Network-Centric Service Oriented Enterprise

This is the first comprehensive book about the emerging technology of Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprise (NCSOE). It establishes a system-of-systems (SoS) view of information technologies. The book discusses the practical capability of a competitive ecosystem in terms of how to achieve decision superiority from exploiting information and situation awareness as a key enabler in multiple sectors of the economy.

William Y. Chang, co-author of 'Service Assurance for Voice over WiFi and 3G Networks,' is a founder of AcuMaestro, Inc., and has over twenty years of consulting, engineering, and development experience in telecommunications, financial, and defense industries.

Mr. Chang's credentials reflect a career of blending leading-edge solution quality with system engineering, deep-information management, telecommunications technologies, mobile-service creation and operation, and commercial software-product development. Currently, he serves as a Lead System Integrator and Technical Consultant in the Future Combat System (FCS) Division at Boeing. His affiliations include: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he was Principal Systems Engineer with the Tactical Systems and Solutions business unit; AcuMaestro, as their Chief Technology Officer; Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia), where he was the Principal Systems Engineer of the Next Generation Network OSS Engineering Group; Bell Laboratories, as a software-architecture consultant for the AT&T Customer Network Management solution and federal government network management system (FTS2000); Tandem Computer Corporation, where he provided engineering consultation for a distributed-banking solution; and Unisys Corporation, where he was a firmware engineer in the intelligent-terminal development group. He holds a Master of Arts in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and is pursuing a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering.