Software Network Automation

This chapter focuses on the use of artificial intelligence tools to build automatisms in the different functions that need to be automated and to distribute this intelligence. Distributed artificial intelligence is more complex since it requires a great volume of knowledge of all aspects of the network. An important point in the advent of the new generation of software networks, whether in terms of the core network or of access, relates to automation for the establishment, management and control of personalized networks designed in the context of software networks. The functions of the nodes of active networks are shared between the runtime environment and the node's operating system. Multi‐agent systems based on message communication are characterized by total distribution of the knowledge, the partial results and the methods used to achieve a result. Eco‐resolution is a problem‐solving technique based on the use of reactive agents.