Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Luigi Artusio

Antonio Manzalini

It is disclosed a method and system for providing a service to a user. The system comprises a module (VAHI) associated with the user and configured to act on her/his behalf and a plurality of modules (VAE) associated with and representing respective physical resources. The system comprises a runtime distributed execution environment for running VAHI and VAEs, such environment being provided with a distributed operating system supporting access by VAHI and VAEs to the physical resources. The VAHI is capable of having an interaction with the VAEs and, as a result of such interaction, providing the user with a proposal for the provision of a service. Upon reception of an approval from the user, the VAHI is capable of instructing at least one of the VAEs to request the associated physical resource to perform an action providing at least part of the service according to the proposal.

System for providing a service

A method of providing a service to a requesting Infrastructure Element belonging to plurality of Infrastructure Elements interconnected as a data network is proposed. The method includes operating a computing system for receiving a service request requesting a service from the requesting Infrastructure Element. The service request includes an indication of one or more performance requirements. The method also includes converting the service request to a service graph, which includes at least one task to be accomplished by complying with the performance requirements to provide the service. At least one Infrastructure Element currently capable of accomplishing the task complying with the performance requirements is selected, and the selected Infrastructure Element for accomplishing the task is configured. The method further includes causing the selected Infrastructure Element to accomplish the task to provide the service to the requesting Infrastructure Element.

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Turin, Italy

Luigi Artusio