Intelligence in services and networks : technology for ubiquitous telecom services : 5th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS & N '98, Antwerp, Belgium, May 25-28, 1998 : proceedings

This book consitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS&N'98 in Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1998. IS&N'98 was devoted to Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services. The 40 revised full papers presented in a homogeneous style and editing were selected from more than 80 submissions. The book is divided in sections on quality of service, service management, agent technology and applications, architechtures, mobility, platforms, electronic commerce, service creation, network management, gateways to CORBA, and security. Quality of Service....Pages 1-2 QoS-based multi-domain routing in public broadband networks....Pages 3-16 Optimal distribution of service components....Pages 17-30 Accountable and guaranteed services in internet....Pages 31-42 A fair Intelligent Network congestion control strategy based on revenue optimisation....Pages 43-58 Service management....Pages 59-60 ATM services usage metering for accounting and charging....Pages 61-72 The EURESCOM P610 Project: Providing a framework, architecture and methodology for multimedia service management....Pages 73-88 Offering role mobility in a TINA environment....Pages 89-100 Web enabled TMN manager for an international trouble ticketing service....Pages 101-112 Agent technology and applications....Pages 113-114 Experiences using intelligent agent technologies as a unifying approach to network management, service management and service delivery....Pages 115-126 The application of intelligent and mobile agents to network and service management....Pages 127-138 ATM network management with distributed transactional agents....Pages 139-150 Architecture....Pages 151-152 Adaptable and adaptive user interfaces for disabled users in the AVANTI project....Pages 153-166 An ATM API for Java....Pages 167-181 Integrating TINA into an internet-based services market....Pages 183-192 Protocol independent information modelling for a peer-to-peer configuration interface....Pages 193-204 Development and deployment of a heterogeneous set of services challenging a TINA-based telecommunication architecture....Pages 205-218 Federation in TINA....Pages 219-229 Mobility....Pages 231-232 Enhancing the TINA architectural framework for personal mobility support....Pages 233-248 The role of paging in providing location transparency within cellular systems....Pages 249-260 Internet browsing on OSAM platform....Pages 261-272 Platforms....Pages 273-274 On the usage of standard mobile agent platforms in telecommunication environments....Pages 275-286 The ReTINA DPE kernel: A flexible, real-time ORB framework....Pages 287-296 Use of transactions in network management applications....Pages 297-312 Electronic commerce....Pages 313-314 Business and market models of brokerage in network-based commerce....Pages 315-326 Dynamic market driven provisioning of services and resources using software agents and electronic chambers of commerce....Pages 327-338 An approach to electronic brokerage in TINA environments....Pages 339-350 Definition of Service Levels for Electronic Brokerage Applications....Pages 351-362 Service creation....Pages 363-364 Introducing SDL'92 in the development of TMN applications....Pages 365-377 Development of TINA-like systems: The DOLMEN methodology....Pages 379-392 Conformance testing of TINA service components - The TTCN/CORBA gateway....Pages 393-408 TINA-oriented service engineering support to service composition and federation....Pages 409-422 Network management....Pages 423-424 Scheduled connections: Managing temporal constraints on broadband network resources....Pages 425-438 Performance management in switched ATM networks....Pages 439-450 An SNMP-based CNM agent for ATM networks: System architecture and implementation....Pages 451-460 Gateways to CORBA....Pages 461-462 CORBA and intelligent network (IN) interworking....Pages 463-475 A CORBA to CMIP gateway: A marriage of management technologies....Pages 477-492 TINA-TMN interworking: Case study of an integration between the VITAL TINA platform and an existing TMN platform....Pages 493-505 Security in the information society....Pages 507-508 See what you sign secure implementations of digital signatures....Pages 509-520 Public Key Infrastructure and certification policy for inter-domain management....Pages 521-534 Secure billing for mobile information services in UMTS....Pages 535-548 This book consitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS & N'98 in Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1998. IS & N'98 was devoted to Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services. The 40 revised full papers presented in a homogeneous style and editing were selected from more than 80 submissions. The book is divided in sections on quality of service, service management, agent technology and applications, architechtures, mobility, platforms, electronic commerce, service creation, network management, gateways to CORBA, and security