This book presents the revised version of seven tutorials given at the NETWORKING 2002 Conference in Pisa, Italy in May 2002.
The lecturers present a coherent view of the core issues in the following areas:
- peer-to-peer computing and communications
- mobile computing middleware
- network security in the multicast framework
- categorizing computing assets according to communication patterns
- remarks on ad-hoc networking
- communication through virtual technologies
- optical networks.

This book examines organizational issues facing networked enterprises: methodologies, empirical contexts and policies; software methodologies and technologies; knowledge elicitation and management and more. Uses a case study throughout as a reference example.