Intelligent Networks and Intelligence in Networks

This text sets out to identify and study issues related to the development of intelligent capabilities in networks, including the development and distribution of services in broad band and mobile networks. It aims to move away from a traditional concentration on service creation and management, database issues and feature interaction, and concentrates instead on the growth area of intelligence and mobile applications. In addition, it looks towards the market issues of new services, and from the systems development point of view it explores topics such as OMG and TINA-C. Among the areas of interest covered are: intelligent networks: intelligent networks for telecommunications; TINA (telecommunication information network architecture); IN and mobile networks; and intelligence in multimedia networks (ATM and Internet). The book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Networks and Intelligence in Networks which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing and was held in Paris, France in September 1997.It should be useful to engineers, managers and research students in telecommunication, specifically management, control and intelligence.