Intelligent agents in telecommunication networks

Computational Intelligence in Telecommunications Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 479-504

  Tsatsoulis, Costas ^a   Soh, Leen Kiat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Intelligent agents; Intelligent interface agents; Mobile agents; Multiagent systems; Negotiating agents; Network configuration; Network diagnosis; Network management; Network management architecture; Network mobility platform; Network monitoring and accounting; Network traffic control and routing; Service management and provisioning; Swarm intelligence; Telecommunication networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646851157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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