Goal-driven on-demand product creation for prosumer devices

Driven by ongoing investments in NGN and SOA, telecommunications business models and products are evolving at a rapid pace. Traditional monolithic, slowly evolving products are now being supplanted by open and dynamic markets of encapsulated service components from which customers can define and assemble their own products in real-time and on-demand. To enable this inversion of business perspective, this paper proposes a goal-driven autonomic communication technology for deployment on customer terminal devices. The solution combines the benefits of seamless connectivity management, with the capability of autonomically locating and assembling distributed service components and content from disparate, heterogeneous sources.