Smart Networks IFIP TC6 / WG6.7 Seventh International Conference on Intelligence in Networks (SmartNet 2002) April 8–10, 2002, Saariselkä, Lapland, Finland

Smart Networks comprises the proceedings of Smartnet'2002, the seventh conference on Intelligence in Networks, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by Working Group 6.7. It was held in Saariselkä, Finland, in April 2002.
The conference series closely reflects the developments in networking.

Invited Papers.- Middleware for Mobile Applications Beyond 3G.- Active Network Modelling and Simulation: A Behavioural Approach.- A Service Deployment Architecture for Heterogenous Active Networks Nodes.- Driving Trends in Information and Communication Technology — Markets and Technologies.- I — Platforms.- Investigating Service Discovery, Management and Network Support for Next Generation Object Oriented Services.- Virtual Private Components.- A New Organisational Framework for Network Modelling Using a Multi-Agent System.- I3- A New Intelligent Generation for Internet Networks.- Accessing CORBA Services from Bluetooth Mobile Terminals.- Comparision of Softswitch-Architectures Using Parlay as Application Interface.- Mobility Management in a Plug and Play Architecture.- II — Services.- Inside iTV- Interactive Commerce Services for Broadcast Digital Television.- GCP.- Developing MLS Location-Based Service Pilot System.- III — Protocols.- Design of a Minimal Signaling Based Bandwidth Brokering Protocol.- A Client Puzzle Based Public-key Authentication Protocol.- NAAP: A User-To-Network Authentication Protocol.- Test Bed for Plain C/C++ Protocol Implementations.