Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the performance and scalability of decentralized monitoring using mobile agents / Antonio Liotta, Graham Knight, George Pavlou -- Programmable agents for active distributed monitoring / Ehab S. Al-Shaer -- A distributed and reliable platform for adaptive anomaly detection in IP networks / L. Lawrence Ho, Christopher J. Macey, Ronald Hiller -- Integrating service and network management components for service fulfilment / David Lewis ... [et al.] -- Distributed connection management architecture for optimal VPC provisioning on hierarchical ATM transport network / Won-Kyu Hong, Dong-Sik Yun -- A multi-agent paradigm for the inter-domain demand allocation process / Monique Calisti, Boi Faltings -- Next generation structure of management information for the Internet / Jوurgen Schوonwوalder, Frank Strauss -- An XML-based framework for dynamic SNMP MIB extension / Ajita John, Keith Vanderveen, Binay Sugla -- Directory supported management with SNMPv3 / Salima Omari, Raouf Boutaba, Omar Cherkaoui -- Remote service deployment on programmable switches with the IETF SNMP Script MIB / Jوurgen Quittek, Cornelia Kappler -- Integrating SNMP into a mobile agent infrastructure / Paulo Simلoes, Luis Moura Silva, Fernando Boavida Fernandes -- JAMAP : a Web-based management platform for IP networks / Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, Laurent Bovet, Jean-Pierre Hubaux -- Service configuration and management in adaptable networks / Livio Ricciulli -- Virtual active networks - safe and flexible environments for customer-managed services / Marcus Brunner, Rolf Stadler -- Accelerating code deployment on active networks / Tكoru Egashira, Yoshiaki Kiriha -- Characterization and measurements of enterprise network traffic with RMON2 / Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Liane Rockenbach Tarouco -- Derivation of backup service management applications from service and system models / Ingo Luck ... [et al.] -- A framework for the integration of legacy devices into a Jini management federation / Gerd Aschemann ... [et al.] -- Ntop : beyond ping and traceroute / Luca Deri, Stefano Suin -- EventBrowser : a flexible tool for scalable analysis of event data / Sheng Ma, Joseph L. Hellerstein.