British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Alistair McCormick

Gilbert Kwame Owusu

Okung Ntofon

Gilbert Owusu

Siddhartha Shakya

Emmanuel Ferreyra Olivares

Adam Ziolkowski

Jonathan Malpass

Johannes Noppen

A computer implemented method of generating a software service for providing required software functionality can include accessing a software component having functionality including and exceeding the required functionality; defining verification test for verifying that the software component includes the required functionality; applying a genetic algorithm to the software component to iteratively adapt the software component over a plurality of generations, wherein each generation of the software component is adapted by removal of one or more portions of the software component of a preceding generation, wherein the adaptation for a generation is selected from a set of candidate adaptations based on a determination of a fitness of the component so adapted, the fitness being determined by the verification test, wherein the iteration of the genetic algorithm ceases in response to a stopping condition such that, on cessation, the latest generation of the software component constitutes the software service.

Software microservice generation

Information received from disparate individual monitors that are concurrently measuring a predetermined property of a predetermined resource in a network are compared in a reliability computation engine to compute a metric of the degree of similarity between their measurements, and thus to determine a measure of the reliability of one or more of the individual monitors. This information can be used by a provisioning engine to select or reject individual resources for use in meeting service requirements on the basis of the reliability of the reports of their performance, as well as the reported performance itself. Monitors identified as unreliable can also be reported to a fault diagnosis function.

Evaluation of network conditions

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