Mobile Intelligent Agents Applied to Communication Management Systems

The powerful apparatus available for the design of intelligent and mobile agents has made agent technology one of the most vibrant and fastest growing areas of modern information technology. In fact, agent technology is the next major computing paradigm applied to telecommunications and will be pervasive in every market very soon. Mobile Intelligent Agents Applied to Communication Management Systems offers a coherent introduction to the basic technical issues behind the technology. It also discusses future challenges and reports on successes in designing and building agent applications.