The EC/ACTS project DOLMEN (ACTS Ref. AC036), 1995-98, aims to develop, demonstrate, assess and promote a Service Architecture (called Open Service Architecture for a Mixed fixed and mobile environment - OSAM) that meets the requirements of open provision of communication services over both fixed and mobile heterogeneous and multi-provider telecommunications networks.
The project's approach will be based upon the RACE Open Service Architecture (OSA) and will also progress results from RACE projects on mobility. The TINA-C current and future developments will be taken into account. In developing OSAM, the parallel work of related ACTS projects will be constantly monitored and utilized as appropriate. As in the case of OSA and TINA-C, the DOLMEN approach subscribes to a vision, beyond that currently offered by IN and TMN, of a telecommunications service infrastructure as a large scale, distributed processing environment.
Participants in DOLMEN are Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (Italy), University of Catania (Italy), INTRACOM S.A. (Greece), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Personal Communications Services (UK), Research and Consultancy (UK), Telis (France), University of Helsinki (Finland), VTT Information Technology (Finland), Koniglijke PTT Nederland N.V. Research (The Netherlands), AT&T Network Systems Nederland B. V. (The Netherlands), and Telecom Finland (Finland),
The current members of the DOLMEN research group are Doc. Kimmo Raatikainen (group leader) and Mika Liljeberg.