Telecommunications and IT Convergence. Towards Service E-volution

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. eCommerce

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. A Mobile Agent Brokering Environment for the Future Open Network Marketplace

      • David Chieng, Ivan Ho, Alan Marshall, Gerard Parr

      Pages 3-15

   3. Legal and Administrative Services through Electronic Commerce

      • Silvia Llorente, Jaime Delgado

      Pages 17-29

3. Developing Communications Efficiency Through Management and Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-32

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   2. Load Balancing for a Distributed CORBA-Based SCP

      • Conor McArdle, Niklas Widell, Christian Nyberg, Erik Lilja, Jenny Nyström, Thomas Curran

      Pages 33-48

   3. Measurement Based Connection Admission Control Algorithm for ATM Networks that Use Low Level Compression

      • Ioannis Papaefstathiou

      Pages 49-60

   4. Integrating Position Reporting, Routing and Mobility Management in Multihop Packet Radio Networks

      • Konstantinos Amouris, Symeon Papavassiliou, Sheng Xu

      Pages 61-71

4. Architectures for Multimedia Communications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-74

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   2. Towards Mobile Agent Based Provision of Voice over IP Services

      • W. Chang, M. Fischer, T. Magedanz

      Pages 75-88

   3. Supporting Advanced Multimedia Telecommunications Services Using the Distributed Component Object Model

      • Dionisis X. Adamopoulos, George Pavlou, Constantine A. Papandreou

      Pages 89-104

   4. Near Client Caching in Large Scale iVoD Systems

      • P. Hoener, U. Killat

      Pages 105-116

   5. Integrated Trouble Management to Support Service Quality Assurance in a Multi-provider Context

      • Dan Dragan, Thomas Gringel, Jane Hall, Richard Sinnott, Michael Tschichholz, Wilhelm Vortisch

      Pages 117-132

5. Service Creation Techniques for Software Development and Deployment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-134

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   2. Web-Based Agent Applications: User Interfaces and Mobile Agents

      • Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Miguel Mira da Silva, Artur Romão

      Pages 135-153

   3. XML and CORBA, Synergistic or Competitive?

      • Steven Vermeulen, Bart Bauwens, Frans Westerhuis, Rudi Broos

      Pages 155-168

   4. Multi-level Component Oriented Methodology for Service Creation

      • Kurt Verschaeve, Bart Wydaeghe, Frans Westerhuis, Jan De Moerloose

      Pages 169-179

   5. Cooling the Hell of Distributed Applications’ Deployment

      • José Bonnet, Fabrice Dubois, Sofoklis Efremidis, Pedro Leonardo, Nicholas Malavazos, Daniel Vincent

      Pages 181-188

6. Agent-Based Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-190

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   2. An Approach to Network Control and Resource Management Based on Intelligent Agents

      • Evangelos Vayias, John Soldatos, Nikolas Mitrou

      Pages 191-207

Creation Techniques for Software Development and Deployment, Agent-Based Management, Virtual Home Environment, Integrated and Scalable Solutions for Telecommunications Management. This shows that the issues related to communications management, architectures, and service creation are still of great interest, while the virtual home environment is emerging as a new key topic in IS&N. In summary, this book reflects the state of the art in research on IS&N topics, with the focus mentioned above, not only from European Union co-funded projects (mainly in the ACTS programme), but also from research organisations around the globe. February 2000 Jaime Delgado George D. Stamoulis Alvin Mullery Didoe Prevedourou Keith Start Previous IS&N Conferences and Proceedings The first IS&N conference was organised in 1992 in Paris, France. Since then, the IS&N conferences have been held almost every year, with proceedings published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer-Verlag. These are as follows. "Towards a Pan-European Telecommunication Service Infrastructure - IS&N'94", Hans-Jiirgen Kugler, Al Mullery, Norbert Niebert (Eds.), Aachen, Germany, September 1994, LNCS 851, ISBN 3-540-58420-X. "Bringing Telecommunication Services to the People - IS&N'95", Anne Clarke, Mario Campolargo, Nikos Karatzas (Eds.), Heraklion, Greece, October 1995, LNCS 998, ISBN 3-540-60479-0. "Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Cooperative Competition — IS&N'97\ Al Mullery, Michel Besson, Mario Campolargo, Roberta Gobbi, Rick Reed (Eds.), Cernobbio, Italy, May 1997, LNCS 1238, ISBN 3-540-63135-6.

• Electronic Commerce
• Information Agents
• Information Society
• Multimedia Services
• Scala
• Telecommunication Architectures
• Telecommunication Services
• Telecommunications Management
• communication
• development
• multimedia

• Department of Technology, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

  Jaime Delgado

• Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

  George D. Stamoulis

• IC Europe, Belvédère, France

  Al Mullery

• Hellenic Telecommunications and Electronics Industry, INTRACOM S.A., Peania, Attica, Greece

  Didoe Prevedourou

• ORCA Research Associates, Dublin 16, Ireland

  Keith Start

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