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

fYear

1996

fDate

1996

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

59

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Configurable Distributed Systems, 1996. Proceedings., Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Annapolis, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7395-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDS.1996.509346

Filename

509346