Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) is a new component-based architecture for telecommunication services. Its principles are similar to the well-known pipe-and-filter architecture, adapted for use in the telecommunication domain. We present an overview of this architecture and explain how it might be used as a basis for componentbased development of telecommunication software. We also describ...

The rise of digital platforms is changing organizations, markets and the logic of innovation in the digital economy. In particular, telecommunication companies re-structure their business models to gain control of innovative services and digital platforms. In this light, we aim to advance research on digital platform business models conducting a frameworkbased case study analysis of telecommuni...

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 suucient 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 o...

Our research agenda addresses particular enabling technologies, Virtual Reality and Hypermedia Systems, in the context of the future telecommunication society, services and industries. We are determined to carry out research in utilising these technologies both as enabling technologies to help in the process of future product and service development, and as technologies to be embedded in future...

All over the world we have been assisting to a significant increase of the telecommunication systems usage. People are faced day after day with strong marketing campaigns seeking their attention to new telecommunication products and services. Telecommunication companies struggle in a high competitive business arena. It seems that their efforts were well done, because customers are strongly adop...

ECLIPSE is a next-generation virtual telecommunication network that provides multimedia services that integrate voice, video, text, and images. ECLIPSE facilitates the modular decomposition of new telecommunication services. In this paper we sketch the challenges we face in making ECLIPSE highly available when running on top of a heterogenous and widely distributed system. We describe how we ap...

The telecom services have been recognized the world-over as an important tool for socioeconomic development for a nation and hence telecom infrastructure is treated as a crucial factor to realize the socio-economic objectives in India. Accordingly, the Department of Telecom has been formulating developmental policies for the accelerated growth of the telecommunication services.  BSNL is a wholl...