Information services supermarket

The ComBAT (Common Broadband Applications Testbed) project aims to show how multi-media services can be offered to customers in the same accessible way that supermarkets provide conventional products. ComBAT provides an architecture for integrating the control and management of services and users. This is based on the concept of access agents, `semi-intelligent´ agents which interact with users. ComBAT builds on the work of the TINA Consortium (TINA-C), refining this work through the use of an enterprise model, which provides a commercial context for applying advanced management concepts from TINA-C in ComBAT