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Architectural design of a distributed application with autonomic quality requirements

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Kurt Schelfthout,

Tom HolvoetAuthors Info & Claims

DEAS '05: Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Design and evolution of autonomic application software

Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/1083063.1083076

Published: 21 May 2005 Publication History

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An autonomic system is essentially characterized by quality requirements that specify that the system should be able to adapt itself (configure optimize, heal, etc.) under varying circumstances and situations. These quality requirements call for an architecture centric software engineering approach. In this paper, we discuss and illustrate the architectural design of a complex real-world distributed application with autonomic quality requirements. In particular, we present an architecture with autonomous entities (agents) for managing warehouse logistics. We illustrate how the subsequent architectural decisions are guided by a reference architecture for situated multi-agent systems on the one hand, and by functional and quality requirements of the application on the other hand.

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Architectural design of a distributed application with autonomic quality requirements
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Distributed computing methodologies
    1. Distributed programming languages
2. Software and its engineering

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DEAS '05: Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Design and evolution of autonomic application software

May 2005

105 pages

ISBN:1595930396

DOI:10.1145/1083063

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4
July 2005
1514 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1082983
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