Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Applications

The first international workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications (IATA 96) was held in July 1996 in Budapest during the XII European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 96. The workshop program consisted of technical presentations addressing agent based solutions in areas such as network architecture, network management, and telematic services. Presentations gave rise to a lively debate on the advantages and difficulties of incorporating agent technology in telecommunications. The proceedings were published by IOS Press providing introductory papers on agent technology as well as telecom applications and services and also papers about appropriate languages and development tools. The second International Workshop, IATA 98, was held in Paris, in the framework of Agents World which brought together the principal scientific and technical events on agent technology such as the International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS 98), RoboCup 98 devoted to an international competition between soccer playing robot teams, and six international workshops. Each workshop focused on specific aspects of agent technology such as databases and information discovery on the Internet (CIA 98), Collective Robotics (CRW 98), Simulation (MABS 98), Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL 98), Communityware (ACW 98), and Telecommunications Applications (IATA 98). The proceedings of IATA 98 were published by Springer Verlag.