Telecommunications and It Convergence Towards Service E-volution: Towards Service Evolution: 7th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks: Is&n 2000, Athens, Greece, February 23-25, 2000

by Delgado, Jaime; Stamoulis, G. D.

• ISBN13: 9783540671527
• ISBN10: 3540671528
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

eCommerce	1	(31)
Militiades Anagnostou
A Mobile Agent Brokering Environment for the Future Open Network Marketplace	3	(14)
David Chieng
Ivan Ho
Alan Marshall
Gerard Parr
Legal and Administrative Services Through Electronic Commerce	17	(14)
Silvia Llorente
Jaime Delgado
Developing Communications Efficiency Through Management and Control	31	(42)
Tony Richardson
Load Balancing for a Distributed CORBA-Based SCP	33	(16)
Conor McArdle
Niklas Widell
Christian Nyberg
Erik Lilja
Jenny Nystrom
Thomas Curran
Measurement Based Connection Admission Control Algorithm for ATM Networks that Use Low Level Compression	49	(12)
Ioannis Papaefstathiou
Integrating Position Reporting, Routing and Mobility Management in Multihop Packet Radio Networks	61	(12)
Konstantinos Amouris
Symeon Papavassiliou
Sheng Xu
Architectures for Multimedia Communications	73	(60)
Han Zuidweg
Towards Mobile Agent Based Provision of Voice over IP Services	75	(14)
W. Chang
M. Fischer
T. Magedanz
Supporting Advanced Multimedia Telecommunications Services Using the Distributed Component Object Model	89	(16)
Dionisis X. Adamopoulos
George Pavlou
Constantine A. Papandreou
Near Client Caching in Large Scale iVoD Systems	105	(12)
P. Hoener
U. Killat
Integrated Trouble Management to Support Service Quality Assurance in a Multi-provider Context	117	(16)
Dan Dragan
Thomas Gringel
Jane Hall
Richard Sinnott
Michael Tschichholz
Wilhelm Vortisch
Service Creation Techniques for Software Development and Deployment	133	(56)
Peter Schoo
Web-Based Agent Applications: User Interfaces and Mobile Agents	135	(20)
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
Miguel Mira da Silva
Artur Romao
XML and CORBA, Synergistic or Competitive?	155	(14)
Steven Vermeulen
Bart Bauwens
Frans Westerhuis
Rudi Broos
Multi-level Component Oriented Methodology for Service Creation	169	(12)
Kurt Verschaeve
Bart Wydaeghe
Frans Westerhuis
Jan De Moerloose
Cooling the Hell of Distributed Applications' Deployment	181	(8)
Jose Bonnet
Fabrice Dubois
Sofoklis Efremidis
Pedro Leonardo
Nicholas Malavazos
Daniel Vincent
Agent-Based Management	189	(66)
Andreas Kind
An Approach to Network Control and Resource Management Based on Intelligent Agents	191	(18)
Evangelos Vayias
John Soldatos
Nikolas Mitrou
Providing Customisable Network Management Services Through Mobile Agents	209	(18)
David Griffin
George Pavlou
Panos Georgatsos
Accounting Architecture Involving Agent Capabilities	227	(12)
Kostas Zygourakis
Didoe Prevedourou
George Stamoulis
IN Load Control Using a Competitive Market-Based Multi-agent System	239	(16)
A. Patel
K. Prouskas
J. Barria
J. Pitt
Virtual Home Environment	255	(58)
Abarca Chelo
An Agent Based Service Inter-working Architecture for the Virtual Home Environment	257	(12)
P. Jaya Shankar
V. Chandrasekaran
N. Desikan
Architectures for the Provision of Position Location Services in Cellular Networking Environments	269	(14)
Sofoklis A. Kyriazakos
George T. Karetsos
PANI: Personal Agent for Network Intelligence	283	(14)
David Kerr
Richard Evans
John Hickie
Donie O'Sullivan
Setanta Mathews
James Kennedy
Agent-Based Support of Advanced Personal Mobility Features	297	(16)
M. Louta
K. Raatikainen
A. Kaltabani
N. Liossis
E. Tzifa
P. Demestichas
M. Anagnostou
Integrated and Scalable Solutions for Telecommunications Management	313	(36)
Sebastiano Trigila
Approaches to Integrating Telecoms Management Systems	315	(18)
V. Wade
D. Lewis
C. Malbon
T. Richardson
L. Sorensen, C. Stathopoulos
Deploying a Hierarchical Management Framework Using Mobile Agent Technology	333	(16)
Damianos Gavalas
Dominic Greenwood
Mohammed Ghanbari
Mike O'Mahony
List of Authors	349