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COORDINATION
2005
Springer

Coordination Systems in Role-Based Adaptive Software

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Coordination Systems in Role-Based Adaptive Software
Software systems are becoming more open, distributed, pervasive, and connected. In such systems, the relationships between loosely-coupled application elements become non-deterministic. Coordination can be viewed as a way of making such loosely coupled systems more adaptable. In this paper we show how coordination-systems, which are analogous to nervous systems, can be defined independently from the functional systems they regulate. Such coordination systems are a network of organisers and contracts. We show how the contracts that make up the coordination-system can be used to monitor, regulate and configure the interactions between clusters of software entities called roles. Management and functional levels of contracts are defined. Management contracts regulate the flow of control through the roles. Functional contracts allow the specification of performance conditions. These contracts bind clusters of roles into self-managed composites — each composite with its own organiser role....
Alan W. Colman, Jun Han
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where COORDINATION
Authors Alan W. Colman, Jun Han
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