Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving for Communication Network Management

Weihmayer, Robert; Brandau, Richard

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-58418-3_10

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“…If the bid is accepted the contract agent cannot revoke. The CNP has been used in many applications, such as Busuioc (1996) and Weihmayer and Brandau (1990) for service level network control.…”

Section: Agent Technology In Communications Systems: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3.1 Multi-agent systems approach 3.1.1 Cooperative problem solving for network management (Weihmayer and Brandau, 1990) Weihmayer and Brandau (1990) describe the idea of coupling distributed expert systems to provide a tightly coupled distributed co-operative multi-agent customer control system. A reprint of this paper can be found in Hayzelden and Bigham (1999).…”

Section: Agents and Economic Theory For Telecommunications Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of their earlier work looked at domain level heterogeneity on the TEAM-CPS (telecommunications testbed) system, where the agents were dierent in their actions due to each agent being situated in a dierent domain. For this earlier work they concluded that in some cases agent diversity can lead to disadvantages particularly in the domain of telecommunications.``Diversity often leads to complexity increases for inter-agent communications as well as for the reasoning that agents must do about other agents'' (Weihmayer and Brandau, 1990). To limit this complexity they suggest that agents should possess two sorts of common semantics, namely, knowledge level of action eects and goal intention knowledge.…”

Section: Agents and Economic Theory For Telecommunications Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agent technology in communications systems: an overview

Hayzelden

Bigham

1999

The Knowledge Engineering Review

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Telecommunications infrastructures are a natural application domain for the distributed software agent paradigm. The authors clarify the potential application of software agent technology in legacy and future communications systems, and provide an overview of publicly available research on software agents used for communications management. The authors focus on the intelligent agent type of software agent, although the paper also reviews the reasons why mobile agents have made an impact in this domain. The author's objective is to describe some of the intricacies of using the software agent approach for the management of communications systems. The paper is in four main sections. The first section provides a brief introduction to software agent technology. The second section considers general problems of network management and the reasons why software agents may provide a suitable solution. The third section reviews some selected research on agents in a telecommunications management framework. The final section concludes the paper by discussing some of the problems encountered and some future directions for further research.

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Section: Agent Technology In Communications Systems: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Agents and Economic Theory For Telecommunications Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Agents and Economic Theory For Telecommunications Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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