Intelligence in Services and Networks. Paving the Way for an Open Service Market

Towards Future Telecommunications Management Architectures.- A Practical Perspective on TMN Evolution.- Accounting Management in a TINA-Based Service and Network Environment.- A New Architecture for Open and Distributed Network Management.- Intelligence in Brokerage and Retrieval.- Self-Organization and Learning in MultiAgent Based Brokerage Services.- Open Architecture for Distributed Search Systems.- Building Topic-Specific Collections with Intelligent Agents.- Interworking.- Design of the CORBA/TC Inter-working Gateway.- CORBA Interworking over SS.7.- Signalling System No. 7 as an Agent Platform Message Transport Protocol.- Issues in Agent Technology.- Usability Challenges in Agent Based Services.- Management of Mobile Agent Based Services.- Mobile Agent Security - Issues and Directions.- A CORBA Environment Supporting Mobile Objects.- Component Reuse.- Web-Based Service Customization in an IN-TINA Environment.- Customizing Telecommunication Services: Patterns, Issues, and Models.- Modelling Management Components for Reuse Using UML.- Automated Design of Modular SNMP-CORBA Gateways and Their Application for the Development of an ADSL Access Network Manager.- Mobility Management.- Roaming Aspects of Ubiquitous Mobile Service Support.- A Personal Naming and Directory Service for UMTS Users.- The Application of Mobile Agent Technology to Mobility Management in MARINE.- Service Creation.- Alignment of the TOSCA and SCREEN Approaches to Service Creation.- Service Logic Deployment and Distribution Configuration.- Simplifying Real-Time Multimedia Application Development Using Session Descriptions.- An Environment for IN Service Prototyping and Validation.- Towards the Seamless Integration of Mobile Agents into Service Creation Practice.- The Pros and Cons of Using SDL forCreation of Distributed Services.- Multimedia Services & Security.- Audio/Video Stream Binding in a Pan-European Service Management Platform.- Java Enabled MPEG-4 Services: The MPEG-J Framework.- Key Management Framework for IP Multicast Infrastructure Security.- Mobility in TINA.- Performance Evaluation of an Allocation Strategy for TINA Compliant Mobile Agents Supporting PCS in a Multi-retailer Environment.- Locating TINA User Agents: Strategies for a Broker Federation and Their Comparison.- Agent-Based Service and Retailer Selection in a Personal Mobility Context.- Distributed Intelligence in Services and Networks.- Modularization of TINA Reference Points for Information Networking.- Relevance of Existing Intelligent Network Infrastructure to the Internet.- of DOT/MAT into a Broadband IN Architecture for Flexible Service Provision.- The Use of TINA Principles in the Management of Internet Multimedia Conferences.- Agent Support for Resource, Network, and Enterprise Management.- Knowledge Modelling in Multiagent Systems: The Case of the Management of a National Network.- Multi-agent System for Network Resource Management.- Efficiency Evaluation of a Mobile Agent Based Network Management System.- A Mobile Intelligent Agent Based Virtual Enterprise Support Environment.