It is generally believed that what users want from telecommunication applications is not technologies, but services. The more services can an application provide, the more success should it be. As a result, it is vital for application designers to design their products as flexible as possible. However, current common design approaches might not be sufficient for them to develop such one-to-meet...

Today’s Internet represents a multi-provider environment as a basis for global service delivery with a set of services, business roles, and strategies. The integration of data and telecommunication, especially for multimedia services, requires Quality-of-Service (QoS) for the transport of data. Furthermore, it demands a value-added Internet with communication and network services as well as cha...

Telecommunication networks process verylarge numbers of events in real time. In this environment, database applications demand both high throughput (at reasonable costs), and predictable, millisecond response times. Conventional disk-based database systems were not designed to meet such requirements. This paper sketches some real-time telecommunications applications, describes their database re...

Service-Oriented Design has driven the development of telecommunication infrastructure and applications, in particular the so-called Intelligent Network (IN) Services, since the early 90s: IN services are customized telephone services, like e.g., Free-Phone, where the receiver of the call can be billed if some conditions are met, Virtual Private Network, enabling groups of customers to define t...

The continuous growth of subscribers and the large variety of requested services in cellular communication networks are driving the telecommunication industry to provide ubiquitous information access and diversified services by requiring different bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS). Proposals being pursued in several studies and field implementations address these needs using hierarchical a...

Fraud and uncollectible debt are multi-billion dollar problems in the telecommunications industry. Because it is difficult to know which accounts will go bad, we are faced with the difficult knowledge-discovery task of characterizing a rare binary outcome using large amounts of noisy, high-dimensional data. Binary characterizatioos may be of interest but will not be especially useful in this do...

Standards are one of the key components of information technology today. Yet, despite their public and widespread implications, the underlying standardisation processes are something of a “black box” to outsiders. This begs the question how standards are determined, and by whom. The paper will look at the lowest, and most technical level of this process, where the basic technological decisions ...

The proliferation of telecommunication services and the need to manage quality of service on an end to end basis require an approach for automatically selecting services that provide su cient quality of service at minimal cost An agent based approach is appropriate for such a purpose For this reason this paper presents a social carrier recommendation method which is an essential component of ap...

The aim of this chapter is to present an example of the user-centered design cycle for the development of innovative convergence services and technology of broadcast and mobile networks. We will describe three main phases that encompass our work. During the first phase, we focused on the validation of the scenarios developed as well as requirements for the services portrayed in the scenarios, t...