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Run-Time Agents as a Means of Reconciling Flexibility and Scalability of Services

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In this paper, we present our approach to flexibly modelling user processes: lightweight run time agents. These agents can be thought of as essentially being ‘session handlers’ with persistent memory, which steer the execution of generic global services according to the users’ profile and its current context and goals. We illustrate this paradigm in two application scenarios, the Online Conference Service, and MaTRICS, a remote configuration management environment.

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  1. Universität Göttingen, Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083, Göttingen, Germany

    Tiziana Margaria

  2. Universität Dortmund, Baroper Str. 301, 44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Bernhard Steffen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Loyola College in Maryland, 21210, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Michael G. Hinchey

  2. IBM Autonomic Computing, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Patricia Rago

  3. Advanced Architectures and Automation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    James L. Rash

  4. Advanced Technology Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Corporation, 22203, Arlington, VA, USA

    Christopher A. Rouff

  5. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Northern Ireland

    Roy Sterritt

  6. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 588, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Walt Truszkowski

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Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (2006). Run-Time Agents as a Means of Reconciling Flexibility and Scalability of Services. In: Hinchey, M.G., Rago, P., Rash, J.L., Rouff, C.A., Sterritt, R., Truszkowski, W. (eds) Innovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems. WRAC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3825. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11964995_23

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