LANOMS 1999
1st Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium

Technical Session 1 - Security Management

Access Control In Multicast Environments: An Approach to Senders Authentication
Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta, Angel L. Mateo Martinez and Pedro M. Ruiz Martinez - Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
A Large-scale System Authorization Scheme Proposal Integrating Java, CORBA and Web Security Models and a Discretionary Prototype
Carla Merkle Westphall and Joni da Silva Fraga - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Impact of Security Policies on the TMN-X Interface Integrity and Performance
Ognjen Prnjat and Lionel Sacks - University College London (England)

Technical Session 2 - Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents

Knowledge Management with an Agent Network
P. Carrion, R. Laza, E, Gonzalez and J. M. Corchado - Universidad de Vigo (Spain)
Traffic Management A Multi-Agent System Approach
Paulo Monteiro and Luis Correio - Alcatel Telecom (Portugal)
Analyzing Mobile Agent Scalability in Network Management
Marcelo Gonçalves Rubistein and Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Technical Session 3 - Telecommunication Policies and Solutions for Network Management

Methodology for Specifying And Implementing a Management Solution
Sergio Clementi and Tereza Cristina Melo de Brito Carvalho - Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Experiences in the Development of a Prototype System for the Exchange of Management Information, Study Case: Colombia
Leonor Wilches-Chaux, Carlos E. Caicedo - CINTEL (Colombia)
The Foundations and Formation of Public Policies for the Deregulation of Telecommunications and the Effetcs upon Network Management Solutions
Keith-Stuart von Mecklenburg - University of St. Andrews (Scotland)

Technical Session 4 - Artificial Inteligence Solution for Network Management

Solving the Parallel Task Scheduling Problem by Means of a Genetic Approach
S. C. Esquivel , C. R. Gatica and R. H. Gallard - Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina)
Enhanced Genetic Algorithms for the Cluster Allocation Problem in Distributed Systems
R. Apollonii, S. Molina. and R. H. Gallard - Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina)
Fault Diagnosis for Local Area Network Environments
Volnys Bernal, Leliane N. de Barros, Marilza Lemos and Jacques Wainer - Universidade de São Paulo / Universidade de Campinas (Brazil)

Technical Session 5 - ATM Management

Measure-based Estimation of The Required Capacity on ATM Switches Using Neural Networks
Miguel Franklin, Adriano Nascimento, Marcelino Pequeno and Mauro Oliveira - Universidade Federal do Ceará / CEFET-CE (Brazil)
Comparative Analisys of Multicast Routing Algorithms for Multimedia Communication over ATM Networks
Frank Meylan, Luis Gustavo Gasparini Kiatake, Marcelo Zanoni Santos, Sergio Takeo Kofuji and Jean Pierre Courtiart - LAAS-CNRS7 (France) / Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Service Level Management in ATM Networks
Daniel Puka, Manoel Camillo Penna and Vinicius Prodocimo - CEFET-PR / Visionnaire (Brazil)

Technical Session 6 - Telecommunication Information Management

Defining a Generic Information Model for Addresing New Service Offers in a Competitive Scenario
Jean-Daniel Guedj, Giovanni Martini and Luca Valtriani - Telecom Argentina (Argentina) / CSELT (Italy)
A process-driven methodological approach for the design of telecommunication management systems
Thierry Fraize, Julio Villena, Jean-Daniel Guedj - Telecom Argentina (Argentina)
Transmuting Legacy Network Management Environment into TMN-based IIntegrated Network Management
Hee-San Hwang, Gil-Haeng Lee, and Wang-Don Woo - Eletronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (Korea)

Technical Session 7 - TMN and SNMP Technologies

Configuration Management Integration For Telecommunications Networks: An Implementation Experiment
Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz, Manoel Camillo Penna, Karlo Adriano Nocera, Mario Jose Ferreira, Celso Antonio Alver Kaestner and Joelson dos Passos - PUC-PR (Brazil)
Experiential Knowledge in TMN
Alexandre Moraes Ramos and Joao Bosco da Mota Alves - Universidade do Vale do Itajaí / Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Management Information Base for Power Control in Computer Networks
Roger Al-Alam Krolow, Andre Peres, Ingrid Jansch-Porto - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Technical Session 8 - Proactive and Performance Management

SEGRE: An Expert System for Pro-active Computer Network Management
Cecilia A. Castro Cesar and Celso de Renna e Souza - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (Brazil)
Towards Proactive Network Load Management for Distributed Parallel Programming
Sergio Nesmachnow, Antonio Lopez and Carlos Lopez - Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Performance Monitoring of Telemanagement Systems
Wagner Meira Jr, Patricia Aguiar, José Marcos Nogueira and Christiano Mata Machado - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Telemar Minas (Brazil)

Technical Session 9 - Traffic Management

An Efficient Low-Cost Traffic Management System for Large Switching Networks
Ana Luiza Barros Diniz, Sergio Campos, José Marcos Nogueira, Christiano Mata Machado and Luiz Geraldo Souza - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Telemar Minas (Brazil)
Traffic Simulation and the Location of Mobile Units in Wireless Communication Systems
Mauro Nacif Rocha, Geraldo Robson Mateus and Soraia Lucia da Silva - Universidade Federal de Viçosa / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Connection Admission Management for Self-Similar Traffic
Nelson L. S. Fonseca, Gilberto S. Mayor and Cesar A. V. Neto - Universidade de Campinas / McKinsey & Company, Inc. (Brazil)

Technical Session 10 - Web-based Management and Internet Technology

WebManager: A Web-Based Network Management Application
Jacques Philippe Sauve - Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brazil)
Web Based Management with Lua
Edison Ishikawa and Noemi Rodriguez - IME / PUC-Rio (Brazil)
Reporting the Experience of a Post-Graduate Program in Computer Network Operations, Internet Technology and Operating Systems' Support
Manuel Lois Anido - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Technical Session 11 - Quality of Service and Network Provision Operation

Resource Allocation and Quality of Service for Distributed Multimedia Applications
Carlos de Castro Goulart and José Marcos Silva Nogueira - Universidade Federal de Viçosa / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Algorithms and Contracts for Network and Systems Management
Paulo Pereira and Paulo Pinto - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa / Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
Work Force Management (WFM)
Bruno Guido, Gavazzi Roberto, Fabio Malabocchia and Luisella Sisto - CSELT (Italy)

Technical Session 12 - Intelligent Agent and Hierarchical Management Systems

An Environment for Developing Neural Network-based Intelligent Agents
Adriano Nascimento, Miguel Frankin and Mauro Oliveira - Universidade Federal do Ceará / CEFET-CE (Brazil)
Distributed Network Security Management Using Intelligent Agents
K. Boudaoud, N. Agoulmine and J. N. de Souza - EURECOM Institute / PRISM Laboratory (France) / Universidade Federal do Ceara (Brazil)
Hierarchical Management Protocol for Large Networks
Marcial Porto Fernandez, Gardel Moreira Delfino and Aloysio de Castro P. Pedroza - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)