PAC-MEN: personal autonomic computing monitoring environment

Sterritt, Roy; Bantz, David

doi:10.1109/dexa.2004.1333562

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“…The contribution of autonomic computing to personal computing is different being much less about achieving optimum performance or exploiting redundancy and more about simplifying use of the equipment and the associated services involved (Bantz & Frank, 2003;Sterritt & Bantz, 2004). This is an important area because, potentially, it can affect every computer user.…”

Section: Personal Computing Examplementioning

confidence: 97%

A health-check model for autonomic systems based on a pulse monitor

Sterritt¹,

Bustard²

2006

The Knowledge Engineering Review

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Like the autonomic responses in the human body, autonomic computing systems recognize their own health problems and, where possible, respond to correct them. Failing that, external help is required. The purpose of this paper is to consider how autonomic systems might be structured to facilitate health monitoring. The approach uses a 'pulse' monitor for each autonomic element, which provides a reflex reaction facility and basic information on the current state (health) of that element. The pulse mechanism extends the NASA beacon monitor concept. The different ways that pulse information might be communicated and used are examined. The discussion is illustrated with a personal computing example.

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Section: Personal Computing Examplementioning

confidence: 97%

A health-check model for autonomic systems based on a pulse monitor

Sterritt¹,

Bustard²

2006

The Knowledge Engineering Review

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“…To facilitate this, fault-tolerant mechanisms such as a heart-beat monitor ('I am alive' signals) and pulse monitor (urgency/reflex signals) may be included within the autonomic element [9,10]. See Fig.…”

Section: Autonomic Reflex Reactions: Pulse Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The autonomic environment requires that autonomic elements and, in particular, autonomic managers communicate with one another concerning self-*activities, in order to ensure the robustness of the environment [9,10]. It is our belief that the AM communications must also include a reflex signal.…”

Section: Autonomic Reflex Reactions: Pulse Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To assist in realizing real-time requirements and in reducing the self-managing monitoring burden on all elements, the pulse monitor can be utilized in a form of 'neighbourhood watch scheme' [10]. For instance, in the situation where each PC in a LAN is equipped with an autonomic manager, rather than each of the individual PCs monitoring the same environment, a few PCs (likely the least busy machines) may take on this role and alert the others via a change in pulse to indicate changing circumstances (Fig.…”

Section: Reducing the Monitoring Workload Through Collaborationmentioning

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Adaptive reflex autonomicity for real-time systems

Sterritt

Hinchey

2009

Innovations Syst Softw Eng

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It may appear that for software systems that require strict real-time behavior, the idea of incorporating self-management (and specifically concepts from Autonomic Computing) may add the burden of excessive additional functionality and overhead. However, our experience is that, not only does real-time software benefit from autonomicity, but also the Autonomic Computing initiative (like other initiatives aiming at self-management) requires the expertise of the real-time community in order to achieve its overarching vision. In particular, there are emerging classes of real-time systems for which incorporation of self-management is absolutely essential in order to implement all of the requirements of the system, and in particular the timing requirements.

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“…This is particularly useful in situations where the PC is unattended for example a web server, and the user may be notified via a peer PC that the machine is in difficulty [16].…”

Section: Self-healing: Vital Signs and Pulse Monitor Prototypementioning

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PACT: Personal Autonomic Computing Tools

Sterritt

Smyth

Bradley

12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'05)

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Personal Computing offers unique challenges for self-management due to its multi-equipment, multisituation, and multi-user nature. The aim of this research is to improve the autonomicity within personal computing; the evolution towards Personal Autonomic Computing. In this paper proof of concept selfmanaging tools are presented and lessons learned derived. At this stage of the autonomic evolution the need of new software development processes to provide the self-* properties is becoming very evident.

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PAC-MEN: personal autonomic computing monitoring environment

Abstract: The overall goal of this research is to improve the 'environment awareness' aspect of personal autonomic computing.Personal Computing offers unique challenges for self-management due to its multiequipment, multi-situation, and multi-user

Cited by 25 publications

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A health-check model for autonomic systems based on a pulse monitor

A health-check model for autonomic systems based on a pulse monitor

Adaptive reflex autonomicity for real-time systems

PACT: Personal Autonomic Computing Tools

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