Netman: a learning network traffic controller

  • Authors:
  • Bernard Silver

  • Affiliations:
  • GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE '90 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

One of the goals of Machine Learning is the production of software that can improve itself. Such software can learn from experience and adapt to changing situations and requirements. In addition, such software can refine its knowledge-base, perhaps leading to a level of expertise beyond that of human experts.This paper describes NETMAN, a knowledge-based program that uses a machine learning technique, Knowledge-based Learning, in the domain of Network Traffic Control. NETMAN's task is to maximize call completion in a circuit-switched telecommunications network. NETMAN learns from its own experiences and by observing the actions of other agents.NETMAN is one of the components of ILS (Integrated Learning System), which contains implementations of several learning paradigms working together to improve problem-solving performance. NETMAN combines two machine learning paradigms: Explanation-Based Learning and Empirical Learning.