Intelligent Communication Systems: Toward Constructing Human Friendly Communication Environment

Nobuyoshi Terashima9780126853513, 0126853517

Focusing on artificial intelligence applications for telecommunications, this book describes current research on intelligent communication systems. User-friendly interfaces, computer vision, and state space description methods are all discussed. Other chapters outline basic principles, network structures, the variety of telecommunications systems, recent technological advances, and design methodology. Numerous diagrams are used to illustrate key points. Terashima teaches telecommunications studies at Waseda University.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 10
Author’s Note……Page 14
1 Information Technology……Page 16
1.1 Information Technology Concept……Page 17
1.2 Intelligent Network Concept……Page 20
2.1 Connection-type Communication and Connectionless-type Communication……Page 22
2.2 Numbering Plan……Page 25
2.3 Protocol……Page 26
3.1 Telephone Network Architecture……Page 28
3.2 Computer Network Architecture……Page 29
3.3 Internet Network Architecture……Page 35
4 Advances in Communication Networks……Page 38
4.2 N-ISDN……Page 39
4.3 B-ISDN……Page 40
4.4 Asynchronous Transfer Mode……Page 41
5.1 Computer Sharing……Page 52
5.3 Videotex Communication System……Page 53
5.4 Distance Education System……Page 55
6 Information Superhighways……Page 60
6.1 The Gigabit Network Test Bed Project……Page 61
6.2 Super-High-Speed Backbone Network Project……Page 62
6.4 Global Information Infrastructure……Page 63
6.5 Significance of Information Superhighways……Page 64
7 Newly Developed Telecommunication Services……Page 66
7.2 Caller ID Service……Page 67
7.5 Mobile Communication Service……Page 68
7.6 The Internet……Page 71
7.7 Intranet……Page 82
7.8 Continuous Acquisition and Lifelong Support……Page 84
7.9 Electronic Money……Page 89
8 Intelligent Communication Systems……Page 94
8.2 Functions of the Intelligent Processing Layer……Page 95
8.3 Structure of the Knowledge-Base System……Page 96
9.1 State-of-the-Art Design Methodology……Page 100
9.2 Definitions……Page 103
9.3 Graph Theory……Page 104
9.4 Example Description of Telecommunication Services……Page 107
9.5 Conflicts Among Telecommunication Services……Page 110
9.6 Conflict of Charge Policy……Page 112
9.7 High-Level Description of Telecommunication Services……Page 113
9.8 Requirement Specification……Page 116
10 Basic Technology of the Intelligent Communication System……Page 118
10.1 Application of Production Rules to Telecommunications……Page 119
10.2 Description of Telecommunication Services in a Semantic Network……Page 123
10.3 Symbolic Logic……Page 125
10.4 Predicate Logic……Page 129
11.1 Virtual Reality Concept……Page 142
11.2 History of Virtual Reality……Page 144
11.4 Examples of Virtual Reality……Page 145
11.5 Applications of Virtual Reality……Page 146
11.7 Types of Telesensation……Page 147
11.8 HyperReality……Page 151
11.9 Possible Applications of HyperReality……Page 154
11.10 Technologies for Establishing HyperReality……Page 163
12.1 Definitions……Page 164
12.2 Image Display……Page 166
12.3 Image Transformation……Page 170
12.4 Image Recognition for Telesensation……Page 179
12.5 Application of Telesensation……Page 192
13.1 The Age of the Five Senses……Page 196
13.2 The Age of Personalization……Page 198
13.3 Impact of the Intelligent Communication System on Industry……Page 199
13.4 Impact of the Intelligent Communication System on Society……Page 202
13.5 Multimedia-Based Society in the 21st Century……Page 203
13.6 Bridging the Gaps Between the Haves and the Have-Nots……Page 205
13.7 Light and Shadow of Multimedia-Based Society……Page 206
References……Page 208
C……Page 212
I……Page 213
O……Page 214
T……Page 215
X……Page 216