Speaker: Steven Willmott, Laboratoire d'Intelligence
				 Artificielle, EPFL Lausanne. 

Abstract:
				 
Resource allocation tasks in communications networks involve
challenging problems in the distribution of information and
control. This talk outlines an adaptive organisational
structure which supports coordination between agents autonomously 
performing QoS routing tasks. The agents are able to change
organisational relationships over time to match the network state
(their task environment). Experimental results show that the adaptive
organisation significantly improves agent coordination and 
routing performance compared to an equivalent static
organisational structure. 

 The talk will cover the organisational techniques and their
 networking applications.

Keywords: organisations, agents, mobile agents, ATM, PNNI, MPLS