Bartolomeo G., Kovacikova T. Identification and Management of Distributed Data: NGN, Content-Centric Networks and the Web

CRC Press, 2013 — 280 p. — ISBN: 9781439879085The motivation for this book was to provide students and future infor- mation engineers with a useful collection of Internet standards, technologies, and techniques that derive from research projects for the management of distributed data. We wrote the book during a very exciting period of the Internet. The ubiquitous access of the Internet in daily life by all has allowed the emergence of new sorts of businesses, based on the staggering — and at times puzzling — amount of information on the Internet. Search engines, social networking, online advertising, and online commerce have been built on the aggregation and sharing of personal data. Carriers closely cooperate with content providers to allow a deeper integration between their services and the underlying network, therefore improving the quality of their custom- ers’ experience. Governments and public administrations have begun to simplify the way public data are accessed by opening their archives to citizens through the web.