Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Architectures, Tools and Languages

   1. JIAC — A Toolkit for Telecommunication Applications

      • Sahin Albayrak, Dirk Wieczorek

      Pages 1-19

   2. Grasshopper — A Mobile Agent Platform for Active Telecommunication Networks

      • C. Bäumer, T. Magedanz

      Pages 19-32

3. Network Management

   1. Advanced Network Management Functionalities through the Use of Mobile Software Agents

      • Antonio Puliafito, Orazio Tomarchio

      Pages 33-45

   2. Market-Based Call Routing in Telecommunications Networks Using Adaptive Pricing and Real Bidding

      • M. A. Gibney, N. R. Jennings, N. J. Vriend, J. M. Griffiths

      Pages 46-61

   3. Co-operating Market/Ant Based Multi-agent Systems for Intelligent Network Load Control

      • Brendan Jennings, Åke Arvidsson

      Pages 62-75

   4. JAMES: A Platform of Mobile Agents for the Management of Telecommunication Networks

      • Luis Moura Silva, Paulo Simões, Guilherme Soares, Paulo Martins, Victor Batista, Carlos Renato et al.

      Pages 76-95

   5. Using Mobile Agents for Distributed Network Performance Management

      • Damianos Gavalas, Dominic Greenwood, Mohammed Ghanbari, Mike O'Mahony

      Pages 96-112

4. Electronic Commerce

   1. Realization of an Agent-Based Certificate Authority and Key Distribution Center

      • Karsten Bsufka, Stefan Holst, Torge Schmidt

      Pages 113-123

5. Telecommunication Services

   1. Providing Telecommunication Services through Multi-agent Negotiation

      • Mihai Barbuceanu, Tom Gray, Serge Mankowski

      Pages 124-136

   2. Dynamic VPN Provisioning through Communicative Agents

      • Danny Jacxsens, Bart Bauwens

      Pages 137-147

   3. Mobility Support with a Mobile Agent System

      • Anthony Sang-Bum Park, Steffen Lipperts, Birgit Kreller, Björn Schiemann

      Pages 148-160

   4. Software Agents for Enhancing Messaging in a Universal Personal Numbering Service

      • Ramiro Liscano, Katherine Baker, Roger Impey

      Pages 161-174

   5. Abrose: A Cooperative Multi-agent Based Framework for Marketplace

      • Eleutherios Athanassiou, Peter Barrett, Delia Chirichescu, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Pierre Glize, Dimitrios Katsoulas et al.

      Pages 175-192

6. Back Matter

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The first international workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications (IATA’96) was held in July 1996 in Budapest during the XII European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI’96. The workshop program consisted of technical presentations addressing agent based solutions in areas such as network architecture, network management, and telematic services. Presentations gave rise to a lively debate on the advantages and difficulties of incorporating agent technology in telecommunications. The proceedings were published by IOS Press providing introductory papers on agent technology as well as telecom applications and services and also papers about appropriate languages and development tools. The second International Workshop, IATA’98, was held in Paris, in the framework of Agents’ World which brought together the principal scientific and technical events on agent technology such as the International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS’98), RoboCup’98 devoted to an international competition between soccer playing robot teams, and six international workshops. Each workshop focused on specific aspects of agent technology such as databases and information discovery on the Internet (CIA’98), Collective Robotics (CRW’98), Simulation (MABS’98), Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL’98), Communityware (ACW’98), and Telecommunications Applications (IATA’98). The proceedings of IATA’98 were published by Springer Verlag.

• Agent Technology
• Electronic Commerce
• Network Management
• Routing
• Telecommunication Services
• Telecommunication Systems
• communication
• multi-agent system
• software agent

• Technische Universität Berlin, DAI-Laboratory, Berlin, Germany

  Sahin Albayrak

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