Russian Penetration of the Caucasus Chapter 11 Russian Conquest and Colonization of Central Asia Chapter 12 Russian Designs on the Far East Chapter 13 Notes Chapter 14 About the Authors Chapter 15 Index Chapter 16 Maps