The application of intelligent and mobile agents to network and service management

Corley, Stephen; Tesselaar, Marius; Cooley, J. H.; Meinköhn, Jens; Malabocchia, Fabio; Garijo, Francisco J.

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“…• Learning Capability: learning comprises the application of diverse methods and algorithms that allow to modify the knowledge of the system [120,121,122]. This capability enables an adaptive behaviour, allowing to satisfactorily handle new contexts or situations [123]. Learning is accomplished by the system in an autonomous manner, updating its knowledge with minimal or any external intervention.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Smart Systemsmentioning

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Towards a Characterisation of Smart Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Romero

Guédria

Panetto

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Computers in Industry

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Enterprises and governments are focusing their efforts on reducing the gap between the physical and the digital world to address various challenges. This digital transformation is also characterised by a change of paradigm, based on moving from computer-aided technologies to Smart Systems, which are present in several domains such as Smart Cities, Smart Manufacturing, or Smart Services. In this scenario, the exploration of the conceptualisation of Smart Systems has been addressed in the scientific literature with the objective to understand the characteristics of such systems and the implications of their use. However, there is a lack of a generic view of the concept since most studies focus on specific domains. This view is necessary to provide common ground for the development or implementation of Smart Systems within various domains, specially for those that have not been tackled yet. This work aims at addressing this issue through the exploration and analysis of conceptualisations of Smart Systems and Smartness within the scientific literature. For this purpose, a Systematic Literature Review is performed aiming at gathering papers including definitions of Smart Systems, regardless of the application domain. Text mining processing techniques are applied to obtain insights from the definitions extracted from the collected papers. Considering the findings of the literature review and the analysis of the extracted definitions, we enumerate and describe a set of characteristics of Smart Systems. We also provide a diagrammatic view of the elements of a Smart System and their relationships through a meta-model.

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Section: Characteristics Of Smart Systemsmentioning

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“…• Reasoning Capability: Smart Systems must be able to reason using their knowledge to make decisions [123,124]. A range of techniques, such as neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, expert systems, etc., can be used by the system to provide strategic decision-making and flexible data processing [125].…”

Section: Characteristics Of Smart Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Characterisation of Smart Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Romero

Guédria

Panetto

et al. 2020

Computers in Industry

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“…3,5,8,11,27,38,39 The proposed framework and architecture organize the elements of network intelligence described in the previous section to create the functional relationships and information flow shown in Figure 3. The proposed functional architecture replicates and distributes the relationships shown in Figure 3 over a hierarchical structure with the logical and temporal properties illustrated in Figure 4.…”

Section: Architecture For Understanding Network Intelligencementioning

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“…[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] However, a general theoretical model of a changing environment. An appropriate action is one that increases the optimal and efficient use of network resources in delivering high-quality services; success is the achievement of behavioral subgoals that support the service provider's overall goals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A framework for understanding network intelligence

Moganti

Knittel

2005

Bell Labs Tech. J.

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The term network intelligence is widely used in the field of communication networks. A number of new and potentially limiting concepts and products based on the concept of network intelligence have been introduced, including smart flows, intelligent routing, and intelligent web switching. Many intelligent systems focus on a specific service, function, or device, and do not provide true end-to-end network intelligence. True network intelligence requires more than a set of disconnected elements; it requires an interconnecting and functionally coupled architecture that enables the various functional levels to interact and communicate with each other. We propose a uniform framework for understanding end-to-end communication network intelligence (CNI), which is defined as the ability of a network to act appropriately in a changing environment. We consider an appropriate action to be one that increases the optimal and efficient use of network resources in delivering services, and we define success as the achievement of behavior subgoals that support the service provider's ultimate goals, which are defined external to the network system. The framework presented incorporates the functional elements of intelligence into computational modules and interconnects the modules into networks and hierarchies that have spatial, logical, and temporal properties. Based on the framework proposed, we describe an end-to-end multiservice network application spanning the network management layer, optical layer, switching/routing layer, services layer, and other layers. communication network intelligence (CNI) that ties all these separate areas of knowledge into a unified framework has been lacking. This paper is an attempt to formulate the broad outlines of such a model to better understand and to build flexible end-to-end intelligent systems. The goal is to create a general structure of CNI that encompasses converged nextgeneration communication networks. The model presented here incorporates knowledge of communication systems and processes gained from a great variety of sources.Service providers are looking for vendors who can provide flexible end-to-end networks so they can benefit from reduced operations costs, which translate into more competitive, cost-effective service offerings. Unlike other vendors, Lucent Technologies, with its broad product portfolio, is in a good position to deliver end-to-end intelligent network systems.For the most part, current communications industry practice assumes that networking consists of largely predictable processes that can safely proceed without the benefit of-or need for-in-process measurement and real-time feedback. Most adjustments in networking processes are made by service provider operators, who often use intuition and experience to tune parameters. As technological changes occur at an ever faster pace, insufficient consideration is being given to the need for real-time planning and replanning, automatic service adaptability, real-time resource optimization, and the ability to adapt to cha...

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“…Recentemente algumas aplicações comerciais vêm sendo desenvolvidas. Dentre as aplicações desta tecnologia pode-se citar apenas como exemplos: Suporte para aplicações baseadas em fluxo de trabalho ou workflow (Nicolas, 1998), Gerenciamento de redes (Rubinstein, 2000) e serviços de telecomunicações (Corley et al 1998), Análise de informações em aplicações de data mining, Layout de circuitos eletrônicos (Moreira & Walczowski, 1997), Busca de informações em bases de dados, Segurança Computacional (Reami, 1998) (Bernardes, 2000), Comércio Eletrônico (Rodriguez, 1999) (Valdo, 2000), Computação móvel (Lingnau & Drobnik, 1996).…”

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Segurança em Aplicações Baseadas em Agentes Móveis

Filho

Ambrósio

Moreira

et al. 2001

Anais Do I Workshop Em Segurança De Sistemas Computacionais(WSeg 2001)

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Este trabalho apresenta uma discussão sobre segurança em aplicações que implementam a mobilidade de código através da tecnologia de agentes móveis. Considerando-se que em diversas situações esta tecnologia apresenta significantes vantagens em termos de delegação de tarefas, mobilidade, overhead, escalabilidade, flexibilidade e tolerância a falhas, existe atualmente diversas propostas para sua aplicação em comércio eletrônico. Uma vez que essas aplicações necessitam de um ambiente de agência instalada em cada máquina que receberá os agentes móveis provenientes de localidades diversas, elas podem ser responsáveis por graves problemas de segurança. Dessa forma, a questão da segurança relacionada aos ambientes de agência e, em especial, aos agentes móveis é de suma importância e deve ser levada em consideração no desenvolvimento de aplicações que utilizem dessa tecnologia.

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The application of intelligent and mobile agents to network and service management

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Towards a Characterisation of Smart Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Towards a Characterisation of Smart Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

A framework for understanding network intelligence

Segurança em Aplicações Baseadas em Agentes Móveis

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