An expert system for the real time control of the UK telephony network

Abstract

Controlling a large telephony network requires fast response, flexibility and expertise. An expert system for performing traffic management in BT's UK telephony network is described that is both fast and flexible. The choice of the Prolog as the main implementation language allows us great flexibility in how we represent the problem and for rapid prototyping our solution. This flexibility has contributed significantly to the aim of a high speed response and allowed us to easily extend the solution space for the problems we are addressing.