ISBN: 3-540-65895-5
TITLE: Intelligence in Services and Networks. Paving the Way for an Open Service Market
AUTHOR: Zuidweg, Han; Campolargo, Mario; Delgado, Jaime; Mullery, Al (Eds.)
TOC:

Towards Future Telecommunications Management Architectures 1
Vincent P. Wade
A Practical Perspective on TMN Evolution 3
Rob Davison, Terry Turner
Accounting Management in a TINA-Based Service and Network Environment 13
Patrick Hellemans, Cliff Redmond, Koen Daenen, Dave Lewis
A New Architecture for Open and Distributed Network Management 25
Rob Davison, Jim Hardwicke
Intelligence in Brokerage and Retreival 39
Eleutherios Athanassiou
Self-Organisation and Learning in MultiAgent Based Brokerage Services 41
Marie Pierre Gleizes, Alain Lger, Eleutherios Athanassiou, Pierre Glize
Open Architecture for Distributed Search Systems 55
Mikhail Bessonov, Udo Heuser, Igor Nekrestyanov, Ahmed Patel
Building Topic-Specific Collections with Intelligent Agent 70
Igor Nekrestyanov, Tadhg O'Meara, Ahmed Patel, Ekaterina Romanova
Interworking 83
Keith Start
Design of the CORBA/TC Inter-working Gateway 84
Nilo Mitra, Rob Brennan
CORBA Interworking over SS.7 101
Nils Fischbeck, Olaf Kath
Signalling System No.7 as an Agent Platform Message Transport Protocol 114
Rob Brennan, Brendan Jennings, Thomas Curran
Issues in Agent Technology 129
Joachim Quantz
Usability Challenges in Agent Based Services 131
Eija Kaasinen
Management of Mobile Agent Based Services 143
Markus Breugst, Sang Choy
Mobile Agent Security - Issues and Directions 155
Kristian Schelderup, Jon lnes
A CORBA Environment Supporting Mobile Objects 168
Sang Choy, Markus Breugst, Thomas Magedanz
Component Reuse 181
Willie Donnelly
Web-Based Service Customization in an IN-TINA Environment 183
Christian Hubert
Customizing Telecommunication Services: Patterns, Issues, and Models 194
Linas Maknavicius, Gautier Koscielny, Simon Znaty
Modelling Management Components for Reuse Using UML 210
Dave Lewis, Chris Malbon, Alina DaCruz
Automated Design of Modular SNMP-CORBA Gateways and Their Application for the Development of an ADSL Access Network Manager 223
Filip Vandermeulen, Piet Demeester, Piet De Ceuleners, Jean-Marc Reynders
Mobility Management 239
Fabrizio Zizza
Roaming Aspects of Ubiquitous Mobile Service Support 240
John C. Francis, Bernhard Diem
A Personal Naming and Directory Service for UMTS Users 250
Alain Macaire, David Carlier
The Application of Mobile Agent Technology to Mobility Management in MARINE 263
Mark Donnelly, Ivan Griffin, Conor Morris, John Nelson
Service Creation 275
Sofoklis Efremidis
Alignment of the TOSCA and SCREEN Approaches to Service Creation 277
Fiona Lodge, Kristofer Kimbler, Manuel Hubert
Service Logic Deployment and Distribution Configuration 291
Anastasia Kaltabani, Elsa Cardoso, Evangelia Tzifa, Panagiotis Demestichas, Antnio Silva, Miltiades E. Anagnostou
Simplifying Real-Time Multimedia Application Development Using Session Descriptions 305
Sarom Ing, Steve Rudkin
An Environment for IN Service Prototyping and Validation 315
Kristofer Kimbler, Carl-Henrik Hagenfeldt, Jan Ellsberger, Gustav Bergman
Towards the Seamless Integration of Mobile Agents into Service Creation Practice 328
Andreas Kind, Miltiades E. Anagnostou, Malamati D. Louta, Jan Nicklisch, Juan Tous
The Pros and Cons of Using SDL for Creation of Distributed Services 342
Anders Olsen, Didier Demany, Elsa Cardoso, Fiona Lodge, Mario Kolberg, Morgan Bjrkander, Richard Sinnott
Multimedia Services & Security 355
Jaime Delgado
Audio/Video Stream Binding in a Pan-European Service Management Platform 357
Eric Sellin, Peter Loosemore, Sohail Rana, Jrgen Dittrich, Maarten Wegdam
Java Enabled MPEG-4 Services: The MPEG-J Framework 373
Roberto Becchini, Gianluca De Petris
Key Management Framework for IP Multicast Infrastructure Security 385
Thomas Hardjono
Mobility in TINA 399
Sebastiano Trigila
Performance Evaluation of an Allocation Strategy for TINA Compliant Mobile Agents Supporting PCS in a Multi-retailer Environment 401
Alfio Lombardo, Pietro Nicosia, Sergio Palazzo, Marina Samarotto, Giovanni Schembra
Locating TINA User Agents: Strategies for a Broker Federation and Their Comparison 416
Axel Kpper
Agent-Based Service and Retailer Selection in a Personal Mobility Context 429
George D. Stamoulis, Dimitrios Kalopsikakis, Anna Kirikoglou, Vasilios A. Siris, Didoe Prevedourou, Sofoklis Efremidis, Henryka Jormakka
Distributed Intelligence in Services and Networks 443
Alex Galis
Modularization of TINA Reference Points for Information Networking 446
Peter Schoo, Christian Egelhaaf, Tim Eckardt, Nazim Agoulmine, Michael Tschichholz
Relevance of Existing Intelligent Network Infrastructure to the Internet 459
Christos Solomonides, Mark Searle
Introduction of DOT/MAT into a Broadband IN Architecture for Flexible Service Provision 469
Lorenzo Faglia, Thomas Magedanz, Andreas Papadakis
The Use of TINA Principles in the Management of Internet Multimedia Conferences 482
Quincy Cabell, Peter Kirstein, Theodore Pagtzis, Thanassis Tiropanis, Lichun Wang
Agent Support for Resource, Network, and Enterprise Management 499
Divine Ndumu
Knowledge Modelling in Multiagent Systems: The Case of the Management of a National Network 501
Martn Molina, Sascha Ossowski
Multi-agent System for Network Resource Management 514
John Bigham, Laurie Cuthbert, Alex Hayzelden, Zhiyuan Luo
Efficiency Evaluation of a Mobile Agent Based Network Management System 527
Kiminori Sugauchi, Satoshi Miyazaki, Stefan Covaci, Tianning Zhang
A Mobile Intelligent Agent Based Virtual Enterprise Support Environment 536
Stefan Covaci, Markus Zell, Rudi Broos
Author Index 551
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