Ebook: Telecommunications and IT Convergence Towards Service E-volution: 7th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS&N 2000 Athens, Greece, February 23–25, 2000 Proceedings

Creation Techniques for Software Development and Deployment, Agent-Based Management, Virtual Home Environment, Integrated and Scalable Solutions for Telecommunications Management. This shows that the issues related to communications management, architectures, and service creation are still of great interest, while the virtual home environment is emerging as a new key topic in IS&N. In summary, this book reflects the state of the art in research on IS&N topics, with the focus mentioned above, not only from European Union co-funded projects (mainly in the ACTS programme), but also from research organisations around the globe. February 2000 Jaime Delgado George D. Stamoulis Alvin Mullery Didoe Prevedourou Keith Start Previous IS&N Conferences and Proceedings The first IS&N conference was organised in 1992 in Paris, France. Since then, the IS&N conferences have been held almost every year, with proceedings published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer-Verlag. These are as follows. "Towards a Pan-European Telecommunication Service Infrastructure - IS&N'94", Hans-Jiirgen Kugler, Al Mullery, Norbert Niebert (Eds.), Aachen, Germany, September 1994, LNCS 851, ISBN 3-540-58420-X. "Bringing Telecommunication Services to the People - IS&N'95", Anne Clarke, Mario Campolargo, Nikos Karatzas (Eds.), Heraklion, Greece, October 1995, LNCS 998, ISBN 3-540-60479-0. "Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Cooperative Competition — IS&N'97 Al Mullery, Michel Besson, Mario Campolargo, Roberta Gobbi, Rick Reed (Eds.), Cernobbio, Italy, May 1997, LNCS 1238, ISBN 3-540-63135-6.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks, IS&N 2000, held in Athens, Greece, in February 2000.
The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in sections on electronic commerce, communications efficiency through management and control, architectures for multimedia communications, service creation techniques for software development and deployment, agent-based management, virtual home environments, and integrated and scalable solutions for telecommunications management.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks, IS&N 2000, held in Athens, Greece, in February 2000.
The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in sections on electronic commerce, communications efficiency through management and control, architectures for multimedia communications, service creation techniques for software development and deployment, agent-based management, virtual home environments, and integrated and scalable solutions for telecommunications management.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
A Mobile Agent Brokering Environment for the Future Open Network Marketplace....Pages 3-15
Legal and Administrative Services through Electronic Commerce....Pages 17-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-32
Load Balancing for a Distributed CORBA-Based SCP....Pages 33-48
Measurement Based Connection Admission Control Algorithm for ATM Networks that Use Low Level Compression....Pages 49-60
Integrating Position Reporting, Routing and Mobility Management in Multihop Packet Radio Networks....Pages 61-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-74
Towards Mobile Agent Based Provision of Voice over IP Services....Pages 75-88
Supporting Advanced Multimedia Telecommunications Services Using the Distributed Component Object Model....Pages 89-104
Near Client Caching in Large Scale iVoD Systems....Pages 105-116
Integrated Trouble Management to Support Service Quality Assurance in a Multi-provider Context....Pages 117-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-134
Web-Based Agent Applications: User Interfaces and Mobile Agents....Pages 135-153
XML and CORBA, Synergistic or Competitive?....Pages 155-168
Multi-level Component Oriented Methodology for Service Creation....Pages 169-179
Cooling the Hell of Distributed Applications’ Deployment....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-190
An Approach to Network Control and Resource Management Based on Intelligent Agents....Pages 191-207
Providing Customisable Network Management Services Through Mobile Agents....Pages 209-226
Accounting Architecture Involving Agent Capabilities....Pages 227-237
IN Load Control Using a Competitive Market-Based Multi-agent System....Pages 239-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-256
An Agent Based Service Inter-working Architecture for the Virtual Home Environment....Pages 257-268
Architectures for the Provision of Position Location Services in Cellular Networking Environments....Pages 269-282
PANI: Personal Agent for Network Intelligence....Pages 283-295
Front Matter....Pages 255-256
Agent Based Support of Advanced Personal Mobility Features....Pages 297-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-314
Approaches to Integrating Telecoms Management Systems....Pages 315-332
Deploying a Hierarchical Management Framework Using Mobile Agent Technology....Pages 333-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-352

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks, IS&N 2000, held in Athens, Greece, in February 2000.
The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in sections on electronic commerce, communications efficiency through management and control, architectures for multimedia communications, service creation techniques for software development and deployment, agent-based management, virtual home environments, and integrated and scalable solutions for telecommunications management.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
A Mobile Agent Brokering Environment for the Future Open Network Marketplace....Pages 3-15
Legal and Administrative Services through Electronic Commerce....Pages 17-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-32
Load Balancing for a Distributed CORBA-Based SCP....Pages 33-48
Measurement Based Connection Admission Control Algorithm for ATM Networks that Use Low Level Compression....Pages 49-60
Integrating Position Reporting, Routing and Mobility Management in Multihop Packet Radio Networks....Pages 61-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-74
Towards Mobile Agent Based Provision of Voice over IP Services....Pages 75-88
Supporting Advanced Multimedia Telecommunications Services Using the Distributed Component Object Model....Pages 89-104
Near Client Caching in Large Scale iVoD Systems....Pages 105-116
Integrated Trouble Management to Support Service Quality Assurance in a Multi-provider Context....Pages 117-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-134
Web-Based Agent Applications: User Interfaces and Mobile Agents....Pages 135-153
XML and CORBA, Synergistic or Competitive?....Pages 155-168
Multi-level Component Oriented Methodology for Service Creation....Pages 169-179
Cooling the Hell of Distributed Applications’ Deployment....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-190
An Approach to Network Control and Resource Management Based on Intelligent Agents....Pages 191-207
Providing Customisable Network Management Services Through Mobile Agents....Pages 209-226
Accounting Architecture Involving Agent Capabilities....Pages 227-237
IN Load Control Using a Competitive Market-Based Multi-agent System....Pages 239-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-256
An Agent Based Service Inter-working Architecture for the Virtual Home Environment....Pages 257-268
Architectures for the Provision of Position Location Services in Cellular Networking Environments....Pages 269-282
PANI: Personal Agent for Network Intelligence....Pages 283-295
Front Matter....Pages 255-256
Agent Based Support of Advanced Personal Mobility Features....Pages 297-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-314
Approaches to Integrating Telecoms Management Systems....Pages 315-332
Deploying a Hierarchical Management Framework Using Mobile Agent Technology....Pages 333-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-352
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