Description:This new handbook is a definitive guide for computer scientists, engineers, and any one who needs or wants to learn about this fascinating field. The author covers current practices, key concepts, and major trends in the field and discusses, in detail, major application scenarios, architecture, systems techniques, and technologies. He includes exhaustive coverage of the key concepts of internet computing along with many of the new topics like Grid, Security, the deep Web, Medical informatics, Pervasive Computing and more. The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing is the first and only comprehensive and authoritative treatment of internet computing available.