Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: IFIP / IEEE TC6 / WG6.4 / WG6.6 International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 8–10 July 1997, Montreal, Canada

With the continual growth in telecommunication services in today's multimedia environment, reliability and control are essential elements in the provision of services. This book addresses the need for an integration of service and management in multimedia networks in order to facilitate greater accuracy and quality in the services provided. The book aims to disseminate all facets of network and service management in broadband networks and multimedia services while providing an overview of state-of-the-art research and implementation experiences in the field. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Generic Component Model for the design of future telecommunication services....Pages 3-16 Towards building manageable multimedia network services....Pages 17-30 The SESMU Project: Integrated customer management for multimedia services....Pages 31-34 DiSC - An Object Oriented Distributed Session Control Implemented with Java....Pages 35-38 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 A Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Quality of Service Management....Pages 41-54 QoS Monitoring for ATM-based Networks....Pages 55-66 A new flexible and modular QoS mapping framework based on psychophysics....Pages 67-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Implementing TMN using CORBA Object Distribution....Pages 83-94 A KQML-CORBA based Architecture for Intelligent Agents Communication in Cooperative Service and Network Management....Pages 95-106 Moving Knowledge Agents for Network and Service Management....Pages 107-118 Managing CORBA based Agent Through an OSI/TMN System....Pages 119-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Fuzzy Logic for controlling call admission in ATM networks....Pages 125-134 An Intelligent Multi-Agent Architecture for Dynamic Regulation of ATM Congestion Control Parameters....Pages 135-149 Quantitative study of uncontrolled transients on ABR congestion control....Pages 150-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 An ATM-PON architecture for multimedia services....Pages 165-176 ATM Virtual Private Networks for the Internet Data Traffic....Pages 177-188 Logical IP Subnet Information Protocol for IP Routing over ATM....Pages 189-202 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 An Alarm Filtering Algorithm For Optical Communication Networks....Pages 205-218 An approach to pricing of connectionless network services....Pages 219-230 Integrated Network Management Using Java Development Environment....Pages 231-234 Front Matter....Pages 235-235 A Scalable Monitoring Architecture for Managing Distributed Multimedia Systems....Pages 237-248 Experiences in Integrated Multi-Domain Service Management....Pages 249-260 Experiences with the FashionNet project - Distributed multimedia services for the fashion & textile industries....Pages 261-276 Back Matter....Pages 277-280 "One Hundred Years of Music provides a full account of the history of music from the death of Beethoven to the modern era. It covers a period of exceptional interest. The last hundred years coincide roughly with the rise and decline of Romanticism, include the various nationalist movements, and extend to the advent of "neo-classicism," the twelve-tone system, and still more modern techniques. Abraham devotes ample space to modernist and avant garde music, in which he explains the difficulties we experience in listening to the work of such composers as Schnberg, Bart k, and Berg. He also throws new light on many more familiar topics. In its earlier editions, One Hundred Years of Music became a standard work on this subject; it has since been brought updated to include coverage of later developments. Abraham approaches his subject as an historian of style rather than an esthetic critic. Rather than pass judgment on particular works or composers, he shows how music has developed, and thus provides a clear and connected history that is more substantial than most books of musical appreciation. An extensive chronology and a full bibliography and index add to the usefulness of the book for students, professionals and musical laymen alike. This third edition incorporates some corrections of fact, further enlarges the bibliography and chronology, and adds commentary on developments in music techniques. In order to correct the historical perspective, the author has included a "prelude" and three "interludes," giving rough sketches of general conditions in the musical world at intervals of thirty years. As the reader's sense of chronology is very apt to get confused when a number of simultaneous streams of development have to be described, the author has inserted the date of composition or performance (both if they are widely separated) of each work at the first mention of it."--Provided by publisher