Autonomic Networks

As the Internet becomes larger and larger, and consequently moredifficult to control and to manage, telecommunication operators,manufacturers and companies require tools to perform management andcontrol tasks. A large number of tools coming from different areashave been proposed, but these are not sufficient to handle anevolving and dynamic environment. This book presents and explains all the techniques whichintegrate a certain level of intelligence (through intelligentsoftware agents for example) in order to represent knowledge, takeappropriate decisions, communicate with other entities and achievea self-managing network.