An Agent Model for the Resolution of Feature Conflicts in Telephony

  • Authors:

  • Magdi Amer;Ahmed Karmouch;Tom Gray;Serge Mankovskii

  • Affiliations:

  • Multimedia and Mobile Agent Research Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5, http://deneb.genie.uottawa.ca/, 288 ...;Multimedia and Mobile Agent Research Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5, http://deneb.genie.uottawa.ca/;Mitel Corporation, 350 Legget Drive, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2K 2W7, http://www.mitel.com/;Mitel Corporation, 350 Legget Drive, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2K 2W7, http://www.mitel.com/

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Most telecommunication service providers resolve the feature interaction problem by providing specific instructions in their management software to handle scenarios where feature interaction may occur. This approach suffers from the complexity of the resulting code and the difficulty of adding new features to the system. Moreover, the system predefines the result of the resolution of the conflicting features and the end user has no means of choosing a different behavior, depending on the preferences of the user. In this paper we propose an agent-based architecture to detect and resolve feature interactions. Our system benefits from the flexibility and the semantic richness of policies and fuzzy logic to allow the end user to alter the behavior of the system, thus obtaining a more personalized service.