Service analysis and design with a graphical domain-enhanced tool

Author

Woolf, Carl

Author_Institution

GTE Labs. Inc., Waltham, MA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Nov 1995

Firstpage

1962

Abstract

Today´s telecommunications services are designed as distributed processes. DESPOT, a graphical tool of GTE´s intelligent network (IN) Testbed, facilitates the analysis and design of distributed processes by making it easy to create and manipulate component interaction diagrams (CIDs) depicting interactions among process components. DESPOT generates World Wide Web “pages” from domain-specific documentation, so that users can browse and then automatically copy relevant excerpts into CIDs. DESPOT also supports strategic analysis of sets of services, by supplying utilities for statistics, reports, etc. DESPOT has helped GTE portray and analyze the individual and collective impact of over 200 potential IN services

Keywords

application program interfaces; graphical user interfaces; information networks; intelligent networks; planning; telecommunication computing; telecommunication services; utility programs; DESPOT; GTE; IN services; IN testbed; World Wide Web pages; component interaction diagrams; distributed processes; domain-specific documentation; graphical domain-enhanced tool; intelligent network testbed; reports; service analysis; service design; statistics; telecommunications services; utilities; Documentation; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Logic testing; Process design; Prototypes; Statistical analysis; Switches; Telecommunication services; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1995. GLOBECOM '95., IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2509-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1995.502749

Filename

502749