A Software Cybernetics Approach to Deploying and Scheduling

Author

Yau, Stephen S. ; Huang, Dazhi ; Zhu, Luping ; Cai, Kai-Yuan

Author_Institution

Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

fYear

2007

fDate

21-23 March 2007

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

156

Abstract

Service-based systems (SBS) are being adopted by many distributed systems. Applications in SBS can often be viewed as the composition of various computing services following specific workflows. These workflows often need to satisfy various timing and resource constraints. In this paper, a software cybernetics approach to deploying and scheduling workflows with timing and resource constraints in SBS is presented. In our approach, a logic-based technique for modeling and solving timing and resource constraints for workflows in SBS is developed to generate the initial resource assignments, schedules and deployment plans of agents for workflows. The principles and concepts in software cybernetics are applied to guide the synthesis of software controllers for monitoring and adapting system behavior

Keywords

processor scheduling; workflow management software; distributed systems; logic-based technique; resource constraint; service-based systems; software controller synthesis; software cybernetics; timing constraint; workflows scheduling; Application software; Control system synthesis; Cybernetics; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Monitoring; Processor scheduling; Service oriented architecture; System performance; Timing; Software cybernetics; and controller synthesis.; deployment; scheduling; service-based systems; workflows;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, 2007. FTDCS '07. 11th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Sedona, AZ

ISSN

1071-0483

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2810-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.2007.7

Filename

4144625