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This paper presents an approach for facilitating the setting-up and management of new multi-organizational telecom services. We are addressing factors that currently impede the development of new complex telecom services. One factor is the gap between high-level business goals and low-level network management policies making it hard for business managers to quickly implement new business ideas. A second factor, due to the trends towards outsourcing and multi-organizational structures, is the increasing complexity of the services which leads to high demands on the management environments. These factors translate into high costs and long time-to-market for the introduction of new complex telecom services. As a suggestion for a solution to these issues, we propose a goal-based approach towards self-management of complex telecom services. In our suggestion lies a new breed of network devices called Autonomic Entities which should be able both to orchestrate services fulfilling given goals, and to refine and combine goals for the purpose of self-management. This paper focuses on how Autonomic Entities can be combined via a goal combining method for the creation of new services. Our approach is illustrated with examples and an application to a scenario.
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Chong, M.Y., Bjurling, B., Dantas, R., Kamienski, C., Ohlman, B. (2009). Goal-Based Service Creation Using Autonomic Entities. In: Strassner, J.C., Ghamri-Doudane, Y.M. (eds) Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments. MACE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5844. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05006-0_3
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