Telecommunication networks are extremely complex systems requiring high reliability and availability. The effective management of these networks is a critical, but complex, task. To help with this problem, the telecommunications industry has heavily invested in intelligent technologies. This chapter describes intelligent technologies and applications used within the telecommunications industry....

The digital revolution holds great promise for prosperity and progress. However, the Information Society evolution is supported through the telecommunication networks deployment. The high cost of such infrastructures forces the companies to focus their efforts in the profitable society sectors. For that, the promotion of performances to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban areas ap...

The restructuring of telecommunication in Central and Eastern Europe occurs at a time when the classical structures of telecommunication are falling apart worldwide. Coming from the socialist system in which telecommunication did not exist as an independent economic activity, the Eastern European countries have created specific “post-socialist“ modes of reform, often outdoing Western countries ...

The purpose of this article is to describe the results of a clinical trial in which telephonic case management was evaluated as a supplement to substance abuse treatment. An interactive voice response system (IVR) was developed by the research team for use in the case management of randomly assigned participants in a clinical trial research project. The features of the software program facilita...

A modern telecommunication service is portrayed as a complex system and is characterized by its stochastical attributes and fuzzy performance considerations. Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) telecommunication is studied as an example of such a complex system. A call admission control (CAC) procedure is developed using a fuzzy inference method applied to the complex connection patterns of ATM se...

Disaster management using mobile telecommunication networks provides a new and attractive possibility to save human lives in emergencies. With this contribution, we present a possible disaster management system based on mobile telecommunication. In order to use such a system in the real world, security requirements such as availability, accountability, integrity and confidentiality have to be e...