Adaptive provisioning using virtual machines and autonomous role-based management

A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtualization and configuration management, every defined role for a reallife computer system can be realized as a self managing agent that is aware of other, related roles within the same broader context. A prototype implementation that provides web hotel services for customers is presented and discussed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICAS
• Authors: Kyrre M. Begnum, Mark Burgess, John A. Sechrest
• Keywords: Autonomous Encapsulations, Complex Set, ICAS 2006, Robotics, Self Managing Agent