Telecommunications today is in the midst of far-reaching changes due to rapid development of new technologies, services and social evolution. This is the first book to model the process of change in telecommunications, including all of the relevant factors. The approach is practical and responsible, based on hard facts and tested models. It deals with fundamental issues affecting the future development of telecoms and its impact on societies and presents views which some will find radical.

Inhalt
1 The future.- 2 Modelling interactions between new services.- 3 Fractal populations.- 4 Internal markets.- 5 Evaluation of Hopfield service assignment.- 6 Hierarchical modelling.- 7 Graph-theoretical optimization methods.- 8 Distributed restoration.- 9 Intelligent switching.- 10 Neural networks.- 11 System and network reliability.- 12 Pre-emptive network management.- 13 Evolving software.- 14 Software agents for control.- 15 Evolution of strategies.- 16 Dynamic task allocation.- 17 Complex behaviour in nonlinear systems.