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From Autonomic to Self-Self Behaviors: The JADE Experience

Authors:

Sara Bouchenak,

Fabienne Boyer,

Benoit Claudel,

Olivier Gruber,

Sylvain SicardAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), Volume 6, Issue 4

Article No.: 28, Pages 1 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/2019591.2019597

Published: 01 October 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Autonomic computing enables computing infrastructures to perform administration tasks with minimal human intervention. This wrap-up paper describes the experience we gained with the design and use of Jade---an architecture-based autonomic system. The contributions of this article are, (1) to explain how Jade provides autonomic management of a distributed system through an architecture-based approach, (2) to explain how we extended autonomic management from traditional self behaviors such as repairing or protecting a managed system to self-self behaviors where Jade also fully manages itself as it manages any other distributed system, (3) to report on our experience reaching self-self behaviors for two crucial autonomic properties, repair and protection.

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From Autonomic to Self-Self Behaviors: The JADE Experience
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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DOI:10.1145/2019591

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Published: 01 October 2011

Accepted: 01 July 2010

Revised: 01 February 2010

Received: 01 March 2009

Published in TAAS Volume 6, Issue 4

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