Editorial Pointers.(Industry Trend or Event)

IN THE WORLD OF TELECOMMUNICAtions, more is never enough. Pursuing ever greater capacity and services, the long-time suppliers of voice-based services are transforming themselves into full-service providers of a galaxy of communication and IT options. The challenge now becomes how to manage all we have while still developing more solutions. As usual, we turn to software.

This month's special section examines the new paradigm of agent-oriented programming and the application of agent-based systems in modern telecommunications endeavors. Guest editor Sahin Albayrak, founder and scientific head of the DAI-Laboratory at the Technical University of Berlin where activities …