Telecommunications and IT Convergence. Towards Service E-volution, 2000 7th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS&N 2000, Athens, Greece, February 23-25, 2000 Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Vol. 1774

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.

eCommerce.- A Mobile Agent Brokering Environment for the Future Open Network Marketplace.- Legal and Administrative Services through Electronic Commerce.- Developing Communications Efficiency Through Management and Control.- Load Balancing for a Distributed CORBA-Based SCP.- Measurement Based Connection Admission Control Algorithm for ATM Networks that Use Low Level Compression.- Integrating Position Reporting, Routing and Mobility Management in Multihop Packet Radio Networks.- Architectures for Multimedia Communications.- Towards Mobile Agent Based Provision of Voice over IP Services.- Supporting Advanced Multimedia Telecommunications Services Using the Distributed Component Object Model.- Near Client Caching in Large Scale iVoD Systems.- Integrated Trouble Management to Support Service Quality Assurance in a Multi-provider Context.- Service Creation Techniques for Software Development and Deployment.- Web-Based Agent Applications: User Interfaces and Mobile Agents.- XML and CORBA, Synergistic or Competitive?.- Multi-level Component Oriented Methodology for Service Creation.- Cooling the Hell of Distributed Applications’ Deployment.- Agent-Based Management.- An Approach to Network Control and Resource Management Based on Intelligent Agents.- Providing Customisable Network Management Services Through Mobile Agents.- Accounting Architecture Involving Agent Capabilities.- IN Load Control Using a Competitive Market-Based Multi-agent System.- Virtual Home Environment.- An Agent Based Service Inter-working Architecture for the Virtual Home Environment.- Architectures for the Provision of Position Location Services in Cellular Networking Environments.- PANI: Personal Agent for Network Intelligence.- Agent Based Support of Advanced Personal Mobility Features.- Integrated and Scalable Solutions for Telecommunications Management.- Approaches to Integrating Telecoms Management Systems.- Deploying a Hierarchical Management Framework Using Mobile Agent Technology.