Please apologize if you receive several copies of this message. Please could you forward this program to your colleagues, thank you. To offer reliable multimedia services, the service architecture should integrate the service with its management while the multimedia networks that are used to provide those services need also a certain level of control and management. Therefore management is Requested at both the service and network levels.
Integration is also of paramount importance to facilitate the overall management process.
The conference objective is to bring together researchers working in all facets of network and service management applied to broadband networks and multimedia services. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. C.C. Ko, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. Actived script based mobile agent for NMS H. Takai, Switching Software Engineering Div. A new paradigm for next generation networks Z. Fan, A. Mehaoua, Centre for Communication Systems research, Univ.