Modern World Wide Web provides a variety of services
ranging from e-mail and social networking to banking
and shopping. It is difficult for service providers
to manage these Internet services, because: (1) they
exhibit complex structural organization, where
component middleware (such as Java EE) is often used
as building platform, and (2) complex session-
oriented client behavior makes it hard to predict
what impact service management mechanisms will have
on application behavior. This book presents several
new and novel Internet service management techniques
that target two...