Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions highlights the main concepts of e-business as well as the advanced methods, technologies, and aspects that focus on technical support. This book is an essential reference source of professors, students, researchers, developers, and other industry experts in order to provide a vast amount of specialized knowledge sources for promoting e-business.
Sándor Imre was born in Budapest in 1969. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology (BME) in 1993. Next he started his Ph.D. studies at BME and obtained dr. univ. degree in 1996, Ph.D. degree in 1999, and DSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2007. Currently he is carrying his activities as Professor and Head of Dept. of Telecommunications. He is chairman of the Telecommunication Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Editorial Board of two journals: Infocommunications Journal and Hungarian Telecommunications. He was invited to join the Mobile Innovation Centre as R&D director in 2005. His research interests include mobile and wireless systems, quantum computing and communications. Most importantly, he has contributions on different wireless access technologies, mobility protocols, security and privacy, reconfigurable systems, quantum computing-based algorithms and protocols.
Lai Xu is a senior lecturer in the software systems research centre at Bournemouth University. Previously she was a senior researcher at SAP research, Switzerland, a research leader of data management group and a senior research scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Information and computing sciences of the Utrecht University, the Netherlands and the department of computer science of the Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in Computerized Information Systems from Tilburg University, The Netherlands in 2004. Her research interests include service-oriented computing, enterprise systems, business process management, business process modeling, support for business process collaboration and virtual enterprises. [Editor]