Title :
Agent-based configuration management of distributed applications
Author :
Berghoff, Jürgen ; Drobnik, Oswald ; Lingnau, Anselm ; Mönch, Christian
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Frankfurt Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Mobile agents provide a new paradigm for distributed computation. Their unique properties appear well suited to the configuration management of large and complex distributed applications. After outlining our concept of configuration management, we describe a basic agent infrastructure and its extensions for configuration management of distributed applications. Then we consider aspects of concurrent agents and discuss the advantages of the agent based approach through an example.
Keywords :
client-server systems; configuration management; knowledge based systems; parallel programming; software agents; software management; agent infrastructure; agent-based configuration management; concurrent agents; distributed applications; distributed computation; mobile agents; Application software; Computer network management; Computer science; Distributed computing; Mobile agents; Passivation; Scalability; Software algorithms; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Configurable Distributed Systems, 1996. Proceedings., Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Annapolis, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7395-8
DOI :
10.1109/CDS.1996.509346
