Intelligence in Services and Networks. Paving the Way for an Open Service Market

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Towards Future Telecommunications Management Architectures

   • Vincent P. Wade

   Pages 1-2

3. A Practical Perspective on TMN Evolution

   • Rob Davison, Terry Turner

   Pages 3-12

4. Accounting Management in a TINA-Based Service and Network Environment

   • Patrick Hellemans, Cliff Redmond, Koen Daenen, Dave Lewis

   Pages 13-24

5. A New Architecture for Open and Distributed Network Management

   • Rob Davison, Jim Hardwicke

   Pages 25-37

6. Intelligence in Brokerage and Retrieval

   • Eleutherios Athanassiou

   Pages 39-40

7. Self-Organization and Learning in MultiAgent Based Brokerage Services

   • Marie Pierre Gleizes, Alain Léger, Eleutherios Athanassiou, Pierre Glize

   Pages 41-54

8. Open Architecture for Distributed Search Systems

   • Mikhail Bessonov, Udo Heuser, Igor Nekrestyanov, Ahmed Patel

   Pages 55-69

9. Building Topic-Specific Collections with Intelligent Agents

   • Igor Nekrestyanov, Tadhg O’Meara, Ahmed Patel, Ekaterina Romanova

   Pages 70-82

10. Interworking

    • Keith Start

    Pages 83-83

11. Design of the CORBA/TC Inter-working Gateway

    • Nilo Mitra, Rob Brennan

    Pages 84-100

12. CORBA Interworking over SS.7

    • Nils Fischbeck, Olaf Kath

    Pages 101-113

13. Signalling System No. 7 as an Agent Platform Message Transport Protocol

    • Rob Brennan, Brendan Jennings, Thomas Curran

    Pages 114-127

14. Issues in Agent Technology

    • Joachim Quantz

    Pages 129-130

15. Usability Challenges in Agent Based Services

    • Eija Kaasinen

    Pages 131-142

16. Management of Mobile Agent Based Services

    • Markus Breugst, Sang Choy

    Pages 143-154

17. Mobile Agent Security — Issues and Directions

    • Kristian Schelderup, Jon Ølnes

    Pages 155-167

18. A CORBA Environment Supporting Mobile Objects

    • Sang Choy, Markus Breugst, Thomas Magedanz

    Pages 168-180

19. Component Reuse

    • Willie Donnelly

    Pages 181-182

20. Web-Based Service Customization in an IN-TINA Environment

    • Christian Hubert

    Pages 183-193

Paving the Way for an Open Service Market We live in an age when powerful communications technology is becoming available to everyone. From our home we can send and receive not only analogue voice, but also growing volumes of digital information and even intelligence in the form of agents. We are becoming increasingly mobile and are expecting the same level of connectivity in the home, in the office, and on the road. The regulatory and commercial environment in which we communicate is changing. The telecommunications market is becoming increasingly competitive. The Internet is erasing the borders between information technology and telecommunications. And the way we do business is ever more dominated by electronic exchanges of information. Is our technology ready for the open market of networks and services? Can we manage the growing complexity of computing and telecommunications technology and place it at the service of the people? The challenge for the research community is to develop the tools and techniques that will ultimately bring the full power of communications and information to everyone, in a way that everyone can easily use. The Sixth International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks (IS&N’99) is all about technology for paving the way to the open services market. Since the first IS&N conference in 1992 the focus of the IS&N program has continually shifted. We see existing technologies maturing while new ones emerge, but the bottom line has always been putting technology at the service of the people.

• Information Agents
• Intelligent Networking
• Internet
• Internet Technology
• Multimedia Services
• Telecommunication Services
• micro-alloy transistor
• network management
• security

• Alcatel Research, Antwerpen, Belgium

  Han Zuidweg

• European Commission, Bruxelles, Belgium

  Mario Campolargo

• Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  Jaime Delgado

• I.C. Europe, Cagnes sur Mer, France

  Al Mullery

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