ISBN: 3-540-67152-8
TITLE: Telecommunications and IT Convergence. Towards Service E-volution
AUTHOR: Delgado, Jaime; Stamoulis, George D.; Mullery, Al; Prevedourou, Didoe; Start, Keith (Eds.)
TOC:

eCommerce
Miltiades Anagnostou 1
A Mobile Agent Brokering Environment for the Future Open Network Marketplace
David Chieng, Ivan Ho, Alan Marshall, Gerard Parr 3
Legal and Administrative Services Through Electronic Commerce
Silvia Llorente, Jaime Delgado 17
Developing Communications Efficiency Through Management and Control
Tony Richardson 31
Load Balancing for a Distributed CORBA-Based SCP
Conor McArdle, Niklas Widell, Christian Nyberg, Erik Lilja, Jenny Nystrm, Thomas Curran 33
Measurement Based Connection Admission Control Algorithm for ATM Networks that Use Low Level Compression
Ioannis Papaefstathiou 49
Integrating Position Reporting, Routing and Mobility Management in Multihop Packet Radio Networks
Konstantinos Amouris, Symeon Papavassiliou, Sheng Xu 61
Architectures for Multimedia Communications
Han Zuidweg 73
Towards Mobile Agent Based Provision of Voice over IP Services
W. Chang, M. Fischer, T. Magedanz 75
Supporting Advanced Multimedia Telecommunications Services Using the Distributed Component Object Model
Dionisis X. Adamopoulos, George Pavlou, Constantine A. Papandreou 89
Near Client Caching in Large Scale iVoD Systems
P. Hoener, U. Killat 105
Integrated Trouble Management to Support Service Quality Assurance in a Multi-provider Context
Dan Dragan, Thomas Gringel, Jane Hall, Richard Sinnott, Michael Tschichholz, Wilhelm Vortisch 117
Service Creation Techniques for Software Development and Deployment
Peter Schoo 133
Web-Based Agent Applications: User Interfaces and Mobile Agents
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Miguel Mira da Silva, Artur Romo 135
XML and CORBA, Synergistic or Competitive?
Steven Vermeulen, Bart Bauwens, Frans Westerhuis, Rudi Broos 155
Multi-level Component Oriented Methodology for Service Creation
Kurt Verschaeve, Bart Wydaeghe, Frans Westerhuis, Jan De Moerloose 169
Cooling the Hell of Distributed Applications' Deployment
Jos Bonnet, Fabrice Dubois, Sofoklis Efremidis, Pedro Leonardo, Nicholas Malavazos, Daniel Vincent 181
Agent-Based Management
Andreas Kind 189
An Approach to Network Control and Resource Management Based on Intelligent Agents
Evangelos Vayias, John Soldatos, Nikolas Mitrou 191
Providing Customisable Network Management Services Through Mobile Agents
David Griffin, George Pavlou, Panos Georgatsos 209
Accounting Architecture Involving Agent Capabilities
Kostas Zygourakis, Didoe Prevedourou, George Stamoulis 227
IN Load Control Using a Competitive Market-Based Multi-agent System
A. Patel, K. Prouskas, J. Barria, J. Pitt 239
Virtual Home Environment
Abarca Chelo 255
An Agent Based Service Inter-working Architecture for the Virtual Home Environment
P. Jaya Shankar, V. Chandrasekaran, N. Desikan 257
Architectures for the Provision of Position Location Services in Cellular Networking Environments
Sofoklis A. Kyriazakos, George T. Karetsos 269
PANI: Personal Agent for Network Intelligence
David Kerr, Richard Evans, John Hickie, Donie O'Sullivan, Setanta Mathews, James Kennedy 283
Agent-Based Support of Advanced Personal Mobility Features
M. Louta, K. Raatikainen, A. Kaltabani, N. Liossis, E. Tzifa, P. Demestichas, M. Anagnostou 297
Integrated and Scalable Solutions for Telecommunications Management
Sebastiano Trigila 313
Approaches to Integrating Telecoms Management Systems
V. Wade, D. Lewis, C. Malbon, T. Richardson, L. Sorensen, C. Stathopoulos 315
Deploying a Hierarchical Management Framework Using Mobile Agent Technology
Damianos Gavalas, Dominic Greenwood, Mohammed Ghanbari, Mike O'Mahony 333
List of Authors 349
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