P712 |
Intelligent and mobile agents and their applicability to service and network managementCompleted |
| last update: 29 Oct 2009 |
Today, we are moving towards highly customised multimedia and mobile services and to new concepts for effective network and service management. OMG and TINA architectures support a modular approach to control and management software. But, in addition, specific techniques are needed to attain a high degree of software flexibility and dynamic configurability at network and administrative nodes.
Software agents are programmes that are not confined to a particular network or computing node, but can migrate and replicate themselves in the network. They do this with the aim of finding specific services and applications, thereby checking constraints and observing physical and computing interfaces. Such flexible concepts are very useful for many management procedures, such as for service provisioning that takes user, terminal and network capabilities into account, and for quality monitoring, or fault management.
The emerging, relatively new concept of "Intelligent Agents" and the supporting technologies, combinations of relatively well understood technologies like "distributed AI or rule-based systems" and "dynamic and interpreted languages" show a potential for enabling such a new generation of management systems. A significant research body already exists. However, what is largely unproved is the applicability of this technology to the telecommunications industry.
The main objective of this Project was to assess the maturity and implications of "Intelligent and Mobile Agents" concepts and technology and their applicability to service and network management. This was done through two experiments.
| Participants in the Project: | BT, DT, IT, NL, TE, TI |
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| Project start date: | 03 March 1997 |
| Completion date: | July 1999 |
Results for Full Publication
| Conference | Title | Authors | Location | Date |
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| IATA'98 | Development of a Multi-Agent System for cooperative work with network negotiation capabilities | F. Garijo et al. | Paris | 6/07/98 |
| IATA'98 | The Application of Intelligent and Mobile Agents to the Management of Software Problems in Telecommunications | S. Corley et al. | Paris | 6/07/98 |
| IS&N'98 | The Application of Intelligent and Mobile Agents to Network and Service Management | S. Corley et al. | Antwerp | 26/05/98 |
| ICIN'2000 | Agent-Based Operational Support Systems | S.Corley et al. | Arcachon/Bordeaux | 18-20/01/2000 |
| Seminar or Workshop | Title | Authors | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADOT'99 | The Application of Intelligent and Mobile Agents Network and Service Management - Conclusions from P712 | S. Corley, F. Garijo | Heidelberg | 1-2/12/99 |
| DOT'98 | Agents in Network and Service Management (P712) | Steve Corley | Heidelberg | 1-2/09/98 |
| DOT'97 | Agents technology and P712 goals | Steve Corley | Heidelberg | 4-6/11/97 |