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Software Agents in New Generation Networks: Towards the Automation of Telecom Processes

Knowledge Processing and Decision Making in Agent-Based Systems, 2009

Today, there is a wide variety of telecom services available provided by a number of competing stakeholders in the telecom environment. Consequently, consumers in such an environment require efficient mechanisms to match their demands (requested services) to supplies (available services). Businesses, on the other hand, aim to achieve efficient allocation of their resources. This chapter introduces a combination of Artificial Intelligence mechanisms and Computational Economics concepts as a means of solving the above mentioned problems. These mechanisms and concepts are implemented in agent-based electronic markets. Electronic markets function as digital intermediaries that create value by bringing consumers and providers together to create transactional immediacy and supply liquidity, by supporting the exchange of demand and supply information, and reducing transaction costs. The efficiency of the created multi-agent system is realized by applying novel discovery and/or negotiation models.

Engineering an MAS Platform for Semantic Service Integration Based on the SWSA

2007

In this paper, a Multi-Agent System (MAS) platform for semantic service integration based on the Semantic Web Services Initiative Architecture (SWSA) is discussed. We define a software architecture in order to provide concrete realization of the SWSA. The architecture fullfills fundamental requirements of the SWSA’s sub-processes. Software agents are employed in automatic discovery and execution of the Semantic Web Services within this architecture. We also elaborate implementation of SWSA’s sub-processes (service advertisement, discovery, engagement and enactment) taking the main components of the defined architecture and their interactions into consideration. Hence, the developers can easily utilize semantic web service technologies by using this flexible and extensible platform.

Engineering an MAS Platform for Semantic Service Integration based on the SWSA

Context-Aware Service Provisioning in Next-Generation Networks: An Agent Approach

Agent Technologies and Web Engineering: Applications and Systems, 2009

This paper presents an application of multi-agent system in ubiquitous computing scenarios characteristic of next-generation networks. Next-generation networks will create environments populated with a vast number of consumers, which will possess diverse types of context-aware devices. In such environments the consumer should be able to access all the available services anytime, from any place, and by using any of its communication-enabled devices. Consequently, next-generation networks will require efficient mechanisms which can match consumers’ demands (requested services) to network-operators’ supplies (available services). The authors propose an agent approach for enabling autonomous coordination between all the entities across the telecom value chain, thus enabling automated context-aware service provisioning for the consumers. Furthermore, the authors hope that the proposed service discovery model will not only be interesting from a scientific point of view, but also amenable to real-world applications.

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