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Zusatztext "Illustrates the diversity of communications applications using agent technology! and explains how the agent metaphor is used is practice." (SciTech Book News! Vol. 25! No. 3! September 2001) Informationen zum Autor Alex L. G. Hayzelden is the editor of Agent Technology for Communication Infrastructures , published by Wiley. Rachel A. Bourne is the editor of Agent Technology for Communication Infrastructures , published by Wiley. Klappentext Die Agent-Technologie ist als Forschungsbereich in der Künstlichen Intelligenz und der Informatik angesiedelt. "Agent Technology for Communications Infrastructure" erläutert die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Agents und Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in der Telekommunikation und demonstriert die enorme Leistungsfähigkeit dieser Systeme. Ein detaillierter Überblick über den aktuellen Kenntnisstand auf diesem sich rasant entwickelnden Forschungsgebiet. (12/00) Zusammenfassung The text intersects the convergence between distributed Artificial Intelligence (agents) and telecommunications and demonstrates the increased capabilities of agents that are not currently achievable using traditional standards-based network signalling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors xvii Preface xix Acknowledgements xx 1 Agent Technology for Communications Infrastructure: An Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Communications Infrastructure for Next-Generation Services 2 1.3 Agent Architectures 5 1.4 Agent Technologies 6 1.5 Summary and Following Chapters 17 1.6 References 18 2 An Agent-based Platform for Next-Generation IN Services 19 2.1 Introduction 19 2.2 What is PANI? 20 2.3 PANI Services 20 2.4 Dynamic Service Provision - Service Registration 21 2.5 Service Description and Composition Languages: SDML and SCML 21 2.6 Services Offered in the PANI Prototype 22 2.7 PANI Services - Implementation 24 2.8 PANI and WAP 28 2.9 Conclusions 30 2.10 References 30 2.11 Further Reading 31 3 Java Framework for Negotiating Management Agents 32 3.1 Introduction 32 3.2 Preliminaries 33 3.3 The Java Management Agent: JAM 36 3.4 Asynchronous Message Handling in JAM 38 3.5 Practical Experiences with Agent Applications 39 3.6 Conclusion 40 3.7 References 40 4 Adaptive QoS Management via Multiple Collaborative Agents 41 4.1 Introduction 41 4.2 Layers of Feedback Control: Individual Agent Adaptation 42 4.3 Call Preparation Adaptation: Service-Layer Feedback Controls 44 4.4 Connection Control Adaptation: NE Layer Adaptation 46 4.5 Integration of Service Management and Network Management Layer Adaptation 47 4.6 Adopting the Group Decision Support Techniques: A Committee Model 48 4.7 Modelling the Agents' Committee 50 4.8 Learning Agents' Collaborative Experience by ANN 52 4.9 ANN Integration with CBR Memory 53 4.10 Future Directions: Orbital Agents 54 4.11 References 58 5 Agent-Mediated Trading: Intelligent Agents and E-Business 59 5.1 Introduction 59 5.2 E-Commerce: Some Facts and Figures 60 5.3 Intelligent Information Agents in Brief 61 5.4 Agent-Based E-Trading 64 5.5 Conclusions and Outlook 73 5.6 References 74 6 Distributed Control of Connection Admission to a Telecommunications Network: Security Issues 77 6.1 Introduction 77 6.2 The Auction Mechanism for Selecting an SP 78 6.3 Security Problems 79 6.4 Security Mechanisms 81 6.5 Solving Security Problems in Auctions with an SP 84 6.6 Conclusions 87 6.7 References 88 7 Secure Payments within an Agent-Based Personal Travel Market 90 7.1...
