Tianning Zhang

• Doctor of Engineering
• Solutions Architect at AWIN AG

Event-driven enterprise IT architectures are typically based on message broker systems. Most broker systems focus on functional decoupling, and on the fast and reliable delivery of events towards event consumers. Such consumer-centricity eases the development and deployment of consumers applications. However, especially within a web-based big data...

The notion of autonomous agents populating largescale open environments, such as the public Internet, that are able to dynamically discover one another, interact and synthesise new software applications or results has become one of the key technology visions of the past few years.

The notion of autonomous agents populating large-scale open environments, such as the public Internet, that are able to dynamically discover one another, interact and synthesise new software applications or results has become one of the key technology visions of the past few years. This Agentcities testbed represents one of the largest attempts to...

This paper presents a new approach that combines the neural network technology with the semantic network-based knowledge representation in realizing the intelligent, emotional, adaptive and believable behaviors of consulting personal agents. This knowledge representation framework is deployed in the CyMON agent platform to develop intelligent assis...

This technical report provides an evaluation of several possible languages and semantic formalisms that could be used in agent communication to play the role of a content language in the EU Agentcities.RTD project. The conclusions and background information may however be useful for agent developers more generally. This document includes a descript...

Die Evolution der Telekommunikationstechnologie und des Telekommunikationsmarkts stellt neue Anforderungen an die Paradigmen für Softwareentwicklung von offenen und verteilten Systemen, insbesondere an neue Technologien zur Interoperabilität und Kooperation zwischen Telekommunikationsressourcen. Solche Technologien müssen ein höheres Niveau der Ver...

The growing intelligence of communication equipment and the advances in communication services created a demand for more complex and flexible network management functions. It becomes difficult to handle such a demand by the traditional, simple manager-”management agent” paradigm for network management systems. Mobile agent technology is regarded as...

The growing intelligence of communication equipment and the advances in communication services created a demand for more complex and flexible network management functions. It becomes difficult to handle such a demand by the traditional, simple "management agent" paradigm for network management systems. Mobile agent technology is regarded as one of...

Management within the emerging Information Infrastructure requires new paradigms for coping with the heterogeneity, distribution, dynamic nature and complexity of the managed resources. Traditional, RPC-based management approaches are not sufficient in this context. The paper discusses the use of Java-based mobile intelligent agents in the field of...

Traditional approaches for network and service management are not suitable for heterogeneous, rapidly changing and extending telecommunications environments. The paper discusses the use of Java based intelligent mobile agents in the field of open system management It first presents a Java based mobile agent platform supporting the mobile management...

The emerging global information infrastructure requires new framework for moving network and service management solutions from producers to consumers. Traditional mechanisms for such movement require sophisticated human intelligence and expertise, high costs in installation and maintenance, or impose high traffic load/availability requirement on th...

This paper proposes a new framework for developing, marketing and deploying network and service management solutions using Java-based Mobile Intelligent Agents. The management solutions are regarded as knowledge, defined as Java object classes and structured into a hierarchy by the hierarchical specialization relationship among the problem situatio...

This paper proposes a new approach for constructing intelligent agents in the context of network and service management, which is based on, and extends, the ITU-T TMN framework. This knowledge-based approach for intelligent agents in management uses the semantic extensions of network management information for knowledge representation. Different fr...

During the last years EURESCOM has launched a set of projects in the area of TMN addressing the problems of pan- European broadband networks and services management. The X interfaces, which provide the means for co-operative management of different domains, are the emphasis in this context. Two such X interfaces are developed for the pan- European...

During the last years EURESCOM has launched a set of projects in the area of TMN addressing the problems of pan- European broadband networks and services management. The X interfaces, which provide the means for co-operative management of different domains, are the emphasis in this context. Two such X interfaces are developed for the pan- European...

Semantics plays an important role in the context of network management, both for clearing out ambiguities and for supporting management decisions. The current behavior-oriented semantic frameworks do not find wide acceptance in this context due to their complexity and lack of support for management applications. We propose a new semantic approach t...

: The TOMQAT project enchances the concept of Dynamic Total Quality Management in the context of IBC networks, and investigates the resulting performance benefits. The present deliverable analyses the requirements to be fulfilled by Total Quality Management, and suggests an approach to meet such requirements, including QoS parameters to be managed...

Management of network services is considered as the process of first recognizing a special situation that occurs in the network environment and then carrying out the corresponding actions. The paper describes a management model which is based on the hierarchical modelling of situations and the association of management actions to the situation desc...

Traditional mechanisms for "moving" net- work management solutions from producers to con- sumers require sophisticated human intelligence and expertise, high costs in installation and mainte- nance, or impose high traffic load/availability re- quirement on the global networks. To address these problems, this paper proposes a new framework for devel...