Qualitative and quantitative aspects of cooperation mechanisms for monitoring in service-oriented architectures

Cooperation mechanisms for agents monitoring service-based workflows are a means to address the increasing complexity of modern enterprise architectures. These mechanisms are inspired by existing biological mechanisms and extend an existing decentralized monitoring architecture in order to handle deviations from service level agreements autonomously. As the core cooperation mechanisms have been subject of our previous work and have been described in detail earlier, we present now an evaluation of our concepts regarding both effectiveness and efficiency, based on an implemented prototype.