The project's approach is based upon the RACE Open Service Architecture (OSA) and also progresses results from RACE projects on mobility. The TINA-C current and future developments have been taken into account. In developing OSAM, the parallel work of related ACTS projects are 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), FINTRACOM S.A. (Greece), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Personal Communications Services (UK), Research and Consultancy (UK), Sema Group (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 Assoc. Prof. Kimmo Raatikainen (group leader), M.Sc. Stefano Campadello, M.Sc. Oskari Koskimies, M.Sc. Mika Liljeberg and Jarkko Sevanto.
Publications: [15, 16] Home Page: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~kraatika/DOLMEN/summary.html