Bringing Telecommunication Services to the People - IS&N '95

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference in Broadband Services and Networks, IS&N '95, held in Heraclion, Greece, in October 1995; this book summarizes at the same time the main results of a group of RACE projects sponsored by the European Commission for several years. To meet the new challenges in broadband communication, service engineering has now emerged as a new discipline strongly related to software engineering; particularly the concepts of object-orientation and open distributed processing are being adopted. The book presents 44 full papers and 8 posters selected from 88 submissions. Among the issues addressed are service architecture, usability, communications management, advanced communication services, security, and service creation.

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Requirements for rapid technological deployment and exploitation.- Issues in the integration of IN and TMN.- Security services for telecommunications users.- TMN security: An evolutionary approach.- A TTP-based architecture for TMN security and privacy.- Integrated access control management.- An experimental evaluation of a normative user interface design for the configuration of telecommunication services.- Providing future telecommunication services to naive users.- Usability an effective methodology for designing services in the agricultural sector.- Counting the costs and benefits of metaphor.- ASTERIX: The TINA-C architecture applied to ATM connection management.- ATM network simulation support for TMN systems.- Engineering a TMN in an Open Distributed Processing environment.- Experiences in multi-domain management service development.- The relationship between IOs and COs in VPN charging management.- Managing the TMN.- Personal communication system realizations: Performance and quality of service aspects on SS-No.7.- A self-organisation plane for distributed mobile wireless networks.- Future hypermedia retrieval systems and their impact on transfer systems.- VPN on DCE: From reference configuration to implementation.- ATM public network management in PREPARE.- Management services for performance verification in broadband multi-service networks.- An SDL based realisation of an IN service development environment.- Performance evaluation of database concepts for personal communication systems.- Next generation database technologies for advanced communication services.- Using SDL for targeting services to CORBA.- An engineering approach for open multimedia services management.- An approach to user management of broadband services.- OMT Object models of telecommunications services.- QoS modelling of distributed teleoperating services.- On the impacts of intelligent agent concepts on future telecommunication environments.- Introducing Active Managed Objects for effective and autonomous distributed management.- Intelligent remote monitoring.- Session Control model for TINA multimedia services.- TINA based advanced UPT service prototype: Early introduction of TINA through the IN domain.- Use of atomic action principles to co-ordinate the interaction between TINA Service Managers.- A comparison of architectures for future telecommunication services.- External access to TMN: An ODP specification.- The implementation of PSCS features in a RACE ATM demonstrator.- Simulation model for intelligent network based personal communication services.- Integration path of IN and TMN architectures Using UPT as a case study.- Dedicated server multicast routing for large scale ATM networks.- Application of IS&N for efficient aircraft pre-design.- Developing alternative metaphors for special B-ISDN services.- Tool based user interface construction facilitating access to users with disabilities.