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Context-Aware Service Provisioning in Next-Generation Networks: An Agent Approach

Tremendous advances in wireless telecommunications together with the rapid proliferation of various types of mobile/wireless devices are key drivers for advent of the new generation of communications. Next-generation networks will create semantic-aware environments populated with a vast number of consumers, which will posses diverse types of network-aware devices. Content providers, on the other hand, will offer a remarkable selection of digital commodities (information/multimedia) through a set of services. Services will be provisioned by network operators, which will own indispensable infrastructure. In such environment the consumer should access all the available services anytime, from any place, and by using any of its devices. Consequently, next-generation networks will require efficient mechanisms which can match consumers’ demands (requested services) to network-operators’ supplies (available services). In this paper, we propose an agent approach for enabling autonomous coordination between all the entities across the telecom value chain, thus enabling automated context-aware service provisioning for the consumers.

agent technologies; intelligent agents; electronic markets; value chain; ontologies; knowledge discovery; semantic matching

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