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This chapter focuses on a large agent-based system developed and successfully deployed by Telecom Italia in the field of Fixed Network monitoring and optimization. Thanks to its natively distributed agent-based architecture, this system, called Wants-Assurance, continuously monitors about 3.000.000 of xDSL lines in real time. Wants-Assurance is developed on top of WADE (Workflows and Agents Development Environment) a domain independent software platform that allows creating distributed applications leveraging the agent paradigm in conjunction with the workflow metaphor. The chapter is organized as follows: section 1 presents WADE describing its architecture and main features. Section 2 gives an overview of the xDSL network domain highlighting the main phenomena that affect its quality. Section 3 focuses on the Wants-Assurance system, describes its internal architecture and shows how it exploits WADE features to face the challenges set by the application domain.
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Caire, G. (2013). Agent-Based XDSL Monitoring and Optimization. In: Ganzha, M., Jain, L. (eds) Multiagent Systems and Applications. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33323-1_4
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