While modern networks and services are continuously growing in scale, complexity and
heterogeneity, the management of such systems is reaching the limits of human capabilities …

In the previous years a paradigm shift in the area of IT service management could be
witnessed. IT management does not only deal with the network, end systems, or applications …

In heterogeneous telecommunications networks with a variety of legacy systems of many
kinds, the activity of network supervision is a difficult task and involves a large number of …

This paper introduces the human-machine systems engineering problem of" multisystem
management" and discusses the effect of increasing levels of automation on the role of the …

With the growth in size, heterogeneity, pervasiveness, and complexity of applications and
network services, the effective management of distributed systems has become more …

The article presents the main features of a new environment for case-based reasoning
systems development, RaBeCa. The software developed to run under Windows, aims to …

Recent advances in micromachining readily allow implementation ofmicromachined
microoptoelectromechanical structures on the order of 100~ m in size. Applications of such …

ABSTRACT A probabilistic methodology to examine the impact of satellite system task
automation on cost and availability is described. The methodology uses a functional …

This paper presents a new approach to acquire a knowledge base (MKB) of continuous
processes through a distributed system. The proposed methodology combines MKB and …

Health monitoring and fault diagnosis in traditional single spacecraft missions are mostly
accomplished by human operators on ground through around-the-clock monitoring and …