Policy-enabled mechanisms for feature interactions: Reality, expectations, challenges

Computer Networks

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 585-603

  Dini, Petre ^a   Clemm, Alexander ^a   Gray, Tom ^b   Lin, Fuchun Joseph ^c   Logrippo, Luigi ^d   Reiff Marganiec, Stephan ^e  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b PineTel   (Canada)

^c TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature interactions; Formalisms; Policies; Service bundling; Service provisioning; Telecommunications features

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAINTAINABILITY; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FEATURE INTERACTIONS; FORMALISMS; SERVICE BUNDLING; SERVICE PROVISIONING; TELECOMMUNICATION FEATURES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 2942701913     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2004.03.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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