Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures

01.04.2009 - 31.03.2012
Research funding project
Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) are revolutionizing access to ICT systems by enabling packaging of software into services. The next challenging step is packaging of computing power as service. Thus, massively scalable computing can be provided as a pay-per-use solution avoiding expensive computer systems designed to cope with peak performance. However, due to lack of dynamism and adaptivity current SOA solutions cannot be used for provisioning of computing power as services in an adequate way. In this project we approach the missing dynamism and adaptivity in current SOA systems. The methodology used here builds upon autonomic computing foundations. Autonomic systems share features with biological systems and deal in similar ways with uncertainty, dynamism, and complexity. Thus, an autonomic computer system is not controlled by humans. The humans define policies and rules for system self-management. The goals in this project are: the development of novel methods for negotiation bootstrapping and service mediation and the development of methodologies for enforcement, adaptivity, and self-government of ICT systems.

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Grant funds

  • WWTF Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschu und Technologiefonds (National) Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)

Research focus

  • Distributed and Parallel Systems: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
web servicesweb services
grid computinggrid computing
service engineeringservice engineering
autonomic computingautonomic computing
service monitoringservice monitoring

External partner

  • University of Melbourne Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
  • Universität Stuttgart

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