Resumen
The article focuses on various requirements and details of the new paradigm of agent-oriented programming that is gaining momentum in the telecommunication market. The main actors in this scenario are agents, which are very suitable to address a lot of problems related to the diversity of access devices, the limitedness of current procedures, the complexity of inherently distributed problems, and the open market in general. In order to be applicable for telecommunication's applications and service provisioning, agents must have certain specific capabilities, especially in the areas of agent management, security, personalization, and mobility. Further, different basic types of agents can be identified, which are, manager agents for administration of the runtime platform, stationary agents as service providers, and mobile agents for mobility support and service provisioning. There are a number of telecommunication scenarios that are suitable for candidates to be realized using agent technologies. Telecommunication providers have been changing from voice carriers to suppliers of differentiated services and need to leverage their existing network infrastructure to manage it more efficiently and enhance it for service provisioning of today's and future services.