Context-Aware Service Provisioning in Next-Generation Networks: An Agent Approach

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Author(s): Vedran Podobnik (University of Zagreb, Croatia), Krunoslav Trzec (University of Zagreb, Croatia)and Gordan Jezic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 20
Source title: Agent Technologies and Web Engineering: Applications and Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ghazi I. Alkhatib (The Hashemite University, Jordan)and David C. Rine (George Mason University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-618-1.ch002

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Web Technologies / Web Technologies & Engineering

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This paper presents an application of multi-agent system in ubiquitous computing scenarios characteristic of next-generation networks. Next-generation networks will create environments populated with a vast number of consumers, which will possess diverse types of context-aware devices. In such environments the consumer should be able to access all the available services anytime, from any place, and by using any of its communication-enabled devices. Consequently, next-generation networks will require efficient mechanisms which can match consumers’ demands (requested services) to network-operators’ supplies (available services). The authors propose an agent approach for enabling autonomous coordination between all the entities across the telecom value chain, thus enabling automated context-aware service provisioning for the consumers. Furthermore, the authors hope that the proposed service discovery model will not only be interesting from a scientific point of view, but also amenable to real-world applications.

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