An environment for rapid service development (intelligent networks)

The author considers the problem of rapid IN service development, taking the whole development lifecycle into consideration, from initial service invention to final network deployment of a validated service. Service development is considered as consisting of four major stages: service invention, service definition, service production, and service integration. Each of these stages is discussed together with an integrated rapid service development environment developed by GPT. It has a comprehensive set of tools which assist the service developer at each stage of the service development process