Value-Added Networks and the Use of Agents

Dimitris N. Chorafas

Chapter 3 in High-Performance Networks, Personal Communications and Mobile Computing, 1997, pp 54-78 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Like the examples of the global networks of the 1970s — GEIS, the General Electric Information System; SWIFT, a payments network for the financial industry; and the airline industry’s SITA — the current Value-Added Networks (VAN) are 20-year-old concepts and therefore highly centralized. They were established to bypass the then AT&T monopoly, and only by the late 1980s did they start changing to meet requirements for tomorrow’s virtual companies.

Keywords: Virtual Reality; Network Management; Intelligent Agent; User Organization; Needed Information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14175-3_3

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