Intelligence in Services and Networks Paving the Way for an Open Service Market: 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks, IS&N’99 Barcelona, Spain, April 27–29, 1999 Proceedings

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by  Al Mullery (auth.)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1597
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Intelligence in
Services and Networks
Paving the Way for an
Open Service Market
6th International Conference
on Intelligence and Services in Networks, IS&N’99
Barcelona, Spain, April 27-29, 1999
Proceedings
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Preface
Paving the Way for an Open Service Market
We live in an age when powerful communications technology is becoming available
to everyone. From our home we can send and receive not only analogue voice, but
also growing volumes of digital information and even intelligence in the form of
agents. We are becoming increasingly mobile and are expecting the same level of
connectivity in the home, in the office, and on the road.
The regulatory and commercial environment in which we communicate is
changing. The telecommunications market is becoming increasingly competitive.
The Internet is erasing the borders between information technology and
telecommunications. And the way we do business is ever more dominated by
electronic exchanges of information.
Is our technology ready for the open market of networks and services? Can we
manage the growing complexity of computing and telecommunications technology
and place it at the service of the people? The challenge for the research community is
to develop the tools and techniques that will ultimately bring the full power of
communications and information to everyone, in a way that everyone can easily use.
The Sixth International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks
(IS&N’99) is all about technology for paving the way to the open services market.
Since the first IS&N conference in 1992 the focus of the IS&N program has
continually shifted. We see existing technologies maturing while new ones emerge,
but the bottom line has always been putting technology at the service of the people.
The result is a fascinating mix of confirmed and new technologies.
Mobile and intelligent agents form the most manifest stream of emerging
technologies, reflected in 13 papers in this volume. These include articles that deal
with agent-related technical issues (5 papers), as well as papers that describe the
application of agents to specific problems in telecommunications (8 papers). In fact
“intelligent” and “mobile” agents can be seen as two quite distinct tracks. Both are
well represented in the program (5 and 8 papers, respectively).
Projects addressing more mature technologies like CORBA, Intelligent Networks,
TMN and TINA are now in a position to present confirmed results, prototypes, and in
some cases, field trials. TINA and CORBA form the subject of about 10 papers while
at least 5 address the management of networks and services.
In a world of new and legacy systems that must coexist, interworking enjoys
significant interest (5 papers). Signaling System Number 7 (SS.7) is considered in
2 distinct articles as a possible carrier of both CORBA and agent-based
communications, thus providing a new form of “intelligent signaling”. Other papers
address the evolution of IN and TMN towards open, distributed, object-oriented
architectures.
An interesting observation is that service creation enjoys a strong interest this year:
6 papers are directly related to this subject. While telecommunications are becoming
increasingly dominated by software, we seem to be becoming more and more aware
of the need for methods and tools to control the “service crisis”.
In addition to the more “classical” IS&N themes, we see several original new
directions. The need for technologies that can manage multimedia streams has lead to
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a number of new techniques, like the use of enhanced session models and Java-
enabled multi-media encoding. A number of papers deal with searching and
brokering of services in an open market.
In summary, this book is a unique state-of-the-art account of technologies that
enable intelligent services and networks to serve the people. It is a reflection not only
of key research done within the ACTS program sponsored by the European
Commission, but, equally, of research from many other sources. It is the result of the
cooperative effort of researchers, authors, reviewers, and editors. Use it to your
advantage.
March 1999 Han Zuidweg
Mario Campolargo
Jaime Delgado
Al Mullery
Acknowledgments
This volume could not exist without the authors of the papers. Some 100 papers were
contributed. Many of the submitted papers could not be accepted but the authors of
these papers are thanked for their efforts.
The editors would like to thank the members of the Technical Program Committee
and the numerous reviewers, listed below, for their effort in assuring the quality of
this volume, as well as the section editors, who have written the introductions to each
section. Special thanks goes to Raymond Llavador, who coordinated the review
process and assisted in the final editorial process.
Steering Committee
Al Mullery (Chairman), Mario Campolargo, Jaime Delgado, Han Zuidweg
Technical Program Committee
Ordinary Members Corresponding Members
Han Zuidweg (Chairman) Alessandro Barbagli Claudio Maristany
Stefano Antoniazzi Stephane Beauvais Sean Martin
E. Athanassiou Hendrik Berndt Kathleen Milsted
Rob Brennan Vincent Bic David Muldowney
Stefan Covaci Wiet Bouma Declan O'Sullivan
Jaime Delgado Brian Byrnes George Pavlou
Sofoklis Efremidis Josiah Carberry Kimmo Raatikainen
Nigel Jefferies Mikael Ek Sathya Rao
Jens Kristensen Takeyuki Endo Munir Tag
Thomas Magedanz Dieter Gantenbein Sebastian Trigila
Ahmed Patel Alex Galis Anh Hoang Van
Raymond Posch Takeo Hamada Hans Vanderstraeten
Martin Potts Per Fly Hansen Vincent Wade
Rick Reed Duncan James-Bell Dong Sik Yun
Pierre Rodier Kristofer Kimbler
Simone Sedillot Patricia Lago
Keith Start Dirk Lecluse
Alan Steventon Juha Lipiainen
Fabrizio Zizza Julio Lopez
Organizing Committee
Jaime Delgado (Chairman), Isabel Gallego, José Polo, Germán Santos
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List of Reviewers
José Jesus Acebrón Anastasius Gavras Vincent Olive
Miltos Anagnostou Panos Georgatsos Ahmed Patel
Stefano Antoniazzi David Griffin George Pavlou
Eleutherios Athanassiou Carsten Gyrn Enric Peig
Manooch Azmoodeh Lars Hagen Christian Petersen
Alessandro Barbagli Takeo Hamada Reinhardt Posch
Kyriakos Baxevanidis Jim Hardwicke Martin Potts
Nuno Beires Patrick Hellemans Bart Preneel
Johan E. Bengtsson Anh Van Hoang Didoe Prevedourou
Mikhael Bessonov Terry Hodgkinson Gilles Privat
Vincent Bic Keith Howker Kimmo Raatikainen
Lennart H. Bjerring Nigel Jefferies Friedhelm Ramme
Indranil Bose Mikael Jørgensen Rick Reed
Wiet Bouma Fotis Karayannis Tony Richardson
Ralf D. Bracht Pieter Kesteloot Corrado Rosa
Rob Brennan Kristofer Kimbler Jose Luis Ruiz
Markus Breugst Jens Kristensen Amardeo Sarma
Alan Brookland Jean-Pierre Lacombe Hans-Detlef Schulz
Heinz Brüggemann Patricia Lago Simone Sedillot
Gaetano Bruno Yair Lahav Juan Serrat
Louise Burness Lorenz Lehmann Vjekoslav Sinkovic
Brian Byrnes Herbert Leitold Chris Smith
Eurico Carrapatoso David Lewis Josep Sole-Pareta
Sang Choi Beat Liver George D. Stamoulis
Alain Conchon Fiona Lodge Keith Start
Steve Corley Ignac Lovrek Frank Steegmans
Jacopo Corridoni Ferdinando Lucidi Alan Steventon
Michael Cox Thomas Magedanz Peter Stollenmayer
Haitham Cruickshank Karl-Johan Malmgren Ben Strulo
Laurie Cuthbert Marcel Mampaey Lars Bo Sørensen
Giovanna De Zen Gennaro Marino Thanassis Tiropanis
Jaime Delgado Claudio Maristany David Tracey
Luca Deri Ramon Marti Ciaran Treanor
Yves Deswarte Giovanni Martini Sebastiano Trigila
Bruno Dillenseger Mirella Mastretti Juan C. Vazquez Garcia
Sofoklis Efremidis Luc Mathan Iakovos Veniris
Pier Luigi Emiliani Joanna McCaffrey Luigi Verri
Takeyuki Endo Walter Merlat Yannis Vithynos
Lorenzo Faglia Max Michel Vincent Wade
Josef Fink Kathleen Milsted Paul Wallace
Kevin Fogarty Luigi Mori Kevin Watkins
Francisco Fontes David Muldowney Thomas Weigert
Susana Franco Pino Alvin P. Mullery Frans Westerhuis
David Freestone Divine Ndumu Timothy Wright
Motohisa Funabashi Declan O'Sullivan Martin Yates
Isabel Gallego Paul Obrien Fabrizio Zizza
Dieter Gantenbein Sverrir Olafsson Han Zuidweg
Table of Contents
Towards Future Telecommunications Management Architectures ...….…. 1
Vincent P. Wade
A Practical Perspective on TMN Evolution ........…………….……………. 3
Rob Davison, Terry Turner
Accounting Management in a TINA-Based Service and Network
Environment ………………………………………………………….……. 13
Patrick Hellemans, Cliff Redmond, Koen Daenen, Dave Lewis
A New Architecture for Open and Distributed Network Management ….….. 25
Rob Davison, Jim Hardwicke
Intelligence in Brokerage and Retreival .……………………………….…. 39
Eleutherios Athanassiou
Self-Organisation and Learning in MultiAgent Based Brokerage Services 41
Marie Pierre Gleizes, Alain Léger, Eleutherios Athanassiou, Pierre Glize
Open Architecture for Distributed Search Systems ..........….……….……. 55
Mikhail Bessonov, Udo Heuser, Igor Nekrestyanov, Ahmed Patel
Building Topic-Specific Collections with Intelligent Agent .............…..…. 70
Igor Nekrestyanov, Tadhg O'Meara, Ahmed Patel, Ekaterina Romanova
Interworking .……………………………………………………….………. 83
Keith Start
Design of the CORBA/TC Inter-working Gateway ……..................…..…. 84
Nilo Mitra, Rob Brennan
CORBA Interworking over SS.7 …..…...…….......……………………….. 101
Nils Fischbeck, Olaf Kath
Signalling System No.7 as an Agent Platform Message Transport Protocol 114
Rob Brennan, Brendan Jennings, Thomas Curran
Issues in Agent Technology .......……………………………………………. 129
Joachim Quantz
Usability Challenges in Agent Based Services ...…………………………. 131
Eija Kaasinen
Management of Mobile Agent Based Services ...…………………………. 143
Markus Breugst, Sang Choy
Mobile Agent Security - Issues and Directions ..…………………………. 155
Kristian Schelderup, Jon Ølnes
A CORBA Environment Supporting Mobile Objects ......……….……….. 168
Sang Choy, Markus Breugst, Thomas Magedanz
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Component Reuse ..........………………..………………………….………. 181
Willie Donnelly
Web-Based Service Customization in an IN-TINA Environment ..………. 183
Christian Hubert
Customizing Telecommunication Services: Patterns, Issues, and Models ... 194
Linas Maknavicius, Gautier Koscielny, Simon Znaty
Modelling Management Components for Reuse Using UML .........……… 210
Dave Lewis, Chris Malbon, Alina DaCruz
Automated Design of Modular SNMP-CORBA Gateways and Their
Application for the Development of an ADSL Access Network Manager .. 223
Filip Vandermeulen, Piet Demeester, Piet De Ceuleners,
Jean-Marc Reynders
Mobility Management ………………………………………………...……. 239
Fabrizio Zizza
Roaming Aspects of Ubiquitous Mobile Service Support ………….……. 240
John C. Francis, Bernhard Diem
A Personal Naming and Directory Service for UMTS Users .........…..…... 250
Alain Macaire, David Carlier
The Application of Mobile Agent Technology to Mobility
Management in MARINE .......……………………………………………. 263
Mark Donnelly, Ivan Griffin, Conor Morris, John Nelson
Service Creation ..............…………………………………………...………. 275
Sofoklis Efremidis
Alignment of the TOSCA and SCREEN Approaches to Service Creation .. 277
Fiona Lodge, Kristofer Kimbler, Manuel Hubert
Service Logic Deployment and Distribution Configuration .............…..…. 291
Anastasia Kaltabani, Elsa Cardoso, Evangelia Tzifa,
Panagiotis Demestichas, António Silva, Miltiades E. Anagnostou
Simplifying Real-Time Multimedia Application Development
Using Session Descriptions .........…………………………………........…. 305
Sarom Ing, Steve Rudkin
An Environment for IN Service Prototyping and Validation ..........………. 315
Kristofer Kimbler, Carl-Henrik Hagenfeldt, Jan Ellsberger,
Gustav Bergman
Towards the Seamless Integration of Mobile Agents into Service
Creation Practice ..........……………………………………………...……. 328
Andreas Kind, Miltiades E. Anagnostou, Malamati D. Louta,
Jan Nicklisch, Juan Tous
" The Pros and Cons of Using SDL for Creation of Distributed Services ...... 342
Anders Olsen, Didier Demany, Elsa Cardoso, Fiona Lodge,
Mario Kolberg, Morgan Björkander, Richard Sinnott