JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Contents

Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2001

THRESHOLDS

QoS: What is it all about?

Malik Khan

PAPERS

Decentralized Network Management Using Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Fernando Luiz Koch and Carlos Becker Westphall

Open signaling for ATM networks: A vexed question of performance

T. Andrew Au

Adaptive Sampling for Network Management

Edwin A. Hernandez, Matthew C. Chidester, and Alan D. George

Mobile Agent Coordination for Distributed Network Management

Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, and Franco Zambonelli

Location and Configuration Management in Mobile-Switch ATM Networks

Sheng-Tzong Cheng and Chi-Ming Chen

TOOLBOX

Metropolitan Area Networks

L. Lawrence Ho

Forthcoming Contributions

Subject Index to Volume 9

Volume 9 Reviewers