By Kieran Greer
The book is titled 'Thinking Networks - the Large and Small of it'. The topics covered span from large global networks to small local neural-like networks, hence the title. The book is mainly a research monograph, but it also contains blue sky research suggestions and also some informative or teaching sections. This book tries to cover research areas that look at adding autonomous or reasoning capabilities to information networks. It would be of interest to both academic or industrial researchers looking to build intelligent networks. For example, the telecommunications sector might want to add intelligent services to the Internet or a mobile environment. The book however could be used to build networks that range in size from large Internet-based networks to small local neural network-like structures, and ultimately suggests an architecture on which to build a network that might even begin to 'think'. Some of the research has been proven, while the more ambitious claims or suggestions are for future research.
The book covers areas such as the Internet/p2p/ mobile networks, SOA, Semantic Networks (Semantic Web, Ontologies, Web Services, Grid), AI (including Autonomous systems, Intelligent, Cognitive or Neural Network-like systems, and Bio-inspired networks), XML-based languages and query processes. It is available from different online stores and is also listed on the ACM portal. The technologies that are described in this book are also strongly related to the new 'Cloud Computing' architecture that is being talked about for the Internet.
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