Intelligence in services and networks : paving the way for an open service market : 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks, IS & N '99, Barcelona, Spain, April 27-29, 1999 : proceedings

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. Towards Future Telecommunications Management Architectures....Pages 1-2 A Practical Perspective on TMN Evolution....Pages 3-12 Accounting Management in a TINA-Based Service and Network Environment....Pages 13-24 A New Architecture for Open and Distributed Network Management....Pages 25-37 Intelligence in Brokerage and Retrieval....Pages 39-40 Self-Organization and Learning in MultiAgent Based Brokerage Services....Pages 41-54 Open Architecture for Distributed Search Systems....Pages 55-69 Building Topic-Specific Collections with Intelligent Agents....Pages 70-82 Interworking....Pages 83-83 Design of the CORBA/TC Inter-working Gateway....Pages 84-100 CORBA Interworking over SS.7....Pages 101-113 Signalling System No. 7 as an Agent Platform Message Transport Protocol....Pages 114-127 Issues in Agent Technology....Pages 129-130 Usability Challenges in Agent Based Services....Pages 131-142 Management of Mobile Agent Based Services....Pages 143-154 Mobile Agent Security — Issues and Directions....Pages 155-167 A CORBA Environment Supporting Mobile Objects....Pages 168-180 Component Reuse....Pages 181-182 Web-Based Service Customization in an IN-TINA Environment....Pages 183-193 Customizing Telecommunication Services: Patterns, Issues, and Models....Pages 194-209 Modelling Management Components for Reuse Using UML....Pages 210-222 Automated Design of Modular SNMP-CORBA Gateways and Their Application for the Development of an ADSL Access Network Manager....Pages 223-238 Mobility Management....Pages 239-239 Roaming Aspects of Ubiquitous Mobile Service Support....Pages 240-249 A Personal Naming and Directory Service for UMTS Users....Pages 250-262 The Application of Mobile Agent Technology to Mobility Management in MARINE....Pages 263-274 Service Creation....Pages 275-276 Alignment of the TOSCA and SCREEN Approaches to Service Creation....Pages 277-290 Service Logic Deployment and Distribution Configuration....Pages 291-304 Simplifying Real-Time Multimedia Application Development Using Session Descriptions....Pages 305-314 An Environment for IN Service Prototyping and Validation....Pages 315-327 Towards the Seamless Integration of Mobile Agents into Service Creation Practice....Pages 328-341 The Pros and Cons of Using SDL for Creation of Distributed Services....Pages 342-354 Multimedia Services & Security....Pages 355-356 Audio/Video Stream Binding in a Pan-European Service Management Platform....Pages 357-372 Java Enabled MPEG-4 Services: The MPEG-J Framework....Pages 373-384 Key Management Framework for IP Multicast Infrastructure Security....Pages 385-397 Mobility in TINA....Pages 399-400 Performance Evaluation of an Allocation Strategy for TINA Compliant Mobile Agents Supporting PCS in a Multi-retailer Environment....Pages 401-415 Locating TINA User Agents: Strategies for a Broker Federation and Their Comparison....Pages 416-428 Agent-Based Service and Retailer Selection in a Personal Mobility Context....Pages 429-442 Distributed Intelligence in Services and Networks....Pages 443-445 Modularization of TINA Reference Points for Information Networking....Pages 446-458 Relevance of Existing Intelligent Network Infrastructure to the Internet....Pages 459-468 Introduction of DOT/MAT into a Broadband IN Architecture for Flexible Service Provision....Pages 469-481 The Use of TINA Principles in the Management of Internet Multimedia Conferences....Pages 482-498 Agent Support for Resource, Network, and Enterprise Management....Pages 499-500 Knowledge Modelling in Multiagent Systems: The Case of the Management of a National Network....Pages 501-513 Multi-agent System for Network Resource Management....Pages 514-526 Efficiency Evaluation of a Mobile Agent Based Network Management System....Pages 527-535 A Mobile Intelligent Agent Based Virtual Enterprise Support Environment....Pages 536-549

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS&N '99, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 1999.
The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. There are topical sections on communications management, intelligence in brokerage and retrieval, interworking, issues in agent technology, component reuse, mobility management, service creation, multimedia services and security, mobility in TINA, distributed intelligence in networks and services, and agent support for the management of resources, networks and enterprises.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS & N '99, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 1999. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. There are topical sections on communications management, intelligence in brokerage and retrieval, interworking, issues in agent technology, component reuse, mobility management, service creation, multimedia services and security, mobility in TINA, distributed intelligence in networks and services, and agent support for the management of resources, networks and enterprises