ACP/EM: an approach to manage distributed environment for autonomous decentralized systems

Abstract

The autonomous decentralized systems (ADS) concept has been expanded to handle subsystem configuration on distributed computing environments effectively. The concept introduces the "group" as a logical set of subsystems based on application software or an organization. Subsystems on a "group" have an equal influence on the entire "group" and are hidden from the other subsystems. The "group" provides a simplified view of the system resource by hiding unrelated information from the users. Application management, monitoring and controlling services are provided on the basis of the "group". The expansion concept and a prototype tool ACP/EM are presented.>