Agent Technology for Communications Infrastructure

Offering a useful snapshot of the current status of the field, this text focuses sharply on the upcoming
convergence of intelligent software and communications systems.

• Contributions from leading authorities in the field covering a wide range of issues,
  
• Demonstrates the increased capabilites of agents that are not currently achievable using traditional standards-based network signalling.
  

Contents

• Agent Technology for Communications Infrastructure: An Introduction
  
• An Agent-Based Platform for Next-Generation IN Services
  
• Java Framework for Negotiating Management Agents
  
• Adaptive QoS Management via Multiple Collaborative Agents
  
• Agent-Mediated Trading: Intelligent Agents and E -Business
  
• Distributed Control of Connection Admission to Telecommunications Network: Security Issues
  
• Secure Payments within an Agent-Based Personal Travel Market
  
• Multi-Agent Solution for Virtual Home Environment
  
• Virtual Home Environment to be Negotiated by a Multi-Agent System
  
• Self-Adaptation for Performance Optimisation in an Agent-Based Information System
  
• Flexible Decentralised Control of Connection Admission
  
• Low-Level Control of Network Elements from an Agent Platform
  
• A Multi-Agent Approach to Dynamic Virtual Path Management in ATM Networks
  
• A Multi-Agent Approach for Channel Allocation in Cellular Networks
  
• Predicting Quality Of Service for Nomadic Applications Using Intelligent Agents
  
• Implementation of Mobile Agents for WDM Network Management: The OPTIMA Perspective
  
• How to Move Mobile Agents
  
• Market-Based Call Routing in Telecommunications Networks Using Adaptive Pricing And Real Bidding
  
• IN Load Control Algorithms for Market-Based Multi-Agent Systems
  
• Victor-Proactive Fault Tracking and Resolution in Broadband Networks Using Collaborative Intelligent Agent
  
• Efficient Means of Resource Discovery Using Agents
  
• Evolving Routing Algorithms with Genetic Programming